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In conversation with Annabel Crabb

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August 2021

In this special Pathways to Politics panel event, Carol Schwartz AO speaks to award-winning journalist and television host Annabel Crabb about her popular documentary Ms Represented, which aired on the ABC in 2021.

Ms Represented charts the history of Australian women in parliament from the female perspective and features interviews with female politicians from across the decades and across the political spectrum, including Julia Gillard, Natasha Stott Despoja, Amanda Vanstone, Penny Wong, Julie Bishop, Sarah Hanson-Young and Linda Burney.

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