Weipa's rural women's event a success

By Lea Coghlan
Updated November 29 2016 - 4:32pm, first published 3:00pm
Empowerment: Guest speaker Melissa Winks, one of only two female managers at  Rio Tinto Alcan, joined Jacinta Strong and Shelly Lyon at the National Rural Women's Coalition women event in Weipa at the weekend.
Empowerment: Guest speaker Melissa Winks, one of only two female managers at Rio Tinto Alcan, joined Jacinta Strong and Shelly Lyon at the National Rural Women's Coalition women event in Weipa at the weekend.

The success of a rural women’s empowerment event in Weipa showed similar events were needed for rural and remote communities, the event coordinator said.

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