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by Anne Summers


  12 ‘Keating’s uneven childcare’, The Australian, 11 February 1993, p. 12

  13 http://www.alswh.org.au/about/about-the-study

  14 http://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/publishing-and-reusing-data/data-reuse/ benefiting-womens-health

  15 John O’Neill, ‘PM throws the switch to rock ‘n’ roll’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 1993

  16 The following Facebook post by folklorist Warren Fahey contains reports and interviews with people involved in making this event happen, together with a detailed account by Roger Foley of how he got the Hermannsburg Ladies Choir to come to Sydney, and other important details of how it all happened. It is a very good summary of how the event was organised. https://www.facebook.com/warren.fahey.10/posts/10151871054926495

  17 Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding heart. A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, Knopf, Sydney, 2002 p. 337

  18 Hon Paul Keating, ‘Redfern Speech—Year of the world’s Indigenous people’, 10 December 1992, http://www.keating.org.au/shop/item/redfern-speech-year-for-the-worlds-indigenous-people---10-december-1992

  19 Hon. P.J. Keating, ‘Address to staff ’, Imperial Peking Restaurant, Sydney, 12 March 1993, typescript copy held by author

  20 Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, p. 362

  21 Troy Branston, Paul Keating. The Big-Picture Leader, Scribe, 2016, p. 476

  22 Melissa Hoyer, ‘True-believing heavyweights’, Sunday Telegraph, 28 March 1993, p. 165

  23 Branston, Paul Keating, p. 476

  24 Paul Keating, Launch of Anne Summers’ book

  25 Jenna Price, ‘Women gave ALP equal share’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 1993, p. 1

  Chapter 10 The Getting of Anger

  1 Lindsay Simpson, ‘The Lying Eye’, Good Weekend, 31 July 1993, pp. 18–22

  2 Gay Bilson, ‘The blood of others’, Good Weekend, 14 May 1994, pp. 67–8

  3 Bilson, ‘The blood of others’, p. 68

  4 Julian Dibbell, ‘Data rape. A tale of torture and terrorism on-line’, Good Weekend, 19 February 1994, pp. 30–8

  5 Miranda Devine, ‘Angry White Males rejoice’, Daily Telegraph-Mirror, 3 August 1995, p. 10

  6 Peter Lalor and Kate de Brito, ‘The dismissal. Office politics gone wrong at Fairfax’, The Daily Telegraph-Mirror, 29 July 1995, pp. 26–7

  7 Amanda Meade, ‘Women support distressed Summers’, The Australian, 28 July 1995, p. 3

  8 Devine, ‘Angry white males rejoice’

  9 Jane Cadzow, ‘Carmen Lawrence’s year of living dangerously’, Good Weekend, 11 March 1995, pp. 23–33

  10 Julia Gillard, The Hansard transcript of the speech: http://bit.ly/2uuc82t/ Watch the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOPsxpMzYw4 Read the transcript: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/transcript-of-julia-gillards-speech-20121009-27c36.html

  11 For a full description of how John Howard reversed every policy and other form of government support designed to facilitate women in employment see Anne Summers, The End of Equality, pp. 142–71

  12 Summers, The End of Equality, p. 163

  13 Summers, The End of Equality, p. 252

  14 Jodie Brough and Leonie Lamont, ‘Struck off list; the women Hillary won’t meet’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November 1996, p. 1

  15 Anthony Dennis, ‘US breakfast show still has a cuddly kangaroo on the menu’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2000, p. 4

  16 Anne Summers, A Dangerous Liaison: Women and the Howard Government, Address to Australian Women’s party fundraiser, Byron Bay, 1 August 1998, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/a-dangerous-liaison-women-and-the-howard-government/

  17 Anne Summers, Back to the Future. Urgent issues for the men and women of Australia, ACTU Whitlam Lecture Series, 25 June 1997, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/back-to-the-future-urgent-issues-for-the-men-and-women-of-australia/

  18 This conference was captured in a wonderful documentary made by Anne Deveson and Eve Mahlab, Not a bedroom war, 1993, See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10408122?selectedversion=NBD11070822

  19 This incident was reported in Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood. The Inside Story of the Women’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen, Fawcett Colunbine, New York, 1989, pp. 13–22

  20 Maureen Dowd, ‘What’s a modern girl to do?’, New York Times, 30 October 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/whats-a-modern-girl-to-do.html?_r=0

