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What really happened inside a room full of Australia’s most powerful

From Quentin Bryce to Peta Credlin, Jesinta Campbell to Lisa Wilkinson, Ros Packer to Kerri Anne Kennerley – it was an evening that celebrated the best and brightest of our big country.

It was the night that brought Australia’s A-list together.

A gathering of the best-known and most influential women in the country.

The Weekly’s Women of The Future Awards, held over dinner at the Art Gallery of NSW, was a moment in which politicians from both ends of the spectrum rubbed shoulders with celebrities and the inspirational likes of Turia Pitt and Denise Morcombe.

From Quentin Bryce to Peta Credlin, Jesinta Campbell to Lisa Wilkinson, Ros Packer to Kerri Anne Kennerley – it was an evening that celebrated the best and brightest of our big country.

Peta Credlin and Anna Bligh.

Ros Packer, Lucy Turnbull and Jane Halton.

Gladys Berejiklian, Olivia Wirth, Paul Howes and Chloe Shorten.

Karl Stefanovic, Peta Credlin and Helen McCabe.

Sarah Wilson and Sylvia Jeffreys.

Dame Quentin Bryce and Julia Baird.

Turia Pitt and Peta Credlin.

Turia and Peta.

David Speers.

Helen McCabe leading the panel discussion.

Peta Credlin, Annabel Crabb and Jesinta Campbell in discussion with Helen McCabe.

The panellist

Dame Quentin Bryce, with the Women of the Future winners.

Dame Quentin Bryce and Helen McCabe with the Women of the Future winners.

The Women of the Future winners and runners-up.

Helen McCabe, Jesinta Campbell, Peta Credlin and Annabel Crabb. Helen wears a Victoria Beckham dress and Ole Lynggaard jewellery.

Leila McKinnon.

Gladys Berejiklian.

The room at NSW Art Gallery

Sandra Sully.

Ros Packer.

Ita Buttrose.

Denise Morcombe.

Turia Pitt

Jesinta Campbell

Sarah Wilson

Dame Quentin Bryce

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