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  • Inaugural Rona Bailey Lecture 2007

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Robert Reid presented the inaugural Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture - 'Looking Backwards: Looking Forwards'

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2009

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Historian and writer Dick Scott to gave the Second Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture.

    The lecture was followed by Chris Prowse and fellow musicians performing songs from his recently written musical Trouble on The Waterfront.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2011

    Te Whaea - National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2011 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, Marianne Schultz, a PhD candidate and tutor in the History Department, University of Auckland, talked about Rona Bailey as a member of the New Dance Group. The New Dance Group played a key role in pioneering modern dance in New Zealand in the 1940s. Photos and excerpts from the documentary Dance of the Instant (2008, director Shirley Horrocks) were shown. The evening also included a live performance by students from the New Zealand School of Dance in a short reconstruction of the 1945 New Dance Group work, Sabotage in a Factory.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2014

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2014 Rona Bailey Memorial lecture, held at Toi Whakaari, Robert Consedine talked about Project Waitangi.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2015

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Graeme Clarke – What is To Be Done? In the 2015 Rona Bailey lecture, held at the Toi Whakaari, Graeme Clarke talked about where the trade union movement and socialists are at and how we got there. The lecture was based on his experiences as a trade unionist and communist for the last 40 years.… Read More »Rona Bailey Lecture 2015

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2017

    Te Whaea - National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Therese O’Connell is a full-time feminist who has been a unionist and social justice activist in Wellington since the early 1970s. She spoke and sung (with friends) about what still rarks her up!

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2019

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2019 Rona Bailey lecture, held at the National Library of New Zealand, Dean Parker talked about growing up in Napier, what he learnt in London from Trotskyists and Irish republicans, joining the Socialist Unity Party back in New Zealand, the formation of the NZ Writers’ Guild and its affiliation to the Federation of Labour, and the politics of writing and the writing of politics.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2022

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    Serena Moran: A Workers' Initiative. The union health service, 1987 to 2022, the founding of the movement and the impact of neoliberalism on the service and patients from a nurse's perspective.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2024

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    The Labour History Project biennial Rona Bailey lecture will be given by Dr Cybèle Locke and focus on the life of Rona Bailey. Rona Bailey has been described as ‘one of the most important figures on the radical left in twentieth-century NZ.’ In this talk, Cybèle will tell stories about Rona’s lifelong grassroots activism.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2026

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    Lecture Theatre 1, Government Buildings, Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington Government buildings, Wellington, New Zealand

    The State and the Union - 114 years of the Public Service Association The 2026 Labour History Project biennial Rona Bailey lecture was presented by The history of the Public Service Association (PSA) closely reflects both the changes that have occurred within the public service and the broader history of New Zealand. Rona Bailey herself… Read More »Rona Bailey Lecture 2026

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