{"id":4566,"date":"2020-05-22T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwgwomenandsport.org\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2021-04-28T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T03:58:13","slug":"watch-dr-bridie-odonnell-director-office-for-women-in-sport-recreation-victorian-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/watch-dr-bridie-odonnell-director-office-for-women-in-sport-recreation-victorian-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dr. Bridie O\u2019Donnell, Director, Office for Women in Sport &#038; Recreation, Victorian State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #333399;\"><em><b>Leadership from Lockdown<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>This week we welcomed\u00a0Dr. Bridie O\u2019Donnell, Director, Office for Women in Sport &amp; Recreation, Victorian State Government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>13.30 \u2013 14.15 pm NZT, Friday 22 May 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">WATCH NOW:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQn0ZnOg3TM\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Over recent weeks, there has been much discussion about the similarities and differences between New Zealand and Australia when it comes to lockdown measures to fight COVID-19. Much of our professional sport is connected across the Tasman, and we have similar sporting structures in place across all levels from elite to grassroots. Therefore, it\u2019s a great moment to catch-up with Dr. Bridie O\u2019Donnell to understand how Australian sport has been faring during the pandemic and what plans are in place for recovery and rebuild. In particular, we\u2019re looking forward to understanding how Victoria has moved to support women\u2019s sport, protecting the momentum built since its landmark \u2018Inquiry into Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation\u2019 report was published in November 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Dr Bridie O\u2019Donnell graduated Valedictorian from the University of QLD Medical School and was awarded the JRS Lahz prize for Most Outstanding Intern of the Year. She competed as an elite rower and an Ironman triathlete while working as a junior doctor, and then gave up working full time to race in Europe as a professional cyclist in Europe and the US from 2008-2012, working part-time every summer as an ICU Fellow and Orthopaedic assistant to fund her cycling career. Bridie represented AUS three times at cycling world championships, and then returned home to Melbourne to work at the Epworth hospital as a behaviour change physician. In 2016, she broke the UCI Women\u2019s Hour World Record riding 46.882km at sea level. In 2017 Dr O\u2019Donnell was appointed the inaugural head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation and in 2018 she published \u2018Life and Death \u2013 a cycling memoir.\u2019 Her role in the Victorian Government is leading the first office of its kind in Australia and directs investment into the community to level the playing field for women and girls in sport and recreation.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>This week\u2019s moderator: journalist and commentator, Zo\u00eb George!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4431\" src=\"http:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small.jpg 755w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-47x50.jpg 47w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-28x30.jpg 28w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-93x100.jpg 93w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-140x150.jpg 140w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-187x200.jpg 187w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-103x110.jpg 103w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-78x83.jpg 78w, https:\/\/womeninsport.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/olympics-1-zoe-small-250x268.jpg 250w\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For week seven, we are excited to announce a new guest moderator!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Zo\u00eb George is a versatile senior journalist with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuff<\/a>, currently contributing to the sports and business sections. Before making the move to print in 2020, Zo\u00eb spent seven years with Radio NZ, working in music and on major shows producing some of the biggest names in public broadcasting. She also produced and presented the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/programmes\/fair-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Play\u00a0<\/a>podcast, made in association with LockerRoom, WiSPSports.com and Radio NZ, covering issues related to women in sport. She was a finalist for long form sports journalist of the year in 2018 for her coverage of issues ranging from pay equality to sexual violence prevention through and in sport. Zo\u00eb co-hosted RNZ\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/programmes\/not-your-average-cricket-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Not Your Average Cricket Show<\/a>\u00a0for two seasons and is a regular sports commentator on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/nights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RNZ Nights with Bryan Crump<\/a>. She also has a background in international sports administration, travelling the world with international men\u2019s and women\u2019s cricket teams as a team and communications manager. She has a keen interest in sports academia too, with a focus on sport and its sociological impacts, addressing issues from funding and media coverage to access for LGBTQI+ communities and those with disabilities. Her work can be found across\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stuff.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a>, Radio NZ, LockerRoom and The Spinoff.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership from Lockdown This week we welcomed\u00a0Dr. Bridie O\u2019Donnell, Director, Office for Women in Sport &amp; Recreation, Victorian State Government 13.30 \u2013 14.15 pm NZT,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/watch-dr-bridie-odonnell-director-office-for-women-in-sport-recreation-victorian-state-government\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insight-hub","tag-iwg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.iwgwomenandsport.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}