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My tribute to Helen Gurley Brown

Catch up with my article from 17 August in the Australian Financial Review on the legendary Helen Gurley Brown who died last month aged 90. Read article

September 2nd, 2012 | Category: contraceptives, Cosmopolitan magazine, equality, feminism, Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown, Joan Holloway, Mad Men, magazines, Peggy Olsen, sex, Sex and the Single Girl, women's employment | Leave a comment

Maureen Dowd on the Republican Party’s war against women

And the Fightback being led by Hillary Clinton. Read Maureen Dowd’s article

March 15th, 2012 | Category: abortion, contraceptives, Featured, feminism, Hillary Clinton, US health care system, US politics, women's political leadership | Leave a comment

The Pill turns 50 – reflections on how it changed everything

Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald about what life was like before oral contraceptives.  Read article

May 8th, 2010 | Category: abortion, Catholic Church, contraceptives, feminism, Gough Whitlam, the Pill, Whitlam government, women, Women's Electoral Lobby | 2 comments