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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.

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

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      Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
      Publication Date: 01/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781742237855, 978-1742237855
      ISBN10: 1742237851
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      Australasian and Pacific history Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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