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Women and Whitlam : revisiting the revolution

Author :  edited by Michelle Arrow

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Country
Australia
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing, Sydney NSW, Australia
ISBN 9781742237855
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2023
Bib. Info xxxiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Categories History
Product Weight 370 gms.
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The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked. The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for women, introduced the single mother’s benefit and paid maternity leave in the public service, ensured cheap and accessible contraception, funded women’s refuges and women’s health centres, introduced accessible, no-fault divorce and the Family Court, and much more. Women and Whitlam brings together three generations — including Elizabeth Evatt, Eva Cox, Patricia Amphlett, Elizabeth Reid, Tanya Plibersek, Heidi Norman, Blair Williams and Ranuka Tandan — to revisit the Whitlam revolution and to build on it for the future.

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