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Summary
The Whitlam Government transformed Australia. What is often overlooked, however, is the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women.
The Whitlam Government of 1972– 1975 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, ensured cheap and accessible contraception, funded
women’ s refuges and women’ s health centres, introduced accessible, no-fault divorce and the
Family Court, introduced paid maternity leave in the public service, and much more.
At a time when women are once again discovering their political voice, this book brings together three generations of women – including Patricia Amphlett, Elizabeth Reid, Eva Cox, Tanya Plibersek, Heidi Norman, Blair Williams and Ranuka Tandan – to revisit the Whitlam revolution and to build on it for the future.
Author Biography
Michelle Arrow is professor in Modern History and one of Australia’ s leading contemporary historians. She is the author of Friday on Our Minds and the prize-winning The Seventies.
Table of Contents
Foreword – Tania Plibersek
Introduction (Michelle Arrow)
Part 1 introduction: Women and political influence – Marian Sawer
Whitlam and the Women’ s Liberation Movement – Elizabeth Reid
Women’ s Electoral Lobby and equal pay – Iola Mathews
Sisterhood – Biff Ward
The personal is political – Pat Eatock and Cathy Eatock
Part 2 introduction: Women and the law – Kim Rubenstein
Whitlam, women and human rights – Elizabeth Evatt
‘ Every difficult female’ : Women and the Family Law Act 1975 – Camilla Nelson
Part 3 introduction: Health and social policy – Karen Soldatic
Women’ s health, women’ s welfare – Marie Coleman
Women for Whitlam everywhere: The impact of the Whitlam government in regional Australia – Margaret Reynolds
Just add women and stir: Revisiting the femocrat revolution – Eva Cox
Out of wedlock – out of luck: Single mothers and ex-nuptial babies – Terese Edwards
Part 4 introduction: Media, arts and education – Julie McLeod
Whitlam, women and the media – Gillian Appleton
Whitlam, women and the arts – Patricia Amphlett
Jean Blackburn, girls and their school education – Craig Campbell and Debra Hayes
Part 5 introduction: What remains to be done – Heidi Norman
Then, now and what might come – A writer’ s take – Sara Dowse
Beyond liberal feminism: The importance of a grassroots women’ s movement – Ranuka Tandan
Re-energising the revolution: From 2010 to now – Blair Williams
Bios and acknowledgments
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