My speech to a Public Sector Leadership Summit in Canberra last week on the need for (and lack of) a national collective vision in Australia today.
Australian Public Sector Leadership Summit 2011
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My “laughable errors” Late on Saturday night on his blog Andrew Bolt accused me of “a despicable defamation of [his] wife”, and of “laughable errors, from my supposed previous ‘engagement’ to the apparent assumption that some clearly fake Twitter account was actually mine…”. He also accuses me of “the shameless smearing of his late mother” and “the pathetic sledging of my wife by an unnamed ex-girlfriend of mine from more than a quarter of a century ago”. Three women have shared the Nobel Peace prize for their work in trying to bring peace to their countries:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-three-women/2011/10/07/gIQAJdwBSL_story.html?wpisrc=al_national 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 I visited Strathcona (which is in Melbourne) on Friday April 29, including a visit to Tay Creggan, their Year 9 campus, which of course features in my book The Lost Mother. My mother’s portrait hung on the walls of Tay Creggan from 1933 until 1969 when my grandmother finally was able to buy it. I was interviewed by a student for the school’s TV network. 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 |
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