by Anne Summers
12 ‘Keating’s uneven childcare’, The Australian, 11 February 1993, p. 12
13 http://www.alswh.org.au/about/about-the-study
14 http://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/publishing-and-reusing-data/data-reuse/ benefiting-womens-health
15 John O’Neill, ‘PM throws the switch to rock ‘n’ roll’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 1993
16 The following Facebook post by folklorist Warren Fahey contains reports and interviews with people involved in making this event happen, together with a detailed account by Roger Foley of how he got the Hermannsburg Ladies Choir to come to Sydney, and other important details of how it all happened. It is a very good summary of how the event was organised. https://www.facebook.com/warren.fahey.10/posts/10151871054926495
17 Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding heart. A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, Knopf, Sydney, 2002 p. 337
18 Hon Paul Keating, ‘Redfern Speech—Year of the world’s Indigenous people’, 10 December 1992, http://www.keating.org.au/shop/item/redfern-speech-year-for-the-worlds-indigenous-people---10-december-1992
19 Hon. P.J. Keating, ‘Address to staff ’, Imperial Peking Restaurant, Sydney, 12 March 1993, typescript copy held by author
20 Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, p. 362
21 Troy Branston, Paul Keating. The Big-Picture Leader, Scribe, 2016, p. 476
22 Melissa Hoyer, ‘True-believing heavyweights’, Sunday Telegraph, 28 March 1993, p. 165
23 Branston, Paul Keating, p. 476
24 Paul Keating, Launch of Anne Summers’ book
25 Jenna Price, ‘Women gave ALP equal share’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 1993, p. 1
Chapter 10 The Getting of Anger
1 Lindsay Simpson, ‘The Lying Eye’, Good Weekend, 31 July 1993, pp. 18–22
2 Gay Bilson, ‘The blood of others’, Good Weekend, 14 May 1994, pp. 67–8
3 Bilson, ‘The blood of others’, p. 68
4 Julian Dibbell, ‘Data rape. A tale of torture and terrorism on-line’, Good Weekend, 19 February 1994, pp. 30–8
5 Miranda Devine, ‘Angry White Males rejoice’, Daily Telegraph-Mirror, 3 August 1995, p. 10
6 Peter Lalor and Kate de Brito, ‘The dismissal. Office politics gone wrong at Fairfax’, The Daily Telegraph-Mirror, 29 July 1995, pp. 26–7
7 Amanda Meade, ‘Women support distressed Summers’, The Australian, 28 July 1995, p. 3
8 Devine, ‘Angry white males rejoice’
9 Jane Cadzow, ‘Carmen Lawrence’s year of living dangerously’, Good Weekend, 11 March 1995, pp. 23–33
10 Julia Gillard, The Hansard transcript of the speech: http://bit.ly/2uuc82t/ Watch the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOPsxpMzYw4 Read the transcript: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/transcript-of-julia-gillards-speech-20121009-27c36.html
11 For a full description of how John Howard reversed every policy and other form of government support designed to facilitate women in employment see Anne Summers, The End of Equality, pp. 142–71
12 Summers, The End of Equality, p. 163
13 Summers, The End of Equality, p. 252
14 Jodie Brough and Leonie Lamont, ‘Struck off list; the women Hillary won’t meet’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November 1996, p. 1
15 Anthony Dennis, ‘US breakfast show still has a cuddly kangaroo on the menu’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2000, p. 4
16 Anne Summers, A Dangerous Liaison: Women and the Howard Government, Address to Australian Women’s party fundraiser, Byron Bay, 1 August 1998, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/a-dangerous-liaison-women-and-the-howard-government/
17 Anne Summers, Back to the Future. Urgent issues for the men and women of Australia, ACTU Whitlam Lecture Series, 25 June 1997, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/back-to-the-future-urgent-issues-for-the-men-and-women-of-australia/
18 This conference was captured in a wonderful documentary made by Anne Deveson and Eve Mahlab, Not a bedroom war, 1993, See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10408122?selectedversion=NBD11070822
