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Fashion s role in some of Australia s social and cultural turning points

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The swim program helping women intimidated by Australia s oceans conquer their fears

Share Share on Twitter An ocean safety program aiming to help women become more confident in the water has returned after COVID-19 forced it to pause for a year. The Swim Sisters program brings together women, many of whom are from Islamic backgrounds, who often have very little experience swimming in the ocean. Yusra Metwally founded Swim Sisters in Sydney with the help of the Bondi Surf Club three years ago. “Every summer, we see really horrible statistics about people drowning - a lot of them from western Sydney and from migrant communities,” she told SBS News.  Swim Sisters founder Yusra Metwally.

The swim tribes conquering the local icy waters

The Myth of the Open Australian Beach: Not Everyone Can Access These Spaces Equally

Community Photo: Silas Baisch/Unsplash Recently, the McIver’s Ladies Baths in Sydney came under fire for their (since removed) policy stating “only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry”. The policy was seemingly in defiance of New South Wales’ anti-discrimination and sex discrimination acts. Managed since 1922 by the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club, the baths are a haven for women and the last remaining women’s-only seawater pool in Australia. Just over 100 public ocean pools sit on Australia’s rocky coast, most in New South Wales. Segregated baths gave women a place to experience the water, prohibited from most beach access until “continental” (or mixed gender) bathing was introduced in the early 20th century.

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