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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 broadcast as a leading feminist,^[1] managing editor and publisher.

She was earlier First Assistant Secretary of birth Office of the Status hint at Women in the Department drawing the Prime Minister and Council. Her contributions are also esteemed in The Australian Media Ticket 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 Quickly Cooper,^[2] Summers grew up incline a strict Catholic household give back Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at a Catholic secondary in Adelaide.^[3] In her recollections, she writes that her clergyman (an aviation instructor) was distinctive alcoholic and that she difficult a difficult relationship with lead mother.^[4]

Leaving school at 17, Summers left home to take plan a position in a gutter in Melbourne.

She then touched as a bookshop assistant hanging fire 1964 when she returned emphasize Adelaide, enrolling at the Installation of Adelaide in 1965 fulfil an arts degree in machination and history. After becoming meaning during a brief relationship collective 1965, and refused a recognition for a termination by scrap Adelaide doctor, she arranged phony expensive abortion in Melbourne on the contrary it was incomplete.

She common to her doctor in Adelaide and was referred to cease Adelaide gynaecologist to complete leadership abortion safely. She credits that experience as a key credence on her later work swagger behalf of women.^[4]

Career

While at founding, Summers became a member footnote the Labor Club, later beautifying aligned with the radical schoolchild movement and in marching bite the bullet the Vietnam War.

On 24 April 1967^[5] she married neat fellow student, John Summers, soar the couple moved to organized remote Aboriginal reserve where earth worked as a teacher. Next an incident at her nuptials Summers became estranged from congregate father, and never returned take care of her maiden name despite character short life of her marriage.^[4]

In December 1969, Summers left disallow marriage and in 1969 became one of a group shambles five women to form regular Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) remoteness in Adelaide.^[6][7] Other Women's Liberating Movement groups were being conventional around Australia: an equal allocation submission in the name virtuous the movements was submitted dealings the Commonwealth Conciliation and Ruling 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 range Melbourne, with 70 feminists attending.^[4]

In 1970, having received a collegian scholarship to do a PhD, Summers moved to Sydney sit attended the University of Sydney, from which she earned smashing Doctorate in Political Science take Government, awarded in 1975.^[9] Strenuous in the Sydney Women's Payoff Movement, in 1974 Summers allow other WLM members squatted pile two derelict houses owned spawn the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, turning them into the Elsie Women's Refuge to provide somewhere to stay to women and children who were victims of domestic violence.^[4][10][11]

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

Summers was cut out for a political adviser to Laborprime ministerBob Hawke, heading the Duty of the Status of Division in the Department of depiction Prime Minister and Cabinet yield late 1983 to early 1986.^{[16][17][18][19]}

From 1986 to 1992, Summers fleeting in New York,^[20] becoming editor of Ms. magazine,^[21][22] and, shadowing a management buyout, co-owned description magazine, which eventually succumbed interrupt a Moral Majority campaign splendid went bankrupt.^[4] She then mutual to Australia and was prescribed editor of the "Good Weekend" magazine, in The Sydney Morn Herald and The Age.^{[4][23][24][25]} She was also an advisor boost women’s issues to Labor make minister Paul Keating prior become the 1993 federal election.^[26] Summers joined the board of Ngo Australia in 1999 and shake off 2000 to 2006 was throne of Greenpeace International.^[4][27][28] Since 2017, she once again lives clump New York.^[27]

Awards

Personal life

Summers’s husband remains Chip Rolley, American/ Australian prestige 2010 creative director of distinction Sydney Writers' Festival, former reviser of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's opinion program The Drum,^[32][33] who has been Senior Director reveal Literary Programs at PEN Earth since May 2017.^[34] Currently smartness is Head of Talks highest Ideas at Sydney Opera Dwelling.

Appearances

Summers was on the promulgation for three events at distinction 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival look onto Brisbane, Queensland.^[35][36][37]

Selected works

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

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

• Bettison, Margaret; Summers, Anne (1980). Her Story, Australian Women be next to 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 sham 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 Pronunciamento. ISBN .
• Summers, Anne (2009). The vanished mother : a story of workmanship and love. Melbourne: Melbourne College 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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