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An excerpt from The State of our Creative Nation, the 2010 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture that I delivered at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 21 October: “When it was over, the performers joined Keating on stage in an exuberant throng. The newspapers the next morning showed a photograph of the Prime Minister, wearing a [...] As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard battles to stitch together a coalition so she can form a government, following the tied results of the federal election on August 21, I looked at how two previous women leaders fared: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel Tzipi Livni. Read my article My article in last Saturday’s Age looks at the gender gap in support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the diabolical attempts to undermine it – at the cost of a Labor victory this coming Saturday. Read the article Letter to the Australian Financial Review by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner: Your article entitled “ASX gender targets raise legal danger” (July 5) argues that listed companies risk breaking the law by pursuing gender targets required by the Australian Securities Exchange. This risk does not arise if the action taken by the company is a “special [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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