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to stock it. Boycott and Rowe, however, had significant differences and the formation of a collective to run the magazine, at Rowe's suggestion, led to
Boycott being marginalised, and she resigned not much more than a year later after the launch.
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also involved, they organised a series of meetings for other women involved in the underground press. Fifty people turned up at the first meeting in
December 1971 at Rowe and Ferrier's basement flat in
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Rowe settled in London in 1969, but at first disliked the city because of the pervading attitude to expatriate
Australians. During her six-months in Greece which soon followed, the
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whose own company had assisted on publicity for the magazine's launch. Rowe and
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magazine from 1964 when it was based in Sydney, its original location. Because Rowe was aged under 21, editors
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