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Bondi First

2025 PROGRAM

Bondi First

DATE: 

Friday 28th March

LOCATION:

Darley Smith Building

COST:

$22

Forced to sleep on beaches in her board bag when competing, and despite battling crippling chronic rheumatoid arthritis, in 1993, Pauline Menczer achieved what none of her Bondi Beach male peers could and won the world surfing championship, following in the waves of Manly local, Pam Burridge. But she was denied the $25,000 prize money and didn’t receive recognition until recently – simply because she was a girl.

Surf Like A Woman is her autobiography.

Host: Tracey Croke

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.

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