Elizabeth Reid talks women, advocacy and change in Australia
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It’s our 50th episode and we are celebrating this milestone with an extra-special interview with the first women’s advisor to a head of government anywhere in the world. Elizabeth Reid AO, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former visiting Fellow at the Gender Relations Centre and Department of Human Geography at ANU, was appointed in 1973 to advise then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the changes in policy that the women of Australia were desperate to see implemented. From placards and protests to the halls of power, Elizabeth Reid takes us through the ways in which women have tried to make society sit up and listen, and the challenges of being a figurehead for a social movement for change. Watch our extended interview with Elizabeth on our Seriously Social YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/SrPI3F2hCWs  Fill in our podcast survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BX33W8K  Useful Links Elizabeth Reid: Transforming adversity into impact ANU Gender Institute Women’s Liberation Movement International Women’s Year Milestones for Australian Women Since 1975 ABC News March4Justice
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