This collection brings together stories of some of the women who contributed to Australian television production from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Excerpt from an Australia Council for the Arts interview with Jean Battersby in 1992.

In this clip she explains how she came to work in television.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Australian television pioneer Val Sarah. Sarah was interviewed by Jeannine Baker in 2019.

Dawn Kenyon was one of the very first employees of ATN Channel 7 in Sydney, hired as the first Coordinating Producer of children's programs.

Excerpt from an oral history interview with Joyce Belfrage by Graham Shirley, 2001. 

English-born Belfrage arrived at the ABC in 1958 as its first female Talks producer.

Women were finally employed as full-time television camera assistants from the late 1970s.

In this excerpt from a 2018 oral history interview with Babette Smith, she tells Jeannine Baker about working in current affairs in the 1970s and being reprimanded for almost allowing a condom to b

In this clip from an oral history interview with Jeannine Baker, Babette Smith reflects on typical gendered roles in television in the 1970s, and the barriers to women advancing to decision-making

When Jenni Meaney entered the ABC in Sydney in March 1980 as a camera assistant, she was the only woman working in camera or sound.

Judy Johnston was hired by ATN7 Sydney in 1961 after completing a TAFE course in TV production.