Tara Chetty, Pacific Women Lead, Pacific Community SPC: This is the Pacific Oceanic convening for Women Deliver. It's part of our region's preparation for the big global event to be held in Kigali.
Vivienne Nguyen, Victorian Multicultural Commission Chairperson: Women Deliver is an international movement to really encourage and support and empower gender equality across the world.
Dr Niki Vincent, Victorian Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner: Seeing this explosion of people from all around our region and hearing about the challenges they're facing and how they how they're solving those challenges is really inspiring.
Tara Chetty, Pacific Women Lead, Pacific Community SPC: We're getting to hear directly from women with disability, from young women, from persons of all diverse genders.
June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner: I honestly believe it is a movement of intersectional gender equality that centres the lives and acknowledges First Nations women that will drive transformative change.
Dr Maliha Khan, Women Deliver CEO: We also need to be brave. This is not a time that we shirk away from uncomfortable topics. We just have to be our fearless, fierce feminist selves. And with that, we can achieve gender equality.
Antoinette Braybrook, Djirra CEO: I think it's really important to have these events to bring First Nations women together. Often we feel really isolated, even in our own countries. So coming together gives us strength.
Margherita Coppolino, ILGA-Oceania Co Chair: Being in the room for the first time at one of these events, there’s a real sense of change, it actually feels like this is a tipping point.
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