Summers, Anne Fairhurst (1945 - )

An active feminist of the 1970s, who worked as a political adviser to Prime Minister, Mr Paul Keating. From 1983 to 1986 she was First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Summers was a co-founder of the women's studies journal Refractory Girl and of a number of books including Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia. Summers is a former editor of Good Weekend who regularly writes an opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She is a winner of the Walkley Award for journalism and in 1989 became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to journalism and to womens affairs.

Events

c. 1970 - 1990	Career in journalism active
1976	Walkley Award (Print) - Best Newspaper Feature Story, The National Times Sydney

Related Corporate Bodies

• Office of the Status of Women (1977 - )

  First Assistant Secretary

  [1983 - 1986]

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]

Books

• Bettison, Margaret and Summers, Anne (compiled by); Roberts, Anne (photograpgy by), Her Story, Australian Women in Print 1788-1975, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1980, 181 pp. [ Details... ]
• Summers, Anne, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Vic., 1975, 494 pp. [ Details... ]
• Summers, Anne; Cook, Patrick (cartoons by), Gamble for Power: How Bob Hawke beat Malcolm Fraser: the 1983 Federal Election, T. Nelson Australia, Melbourne, 1983, 218 pp. [ Details... ]
• Summers, Anne; Park Ruth (foreword by), Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976, Viking, Ringwood, Vic., 1999, 438 pp. [ Details... ]

Conference Papers

• Factor, June; Summers, Anne, 'Children in Australia', in The Challenge of Kids' TV, Australian Children's Television Foundation, Carlton, Vic., May 1985, p. 14. [ Details... ]
• Summers, Anne, 'The Curse of the Lucky Country', in Donald Horne Lecture, Clayton, Vic., 14 May 1991, p. 32. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Summers, Anne, 'Kay Daniels : writer, historian, scholar and bureaucrat', Age, Today, 2 August 2001, p. 7. [ Details... ]

Soundrecordings

• Summers, Anne, [Conversation with Anne Summers], De Berg, Hazel 1913-1984, 27 Nov. 1975. [ Details... ]

Videorecordings

• Not a Bedroom War, Anne Deveson Productions, [Civic Square, ACT], c1993. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Summers, Anne, 'Back to the Future: Urgent Issues for Men and Women of Australia. 1997 ACTU Whitlam Lecture Series Wednesday 25 June 1997', lun@techs, lun@techs, 1998, p. 1, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dukest/annesumm.htm. [ Details... ]
• Summers, Anne, 'Memorable Summers', in Features and Arts, 1 November 1999, http://www.smh.com.au/news/9911/01/features/features1.html. [ Details... ]

See also

• 'The Literary Luncheon Series', The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/news/literarylunches/trio.html. [ Details... ]
• Adelaide, Debra, Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Title Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide. Published, Pandora Press, London ; Sydney, 1988, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Daniels, Kay, Uphill all the way, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1980, 335 pp. [ Details... ]
• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]
• Rayner, Moira, 'Feminist Fighter', http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/FebMarch00/ray.html. [ Details... ]