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  • The Weak Defence of a Flawed Law: ‘It Was a Different Time’

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    During a question-and-answer session following her Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at Manchester University this week, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was directly challenged by Cath Dyson of the Women’s Rights Network. Dyson asked Gillard to reflect on her government’s 2013 amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act—changes that removed the Act’s biological definitions of “man” and…