Sydney, NSW; Canberra, ACT

On Tuesday 8 March 2016, at Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, the Governor-General, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), as Patron, and Lady Cosgrove, as guests of the Executive Director, UN Women National Committee Australia, Ms Julie McKay, attended a 2016 International Women’s Day breakfast, at which the Governor-General delivered an address.

Afterwards, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General hosted a morning tea for the National Indigenous Women’s Cricket Team on the occasion of the team selection for the inaugural tour of India in May 2016.

Later, the Governor-General, as Prior of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, hosted an investiture ceremony.