19 This incident was reported in Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood. The Inside Story of the Women’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen, Fawcett Colunbine, New York, 1989, pp. 13–22
20 Maureen Dowd, ‘What’s a modern girl to do?’, New York Times, 30 October 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/whats-a-modern-girl-to-do.html?_r=0
21 Summers, The End of Equality
22 Michael Klapdor, Abolishingthebabybonus, Parliament of Australia, nd, 2013, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReview201314/BabyBonus
23 Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police, NewSouth Books, Sydney, 2016
24 Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police, 2016, p. 10. Liberal Party Senator Bill Heffernan accused the childless Julia Gillard of being ‘deliberately barren’ in 2007, just as she was about to become Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister
25 Nikki Barrowclough, ‘The shameful story of Australia’s serial husbands’, Good Weekend, 6 May 1995, http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/gw-classics/the-shameful-story-of-australias-serial-husbands-20140827-109b5i.html
26 David Leser, ‘Pauline Hanson’s bitter harvest’, Good Weekend, 30 November 1996, pp. 18–28
27 ‘Hanson and Ettridge convictions overturned, ABC PM, 6 November 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s983982.htm
28 John Howard, Address to the Queensland Division of the Liberal Party State Council, 22 September 1996, http://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-10114
Chapter 11 Peace and War
1 Laura Tingle, ‘Summers to head Greenpeace board’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23–24 September 2000, p. 1. Interestingly—and for me, gratifyingly—all of the people from whom the Herald sought quotes about the appointment, including Paul Keating, had nothing but positive comments to make about my appointment and the contribution I would make
2 Michael Brown and John May, The Greenpeace Story, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1989 p. 9
3 Brown and May, The Greenpeace Story, p. 98
4 W.G. Sebald, ‘A Natural History of Destruction’, The New Yorker, 4 November 2002, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/11/04/a-natural-history-of-destruction
5 Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir A Biography, Vintage, London, 1991, p. 285
6 Rowley, Tete-a-Tete, photograph between pp. 206–07
7 http://www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/human-rights-search-for-global-responsibility Note: the conference program included in the Documents PDF on this website is the scheduled program, and does not reflect who ultimately participated as a number of the American guests listed did not attend in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the US
8 Allister Sparks, ‘The Secret Revolution’, The New Yorker, 11 April 1994, p. 65
Chapter 12 Unfettered and Alive
1 Drusilla Modjeska, Stravinsky’s Lunch, Picador, Sydney, 1999
2 Anne Summers, ‘The Bolt Factor. The making of an opportunist’, The Monthly, October 2011, pp. 18–27
3 Anne Summers, ‘The Equality Project: progress v. success’, The Fraser Oration 2012, Canberra, 25 July 2012, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/the-equality-project-progress-v-success/
4 Sadly, this speech is no longer available on the US State Department’s archive. There is a fact sheet that summarises Clinton’s remarks to this Summit but which fails to include the key insight that so impressed me
5 Anne Summers, ‘Her rights at work. The political persecution of Australia’s first female prime minister’, Human rights and social justice lecture, University of Newcastle, 31 August 2012, http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/speeches/her-rights-at-work-the-political-perseucution-of-australias-first-female-prime-minister/
