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Watch: Celebrating 10 years of Pathways to Politics for Women

Group of diverse women sitting in green leather bench seats in a parliament chamber.
March 2025

This year marks a decade of Pathways to Politics for Women supporting diverse women to pursue political leadership and create meaningful change in their communities.

To mark the milestone, we’ve created an anniversary video featuring reflections from our founder, Carol Schwartz AO, National Co-Convenors Sarah Buckley and Dr Meredith Martin, and more than 20 supporters and alums from a broad cross-section of Australian political life.

Pathways to Politics would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed and sent in videos. We’ll be sharing more of these across our social media channels throughout our 10th anniversary year.

“We need programs like Pathways to Politics, that special energy that happens when women come together to support each other, to learn from each other, to make sure that they’re ready to step forward into the political world.”

– The Hon Julia Gillard AC
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