The Numbers Game | Ms Represented | TVO Docs
7Annabel looks at the political parties from the mid-90s to now, and what happened when - more than a century after women won the right to run for Parliament in Australia - we finally got a female Prime Minister.
Australia was the first independent nation in the world where women could both vote and run for Parliament. But it took a long time for women to actually be elected, and once elected, they were expected to fit into a system that was already there.
The struggle of female parliamentarians to be heard, to be respected, and to prosper in the federal Parliament is a thrilling and inspiring one – and Ms Represented gives voice to a host of extraordinary stories, recounted with grace, humour and the deep authority of experience.
This is not ancient history, however. The first Indigenous woman in the House of Representatives was born into a country where her father’s people could not enrol to vote. With many women who are ‘firsts’ in politics, the story of women in parliament is a living, changing thing; Ms Represented captures it all in this layered, vivid portrait of political life through the female gaze.
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