  21 Summers, The End of Equality

  22 Michael Klapdor, Abolishingthebabybonus, Parliament of Australia, nd, 2013, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReview201314/BabyBonus

  23 Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police, NewSouth Books, Sydney, 2016

  24 Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police, 2016, p. 10. Liberal Party Senator Bill Heffernan accused the childless Julia Gillard of being ‘deliberately barren’ in 2007, just as she was about to become Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister

  25 Nikki Barrowclough, ‘The shameful story of Australia’s serial husbands’, Good Weekend, 6 May 1995, http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/gw-classics/the-shameful-story-of-australias-serial-husbands-20140827-109b5i.html

  26 David Leser, ‘Pauline Hanson’s bitter harvest’, Good Weekend, 30 November 1996, pp. 18–28

  27 ‘Hanson and Ettridge convictions overturned, ABC PM, 6 November 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s983982.htm

  28 John Howard, Address to the Queensland Division of the Liberal Party State Council, 22 September 1996, http://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-10114

  Chapter 11 Peace and War

  1 Laura Tingle, ‘Summers to head Greenpeace board’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23–24 September 2000, p. 1. Interestingly—and for me, gratifyingly—all of the people from whom the Herald sought quotes about the appointment, including Paul Keating, had nothing but positive comments to make about my appointment and the contribution I would make

  2 Michael Brown and John May, The Greenpeace Story, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1989 p. 9

  3 Brown and May, The Greenpeace Story, p. 98

  4 W.G. Sebald, ‘A Natural History of Destruction’, The New Yorker, 4 November 2002, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/11/04/a-natural-history-of-destruction

  5 Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir A Biography, Vintage, London, 1991, p. 285

  6 Rowley, Tete-a-Tete, photograph between pp. 206–07

  7 http://www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/human-rights-search-for-global-responsibility Note: the conference program included in the Documents PDF on this website is the scheduled program, and does not reflect who ultimately participated as a number of the American guests listed did not attend in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the US

  8 Allister Sparks, ‘The Secret Revolution’, The New Yorker, 11 April 1994, p. 65

  Chapter 12 Unfettered and Alive

  1 Drusilla Modjeska, Stravinsky’s Lunch, Picador, Sydney, 1999

  2 Anne Summers, ‘The Bolt Factor. The making of an opportunist’, The Monthly, October 2011, pp. 18–27

  3 Anne Summers, ‘The Equality Project: progress v. success’, The Fraser Oration 2012, Canberra, 25 July 2012, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/the-equality-project-progress-v-success/

  4 Sadly, this speech is no longer available on the US State Department’s archive. There is a fact sheet that summarises Clinton’s remarks to this Summit but which fails to include the key insight that so impressed me

  5 Anne Summers, ‘Her rights at work. The political persecution of Australia’s first female prime minister’, Human rights and social justice lecture, University of Newcastle, 31 August 2012, http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/speeches/her-rights-at-work-the-political-perseucution-of-australias-first-female-prime-minister/

  6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ihd7ofrwQX0

  7 Anne Summers, ‘The prime ministership according to Julia Gillard’, Anne Summers Reports, No. 3, July 2013, http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/w
p-content/uploads/2014/11/pmjuliagillard1.pdf

  8 Anne Summers, ‘Incomparable Cate’, Anne Summers Reports, No. 8, June 2014, pp 24–37

  9 Sarah Oakes, ‘The 20 Most Influential Female Voices of 2012’, Daily Life, 11 December 2012, http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-20-most-influential-female-voices-of-2012-20121210-2b55h.html; Matthew Drummond, ‘Cultural power’, Australian Financial Review, 25 October, 2013, http://www.afr.com/it-pro/australias-top-power-brokers-revealed-20131024-jjzb6

  10 A video of Adam Goodes in conversation with Anne Summers can be watched at http://www.annesummers.com.au/conversations/adam-goodes/

  11 Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days, Picador, London, 1993; Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace, Vintage Books, Sydney, 2000; Frank Moorhouse, Cold Light, Vintage Books, Sydney, 2012

  12 Joan Acocella, ‘The Frog and the Crocodile’, The New Yorker, 24 and 31 August 1998, p. 144

  13 Bair, Simone de Beauvoir

  14 Rowley, Tete-a-Tete

  15 Natasha Walter, ‘Interview: The Golden Journey. After a lifetime of novels, Doris Lessing has written her autobiography’, Independent, 14 October 1994

  16 Judith Thurman, ‘Introduction’ to Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, The Second Sex, Vintage Books, New York, 2011, p. xiii

