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Blog, Politics

LGBT MONTH Marriage Equality in Australia Celebrated in Canberra

Dr Robin Joyce / February 7, 2018
Blog, Politics

LGBT History Month: LGBT History Month 2018 Cambridge

Dr Robin Joyce / February 3, 2018

  The Mayor will launch this year’s event, which is supported by Cambridge City Council, from 11.45am at The Guildhall, with the rainbow flag raised above the building 40 years after it was first flown in the UK. There will…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

LABOR WOMEN: POLITICAL HOUSEKEEPERS OR POLITICIANS?

Dr Robin Joyce / January 28, 2018

  Women’s political activism in the Australian Labor Party in the Early 1900s in Western Australia Part 2 Robin Joyce    This paper is a section of an article published in Marian Simms , Australian Women and the Political System ,…

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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

LABOR WOMEN: POLITICAL HOUSEKEEPERS OR POLITICIANS?

Dr Robin Joyce / January 21, 2018

Robin Joyce  This  is a part of a paper published in Marian Simms , Australian Women and the Political System , Longman Cheshire, 1984.   Part 1  Typical travel conditions experienced by women who organised  country Labor meetings Labor Women: Political Housekeepers…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women: Publishing; writing; and as characters

Dr Robin Joyce / January 14, 2018

Some of Virago’s Christmas present quotes have preceded this post.  The remainder will appear in March, Women’s History Month, where longer posts are to be supplemented by short comments and quotes. This pattern allows full publicity to the in depth…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / January 6, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift …cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / January 5, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / January 4, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift …cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / January 3, 2018

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