Tonight on Terps Talks, this Halloween special peels back the polished façade of Victorian Parliament House to reveal stories staff and security say still linger in its corridors: books flying off shelves, echoing footsteps where no one walks, and the ghostly sight of a little girl in the gardens whose handprints mysteriously reappear on rear doors. These are first-hand accounts reported and corroborated by people who work in the building, whether coincidence or something more, they make for an unnerving listen.

Have you ever been made to feel like you don't fit at work? The way you speak mocked?

Class based discrimination is real, and women from working class backgrounds often experience hidden and covert discrimination where cultural elitism cloaked as inclusion can have real and lasting impacts.

In the first Episode of Terps Talks, Join Sonja Terpstra MP, Labor Member for the North Eastern Metropolitan Region in Melbourne, Victoria with Professor Nareen Young for this engaging fireside chat on all things gender and class.

Professor Nareen Young is Associate Dean, Indigenous Engagement and Leadership, Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Professor Indigenous Policy (Indigenous Workforce Diversity) at UTS Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research and Director of the UTS Jumbunna/UTS Business School Centre for Indigenous People and Work.

As one of Australia’s most respected workplace diversity practitioners and thought leaders, Professor Young is responsible for introducing many valuable concepts to Australian diversity practice over the years, for which her leadership has been acknowledged with many awards and accolades.

Bringing her First Nations and culturally diverse heritages to all her work, Professor Young continues to hold numerous governance and advisory positions in the community, government and corporate spheres.