We are only weeks out from our Transport Women Australia Limited 25th anniversary party at MOVE Museum at Shepparton on March 1, so that is all systems go with the tickets on sale and various accommodation types are available in the Shepparton area.
View some of the options available at sheppandgv.com.au/stay. The Greater Shepparton Council and the MOVE executive have been super helpful.
Wodonga TAFE have a campus and a test track at Shepparton, and we might have a surprise there for the attendees so look for that on our social media in the coming weeks. We look forward to seeing all of you there.
The 2025 Dream Maker Awards are open for nominations, and we are looking forward to lots of applications on this anniversary year. Coralie Chapman and I will be there again this year to co-host with Nick Prus and the Road Transport Museum Team and present at the Transport Women Unite Red Ball.
We will also host the TWAL breakfast which has been happening for over 20 years. All this is happening in August at the Festival of Transport in Alice Springs.
Our 2025 Young Gunnette Award is open for nominations with our wonderful sponsor Cummins and applications will close on April 17, 2025, and the winner will be announced on June 2, 2025. This will be its second year, and we are looking forward to some amazing young woman being nominated.
Our Goulburn event has been celebrated as our year opener. We have held this joint event with Divall’s Bulk Haulage for three years now and it is getting bigger every year. Many thanks to the Divall team for their venue and organisation. Also, to Kylie Johnson, our incredible speaker.
I have just returned from Amritsar, India where I travelled to see my friend and colleague get married. It was such an honour to attend his wedding with his family and be an honoured guest. I was able to visit the Golden Temple, one of the wonders of the world, go shopping and eat some genuine Punjabi cuisine.
I have been working alongside my friend now for two years and his family for much longer and I live in a vey multicultural city, so it was amazing to see the country and area where so many of my friends, neighbours, coworkers and colleagues lived before making Australia their home.
I am looking forward to an even closer relationship and better understanding after my trip and I will be working with the Australian Trucking Association on their drivers’ roundtable and diversity initiatives.
I also took a side trip to Delhi to meet with Dr Vaneeta Aggarwal from Bizemag India and Admyted, she gave me a wonderful tour of some sites and made sure that I had an exciting day rather than a solo tourist day which included lunch with colleagues.
I am sure that though this was my first trip to India, it will not be my last.
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Jacquelene Brotherton is Chair of Transport Women Australia Limited