Today TV show says women run Cobar
Wednesday July 7, 2010
Drummond Park was one of several locations used for filming by the Channel 9 Today show television crew last Thursday for their segment on Cobar. Mayor Lilliane Brady was one of four prominent local women they interviewed.
The town of Cobar and some of its most prominent women featured in a segment on the Channel 9 Today breakfast television show on Monday morning.
Titled, ‘Town run by women’, the segment featured interviews with mayor Lilliane Brady, property owner Ann-Marie Murphy, business owner Julie Urquhart and Cobar High School principal Sue Francisco.
It also featured interviews with a number of local ‘blokes’ and showed Cobar icons including the welcome to Cobar sign and the Grand Hotel’s big beer can.
Today show reporter Sarah Harris and a TV crew spent most of last Thursday in Cobar shooting footage and conducting interviews to produce Monday’s segment which received just under four minutes of air time.
The segment portrayed Cobar as a town “made of mining muscle” where the men outnumber the women three to one, but it’s the women who are running the town.
The segment linked Mayor Brady with a long chain of important women leaders in Australia including NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, Governor Marie Bashir, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Governor General Quentin Bryce as well as Queen Elizabeth II.
“It seems there’s no glass ceiling holding down the women of Cobar” and “it may have taken Australia more than a century to get a female prime minister but here in Cobar the women have been running the show for ages,” Ms Harris reported.
“If you really want to do anything you can,” Mrs Urquhart said.
“If I have a dream and I work hard enough, I can actually do it,” Mrs Francisco told the Today show.
“Our girls are no longer in the kitchen and nor should they be,” Mayor Brady said.
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