ACT 2025 Margaret Hendry Lecture

This year's Margaret Hendry Lecture will focus on the themes of ''Places Women Make."

Drinks will be held from 5:30-6:30pm with the presentations by our speakers running from 6:30-8:30pm.

The venue is the Shine Dome, which was built in 1958 and was the first Canberra building to be placed on the National Heritage List.

Thank you to ACT Partners for their support of this event.

Registration

Type	Details	Price
Member	Member price	$25
Non-member	Non-member price. Become a member.	$40
Fresh		FREE

Speakers

Jane Jose OAM

Jane Jose OAM received an Order of Australia award in the 2022 Australia Day honours for her contribution to Australia’s cultural and charitable sectors. Her career has centred on engaging communities in local urban, cultural, and public policy that impacts how and where they live.

Jane wrote the City of Adelaide Parklands Management Plan which underpinned a new Act to protect the Adelaide Parklands from development. In NSW, Jane prepared the summary document Western Sydney Parklands Vision 2003 that led to the creation of the Western Sydney Parklands by the NSW Government. In 2006, Jane produced the Village Plans for the City of Sydney. She was a key member of the City of Sydney’s 2030 Strategy team, designing community engagement, writing the final published 2030 Vision, and curating an exhibition of the plan at Sydney’s Custom’s House visited by 300,000.

Author of AIA award-winning Wakefield Press publication Places Women Make, Jane writes about how protecting and creating great public places gives communities delight, belonging and connection in urban life. As an advocate, decision-maker and expert consultant, Jane believes well-designed public places lie at the heart of strong and inclusive communities.

Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO

Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist with a longstanding interest in cities, culture, technological and social innovation and Australian research and commercialisation. Lucy is a Director of Turnbull and Partners Pty Ltd, a family owned business which invests in earlier stage innovative enterprises.

From 2020-23 Lucy was the Chair of the Sydney Opera House Trust. From 2015-20 she was the inaugural Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, tasked by the NSW state government to assist in delivering strong and effective strategic planning for the whole of metropolitan Sydney. Prior to that she spent several years as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Committee for Sydney.

From 2003-4 she was Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, the first woman ever to hold the position. She has held many other board roles in the not for profit and private sector, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Redfern-Waterloo Authority, Redfern Foundation and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation.

In 2011 Lucy was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to the community, local government and business. In 2012 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of New South Wales Business School, in 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate (Arts) from Western Sydney University, and in 2013-18 she was Honorary President of the German-Australian Chamber of Commerce.

Maria Rigoli FRLA

Maria Rigoli is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and has over 25 years’ experience in the profession. She has worked in the private sector, education sector and the public service.

Maria has worked on a vast variety of projects, with notable projects being Barangaroo Reserve and the Olympic Boulevard at Sydney Olympic Park in the run up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Last year she returned to Sydney Olympic Park to begin her current role with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority as Principal Public Domain Designer.