Brazen Hussies

Brazen Hussies is a 2020 Australian documentary feature recording the history of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia from 1965 to 1975.

[1] It includes footage taken by ASIO, as well as actor Sigrid Thornton, then aged 12, waving a women's liberation flag with her mum, Merle, who started the movement in Brisbane when she chained herself to a pub counter in which women were not allowed to drink.

[1] The film was so named because the women's movement had reclaimed the formerly pejorative term, wearing it as a "badge of honour".

[1] In a review in The Guardian, Kath Kenny wrote: "Dwyer has uncovered terrific archival footage and photos to complement contemporary interviews".

[6] Sally Breen, a senior lecturer at Griffith University, writing for The Conversation, wrote that the film is: "A celebration of how far we’ve come and a warning of just how easily everything these women fought for could be lost.