• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0381

Goward, Pru

(1952 – ) Pru Goward in her new role at the Office of the Status of Women
  • Born 2 November, 1952, Adelaide South Australia Australia
  • Occupation Bureaucrat, Journalist, Parliamentarian

Summary

Pru Goward served as Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women from 1997. In July 2001 she became the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, appointed for a term of five years. In 2004 she was also appointed Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination.

In 2004 she was nominated by The Australian as one of the forty most influential Australians and by the Australian Financial Review as one of the country’s top cultural and industrial relations influencers. Her speeches have been reproduced in published collections and in 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her services to journalism and women’s rights.

In 2007 she stood successfully as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the seat of Goulburn in the Legislative Assembly at the New South Wales state election, which was held on 24 March. She was re-elected in 2011 and again in 2015 and is a minister in the Liberal state government.

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    • Australian Human Rights Commission (1986 - )
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