Breasting the Bar: Four Corners (1965) | RetroFocus

In 1965, Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bogner chained themselves to a bar rail at the Regatta Hotel in Queensland to protest their right to drink alongside men in public bars. A small protest in the wider fight for women's rights in Australia. #RetroFocus
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i am ABSOLUTLEY loving these retrofocus videos... Keep it Up!

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The officer who dealt with these two in the public bar was one Jack Herbert, later to become famous at the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

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These videos are excellent.

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Go girls ❤ this is amazing

[@buddha4tw]

A year before I was born I had no idea this discrimination was in force.

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anyone know who the interviewer is?

[@clairecatchpool3489]

Crack up
Men weren’t allowed in the birthing room !
How about a shoe on that ?
😂😂

[@jonanderson5137]

Aussies shouldn't have caved.