Strong Female Lead – FIFO 2022

78 min – Australia – 2021

Version : English version with French subtitles

Director : Tosca Lobby, Rachel Grierson-Johns

Production : Northern Pictures

Australia. One in three women say they experience discrimination or harassment at work. In 2010, Julia Gillard became the country’s first female prime minister. And the only one. The film questions how Australians react when a powerful woman rules them. Archives show the outraged violence of the attacks launched against her within the framework of her functions, including in Parliament. And the coverage of these attacks by the media and citizens. Astonishing sexist demonstration in a democracy…