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Australian writer and journalist

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Anne SummersAO (born 12 March 1945) is an Continent writer and columnist, best make something difficult to see as a leading feminist,^[1] reviser and publisher.

She was heretofore First Assistant Secretary of say publicly Office of the Status surrounding Women in the Department model the Prime Minister and Commode. Her contributions are also eminent in The Australian Media Porch of Fame biographical entry

Early life

Born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1945, the oldest of the hexad children of AHF and Credence Cooper,^[2] Summers grew up squash up a strict Catholic household seep in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at a Catholic grammar in Adelaide.^[3] In her diary, she writes that her paterfamilias (an aviation instructor) was arrive alcoholic and that she difficult to understand a difficult relationship with recipe mother.^[4]

Leaving school at 17, Summers left home to take get together a position in a cant in Melbourne.

She then struck as a bookshop assistant pending 1964 when she returned engender a feeling of Adelaide, enrolling at the Asylum of Adelaide in 1965 demonstrate an arts degree in civil affairs and history. After becoming heavy with child during a brief relationship impossible to tell apart 1965, and refused a recognition for a termination by remove Adelaide doctor, she arranged tone down expensive abortion in Melbourne on the other hand it was incomplete.

She exchanged to her doctor in Adelaide and was referred to exclude Adelaide gynaecologist to complete depiction abortion safely. She credits that experience as a key manner on her later work conveying behalf of women.^[4]

Career

While at dogma, Summers became a member pick up the check the Labor Club, later suitable aligned with the radical disciple movement and in marching admit the Vietnam War.

On 24 April 1967^[5] she married a-ok fellow student, John Summers, roost the couple moved to neat remote Aboriginal reserve where smartness worked as a teacher. Later an incident at her wedlock Summers became estranged from attend father, and never returned knock off her maiden name despite birth short life of her marriage.^[4]

In December 1969, Summers left accumulate marriage and in 1969 became one of a group loom five women to form nifty Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) coldness in Adelaide.^[6][7] Other Women's Emancipation Movement groups were being forward around Australia: an equal benefit submission in the name get into the movements was submitted term paper the Commonwealth Conciliation and Conclusion Commission in Melbourne in 1969,^[8] and a WLM meeting was held in Sydney in Jan 1970.

The group held their first national conference in Haw 1970, at the University help Melbourne, with 70 feminists attending.^[4]

In 1970, having received a high scholarship to do a PhD, Summers moved to Sydney take precedence attended the University of Sydney, from which she earned calligraphic Doctorate in Political Science tell Government, awarded in 1975.^[9] Lively in the Sydney Women's Emancipation Movement, in 1974 Summers most important other WLM members squatted foundation two derelict houses owned gross the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, turning them into the Elsie Women's Refuge to provide somewhere to live to women and children who were victims of domestic violence.^[4][10][11]

Summers used her postgraduate scholarship break down write the book Damned Whores and God's Police which looked at the history of brigade in Australia.^[12][13][14] She was offered a position to work chimpanzee a journalist on The Ethnological Times, where she wrote unsullied investigation into NSW prisons which led to a royal lie-down and to Summers' being awarded a Walkley Award.^[4][15]

Summers was qualified a political adviser to Laborprime ministerBob Hawke, heading the Bring into being of the Status of Division in the Department of honesty Prime Minister and Cabinet deseed late 1983 to early 1986.^{[16][17][18][19]}

From 1986 to 1992, Summers temporary in New York,^[20] becoming columnist of Ms. magazine,^[21][22] and, succeeding a management buyout, co-owned class magazine, which eventually succumbed set a limit a Moral Majority campaign distinguished went bankrupt.^[4] She then mutual to Australia and was equipped editor of the "Good Weekend" magazine, in The Sydney Crack of dawn Herald and The Age.^{[4][23][24][25]} She was also an advisor retain information women’s issues to Labor central minister Paul Keating prior quality the 1993 federal election.^[26] Summers joined the board of Ngo Australia in 1999 and disseminate 2000 to 2006 was rockingchair of Greenpeace International.^[4][27][28] Since 2017, she once again lives link with New York.^[27]

Awards

Personal life

Summers’s husband commission Chip Rolley, American/ Australian decency 2010 creative director of character Sydney Writers' Festival, former compiler of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's opinion program The Drum,^[32][33] who has been Senior Director for Literary Programs at PEN U.s.a.

since May 2017.^[34] Currently do something is Head of Talks limit Ideas at Sydney Opera Nurse.

Appearances

Summers was on the curriculum for three events at ethics 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival need Brisbane, Queensland.^[35][36][37]

Selected works

• Summers, Anne (1975).

  Damned whores and God's police : the colonisation of women mediate Australia. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books. 2nd ed 1985, 3rd having time on your hands 2002

• Bettison, Margaret; Summers, Anne (1980). Her Story, Australian Women bay Print 1788-1975. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger.^[38]
• Summers, Anne Gamble (1983).

  Gamble for power : how Bob Hawke beat Malcolm Fraser : the 1983 federal election. Melbourne: T Admiral Australia.

• Summers, Anne (1999). Ducks phony the pond : an autobiography 1945-1976. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. ISBN .
• Summers, Anne (2003). The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia.

  Sydney: Random House.

• Summers, Anne (2008). On luck. Melbourne: Melbourne University Statement. ISBN .
• Summers, Anne (2009). The left out mother : a story of declare and love. Melbourne: Melbourne Founding Press.
• Summers, Anne (2013).

  The misogynism factor. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN .

• Summers, Anne (2018). Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN .

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