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Latest Work (expand)
Clean Energy Council Awards, Alice Springs Friday 6th August, 2010
MC'd an awards night in a quarry in Alice for 600 men - and about 20 women - involved in the solar industry. It was minus 1 degree in the open air but a Top Night was had by all.
Ned Kelly Awards 2010 - Friday 3rd September
This is my 8th year as host of the awards and moderator of the annual debate.
This year's topic ' That I can't do right in a world gone wrong' will be thrashed out by Virginia Trioli and Mark Dapin v Melanie Ostell and Lenny Bartulin.
Public Speaking (expand)
Jane is an accomplished public speaker, debater, M/C and quiz-mistress.
2010
2010
- MC Australia Day Concert for the City of Nunawading (Jan 26)
- MC Moonee Valley Festival (Feb 28th)
- Panellist for a hypothetical hosted by Rotary at BMW Edge (Feb 25th)
- Guest Speaker for Essendon Rotary (Mar 9)
- MC Women of the Mitchell Shire event (May 20th)
- Literati Festival, Gold Coast (May 28/29)
- MC Essendon Women's Network 'Wives and Girlfriends' event (May 11)
- MC Fundaiser for Justin Madden (!)
- MC/host of Literary Speed Dating for the Wheeler Centre (July 9 & 10)
2009
- Williamstown Literary Festival with Denise Scott
- MC (belated) International Women's Day function for the City of Wallan
- Guest Speaker at a Celebrants' Seminar at Rydge's in Preston
- MC Ned Kelly Awards (Aug 28)
- Guest Speaker 'Book Bite' Lunch Croydon Library (Sept 10)
- EWN GF Debate Moderator
- State Library of Victoria Debate 'That Melbourne is a city of books not bogans'. (Oct15)
- Guest Speaker Xavier College Parents' Evening
- Moderator/writer/presenter of a hypothetical for the Royal Women's Hospital and the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Nov. 11)
2007
- AUSTRALIA DAY EVE INNAUGURAL COMEDY DEBATE
- For the Aust. Day Council. Outdoor at Docklands North Quay Precinct.
- KNOX FESTIVAL
- Miele Cookery Stage-2 days of hosting a line-up of celebrity chefs, cooking, interviewing, fielding audience participation. M/C
- THE GULLIVER AWARDS
- Speaker
- INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY for Trades Hall, in the Bourke St. Mall.
- M/C for a line-up of events and speakers including Julia Gillard and Sharan Burrow.
- ROYAL WOMENS HOSPITAL
- Media Launch of the Mothers Day Appeal. M/C
- MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL 07 FESTIVAL CLUB HOST
- M/C and co-ordinator of 2 weeks of events every night in the Festival Marquee, featuring local and international writers.
2006
- MELBOURNE WRITER'S FESTIVAL"FESTIVAL CLUB HOST"
- M/C and co-ordinator of 2 weeks of events every night in the Festival Marquee, featuring local and international writers.
- CAULFIELD GRAMMAR After-dinner speaker
- NED KELLY AWARDS for Crime Fiction M/C and moderator of Debate
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN's NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
2005
- CONFERENCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CEO's (speaker)
- SOCIETY OF EDITORS (speaker)
- PERIOPTIC NURSES CONFERENCEB (speaker)
- CITY OF GREATER GEELONG (speaker)
- QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Media Launch with various speakers and artists. M/C
- AUSTRALIAN OPERA Dinner dance and auction. M/C
- MELBOURNE WRITER'S FESTIVAL M/C of various panels.
- NED KELLY AWARDS for Crime Fiction. M/C
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN'S NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
- CITY OF MELBOURNE: CONVERSATIONS at MELBOURNE TOWN HALL - Women in Jazz
2004
- ABC RADIO NATIONAL Host of the Radio National Quiz all year.
- CITY OF MOONEE VALLEY COMMUNITY AWARDS M/C
- ABC GARDENING AUSTRALIA Live at Caulfield Racecourse M/C of the Live Stage with numerous presenters and hands-on events.
- IMMIGRATION MUSEUM Launch of the Station Pier installation M/C
- WET NOSE DAY for SEDA (Seeing Eye Dogs Aust.) Live outdoor event at Birrarung Marr, working with dogs and their owners. M/C
- EX LIBRIS "PORT FAIRY LITERATURE FESTIVAL " Launch M/C
- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN' S DAY AT FED SQUARE 8 speakers and bands. M/C
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN'S NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
- CITY OF MELBOURNE: CONVERSATIONS at MELBOURNE TOWN HALL - Shopping !
