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Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made
The politician who achieved equal rights legislation for women in Australia, Hon Susan Ryan AO, died unexpectedly yesterday in Sydney aged 77, still fighting for fairness in a country challenged by deep inequalities.
In 1983, new Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed Ryan Minister for Education and Youth Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women.
- Chris Wallace
- The Conversation
She was the first woman to be appointed to cabinet in a Labor …