How Australia’s daughters of freedom remain shaping our nation

Melanie Whelan
November 10 2018 - 7:00am
LEGACY: Clare Wright visits the new portrait of Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Parliament House on Friday, almost 120 years since Australian women won the right to vote and stand for federal parliament.
LEGACY: Clare Wright visits the new portrait of Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Parliament House on Friday, almost 120 years since Australian women won the right to vote and stand for federal parliament.

HISTORIAN Clare Wright still gets chills standing before the controversial Australian banner carried in British feminist marches early last century.

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Melanie Whelan

Melanie Whelan

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