Julie McCrossin
FUN STUFF
This page is for all the other stuff I want to share with other people. Some of it's about me or involves me, but it's also where I'll put links to interesting websites, blogs and whatever else occurs to me.
AGEING DISGRACEFULLY, April 2008
The panel members at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney on 28 April 2008 for Ageing Disgracefully: A public forum on ageing and ageism in the GLBT Community which Julie facilitated with lively audience participation. The panel members are (back row L-R) Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia; Jane Marsden, Chair Aurora Foundation; Stevie Clayton, CEO AIDS Council of NSW (ACON); Lloyd Grosse, HIV activist; Julie McCrossin, MC; Mark Orr, President ACON; (front row L-R) Ghassan Kassisieh, Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby; Siri May, Lesbian Health, ACON; Carmen, transsexual icon.
LAUNCH OF THE CAPACITY TOOLKIT, March 2008
At the launch of the Capacity Toolkit, Julie interviewed Dr Robert Zoa Manga about cultural diversity. The Toolkit is a comprehensive information resource for family, friends, carers, doctors, lawyers, finance staff and community workers involved with a person whose decision-making is in question.
Left to right (rear): Maureen Tangney (Attorney General's Department [AGD] Acting Director General), Jenna Macnab and Anne Mangan. (Front): Julie McCrossin (hypothetical facilitator) and Julia Haraksin (AGD Manager Diversity Services).
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, March 2008
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International Women's Day Celebrations with the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA Victoria). On 5 March 2008 at the Melbourne Telstra Dome 1400 people marked the centenary of the vote for women with performances by the Womens' Circus and interviews with three generations of women in the public service, including four mothers and daughters.
WILD WOMEN ON TOP, March 2008
Julie with the Wild Women on a 25 km wet and wild walk from Narrabeen to Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach on Sunday 2 March 2008.
BENT WESTERN, February 2008
Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham (L) and artist Drew Bickford with Julie and her partner Melissa Gibson at the opening of Bent Western at the Blacktown Arts Centre in February 2008. Bent Western surveys the work of queer Australian artists who have forged connections to Western Sydney in exciting and challenging ways over the last thirty years and made important contributions to queer cultures in the region and beyond. Bent Western examines the work of queer artists through a bent lens, acknowledging how Western Sydney itself is marked by broader notions of multicultural difference and change.
WILD WOMEN ON TOP, December 2007
Julie on the cliffs in Sydney's east with the women's adventure walking group Wild Women on Top, December 2007.
GOOLWA BEACH, June 2007
Julie, Melissa and Amelia on Goolwa Beach in South Australia
on a happy visit to Carol and Anne at Currency Creek.
MY LIFE IN SPRINGWOOD, 2 June 2007
These photographs of my partner Melissa, the Hounds of the Baskervilles and the nearby bush were taken by our friend Mark Friedman, author of Trying Hard is Not Good Enough: How to Produce Measurable Improvements for Customers and Communities www.resultsaccountability.com. The man and the book are highly recommended! Click on each image to display a larger version.
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THE STORY OF GROWL, 15 April 2007
"The launch of The Story of Growl at Books Illustrated in April 2007 was fantastic fun, with lots of people, adults and children. The inimitable Julie McCrossin read the book in fantastic style. She conspired with the audience and organised different 'growlers' for each growl in the book, including Grandfather Growl and Leaping Growls. The kids loved the story, and there were plenty of anarchic asides for the adults, and then we retired for afternoon tea and book signing." Judy Horacek, www.horacek.com.au/
THE JOYS OF THE SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW 2007
Ian and Rachel McCrossin, Julie's nephew and niece, wearing the contents of their show bags. Click the photo for a larger version.
PUBLIC SERVICE BATTLEAXES, 2 February 2007
A very special document from 1963 that illustrates some then commonly held notions about women in senior public service positions. Download the document in PDF format.
WALK AGAINST WANT, 12 March 2006
Angela Catterns, Julie and Denise Robertson, a passionate ABC Radio National listener, after the 40th Walk Against Want for Oxfam Australia in Victoria Park, Sydney on Sunday 12 March 2006. Julie and Angela were the MCs for this final walk.
The nine images below are by Alex Craig (c) 2006. Click on each image to open a new window displaying a larger version. Close the window to return to this page.
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FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION'S SEE AUSTRALIA CHALLENGE, 2005
Julie McCrossin and Nick Di Candilo, Project Officer for The Fred Hollows Foundation's Indigenous program, enjoy a swim at Edith Falls. Julie McCrossin spent nine days on The Fred Hollows Foundation's See Australia Challenge 2005 in the Northern Territory.
Click on each image below to open a new window displaying a larger version. Close the window to return to this page. Photos courtesy of www.hollows.org/photolibrary/.
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Read about Julie's trip in PDF format.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Winter 2001
In 2001 Julie travelled to a remote village in Papua New Guinea with Oxfam Community Aid Abroad and gave many media interviews on her return to explain the work of Oxfam with the local people.
Download Conscious Living article in PDF format.
JUICE MAGAZINE, June 1999
Working on Good News Week provided the opportunity for some less than usual media coverage, such as music culture magazine Juice's cover story. There are more photos further down.
"Leading the rebellion against sanitised smiles and plastic bodies, McCrossin's presence on the idiot box offers an intelligent and refreshing alternative to theblow-up doll girls who keep male variety hosts company.
If you have the capacity to make people laugh, you get a lot more leeway about how you look on the television and I think that this is a relief for people. People are prepared to pay a higher price for comedy, explains the feisty McCrossin on comedy's great equalising ability. Comedy is one of the rare places in television that your looks are not a primary determinate."
text by Catherine Caines and images by Sandy Nicholson (c) Terraplane Press 1999
Here's a link to an interesting perspective on what happened to Good News Week.
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ARCHIVED IMAGES
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