Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 30 May
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Throughout history many – if not most – cultures have perpetuated the myth of the evil woman. Television presenter, journalist and popular crime novelist Tara Moss discusses evil women, female criminals and the demonisation of the female gender: from Eve and Pandora to Elizabeth Bathory and Paula Broadwell.
Lunchbox/Soapbox
Sometimes there’s nothing better than a good rant. Every Thursday, the Wheeler Centre hosts an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, where writers and thinkers can have their say on the topics that won’t let them sleep at night.
Featuring some of our most compelling voices across just about every sector of human endeavour you can imagine, the themes dominating Lunchbox/Soapbox are proudly idiosyncratic. BYO lunch. Ideas provided.
Featuring
Tara Moss
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter, journalist and former model. Since 1999 she has written and published nine bestselling novels and been published in 18 countries in 12 languages. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in numerous publications, including SMH News Review, the Age, Australian Literary Review and the Australian.
She has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Moss is an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children. She has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and UNICEF Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI) since 2011, advocating for better support for breastfeeding mothers in hospital, the workforce and general community.
She is a dual Australian/Canadian citizen and has lived in Australia since 1996. She was listed as one of the 20 Most Influential Female Voices in Australia in 2012 by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life, and one of Australia’s Most Inspiring Women by Women’s Health magazine in 2013.