It started with a tweet.
Janine Hendry, a 58-year-old Melbourne academic, designer, entrepreneur and mother pondered on Twitter how many âextremely disgruntledâ women it would take to link arms around Parliament House and stand in silent protest against discrimination and alleged sexual abuse in the nationâs Parliament.
A tweet from academic, designer and mother Janine Hendry formed the spark for protest marches across the country.
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âIt was a visceral anger ⦠just this growing frustration and sense amongst my followers and friends this is outrageous, we have had enough,â Ms Hendry says.
Within two hours she had a very precise response from âsome lovely personâ. If there were two people per metre, they tweeted, it would take 3770 people.