 |
|
 |
| 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. |
Part of the Melbourne University Press series "Little Books on Big Themes" my companion volumes are:
PROPONENTS OF TERROR AUSTRALIS AT SEA IN A LEAKY MOAT A week ago, we were debating whether we should be turning back tiny boats of desperate people seeking asylum on our shores. This week the Federal Government has assumed the power to put people suspected of having swine flu in mainland mandatory detention, a policy option it has abandoned for asylum seekers. Next week will we, like Peru and Argentina, be turning back planeloads of travellers, not because they don't have papers but because they might have the flu? Read my latest article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
MY NEW BOOK Read an early draft of an excerpt from THE LOST MOTHER, my new book to be published on 1 July by Melbourne University Press, or browse my previously published books here.
|
COMING SOON! MY NEW WEBSITE We are going 2.0, with a total makeover and a whole new approach to using the website and the blog. Watch out for it.
Keep up with the latest in the movement for sustainability with Tree Hugger, a US blog. |
GREEN READS The National Library of Australia archives this website and my blog.