Short Black with Sandra Sully

Every creature is so important to the way in which we live our life, says Kim McKay, the first female Director and CEO of the Australian Museum.

She's certainly made her mark on the oldest museum in Australia in her six years at the helm, creating new galleries and exhibitions and championing free admission for children.

Kim is a passionate environmentalist, having co-founded Clean Up Australia, and strong supporter of women in leadership.

And she never takes no for an answer.

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Businesswoman, teacher, author, company director, advice columnist, Wendy McCarthy has done it all.

A keen advocate for women's rights, she encourages young women to say yes to opportunity and worry about the risk later - but not when it comes to sex.

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Katherine has been described as the exciting new voice of Australian crime fiction.

A Network 10 journalist and also reporting for CBS in New York, Katherine talks about the part her years spent covering grisly court cases played in her debut novel Sticks and Stones. 

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Sam Bloom was in Thailand on holiday with her family when she suffered a horrendous accident that left her paralysed. Six years later she's a world champion with two books and a Hollywood movie about her life about to be released.

She opens up to Sandra about her extraordinary journey, and how a magpie called Penguin made her realise that life was worth living. 

As she says - she's not the woman she was, she's not the woman she wanted to be. She is so much more than that.

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Marina Go doesn't stop.

After a successful career as a journalist and editor, helming popular titles like Dolly and Cosmo, she's moved seamlessly into the boardroom space and is making her voice heard around Australia as independent chair and non-executive director of a range of organisations as diverse as 7-11, the Walkleys and Super Netball.

But how has she managed to reconnect with Dolly readers from 30 years ago?

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Nurse, farmer, wife, mother - Bronnie Taylor brings a wealth of experience to her role as New South Wales' Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women.

She talks to Sandra about calling out bad behaviour in the workplace and how to deal when it gets personal.

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Aesop said that union gives strength, and strength is something Sally McManus has in spades.

The first female Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions opens up about COVID, soldiering on with a broken leg, and what she gets up to when she does have some spare time.

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Only three per cent of all the statues in Australia are of women.

Frankly, that sucks, says Professor Clare Wright, who is redressing the way Australia's history has been written as if women weren't part of building the nation, starting with a country-wide campaign for more statues and memorials of historic women.

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Betty Klimenko's journey has had more twists and turns than the toughest racetrack.

She opens up to Sandra about her riches-to-rags-to-riches life, and having to adapt the sport of racing for a world in the throes of a pandemic.

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Mae West said, ‘You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough'.

Deborra-Lee is certainly doing that. As well as being a successful actress, director and producer, she is a tireless advocate for vulnerable children and a multitude of charities.

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