Page 44 - Marie Claire Australia (January 2020)

REPORTAGE

T H E R I G H T

T O C H O O S E

In October 2018, almost 50 years
after women’s groups first marched
for their reproductive rights in
Queensland, the state parliament
finally decriminalised abortion.
New South Wales followed suit
in September 2019, becoming
the last Australian state to remove
abortion from its criminal code.
These long overdue reforms were
both delivered by female premiers:
in NSW by the Liberal’s Gladys
Berejiklian and in Queensland by
Labor’s Annastacia Palaszczuk.

T H E

D I V E R S IT Y

R EVO L U T I O N

The definition of beauty has
been crumpled up, chucked
out and transformed over the
past 10 years. Homogeneity is
out and diversity is in. Models
of all shapes, sizes, ethnicities
and gender identities have
graced the catwalks at fashion
weeks around the world –
including Ashley Graham
modelling her own fashion
line at NYFW in 2015 (left).
Our very own Robyn Lawley
led a successful movement
away from the dated term “plus
size” and British body-positivity
icon Tess Holliday graced the
cover of Cosmopolitan UK in
a swimsuit. There’s still a way
to go (*cough* Victoria’s Secret
*cough*), but beauty no longer
comes in one-size only.