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The Four Principles of Women’s Equality.
Equality delayed is equality denied.
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Are Australian women still damned whores or God’s police?
This updated version of Anne’s classic book, argues that these stereotypes persist. This new edition contains the prefaces from each printing over 40 years, including the controversial ‘Letter to the next generation’ from 1994, and an updated timeline.
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Events
Dr Tim Flannery
February 2016 was the hottest February on record. See one of the world’s leading writers on climate change, Dr Tim Flannery, in conversation with Anne. Does he think it’s too late or does he still have hope for our planet?
Anne Summers Reports: highlights from our archives
Tim Flannery’s first love was fossils. Then he became entranced by mammals but it was not until a government asked him to report on threats to the environment that the man who had discovered more new species than Darwin realized the threat to our very existence posed by climate change. He decided he had to do something about it. Anne Summers reports.
The Australian book industry has had a turbulent few years as supermarkets moved in, readers turned to ebooks and the traditional publishing model faltered but, as Foong Ling Kong
reports, publishers and bookstores are now facing the realities of their changed world.
It’s a pill proven to prevent HIV, so why is there so much resistance to taking it and, asks David Hay, why are those who do derided as “sluts” and “whores”?
Henri Matisse had as much a way with scissors as he did with a brush, as can be seen from an enthralling new travelling exhibition. By Paula Weideger
Gallery: Rod McCrae
THE END OF NATURE, CITY, 2010
CRYING OUT LOUD, 2010
Z IS FOR ZEBRA, 2010
Opinion: articles and speeches by Anne Summers
Bill Shorten’s biggest challenge is to make himself more likeable
12 September, 2017 By Anne Summers Illustration by John Shakespeare In 1996 Paul Keating went into the federal election with 45 per cent of voters preferring him as prime minister over the 40 per cent who preferred opposition leader John Howard. Yet Howard won the election convincingly. The election result in 1996 was strikingly similar to last…
Tony Abbott’s ego is as big as Phar Lap’s heart
12 September, 2017 By Anne Summers Illustration by John Shakespeare There’s a new addition to the line-up of key Australian icons such as Phar Lap’s heart and Ned Kelly’s death mask: Tony Abbott’s ego. Seldom has the country seen the likes of this former prime minister’s stunning display of bravura chutzpah. Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd, both…
From my wedding dress to a childhood coat, history is sewn into our clothes
21 August, 2017Anyone who thinks of me as a tough-minded sort of person might be surprised to learn that as I strip down my possessions in preparation for a move to New York, the pieces I’m finding hardest to part with are my wedding dress, and a silk dress and a smocked woollen coat I wore as…
About Anne Summers
Dr Anne Summers AO is a best-selling author, journalist and thought-leader with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United States.
She is author of eight books, including the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975. This bestseller was updated in 1994 and, again, in 2002 and stayed continuously in print until 2008. A new edition was published on International Women’s Day 2016.
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Andrew Mcmillen met Anne in South Brisbane for a conversation which touches on how she became a contributing writer to Australian newspapers and radio while still a child; the difficult and lengthy process of writing Damned Whores and God’s Police; how she made the transition from journalism to working for a prime minister – twice! – in 1983 and 1992.
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The Women’s Manifesto
The Four Principles of Women’s Equality.
Equality delayed is equality denied.
This is your Manifesto.
Latest
Book
Are Australian women still damned whores or God’s police?
This updated version of Anne’s classic book, argues that these stereotypes persist. This new edition contains the prefaces from each printing over 40 years, including the controversial ‘Letter to the next generation’ from 1994, and an updated timeline.
Buy the book
Events
Dr Tim Flannery
February 2016 was the hottest February on record. See one of the world’s leading writers on climate change, Dr Tim Flannery, in conversation with Anne. Does he think it’s too late or does he still have hope for our planet?
Anne Summers Reports: highlights from our archives
Tim Flannery’s first love was fossils. Then he became entranced by mammals but it was not until a government asked him to report on threats to the environment that the man who had discovered more new species than Darwin realized the threat to our very existence posed by climate change. He decided he had to do something about it. Anne Summers reports.
The Australian book industry has had a turbulent few years as supermarkets moved in, readers turned to ebooks and the traditional publishing model faltered but, as Foong Ling Kong
reports, publishers and bookstores are now facing the realities of their changed world.
It’s a pill proven to prevent HIV, so why is there so much resistance to taking it and, asks David Hay, why are those who do derided as “sluts” and “whores”?
Henri Matisse had as much a way with scissors as he did with a brush, as can be seen from an enthralling new travelling exhibition. By Paula Weideger
Gallery: Rod McCrae
CRYING OUT LOUD, 2010
Z IS FOR ZEBRA, 2010
Opinion: articles and speeches by Anne Summers
Bill Shorten’s biggest challenge is to make himself more likeable
12 September, 2017 By Anne Summers Illustration by John Shakespeare In 1996 Paul Keating went into the federal election with 45 per cent of voters preferring him as prime minister over the 40 per cent who preferred opposition leader John Howard. Yet Howard won the election convincingly. The election result in 1996 was strikingly similar to last…Tony Abbott’s ego is as big as Phar Lap’s heart
12 September, 2017 By Anne Summers Illustration by John Shakespeare There’s a new addition to the line-up of key Australian icons such as Phar Lap’s heart and Ned Kelly’s death mask: Tony Abbott’s ego. Seldom has the country seen the likes of this former prime minister’s stunning display of bravura chutzpah. Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd, both…From my wedding dress to a childhood coat, history is sewn into our clothes
21 August, 2017Anyone who thinks of me as a tough-minded sort of person might be surprised to learn that as I strip down my possessions in preparation for a move to New York, the pieces I’m finding hardest to part with are my wedding dress, and a silk dress and a smocked woollen coat I wore as…About Anne Summers
Read More...
Anne Summers Videos
Check out our YouTube channel.
This week’s featured podcast
Andrew Mcmillen met Anne in South Brisbane for a conversation which touches on how she became a contributing writer to Australian newspapers and radio while still a child; the difficult and lengthy process of writing Damned Whores and God’s Police; how she made the transition from journalism to working for a prime minister – twice! – in 1983 and 1992.
Thought Economics Interview
Are women suffering the greatest injustices in human history?
Make a donation
Without you – there’d be no us.
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