Lilith 14: 2005
Welcome to this fourteenth edition of Lilith, the only Australian journal dedicated to the publication of feminist history. This edition comes at an interesting and, in many ways, calamitous time for feminism. As we approach the tenth anniversary of the election of John Howard's aggressively conservative Coalition Government, we feel that many of the rights and freedoms for which feminists have struggled are currently under threat. Howard's Liberals have presided over a steady ideological shift to the right in Australia, capturing the terms of public debate and outflanking their progressive critics.
As usual, it is women who stand to lose the most from the Howard Government's politically, morally and socially conservative agenda. While any historian will tell you that clocks cannot be...
