Volume LII Number 451
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When Her Excellency Quentin Bryce became our twenty-fifth governor-general, publicity focused chiefly on the fact that she is a woman. This was understandable, because she is the first of her sex to hold her country’s highest office; any notion that some anti-feminist “glass ceiling” hangs over the governor-generalship has been disproved, which is a very good thing, and we may all congratulate Quentin Bryce for having “got there”. And now could we all forget about that, and look ahead?
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