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In December 1981, Sir Reginald Ansett died at the age of 72. He was an aviator and businessman, and over the years he built a transport empire that included Ansett Airlines, while also establishing many other business enterprises. ....
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Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins. Source: AAP/David Moir When Kate Jenkins was growing up in the 70s on her family orchard in outer Melbourne with two brothers, she vividly remembers watching a news report about Deborah Lawrie (known as Deborah Wardley while married), becoming Australia’s first female pilot to fly with a major airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case again Ansett Airlines. “I have a very strong memory of seeing Deborah on the front page of the newspaper when she went to the High Court after being denied a role as a pilot purely on the basis of sex. As a 10-year-old girl, I was enraged,” recalls Jenkins. ....
Download 24.06 MB Kathy Mexted took the first steps towards learning to fly as a teenager when her father handed her the controls of his light plane for the first time. Since then she s been fascinated by flight, and the act of flying. Recently she began investigating the life stories of women like Nancy Bird Walton, who was the first woman to fly commercially in Australia. Later after a stint barnstorming, she made her way to Bourke where she flew a nursing sister on her rounds across the outback. Kathy also discovered more about the story of a pilot named Deborah Wardley who forged a stellar career in the skies, despite being told by Ansett that women couldn t be pilots, and Gaby Kennard, the first woman to fly solo around the world. ....