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Summers, Anne Fairhurst (1945 - )

AO

Born
12 March 1945
Australia
Occupation
Journalist, Print Journalist, Writer, Feminist and Historian

Summary

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.

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Events

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

Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.walkleys.com/winners/database.html.

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia

  • Interview with Anne Summers discusses Keith Looby, artist (sound recording), interviewer: Humphrey McQueen, 11 September 1982, ORAL TRC 1200; National Library of Australia. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Summers, Anne, papers [manuscript] 1967-1993, 1967 - 1993, MS 7073; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

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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

Sound recordings

  • 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

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Digital resources

Title
Dr Anne Summers
Type
Image
Date
1984

Details

Anne Heywood

Created: 9 January 2002, Last modified: 4 May 2009

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