6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ihd7ofrwQX0
7 Anne Summers, ‘The prime ministership according to Julia Gillard’, Anne Summers Reports, No. 3, July 2013, http://legacy.annesummers.com.au/w
p-content/uploads/2014/11/pmjuliagillard1.pdf
8 Anne Summers, ‘Incomparable Cate’, Anne Summers Reports, No. 8, June 2014, pp 24–37
9 Sarah Oakes, ‘The 20 Most Influential Female Voices of 2012’, Daily Life, 11 December 2012, http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-20-most-influential-female-voices-of-2012-20121210-2b55h.html; Matthew Drummond, ‘Cultural power’, Australian Financial Review, 25 October, 2013, http://www.afr.com/it-pro/australias-top-power-brokers-revealed-20131024-jjzb6
10 A video of Adam Goodes in conversation with Anne Summers can be watched at http://www.annesummers.com.au/conversations/adam-goodes/
11 Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days, Picador, London, 1993; Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace, Vintage Books, Sydney, 2000; Frank Moorhouse, Cold Light, Vintage Books, Sydney, 2012
12 Joan Acocella, ‘The Frog and the Crocodile’, The New Yorker, 24 and 31 August 1998, p. 144
13 Bair, Simone de Beauvoir
14 Rowley, Tete-a-Tete
15 Natasha Walter, ‘Interview: The Golden Journey. After a lifetime of novels, Doris Lessing has written her autobiography’, Independent, 14 October 1994
16 Judith Thurman, ‘Introduction’ to Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, The Second Sex, Vintage Books, New York, 2011, p. xiii
17 Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, The Second Sex, p. xvii
INDEX
Abbott, Prime Minister Tony 149, 429
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 12, 31, 77, 91, 95, 97, 274, 325, 422, 430, 437
Abeles, Sir Peter 156
Aboriginal Australians 117, 151, 323, 326, 330, 367, 416, 433–4
and Andrew Bolt 416–7
Aboriginal land rights 41, 117
Aboriginal Women’s Task Force 151
abortion 7, 9, 44, 60, 66, 67, 96, 97, 154, 170, 188–9, 260, 282, 284, 355, 360, 361, 371, 375
Control abortion clinic 60, 96
rackets 11, 60
rally, Washington DC 1992 283
Abraham, F. Murray 195–6
ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 352
Abzug, Congresswoman Bella 69–71, 220, 234
A Cabinet Diary. A Personal Record of the First Keating Government see Blewett, Neal
Academy Awards 51
ACLU (American Council for Civil Liberties) 251–2
ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) 134, 151, 156, 313, 346
Adams, Glenda 42
Adams, Tani 400
Adams, Trudie 34
Adelaide xii, xiii, 22, 24, 31, 36, 39, 41, 100, 157, 162, 274, 312, 375, 389, 401, 403, 404, 406, 411, 431
Adelaide Festival of Arts 41
Adelaide Writers Week 36
Affirmative Action Agency 156, 175, 352
affirmative action legislation 153, 155–6, 158, 169, 347
pilot program 156
Quotas 156
Affirmative Action Research Unit (AARU) 156
see also OSW
Afghanistan 99, 125, 127, 128
Africa xvi, 167
see also Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Against Our Will 65, 256
see Brownmiller, Susan
Agora Ballroom 63
AIDS 152, 201–2, 269, 272, 358
AIDS Advisory Council 152
AIM (American Indian Movement) 49, 50
Albright, Madeleine 394
Alda, Alan 255
Alfonsin, President Raúl 202
Algonquin hotel 67
Algren, Nelson 438
Ali, Muhammad 57
Ali, Nimco 440–1, 442
Allan, Jeff 335
Allen, Peter 187
Allen, Woody 185
Alexander, Stephanie 337
Allis, Janine 412
Altman, Dennis 44
ALP (Australian Labor Party) 290, 294, 313, 323, 327, 328, 415
Alpert, Jane 68–9
ALSWH (Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health) 317
Alther, Lisa 9
Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues 251
American Family Association 250
Amsterdam 370, 380, 381, 382, 383, 385, 394
Ananth 389
Anderson, Don 64
Andrews Sisters 187
Angelou, Maya 36
Anglo-American Corporation 108
Angola 102
‘Animal Act of the Year’ 27–9
Anne Summers Conversations 427–8, 431–2, 433–5
Anne Summers Reports 423, 430, 433, 442
Ansett Airlines 156
