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About Pru Goward
Pru Goward became federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner for a five year period in July 2001. Following the introduction of the Age Discrimination Act in 2004, Pru was also appointed Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination.
In this role the Commissioner undertakes educational activities to promote the law which aims to reduce barriers faced by younger and mature age people in public areas of life.
Pru is an economist by training and a broadcaster by practice. She spent 19 years with ABC TV and Radio as a current affairs journalist and later as a political reporter and commentator. She also wrote extensively for newspapers and magazines during that time.
Pru has also been a high school teacher, a university tutor in Economics, a Broadcast Journalism lecturer at Canberra University, a media consultant and freelance writer. In 1997 she became Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, serving a number of ministers as well as the Prime Minister.
Pru was also Government Spokesperson during the Sydney Games and was responsible for developing Olympic and Paralympic media strategies for all Commonwealth agencies.
She is the author of A Business of Your Own, a study of success strategies for women in business and also jointly of a biography of the Prime Minister, John Howard.
In 2004 Pru was nominated by The Australian as one of the most forty influential Australians and by the Australian Financial Review as one of the country's top cultural and industrial relations influencers. In 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her services to journalism and women's rights.
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