  17 Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, The Second Sex, p. xvii

  INDEX

  Abbott, Prime Minister Tony 149, 429

  ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 12, 31, 77, 91, 95, 97, 274, 325, 422, 430, 437

  Abeles, Sir Peter 156

  Aboriginal Australians 117, 151, 323, 326, 330, 367, 416, 433–4

  and Andrew Bolt 416–7

  Aboriginal land rights 41, 117

  Aboriginal Women’s Task Force 151

  abortion 7, 9, 44, 60, 66, 67, 96, 97, 154, 170, 188–9, 260, 282, 284, 355, 360, 361, 371, 375

  Control abortion clinic 60, 96

  rackets 11, 60

  rally, Washington DC 1992 283

  Abraham, F. Murray 195–6

  ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 352

  Abzug, Congresswoman Bella 69–71, 220, 234

  A Cabinet Diary. A Personal Record of the First Keating Government see Blewett, Neal

  Academy Awards 51

  ACLU (American Council for Civil Liberties) 251–2

  ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) 134, 151, 156, 313, 346

  Adams, Glenda 42

  Adams, Tani 400

  Adams, Trudie 34

  Adelaide xii, xiii, 22, 24, 31, 36, 39, 41, 100, 157, 162, 274, 312, 375, 389, 401, 403, 404, 406, 411, 431

  Adelaide Festival of Arts 41

  Adelaide Writers Week 36

  Affirmative Action Agency 156, 175, 352

  affirmative action legislation 153, 155–6, 158, 169, 347

  pilot program 156

  Quotas 156

  Affirmative Action Research Unit (AARU) 156

  see also OSW

  Afghanistan 99, 125, 127, 128

  Africa xvi, 167

  see also Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  Against Our Will 65, 256

  see Brownmiller, Susan

  Agora Ballroom 63

  AIDS 152, 201–2, 269, 272, 358

  AIDS Advisory Council 152

  AIM (American Indian Movement) 49, 50

  Albright, Madeleine 394

  Alda, Alan 255

  Alfonsin, President Raúl 202

  Algonquin hotel 67

  Algren, Nelson 438

  Ali, Muhammad 57

  Ali, Nimco 440–1, 442

  Allan, Jeff 335

  Allen, Peter 187

  Allen, Woody 185

  Alexander, Stephanie 337

  Allis, Janine 412

  Altman, Dennis 44

  ALP (Australian Labor Party) 290, 294, 313, 323, 327, 328, 415

  Alpert, Jane 68–9

  ALSWH (Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health) 317

  Alther, Lisa 9

  Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues 251

  American Family Association 250

  Amsterdam 370, 380, 381, 382, 383, 385, 394

  Ananth 389

  Anderson, Don 64

  Andrews Sisters 187

  Angelou, Maya 36

  Anglo-American Corporation 108

  Angola 102

  ‘Animal Act of the Year’ 27–9

  Anne Summers Conversations 427–8, 431–2, 433–5

  Anne Summers Reports 423, 430, 433, 442

  Ansett Airlines 156

  Ansonia Building 185, 186–7

  Anthony, Susie 2

  ANZUS 191

  apartheid 101, 102, 103, 104–5; 106–7, 114, 116, 119

  see also Africa, South; Biko, Steve; Haigh, Bruce; Koornhof, Piet; Soweto

  APEC Women and the Economy Summit 418

  Appleby, Sir Humphrey 168

  Archer, Anne 255

  Archer, Robyn 431

  Arctic Sunrise 387

  Argentina 202–3

  Argyle Mines 156

  Armani, Georgio 236

  Armfield, Neil 321

  Arnhem Land 54

  Arts for Labor 319–23, 325–6, 328

  ASIO 98, 100, 122

  and Summers’ lost luggage 122

  ASIS 100

  ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) 262

  Associated Communications 254

  Associated Newspapers 236, 237

  Astley, Thea 36, 321

  Atkinson, Ti-Grace 43

  Atlanta 63, 248

  Atlantic Monthly 206

  Attenborough, Richard 103

  Atwood, Margaret 36, 39

  Atyeo, Sam 414

  Auden, W.H. 187–8

  Australian Artists Creative Fellowships (‘the Keatings’) 321

  Australian Author 369, 381,

  Australian Consolidated Press 206, 253

  Australian Consul-General, New York 189, 299, 333

  Australian Democrats 158

  Australian Financial Review 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 46, 65, 72–99, 122, 129, 140, 144, 174, 178, 179, 180, 181, 198, 206, 212, 214, 254, 288, 333, 427

