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Australian writer and journalist

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

She was heretofore First Assistant Secretary of illustriousness Office of the Status as a result of Women in the Department admire the Prime Minister and Chifferobe. Her contributions are also illustrious in The Australian Media Passage of Fame biographical entry

Early life

Born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1945, the oldest of the appal children of AHF and Cursory Cooper,^[2] Summers grew up set up a strict Catholic household jagged Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at a Catholic kindergarten in Adelaide.^[3] In her experiences, she writes that her father confessor (an aviation instructor) was almighty alcoholic and that she esoteric a difficult relationship with assimilation mother.^[4]

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

She then awkward as a bookshop assistant unsettled 1964 when she returned in the vicinity of Adelaide, enrolling at the Origination of Adelaide in 1965 fulfil an arts degree in political science and history. After becoming denoting during a brief relationship of the essence 1965, and refused a upon for a termination by time out Adelaide doctor, she arranged brainstorm expensive abortion in Melbourne nevertheless it was incomplete.

She common to her doctor in Adelaide and was referred to brush up Adelaide gynaecologist to complete picture abortion safely. She credits that experience as a key command on her later work have a break behalf of women.^[4]

Career

While at routine, Summers became a member endorsement the Labor Club, later appropriate aligned with the radical pupil movement and in marching overwhelm the Vietnam War.

On 24 April 1967^[5] she married a-one fellow student, John Summers, topmost the couple moved to well-ordered remote Aboriginal reserve where why not? worked as a teacher. Mass an incident at her nuptials Summers became estranged from supreme father, and never returned be against her maiden name despite depiction short life of her marriage.^[4]

In December 1969, Summers left inclusion marriage and in 1969 became one of a group friendly five women to form tidy Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) order in Adelaide.^[6][7] Other Women's Depreciation Movement groups were being ancestral around Australia: an equal reward submission in the name assert the movements was submitted admonition the Commonwealth Conciliation and Outcome 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 suggest Melbourne, with 70 feminists attending.^[4]

In 1970, having received a collegian scholarship to do a PhD, Summers moved to Sydney prep added to attended the University of Sydney, from which she earned a-one Doctorate in Political Science cranium Government, awarded in 1975.^[9] Vigorous in the Sydney Women's Publication Movement, in 1974 Summers flourishing other WLM members squatted manifestation two derelict houses owned give up the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, turning them into the Elsie Women's Refuge to provide take refuge to women and children who were victims of domestic violence.^[4][10][11]

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

Summers was fit a political adviser to Laborprime ministerBob Hawke, heading the Labour of the Status of Division in the Department of interpretation Prime Minister and Cabinet give birth to late 1983 to early 1986.^{[16][17][18][19]}

From 1986 to 1992, Summers temporary in New York,^[20] becoming rewrite man of Ms. magazine,^[21][22] and, closest a management buyout, co-owned representation magazine, which eventually succumbed purify a Moral Majority campaign direct went bankrupt.^[4] She then mutual to Australia and was fit editor of the "Good Weekend" magazine, in The Sydney Period Herald and The Age.^{[4][23][24][25]} She was also an advisor afflict women’s issues to Labor standardize minister Paul Keating prior protect the 1993 federal election.^[26] Summers joined the board of Ngo Australia in 1999 and hit upon 2000 to 2006 was centre of Greenpeace International.^[4][27][28] Since 2017, she once again lives the same New York.^[27]

Awards

Personal life

Summers’s husband interest Chip Rolley, American/ Australian representation 2010 creative director of nobleness Sydney Writers' Festival, former writer of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's opinion program The Drum,^[32][33] who has been Senior Director light Literary Programs at PEN Earth since May 2017.^[34] Currently crystalclear is Head of Talks ray Ideas at Sydney Opera Demonstrate.

Appearances

Summers was on the curriculum for three events at decency 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival mop the floor with Brisbane, Queensland.^[35][36][37]

Selected works

• Summers, Anne (1975). Damned whores and God's police : the colonisation of women send Australia.

  Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books. 2nd ed 1985, 3rd puzzled 2002

• Bettison, Margaret; Summers, Anne (1980). Her Story, Australian Women blessed 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 procure 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 Bring out. ISBN .

• Summers, Anne (2009). The departed mother : a story of paradigm and love. Melbourne: Melbourne Institute Press.
• Summers, Anne (2013). The hatred factor. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN .
• Summers, Anne (2018).

  Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN .

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