2003
- PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS M/C
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION Function with guest speakers including CHERIE BLAIR M/C
- MENTONE GIRLS GRAMMAR After-dinner speaker
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN�S NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
- YOORALLA "SCHOOLS OUT ON STAGE"
- Private Schools Choirs in competition at BMW Edge. M/C
2002
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB occasional host/MC at match-day corporate functions and players'forums
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN'S NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
- CITY OF MELBOURNE: CONVERSATIONS at MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
- Cafe Society (speaker)
- There Is No Sanity Clause (M/C)
- WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION Annual Awards at Flemington Atrium M/C
- FINTONA GIRLS SCHOOL After-dinner Speaker
2001
- City of Kingston Business Womens Luncheons: Guest speaker and M/C every year, from 2000 to 2007. 2 or 3 events a year, featuring a guest speaker, council speakers, corporate exercises and competitions.
- Hypotheticals"in the Geoffrey Robertson-style" of preparing a scenario, guiding a panel of speakers through the topic and fielding questions from the floor:
- Ministry of Housing May 2001
- Department of Community Services - Immunisation Programme.
- International Women' s Day Events:
- City of Moonee Valley
- Women's Health West.
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB WOMEN'S NETWORK GRAND FINAL LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C
- ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB FAMILY DAY
- Post-2001Grand Final M/C
2000
- Opening of the CLOCKTOWER CENTRE Theatre Season at the Essendon Town Hall M/C
- SPOT ON JOAN 2 - 10 yr anniversary 2000 at the Malthouse M/C
1999
- INTERNATIONAL BEER AWARDS - hosted the awards night at the Hyatt Grand Ballroom M/C
- Opening of the new PLANETARIUM at Scienceworks M/C
1998
- SAFETY IN ACTION 3 day Expo and Awards Night Dinner for Workcover M/C
1993
- THE AGE ACCENT - 3LO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN' S DAY
- LUNCHEON DEBATE M/C - Grand Hyatt Ballroom. Debate topic "Women at the forefront of change".
- SYDNEY GOOD FOOD GUIDE Launch of the '93/'94 for The Age via Anne O'Donovan Publishing. M/C
- THE GREAT PARACHUTE DEBATE - for the Mental Health Research Institute. At the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria.
- MOTHER'S DAY DEBATE AND BRUNCH for the Women' s Mid-Life Health Project,Melbourne University, at the Grand Hyatt Ballroom.also:
- 1997: Debated the topic" That Silence is Golden" .
- 1998: Debated thetopic: " That we are becoming the men we wanted to marry"
- 1999: MC only
- 2002: Debated topic: " That the love of food is the sincerest love of all" (GBShaw)
- 2003: " First in Best Dressed"
1992
- Launch of the ANTE/POST NATAL PACKAGE LAUNCH for QUIT. M/C
1991
- SPOT ON JOAN - a tribute to Joan Kirner. M/C. (1991)
Charity Work (expand)
15 years as a volunteer broadcaster on 3RPH ' Radio for the Print-Handicapped.
Also the recording of a number of talking books for Vision Australia.
Jane has been an Australia Day Ambassador for the past 5 years and will undertake the same role in 2011.
Throughout her career, Jane has performed at countless benefits and fund-raisers for any number of causes both political and personal.
Also the recording of a number of talking books for Vision Australia.
Jane has been an Australia Day Ambassador for the past 5 years and will undertake the same role in 2011.
Throughout her career, Jane has performed at countless benefits and fund-raisers for any number of causes both political and personal.
Essendon Football Club (expand)
Jane is a passionate supporter of the Essendon Football Club and has been a member of the Essendon Women's Network Committee since 2000.
The committee hosts three functions a year including the annual Great Grand Final Comedy Debate held at Crown on the Thursday of Grand Final Week.
It is an AFL endorsed corporate event and attracts a huge audience of both men and women. Although hosted by the Essendon Women's Network it embraces the Women's Networks of all other AFL clubs and is designed as a celebration of women's support and participation in football.
The Annual Football Woman of the Year (affectionately known as the FWOTY) is presented at the event in recognition of women who have made a significant contribution to the game of football.
Jane has been the moderator of the debate since 2000 and has appeared in a wide selection of weird and wonderful costumes - often related to the debate topic. Milliner and fellow-Bomber tragic, Melissa Jackson has collaborated with Jane on these creations for many years.
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I am not a stand-up comedian.You may have laughed at my performances in Mums the Word and Menopause - The Musical but I was playing a comic role written by someone else.
I am funny - ask my children !
At your awards night, debate, corporate dinner, conference, trivia night or hypothetical my approach will always be warm, well-prepared, articulate, efficient and often amusing. But I won't be launching into any hilarious 'a funny thing happened to me on my way here this evening...' or 'don't you hate it when...' or 'is it just me or is the world.....' speeches. No.
I am witty and spontaneous but I don't do shtick.
I must be doing something right because my list of satisfied customers is long and illustrious.
I can speak at length about writing, show business and surviving and you will be entertained and amused but stand-up it ain't.
Enquiries and Bookings - Nanette Fox: nanettef@gofilms.com.au
