Throughout its 100-year history, the Country Women's Association has advocated for women's issues at all levels of government — and won many battles.
The "Women's Movement", as Mum calls it, set up the first refuges for women experiencing domestic violence, as well as rape crisis and women's health centres. They agitated for childcare and maternity leave, and the right to contraception and abortion.newly formed units in the Whitlam government, seeking equal pay and jobs in male-dominated spheres.
In true free-love form, Dad happened to be married to someone else. And as he skippered the Pacific Peacemaker with his wife and family across the globe, my mother's belly expanded until I was born in 1982.Mum has always marched to the beat of her own militant drum. Her three children, each born 10 years apart, all have different dads. In our kitchen, political and community meetings took precedence over family meals.
I found my local branch via their craft shop. Within, there was a trove of domestic treasures my mother never had the time or skill to make: crocheted hot water bottle covers, soft yellow baby booties, marmalades and chutneys.
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