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Obama pressed to step aside for Hillary Clinton

Anne Summers — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:15:44 +0000

An extraordinary appeal from Democratic Party pollster Patrick Caddell that in order to government effectively President Obama needs to announce he will not run in 2012 so that Hillary Clinton can unite the country as no one else seems able to do to. Read the article

Australian Women on the Verge

Anne Summers — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:38:13 +0000

My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor Women’s Conference 2011 rev

Julia the fixer eases into the top job

Anne Summers — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:47:41 +0000

On his elegant memoir the former British prime minister Tony Blair describes his reaction when he walked into 10 Downing Street for the first time: “My predominant reaction was fear…”

If Blair felt this way, after a landslide victory,imagine what must have been going through Julia Gillard’s mind the night she failed to secure an outright election victory and in the tortuous weeks that followed while the results were finalised and the Independents took their time to announce how they would play their political hands.

Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

Save The 7.30 Report

Anne Summers — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:29:38 +0000

ABC TV's Leigh Sales is an excellent interviewer

Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald arguing for the tough political interview and the current format for The 7.30 Report to be retained, and a journalist be appointed to replace Kerry O’Brien as presenter and interviewer. Someone like Leigh Sales, for instance.

Ayaan Ali Hirsi, Ariel Levy and Anne Summers

Anne Summers — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:26:47 +0000

A discussion about feminism, on Australian ABC Radio’s Late Night Live program on March 25.

One hundred years of Feminism

Yes we can… but so far, Obama hasn’t

Anne Summers — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:15:14 +0000

Read my article on President Barack Obama in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

Tina Brown on the new Hillary Clinton

Anne Summers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:42:23 +0000

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is talking in a way she never could before, says Daily Beast editor Tina Brown

Hillary Clinton resets US foreign policy

Anne Summers — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:27:56 +0000

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is resetting US policy to put women centre stage. Read article

Hillary Clinton in Thailand

Anne Summers — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:35:21 +0000

Clinton Speaks of Shielding Mideast From Iran

By MARK LANDLER and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: July 22, 2009
PHUKET, Thailand — Stiffening the American line against Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday that the United States would consider extending a “defense umbrella” over the Middle East if the country continued to defy international demands that it halt work that could lead to nuclear weapons.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Phuket, Thailand on Wednesday.

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US appoints Global Ambassador on Women’s Issues

Anne Summers — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:39:41 +0000

On March 6, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Melanne Verveer as the first ever Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. She’ll report directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The office and the officeholder couldn’t be more appropriate. In 1992 Melanne headed the Washington Transition Office of the soon-to-be First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. She has always supported the view that the foreign policy sector could benefit from the advancement of women. Partly as a result, Swannee Hunt who was US Ambassador to Austria in July 1997 gathered 320 women leaders from East and West Europe and the US for a conference dubbed Vital Voices: Women in Democracy. The First Lady gave the keynote, and Melanne Verveer, her chief of staff, was right in the middle of the mix. The Clinton White House and State Department adopted Vital Voices as an ongoing initiative. At the end of that administration, it was spun out as a new NGO, the Vital Voices Global Partnership. Verveer guided the organization into a robust international nonprofit investing in emerging women leaders. Honorary co-chairs of the organization were Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Senator Hillary Clinton.

So now the team will continue as Ambassador Verveer takes her place alongside her Secretary of State. Together, they will protect women victims of abuse and hardship and work upstream of those problems by supporting the advancement of women policy makers. Worldwide, women are poised to transform their countries. Supporting them is a perfect example of what Secretary of State Clinton calls “smart power.”