Victorian Child Abuse Survivors and Supporters Special Lunch with Ms Zoe Daniel, Federal MP for Goldstein, on Wednesday 17th July, 12 noon - 1.30pm, at the Sandringham Hotel, 118 Beach Road, Sandringham.
Facilitated conversation ... ‘what you want to see happen.’
- 12 noon – 12:30 pm: Lunch and the chance for everyone to talk with each other.
- 12:30 pm - ~1.30pm: Ms Daniel shares what she would like to see happen for survivors and her community.
- Followed by others sharing what they would like to see happen, and group conversations.
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Providing places and spaces for survivors of child abuse and their supporters to come together, to support life as it is now.
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About Ms Zoe Daniel MP
Federal Member for Goldstein
Independent in House of Representatives
Biography
Parliamentary service
Elected to the House of Representatives for Goldstein, Victoria, 2022.
- Committee serviceHouse of Representatives Standing: Employment, Education and Training served from 1.8.2022 to present;
- Communications and the Arts served from 1.8.2022 to present
Joint Select: Social Media and Australian Society served from 16.5.2024 to present - Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served from 1.8.2022 to present
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
- (BJourn) (University of South Australia).
- Author.
- ABC Journalist from 1993 to 2020.
- While working in Africa she reported on the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone civil war, the Darfur genocide and South Sudan.
- In 2009, she moved to Phnom Penh where she reported on the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
- From 2010 until 2013, Daniel took up a posting in Bangkok as the ABC's Southeast Asian correspondent. At the time, Daniel's posting while a mother of young children was unprecedented for ABC correspondents. During her time there she reported on the 2010 Thai political protests and interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi.
- After 27 years with ABC News, Daniel decided to finish her career with the organisation, leaving in July 2020.
- Consultant from 2020 to 2021
Daniel was endorsed by Voices of Goldstein as an independent candidate to run in the 2022 federal election in the seat of Goldstein.
Daniel is a self-described swinging voter, as a consequence of her father's "negative experience of party politics". She describes herself as a "social progressive, economic conservative".
Daniel is married to husband Rowan and has two children. She lives in Hampton.
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The Victorian Survivors and Supporters lunches provide places and spaces for survivors of child abuse and their supporters to come together, to support life as it is now.
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Thank you to all our Petition supporters, we are LOUD and will be talking with Ms Daniel about our petition, and the role the Federal government has in achieving the outcomes it seeks.