Q&A with Isobelle Barrett Meyering, author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, 1969–1979. Can ‘wicked’ policy problems be successfully tackled over time? Why did women’s liberationists in Melbourne protest Anzac Day? Q&A with Karen Fox, author of Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia’s Honours System Stricken Deer: Psychology and Counselling in Contemporary Australia

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Q&A with Isobelle Barrett Meyering, author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, 1969–1979.

Q&A with Isobelle Barrett Meyering, author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, 1969–1979.

Jacquelyn Baker interviews Isobelle Barrett Meyering about her new book, Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, 1969-1979, which examines the way in which women’s liberationists spearheaded the new wave of child rights activism in the 1970s.   Congratulations on the publication of your book, Isobelle! It makes a significant contribution to the […]
Can ‘wicked’ policy problems be successfully tackled over time?

Can ‘wicked’ policy problems be successfully tackled over time?

By Brian Head   There has been a growing literature on ‘wicked problems’, which are generally seen as complex, controversial, intractable and evolving. Both the nature of the ‘problems’ and the best ‘solutions’ are strongly contested by political parties and various stakeholders. The problems are ‘wicked’ in the sense that they are not easily tamed […]
Why did women’s liberationists in Melbourne protest Anzac Day?

Why did women’s liberationists in Melbourne protest Anzac Day?

Jacquelyn Baker explains why women’s liberationists in Melbourne demonstrated against Anzac Day in the 1980s and considers how their concerns are still relevant today.   On 26 April 1983, the Canberra Times reported that 168 women in Sydney and seven women in Melbourne had been arrested on Anzac Day.[1] The women in Sydney had allegedly […]
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