Australian Women on the Verge

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 [...]

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 [...]

Launch(es) of The Lost Mother

The Lost Mother has been well and truly launched into the world with great events in Sydney and Melbourne as well as smaller events in bookshops in Canberra and elsewhere.  I will soon be posting photographs from these events on this site.  In Melbourne the Governor General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC launched the [...]

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