Women’s Discussion Group

When the Personal became Political: the Seventies in Australia. The Seventies was the decade of ‘It’s Time’, stagflation and the Dismissal, a tumultuous period of economic and political upheaval. But it was also the era when the personal became political, when Australia had a Royal Commission into Human Relationships and when social movements remade the boundary between public and private life. Michelle Arrow, Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University will reflect on writing a history of the 1970s. If the 1970s was the era when ‘the personal became political’, then how might this reframe our understanding of this transformative decade?