The Whitlam government gave us no-fault divorce, women's refuges and childcare. Australia needs another feminist revolution
- Written by: Angela Woollacott, Manning Clark Professor of History, Australian National University
John McKinnon/Australian Information Service/National Library of AustraliaAustralia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.
But it took 41 years for women to...
