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Country Women's Association of New South Wales Calendar

CWA: A calendar of puddings

A recipe calendar, containing one pudding recipe for each day of the year. Created by the Country Women's Association of New South Wales in 1930.

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Hand-written letter to Mrs Reid about the Russell Yoyo competition prizes.

Yoyo Competition Inequality – Letter to Elizabeth Reid

A letter written to Elizabeth Reid from Alison Dredge to complain of discrimination in the awarding of boys’ and girls’ prizes in a yoyo competition.

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Royal Commission on Human Relationships – What do you think? Pamphlet

This record is a leaflet inviting the public to contribute to the 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships.

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A typed copy of the Maternity Allowance Act 1912 with the British coat of arms on the front page.

Maternity Allowance Act 1912

The Maternity Allowance Act 1912 provided a payment of five pounds to new mothers—the equivalent of two weeks wages.

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Press release appointing Elizabeth Reid to the Prime Minister's staff.

Appointment of the first women's adviser to a Prime Minister

The Whitlam Government was the first government in the world to appoint an adviser on women’s affairs.

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Note discussing the appointment of married women to the public service

Appointment of women to the Commonwealth Public Service – Note for Cabinet discussion

Ronald Mendelsohn, an adviser to Prime Minister Menzies, provides information to Cabinet on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service.

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Document titled ‘The First Year’, outlining the Whitlam Government's achievements in human and women's rights.

Labor Government's women's rights achievements after first year in office – statement by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam

In this document Whitlam restates his government’s ‘three great aims’, Addressing barriers to women’s advancement aligned with all three of these aims.

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A sign reading ‘No-Fault Divorce’ hung between two trees in an outdoor pedestrian area in the city of Canberra.

Petition for no-fault divorce

Prior to 1975, in order to divorce, one party had to prove that the other party had committed a ‘matrimonial offence’ such as domestic violence.

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Sex Discrimination Act 1984 cover

Sex Discrimination Act 1984

This is an excerpt from the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.