I Am Woman (Morning Melodies), at Hamer Hall – concert review
Aussie-born Helen Reddy’s 1972 signature song I Am Woman, that reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, may have been the ultimate girl-power anthem. But long before, Australian women were fighting for equal rights. In 1965, Merle Thornton (Sigrid Thornton’s mother) and Rosalie Bogner chained themselves to the bar of the Regatta Hotel…