Australian Culture

&
Feminism
Antonella Tejedor - Casandra Contreras.
“One does not have to delve too
deeply to discover why some of the
world's angriest feminists breathed
crisp blue Australian air during their
formative years, before packing their
kangaroo-skin bags (...) Anyone who
Tracks is set in the late 1970s,
an era of intense social and
political change in Australia.
The second wave of feminist
movements of the
1960s and 70s were
enormously influential in Australia,
Davidson describes
Alice Springs as
hopelessly in the
grips of a ‘cult of
misogyny’. She
rejects the
archetype of the
passive, docile
she took on odd
jobs, including
waitressing, and
she was repeatedly
warned that
women were often
sexually assaulted
in those Australian
Australia still has a
long way to go when it
comes to sexism
over a third of women and
around half of men think
feminism has “gone too far”
“The two important things I did
learn were that you are as
powerful and strong as you allow
Sex Discrimination
Commissioner Kate
Jenkins has
announced the
#MeToo Movement
as the winner of the
2019 Sydney Peace
Prize.
Australian
women’s
movements
FIRST
FEMALE
PRIME
2016
MINISTER
On 24 June 2010 Julia Gillard
FIRST INDIGENOUS
became Australia’s 27th Prime
Minister and the first woman WOMAN ELECTED TO
to hold the office. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES

2010 WOMEN’S MAR

2011
FIRST ABORIGINAL PROTESTED BY 5
AUSTRALIAN WOMAN million people,
2019
ELECTED TO UN making it the largest
PERMANENT FORUM mass political protest
150 years ago in Australia women
had no political voice, few
protections from poverty or harm
and Indigenous women had no
rights at all. WOMEN HAVE
come a long way since then, but
thanks for
listening!