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Q & A and Insight mark International Women’s Day

Tuesday is International Women’s Day and both ABC1 and SBS ONE will mark the occasion on their respective TV forums.

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Tomorrow  is International Women’s Day and both ABC1 and SBS ONE will mark the occasion on their respective TV forums.

The Q&A panel includes:

Gail Kelly – CEO Westpac
Kate Ellis – Minister for Employment Participation and Status of Women
Joe Hockey – Shadow Treasurer
Mike Carlton – Author and columnist
Janet Albrechtsen – Columnist, The Australian

Hosted by Tony Jones it airs tonight on ABC1 at 9.35pm.

Meanwhile on SBS Insight host Jenny Brockie meets three women who talk about the lives they have lived and the choices they have made to get where they are today.

Hear how a refugee ended up in Silicon Valley, why a multi millionaire loves ballroom dancing, and what it’s like for a doctor dealing with HIV in conservative Malaysia.

Tan Le is co-founder and President of Emotiv a neuro-engineering company based in San Francisco. With her team, the 33 year old tech entrepreneur has developed a revolutionary interface for the way people interact with computers. Ms. Le arrived in Australia as a four year old refugee from Vietnam, became Young Australian of the Year at the age of twenty, and drastically changed careers from law in Melbourne to neuro-technology in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Jannie Chan Siew Lee is co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman of watch retailer The Hour Glass Limited Her luxury timepieces sell for millions of dollars. On the home front though, things have not always been easy: two of Dr. Lee’s daughters were born with significant disabilities – one with cerebral palsy and another with a hole in her heart. As well as balancing home and work life, Dr. Lee is also involved with several charities and established the not-for-profit Save Our Planet Foundation, supporting sustainable reforestation to combat global warming. And, last but not least, she is a competitive ballroom dancer.
Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman is Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. She works with prostitutes and drug users in her fight to overcome HIV in Malaysia, where there is a huge stigma attached to the disease. She spent fifteen years in Australia, studying Medicine at Monash University and working at the Fairfield Infectious Disease Hospital. She established the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (CERiA) at the University of Malaya, focusing on the prevention and treatment of HIV for injecting drug users, including those in incarcerated settings.

Insight airs Tuesday at 7.30pm on SBS ONE.

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  1. I was watching insight SBS2 last night. I’m not sure how old this program was, but would like to comment on the subject of commercial surrogacy.

    My husband and I got the stage where we were looking at this option. It was a big step to take, as we had to look outside Australia. Greece was suggested to us and we where given a 95% success rate. We would have had to use both donated egg and sperm, so, for us, it didn’t make sense to ‘create’ a child that was not ours biologically, when there are so many already born that need a stable and loving home. This is why we turned to permanent fostering.

    What didn’t make sense to me, watching this program last night, is that Linda Burney did not explain what she meant by the 75000 children in Australia that need good homes. She didn’t use the words foster children.

    I would like to see this discussed as a ‘part two’ to the show I watched last night. If the government wants to stop people that can’t have their own children going outside Australia to employ surrogates, I feel they need to change the priorites they have concerning the permanent carers they need to raise these barely mentioned children.

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