RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

A primary purpose of I’m With Her is to join a conversation with young people.

One of Australia’s leading experts in teaching challenging texts to school students, VANA WATKINS, has created Teaching Notes to equip teachers with structures and strategies to bring the play into the classroom and support them in exploring it with their students.

VANA WATKINS is a teacher of English and Head of Department at Geelong Grammar School who relishes the vitality and variety of working with young people and their responses to texts. She is a regular presenter at State and National Conferences for English teachers, and has composed online teaching resources for The Garret podcast series and Reading Australia. She is a member of the VATE Professional Learning and Research Committee, VCAA Text Advisory Panel (English) and a VCE assessor. She is particularly interested in matters of text selection and exploring challenging and sensitive texts with students. She has taught senior secondary English and Literature in both Victoria and Tasmania. She has completed a Master’s in Education at the University of Tasmania, focusing on global education, educational leadership and research.

Thanks to the Australian Cultural Fund and a small army of the play's supporters, these notes are available to download and use for free. Click on the link below to download the notes.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

PAM BURRIDGE

Pam Burridge by Marion K Stell Angus & Robertson 1992

JULIA GILLARD

Women and Leadership Real Lives Real Lessons By Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Random House, 2020
My Story By Julia Gillard Penguin, 2019
Julia Gillard Misogyny Speech – Hansard, Australian Parliament House, 9 October 2021“Anti-carbon tax rally attacks get personal” ABC Radio – PM 23 March 2011
"Heffernan targets 'barren' Gillard". The Bulletin 5 May 2007.
“CEO compares PM to an old cow Sydney Morning Herald 4 August 2012
“Julia Gillard's 'small breasts' served up on Liberal party dinner menu”
The Guardian June 12 2013
“Julia Gillard's Global Warming: Life after Politics” Jacqueline Maley Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 13 July 2019
Launch of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership: Julia Gillard in conversation with Stephen Sackur 5 April 2018
Q&A, ABC TV May 2013
Julia Gillard IV with Hilary Harper Life Matters ABC Radio National 13 January 2021
Julia Gillard IV with Richard Glover ABC Radio, 13 July 2020
Mark Latham op-ed The Spectator Australia 5 Feb 2011
Julia Gillard speech In Memory of Jo Cox 10 October 2016
Interview with Chloe Harper “On the Road with Julia Gillard” The Monthly August 2013
“Australian Politician Shrinks in Embarrassment, as Prime Minister Destroys him for being a Misogynist” Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider 9 October 2012
Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard is one badass motherfucker
by Tracey Egan Morrissey, Jezebel.com 10/09/12
International Women’s Day address at the Royal Women’s Hospital 8 March 2018

MARCIA LANGTON

Violence against women statistics:

Australian Government Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [16 Sept 2021] citing the most recent most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS] Personal Safety Survey [PSS] 2016
“A woman is still being killed each week in Australia” The Guardian1 March 2021
also Bryant, W. & Bricknall, S. [2017]. Homicide in Australia 2012-2014: National Homicide Monitoring Program report. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Retrieved
Australian Human Rights Commission Wiyi Yani U Thangani[Women’s Voices]: Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future Report • 2020 Chapter 2.2[c] Experiences of Inequality – Law and Justice - Figure 2:16
Office of the Children’s Commissioner NT CROSS SECTOR INDUCTION AND ORIENTATION – Alice Springs 27 March 2014 “Aboriginal women in the NT are 80 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of assault.”

Other sources and references

Marcia Langton interview with Shaun Carney for The Mandarin 11 Feb 2019
“Two Victims, No Justice”, by Marcia Langton The Monthly July 2016
“For Her, We Must” by Marcia Langton Griffith Review 2018 (Edition 60)

MARION BLACKWELL

Wisdom Interviews: Marion Blackwell on Big Ideas with Peter Thompson ABC Radio National, 18 May 2003

ANNE ALY

Finding My Place by Anne Aly ABC Books 2018
Anne Aly - Emily's List Oration 2016

Image of Marcia Langton by Tom Hunt-Smith