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| Anne Summers is a best selling Australian author, journalist and speaker on political and social, especially women's, issues. Anne led the Office of the Status of Women from 1983-86 and was advisor to Prime Ministers Paul Keating and Bob Hawke. She is a former editor of Good Weekend, and is a Sydney Morning Herald columnist. Anne's books include Damned Whores and God's Police (1975; 1994; 2002), Ducks on the Pond), her autobiography (1999), and The End of Equality (2003). In 1988 Anne and Sandra Yates led a buyout of Ms. and Sassy magazines in New York. Anne is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and of Sydney PEN, a Walkley Award winner and an Officer in the Order of Australia. Since 2002 she has facilitated the annual Serious Women's Business conference, Australia's leading conference for women in business. She is a board member of the Institute for Cultural Diversity, Deputy President of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and was Chair of Greenpeace International from 2000 to 2006. |
BINGE DRINKING SOMETHING TO WINE ABOUT
If four glasses of wine enjoyed by adults over dinner is now going to be labeled binge drinking, we will need a whole new vocabulary to describe kids throwing down 24 vodka shots on a night out on the town.
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NEWSFLASH APRIL 13: Congratulations to Quentin Bryce AC on her appointment as Australia's first woman Governor General. This is an historic day for Australia, especially for Australian women. We look forward to having a woman at Yarralumla as our Head of State. |
Watch "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling", Hillary Clinton's powerful concession speech Erica Jong tells us what it feels like watching Hillary Clinton lose the race to be the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. read Check out American feminist Robin Morgan's powerful denunciation of the double standard at work in the Democratic Primary race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
The rapid economic development of China has come at a huge environmental cost to that country and its people. How much responsibility does Australia, as an exporter of energy resources to China, have to bear for those problems? Read Chip Rolley's compelling essay from the Griffith Review: The Brown Peril. Keep up with the latest in the movement for sustainability with Tree Hugger a US blog
Follow the PEN poem relay for freedom of expression in China, from Greece to Beijing, country by country language by language |
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