Each year the Anna Stewart Memorial Project is coordinated by UnionsWA. The first Project was held in Victoria in 1984 and in Western Australia in 1986. Participants see how unions are organised, become involved in current union issues and campaigns and visit workplaces.
Anna Stewart worked passionately and tirelessly to involve women directly in deciding on principles and priorities to put before unions and government in order to achieve real quality of status and opportunity for women. Her efforts achieved more in less than a decade working in the union movements than most of us will in a lifetime. Anna's work encapsulated her remarkable vision of women's lives - as they were - as she hoped they would be. Her commitment was expressed through all possible channels but particularly through the political and industrial wings of the labour movement...
Jo Robinson participated in the 2007 Anna Stewart Memorial Project and kept a diary of her daily experiences and responses. "I have no way of showing the mixture of emotions and feelings that I have experienced doing the course nor does it show the friendships I have formed. "
Robyn Parker participated in the 2007 Anna Stewart Memorial Project and kept a diary of her daily experiences and responses. "Thankyou to all the people at the CPSU/CSA who all were very friendly, supportive and provided me with a wealth of information and a display of passion for their work which is admirable. "