''The Coming Out Show'' was a

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about women's issues broadcast by

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. The program was first broadcast on ABC Radio 2 (now Radio National) in 1975, the

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designated

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, and ran for 23 years (until 1998). It was launched as ''Coming Out Ready Or Not'', produced by the Australian Women's Broadcasting Cooperative. The 1995 book ''The Coming Out Show: Twenty years of feminist ABC Radio'', edited by Liz Fell and Carolin Wenzel, tells the story of the program.

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