  Power List 2013 honours Gillard and Summers 432

  Australian Law Reform Commission 315

  Australian Media Hall of Fame 74

  Australia Post Australian Legend 410

  Australian Society of Magazine Editors 364

  Australian War Memorial 90

  Avon Products 208

  A Woman to Blame 170

  see McCafferty, Nell

  Aza Khel 127

  Baader, Andreas 10

  ‘baby bonus’ 352, 362

  Bacall, Lauren 247

  Bacon, Wendy 7

  Backlash: the Undeclared War against American Women 282–3

  see Faludi, Susan

  Bail, Kathy 318, 423

  Bain & Co 181

  Bair, Deirdre 390, 438

  Baker, Suzanne 13

  Baldeagle, Curtis 49

  Balderstone, Simon 292

  Balmain Push 12, 350

  Balmain Tigers 349, 350–1

  Bangarra Dance Theatre 320, 323

  Baran, Paul 194–5

  Barnes, Alan 73

  Barnett, David 77, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97–99 relations with Malcolm Fraser 77–8, transcribed historic China meeting 78

  Barron, Peter 141

  Barrowclough, Nikki 364

  Barton, Gordon 3

  Baryshnikov, Mikhail 277

  Bastion, General Gert 171

  Bates, Kathy 195–6

  Bathurst Jail 16, 17, 18, 19

  Batty, Rosie 408

  Batty, Luke 408

  Bauer, Tim 364

  Beaurepaire, Dame Beryl 154

  Beazley, Kim 191–2

  Beecher, Eric 430

  Beer, Maggie 337

  Begg, Ken 91

  Beijing 15, 381, 389

  Beineix, Jean-Jacques 195

  Bell, Glennys
11, 14

  Bellecourt, Curtis 49

  Bellevue Hotel 301, 328

  Bergen, Candice 356

  Berkman, Alexander 187

  Berlin Philharmonic 427

  Bernstein, Carl 268

  Bernstein, Leonard 2, 247

  Berry, Edith Campbell 437

  see Moorhouse, Frank

  ‘best dressed bag ladies in New York’ 236

  Betty Blue 195

  BHP 254, 255, 351

  Bhutto, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali 124

  Bhutto, Benazir 129, 133, 134

  Biko, Steve 103

  Bilson, Gay 337–8

  Bilson, Tony 337

  bin Laden, Osama 125

  Bjelke-Petersen, Premier Joh 153, 154

  Black, Conrad 332

  Black Panthers 3

  Blade Runner 40

  Blanchett, Cate 431

  Blazey, Peter 269, 436

  Blewett, Neal 152, 312, 314

  Blue Note 200

  Blue Jasmine 431

  Blue Poles 328

  Blyth, Myrna 272

  Bollen, Judge Derek 314

  Bolt, Andrew 416–7

  Bophuthatswana 104

  Border, Constance 439

  BOSS (South African Bureau of State Security) 122

  Boston 191, 200, 249, 270, 357

  Botha P.W. 105

  Bowers, Peter 72

  Bowie, David 220

  Boyd, Martin 59

  Bozinovski, Gina 292

  Bradshaw, Bill 304

  Brady, Sarah 255

  Brando, Marlon 50–1

  Brenchley, Fred 9, 36, 73, 212

  Brereton, Laurie 325

  Brereton, Trish 325

  Brew-Bevan, Peter 424–5, 431

  Brifman, Shirley 30–3

  Brisbane 24, 31, 87, 135, 154, 290, 295, 446

  Bristol-Myers 259

  Brittain, Vera 36

  Britton, Anne 320

  Broadbent, Jillian 298

  Broadway 4, 12, 177, 184, 196, 2325, 240, 339

  Broderick, Elizabeth 29, 432, 433, 434

  Broederbond 105, 118

  Brookings Institution 427

  Brown, Bryan 320, 321

  Brown, David 15, 21

  Brown, Tina 230, 262

  Brown, Wally 90, 137

  Brownmiller, Susan 65, 66, 219, 281

  and Hedda Nussbaum 256–7, 262

  Bruce, Lenny 187

  Bryce, Michael 154

  Bryce, Quentin 154–5, 315, 343, 440

  Governor-General 412

  Buckley, Brian 90

  Bugg, Dennis 18–19

  Bukharin, Nikolai 187

 

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