RRR Women Annual Brisbane Long Lunch 2025

The RRR Women Annual Brisbane Long Lunch is back in 2025 | Bringing country and city together

Join us for the longest running event on the RRR Women calendar – the RRR Women Brisbane Long Lunch, sponsored by Moore Australia

With Special Guest Speaker Pip Courtney, Multi Award Winning ABC TV Journalist and Host of “Landline”.

Saturday, 9 August |  12pm to 2pm | Blackbird, 123 Eagle Street, Brisbane City

It’s a unique networking experience, bringing together rural, regional and remote members with city-based women to celebrate the opening weekend of the Ekka.

Our Guest Speaker is Pip Courtney, Multi Award Winning ABC TV Journalist and Host of “Landline”. Pip has reported for ABC’s Landline for 32 years, hosting since 2012. She’s earned multiple awards, including the 2024 National Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting. Hear Pip in conversation about her career highlights, including Queensland Journalist of the Year (2007) and induction into Queensland’s Rural Journalism Hall of Fame (2018). Starting at ABC Hobart in 1986, she’s worked across Australia and abroad. Passionate about rural issues, Pip also loves Tasmania, horses, cats, champagne, and sheep!

Our welcome drinks special guest is Federal Senator Susan McDonald, Shadow Minister for Resources and Shadow Minister for Northern Australia. 

Join us in strengthening the ongoing tradition of bringing together communities, fostering professional growth, and celebrating women across Queensland.

Enjoy a two-course long lunch, two hour drinks package, guest speaker and live auction all against the iconic Blackbird background.

Come to meet women from across the state, bring your friends or host a table.

Members, use your discount code to unlock the special member price. Not a member? Join from just $66 to access the member price.

Meet your MC | Andrea Crothers

Andrea Crothersis an experienced television journalist and presenter, currently waking up with Channel Nine’s The Today Show.

She was previously with Sky News at Parliament House in Canberra. She’s interviewed Prime Ministers and Premiers, past and present, covering everything from the controversial to the colourful – earning a reputation for her quick wit and humour.

Andrea cut her teeth in rural media, after growing up on a mixed cropping and livestock property in south-west Queensland.

Meet the Special Guest Speaker | Pip Courtney, Multi Award Winning ABC TV Journalist and Host of “Landline”

Pip Courtney has been reporting for the ABC’s national rural affairs program Landline for 32 years and host since 2012

She has won numerous awards for her reporting on agriculture, business, sport and the environment.

Career highlights include being named Queensland Journalist of the Year in 2007 with colleague Sally Sara and winning the International Star Prize for Agricultural Journalism in 2011.

Pip was inducted into Queensland’s Rural Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018, and most recently won the 2024 National Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting.

Born in Tasmania Pip took up a graduate cadetship at the ABC in Hobart in 1986, working in radio and television news until 1993 when she moved to Canberra on the “mainland” to work for Landline.

Apart from a year with the 7.30 Report in Melbourne she’s stayed with Landline, transferring to head office in Brisbane in 2001.

Rural reporting has taken Pip to every Australian state and territory, as well as China, Peru, Timor Leste, the USA, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines.

As well as story-hunting and storytelling, Pip loves Tasmania, horses, cats, champagne and sheep.

Meet the Welcome Drinks Special Guest | Federal Senator Susan McDonald, Shadow Minister for Resources and Shadow Minister for Northern Australia

From growing up on her family’s cattle property in North-West Queensland to running a business in South-East Queensland, Susan has a deep appreciation of the issues affecting Queenslanders across the state.

Raised near Cloncurry, Susan was educated by Correspondence School and Mt Isa School of the Air before attending boarding school in Brisbane and studying commerce and economics at the University of Queensland.

A qualified accountant and mum to three kids, Susan also ran a chain of butcher shops for six years, responsible for over 100 staff across five stores, before being elected to the Australian Senate for Queensland.

Susan is based in Townsville, making her the Coalition’s northernmost Senator in Queensland.

Parliamentary Service:

Susan is the Shadow Minister for Resources and Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, roles in which she will be able to help grow our country’s most productive regions and industries for the benefit of all Australians.

Susan was elected to the Senate in May 2019 as a member of the Liberal National Party and sits in the Federal Nationals party room.

Susan also held roles in the previous Coalition Government as Special Envoy for Northern Australia and Chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee.

With thanks to our generous sponsors, Moore Australia 

Moore Australia is a member of the Moore Global network.  With firms across Australia, locally they have 26 partners and more than 220 team members in six offices across Queensland and Northern New South Wales. 

They provide a comprehensive 360-degree range of audit, business, tax, accounting and consulting services. Working with a diverse portfolio of individuals and businesses of all sizes, they service clients across Australia and internationally, delivering tailored solutions that meet their client’s needs.