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Our Radicals and Revolutionaries: Women’s Liberation
The chaps from ASIO were hiding across the road from the Canning Street house in Ainslie. None of the eight women arriving suspected for a moment they were under surveillance, nor did the three hipster blokes leaving: pretty odd given the cameras were probably clicking from a car parked opposite. But then, this was suburban […]
Meta may not care about Australian news but it’s the soul of our communities
I once rang a convent of catholic nuns in Melbourne, to ask if the Sister in charge might have a comment about IVF surrogacy. It was 1988 and Victoria has just produced the nation’s first surrogate IVF child. It was a long shot, late in the day, but I needed another talking head in my […]
Joining the ‘first lady’ club: oh Jodie, what have you done?
So Jodie Haydon said ‘yes’, right at a time when women around the globe are increasingly saying ‘no’ to marriage. And for good reason. The data is in. We know from reputable research that women who don’t marry and don’t have children are “the happiest group in the population”. But if we are really hand […]
Radicals, Rebels and Reformers: a clarion call from the Sisterhood
Oh, they were mad! Furious. Those wild ‘women’s libbers’. Noisy as hell and heading for the Canberra Times, driven by an unholy trinity – Sexism, Sisterhood and Solidarity. A triple ‘S’ motivation that laid out a feminist blueprint for young women today. But first … It was late 1975, International Women’s Year, and over 700 […]
Barbie lands an unresolved feminist rant, but the joke is on us!
There is a fabulous moment in the history of the Canberra Women’s Movement when over a hundred furious feminists barged into the Canberra Times office to stage an angry protest against sexist commentary in the paper’s Editorial. The year was 1975 and the mood explosive. Legend has it that the Editor was hauled out before […]
Canberra’s Rose McGready defies Myanmar military in the battle to save new mothers and beat malaria
It must have surprised the Burmese family strolling up Mount Painter, on the outskirts of Cook, when the solo walker passing by smiled and greeted them not only in their native tongue, but using their Karen dialect. In fact, this pale skinned Canberran, of Irish stock, could have chatted to them in any of the […]
