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Kathleen Swinbourne from the Women’s Electoral Lobby speaks about the nation’s first female Prime Minister

25/06/2010 — Filed under: Current issues — Comments (0)

Listen to the interview on ABC online.

“It was only 100 years ago when women were awarded the right to vote in Australia.

Fast-forward to 2010 and we have just seen our nation’s first female Prime Minister taking the stand.

Just after 10:00pm AEST last night, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced he had been challenged to a ballot for the leadership between him and Julia Gillard…”