Ansonia Building 185, 186–7
Anthony, Susie 2
ANZUS 191
apartheid 101, 102, 103, 104–5; 106–7, 114, 116, 119
see also Africa, South; Biko, Steve; Haigh, Bruce; Koornhof, Piet; Soweto
APEC Women and the Economy Summit 418
Appleby, Sir Humphrey 168
Archer, Anne 255
Archer, Robyn 431
Arctic Sunrise 387
Argentina 202–3
Argyle Mines 156
Armani, Georgio 236
Armfield, Neil 321
Arnhem Land 54
Arts for Labor 319–23, 325–6, 328
ASIO 98, 100, 122
and Summers’ lost luggage 122
ASIS 100
ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) 262
Associated Communications 254
Associated Newspapers 236, 237
Astley, Thea 36, 321
Atkinson, Ti-Grace 43
Atlanta 63, 248
Atlantic Monthly 206
Attenborough, Richard 103
Atwood, Margaret 36, 39
Atyeo, Sam 414
Auden, W.H. 187–8
Australian Artists Creative Fellowships (‘the Keatings’) 321
Australian Author 369, 381,
Australian Consolidated Press 206, 253
Australian Consul-General, New York 189, 299, 333
Australian Democrats 158
Australian Financial Review 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 46, 65, 72–99, 122, 129, 140, 144, 174, 178, 179, 180, 181, 198, 206, 212, 214, 254, 288, 333, 427
Power List 2013 honours Gillard and Summers 432
Australian Law Reform Commission 315
Australian Media Hall of Fame 74
Australia Post Australian Legend 410
Australian Society of Magazine Editors 364
Australian War Memorial 90
Avon Products 208
A Woman to Blame 170
see McCafferty, Nell
Aza Khel 127
Baader, Andreas 10
‘baby bonus’ 352, 362
Bacall, Lauren 247
Bacon, Wendy 7
Backlash: the Undeclared War against American Women 282–3
see Faludi, Susan
Bail, Kathy 318, 423
Bain & Co 181
Bair, Deirdre 390, 438
Baker, Suzanne 13
Baldeagle, Curtis 49
Balderstone, Simon 292
Balmain Push 12, 350
Balmain Tigers 349, 350–1
Bangarra Dance Theatre 320, 323
Baran, Paul 194–5
Barnes, Alan 73
Barnett, David 77, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97–99 relations with Malcolm Fraser 77–8, transcribed historic China meeting 78
Barron, Peter 141
Barrowclough, Nikki 364
Barton, Gordon 3
Baryshnikov, Mikhail 277
Bastion, General Gert 171
Bates, Kathy 195–6
Bathurst Jail 16, 17, 18, 19
Batty, Rosie 408
Batty, Luke 408
Bauer, Tim 364
Beaurepaire, Dame Beryl 154
Beazley, Kim 191–2
Beecher, Eric 430
Beer, Maggie 337
Begg, Ken 91
Beijing 15, 381, 389
Beineix, Jean-Jacques 195
Bell, Glennys
11, 14
Bellecourt, Curtis 49
Bellevue Hotel 301, 328
Bergen, Candice 356
Berkman, Alexander 187
Berlin Philharmonic 427
Bernstein, Carl 268
Bernstein, Leonard 2, 247
Berry, Edith Campbell 437
see Moorhouse, Frank
‘best dressed bag ladies in New York’ 236
Betty Blue 195
BHP 254, 255, 351
Bhutto, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali 124
Bhutto, Benazir 129, 133, 134
Biko, Steve 103
Bilson, Gay 337–8
Bilson, Tony 337
bin Laden, Osama 125
Bjelke-Petersen, Premier Joh 153, 154
Black, Conrad 332
Black Panthers 3
Blade Runner 40
Blanchett, Cate 431
Blazey, Peter 269, 436
Blewett, Neal 152, 312, 314
Blue Note 200
Blue Jasmine 431
Blue Poles 328
Blyth, Myrna 272
Bollen, Judge Derek 314
Bolt, Andrew 416–7
Bophuthatswana 104
Border, Constance 439
BOSS (South African Bureau of State Security) 122
Boston 191, 200, 249, 270, 357
Botha P.W. 105
Bowers, Peter 72
Bowie, David 220
Boyd, Martin 59
Bozinovski, Gina 292
Bradshaw, Bill 304
Brady, Sarah 255
Brando, Marlon 50–1
Brenchley, Fred 9, 36, 73, 212
Brereton, Laurie 325
Brereton, Trish 325
Brew-Bevan, Peter 424–5, 431
Brifman, Shirley 30–3
Brisbane 24, 31, 87, 135, 154, 290, 295, 446
Bristol-Myers 259
Brittain, Vera 36
Britton, Anne 320
Broadbent, Jillian 298
Broadway 4, 12, 177, 184, 196, 2325, 240, 339
Broderick, Elizabeth 29, 432, 433, 434
Broederbond 105, 118
Brookings Institution 427
Brown, Bryan 320, 321
Brown, David 15, 21
Brown, Tina 230, 262
Brown, Wally 90, 137
Brownmiller, Susan 65, 66, 219, 281
and Hedda Nussbaum 256–7, 262
Bruce, Lenny 187
Bryce, Michael 154
Bryce, Quentin 154–5, 315, 343, 440
Governor-General 412
Buckley, Brian 90
Bugg, