The 2024 Anna Stewart Memorial Project has closed. Please check back here in 2025 for details on how to apply for the next intake.

About the Anna Stewart Memorial Project

Anna Stewart, long-time campaigner for women’s rights and prominent union official, died in April 1983 and the Anna Stewart Memorial Project was established as an annual work experience program aimed at increasing women’s active union involvement. Participants learn about how unions work and get training in a supportive environment on key aspects of union organising and growth with a focus on women’s involvement and why unions are so critical for women.

The program usually runs for a week during July in nipaluna/Hobart and includes the Unions Tasmania Women's Conference on Friday.

Should you apply?

If you’re a union member and want to develop your skills and knowledge, make an important contribution to the development and growth of your union and have more involvement in the union movement more broadly then the answer is YES!

The program includes...

• Women in Politics panel

• Visit to Industrial Commission

• Unions Tasmania Women’s Conference

There is training on...

• Organising & Campaigning

• Building union activity through recruitment & leadership development

• Politics 101

• Industrial law and how it operates

Objectives of the program

To facilitate greater involvement of women in the trade union movement and develop the skills and knowledge of women unionists through specific training in a supportive environment.

To return activists and workplace leaders to their workplace and their union with a greater knowledge base and expanded skill set.

To encourage unions to support women in elected and leadership roles within unions.

To promote a greater awareness of the important contribution women can make to the development and growth of their union.