The arrival of women's liberation in Australia was followed by a change of government after 23 years of conservative rule, and a remarkable flourishing of services for women. Feminists looked to the state for support, and got it. This has been at times an unholy marriage - of radical politics with the patriarchal state, but it has resulted in a range of services that you can see if you look in the telephone book that includes: women's refuges, domestic violence referral and crisis intervention telephone lines, rape crisis centres, incest centres, women's information lines, abortion counselling and lesbian lines.

None of these services was available in 1968 in Australia.

see Women'sElectoral Lobby - for more information