The Ability to Connect

The Age June 26, 2010

It is Gillard’s ability to connect with, surprise and delight a wide range of people that is her ace card, writes Anne Summers.

THERE’S a story in Sydney, perhaps apocryphal but certainly instructive, of how some time last year the hard men of the NSW Labor Party (the “Sussex Street assassins” as [...]

Historic moment, but barriers remain for half the population

by Anne Summers Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2010

Julia Gillard may have played down the significance of her sex when she became Australia’s first female prime minister yesterday, saying she “did not set out to crash my head against any glass ceilings” and pointing out that she was also the first redhead to lead the [...]

Shifting Power: We changed the world, now what’s different?

Communities in Control Conference 2010, Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne, 1 June 2010

“It is a great honour for me to have been invited to address you today and, especially, to have been introduced by no less a figure than Joan Kirner, whom we all love for the trails she has blazed – especially for women [...]

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