![]() That an association of about 113,000 volunteer members who adopted at their inception a military-style model of organization, and who only admitted women to full membership in 1980, is capable of leading major social change in Australia is a subject worthy of further analysis. “After 100 years the most astonishing thing about the surf lifesaving movement in Australia is that it is currently at the vanguard of some critical areas of social change in Australia. ![]() A recent independent review of the National Museum of Australia Surf Life Saving Travelling Exhibition (travelling to each state during 2007 in celebration of 100 years of Surf Life Saving in Australia), by a Research Fellow in history at University of Queensland, began with the following introductory comments.
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