Wolper Jewish Hospital

Q&A Session: Medicinal Cannabis

Wolper Jewish Hospital invites you to attend a FREE Q and A session: Medicinal cannabis 7.30pm • Monday 2 March Event Cinemas, Westfield, Bondi Junction. Moderator Julie McCrossin: freelance journalist, facilitator, trainer & speaker Dr Alex Wodak AM: Physician; Emeritus Consultant, Alcohol and Drug Services, St Vincent’s Hospital; President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Professor Michael Farrell: Psychiatrist; […]

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A marriage of minds

Jane McAdam and Ben Saul met as teenagers and started dating while studying arts/law at the University of Sydney. Partners for 18 years, they are globally recognised leaders in international law. The similarities in their career paths are quite remarkable and they share a strong sense of responsibility as advocates for the rule of law,

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Wolper Jewish Hospital

Stroke Q&A

Wolper Jewish Hospital, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, runs an active and popular Education and Wellbeing Program, aiming to educate the local community and encourage discussion of topical health-related issues. Recent sessions have focused on Diabetes and Music, and I’m pleased to say I’ll be the Moderator for their next session, which focuses on Stroke, and

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Peter Mason

A worldwide mission

In the October Law Society of NSW Journal, Julie profiles Peter Mason, legal adviser and senior adviser to the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The former Sydney lawyer jealously guards the ability to work for children on “both sides of the line” in conflict zones. It’s been 27 years since Peter

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Julia Gillard, My Story

A conversation with Julia Gillard

On the 29th of September, more than 800 people sold out my conversation with Julia Gillard at the Seymour Centre in Sydney. Ms Gillard was promoting her new memoir, My Story, “an account of what was hidden behind the resilience and dignified courage Gillard showed as Prime Minister – her view of the vicious hate

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