Marriage: Love and Law exhibition catalogue - Flipbook - Page 81
Living a ‘happy marriage’, according to the then influential Australian
Women’s Weekly, was the key to family unity (62). Improving the financial
situation of divorced women was a focus for various women’s groups,
including a coalition led by Ruby Rich (63).
62 Australian Women’s Weekly
Happy marriage contest
10 May 1961, p. 6
National Library of Australia,
NLf 059.4 AUS
63 Ruby S. Rich
Letter to Joseph Cahill,
Premier of NSW, proposing
an amendment to the
Matrimonial Causes Act
1899–1951 relating to
the equality of alimony
payments for women,
8 November 1954
Paper
1954
NSW State Archives, NRS 12060
[12/8644], File 1418
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