{"id":25736,"date":"2026-06-04T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=25736"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:54:55","slug":"dame-enid-lyons-oratory-competition","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/dame-enid-lyons-oratory-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Enid Lyons Oratory Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Pippa Brenner (Year 12) who will represent the school at the Dame Enid Lyons Oratory Competition Final next Wednesday at Parliament House.<\/p>\n<p>This competition is open to all independent and public girls&#8217; high schools in the NSW, and is named in honour of the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia, Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, who won a Tasmanian seat in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Former SCEGGS student, Celia Watson, was the inaugural winner of this competition and we are really pleased to see SCEGGS doing well in the heats once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good luck Pippa, we know you will do us proud.<\/p>\n<p>Audience places are limited, so if you would like to attend to support Pippa, please contact Elizabeth Walsh <a href=\"mailto:elizabethwalsh@sceggs.nsw.edu.au\">here<\/a> to see if there are any spaces available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Walsh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Speech and Public Speaking Co-ordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Pippa Brenner (Year 12) who will represent the school at the Dame Enid Lyons Oratory Competition Final next Wednesday at Parliament House. This competition is open to all independent and public girls&#8217; high schools in the NSW, and is named in honour of the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[55],"class_list":["post-25736","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-public-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/25736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=25736"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=25736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}