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2025 Beef Week Ladies Luncheon

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Monday 26th May 2025

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Join us for an elegant afternoon of inspiration, laughter, and connection at the 2025 Casino Beef Week Ladies Luncheon. This much-loved event brings together women from across the region to celebrate community, achievement, and the spirit of Beef Week in style.

This year’s luncheon will be hosted by the ever-graceful Magdalena Roze, beloved TV presenter and meteorologist, who will guide us through an unforgettable program.

We are proud to welcome Tracey Spicer as our keynote speaker – a Walkley Award-winning journalist, author and passionate advocate for equality and social justice. Tracey’s stories and insights are sure to captivate and inspire.

Also joining us is Zoe Carter, rural changemaker and online content creator, who will share her journey of balancing country life, motherhood, and digital storytelling with honesty and humour.

Enjoy a delicious lunch, bubbles on arrival, great company, and the chance to win some fabulous lucky door prizes.

 

Event Information:

Time: 10:30 am arrival for 11 am start 

Location: Casino RSM Club
Tickets: $80 pp 

2 Course Meal  

Guest Speakers
Lucky Door Prize + Raffles 

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER -Tracey Spicer AM

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Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning journalist, author and broadcaster who spent more than 30 years anchoring national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.

The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the Asia-Pacific on the topics of artificial intelligence, social justice and equity. Her book about AI, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was longlisted for a prestigious Walkley Award. It won the Social Responsibility category, and was a finalist in the Technology category, in the Australian Business Book Awards.

In 2019, Tracey was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the global Sydney Peace Prize with Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. ABC TV highlighted Tracey’s #metoo work in the docuseries, Silent No More.

In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. For her 30 years of media and charity work, she has been awarded the Order of Australia.

Highlights of her outstanding career include writing, producing and presenting documentaries in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. Tracey is an Ambassador for ActionAid, Your Side, the Ethnic Business Awards, Emerge Australia, the Australian POTS Foundation and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.

Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is a bestseller, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views worldwide.

GUEST SPEAKER -
Zoe Carter

A born and raised city resident, Zoe discovered a strong passion for agriculture following high school. Her career began in entry-level jillaroo roles, gradually progressing to management positions across both beef and sheep operations. Due to a horse riding accident resulting in a permanent impairment, she transitioned from on-farm work to administrative roles within the industry. Drawing on her extensive experience, Zoe has established two businesses—Agriculture Jobs Auswide and Young Aussie Farmers—through which she now supports and empowers others pursuing careers in agriculture. 

GUEST MC -
Magdalena Roze

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Magdalena is a Journalist, Meteorologist, Food Writer and Cook Book Author. After completing a BA (Media and Communication), her career began in television working as a researcher and then producer for a number of programs, including the Nine Network and BBC, before moving on screen. Before moving to Byron Bay, Magdalena worked as a Television Presenter and Meteorologist for over ten years presenting live television including co-hosting Network Ten’s The Project, covering two Olympic Games, reading news and weather on both breakfast and prime-time bulletins. Magdalena has reported nationwide on some of the biggest natural disasters in Australian history. During her time at The Weather Channel, she accepted the ASTRA Award for Best News Coverage of the Black Saturday Bushfires. She also returned to university to complete a Graduate Diploma in Atmospheric Science. 

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