The first International Women's Day march in Adelaide in 1972 proclaimed that:

Women need, women demand:

Equal pay

Free contraceptives

Abortion on demand

Free 24-hour child care

Equal job definitions and opportunities

No sexist advertising or exploitative consumerism

Today we are told we live in a "post-feminist" era the "new" woman of the '90s not only has the vote, but has entered parliament. Apparently we've never had it so good.

So why is it that:

• Women still don't have the legal right to control their bodies?

• Aboriginal women's health is actually worse than two decades ago?

• Women are still the ones on trial in sexual assault cases?

• Migrant women workers are still concentrated in sweatshops?

• More women in Australia are living in poverty than in the 1980s?

• The average wage for women workers is still only 65% of the average male wage?

• Women still do more than 80% of the unpaid work in society?

• Women are starving themselves to achieve a size 8?