Most people would know about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, set up in 1972 outside old Parliament House in Canberra.

But few would have heard of the Women’s Embassy, set up in at the same place, on May 1, 1973. This was the first action of the Women’s Abortion Coalition Group, which Inge Disney writes about in the Autumn 1974 edition of The Australian Humanist.

Queensland crimes act, in 2018, and 46 years in New South Wales.