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The Second Wave: Australia Transformed
From: From Subjects to Citizens
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If citizenship means counting in a society, the recognition of unequal citizenship has led the disadvantaged to seek redress through state intervention, and in Australia women have constituted one of the most active and certainly the largest group involved in this.
Contributors
Sara Dowse
Sara Dowse was born in the US and migrated to Australia in 1958. In 1974 she joined the federal Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to head its newly created women's affairs section, which under her leadership became the Office of Women's Affairs, later the Office of the Status of Women. After resigning from the public service she became a journalist and a writer and is the author of five novels.
