Published: October 30, 2018
Senator to give speech detailing decade-long battle against sexism in politics
Greens branch members attempted to overturn Sarah Hanson-Young’s preselection to the Senate after learning she was pregnant, the South Australian senator says, in a speech detailing her decade-long battle against sexism in politics.
In a speech to be delivered to the Women in Leadership summit in Adelaide on Wednesday, Hanson-Young, who was the youngest person ever elected to an Australian parliament, said her entry into politics in 2007 came with a rude awakening when she simultaneously discovered she was pregnant.
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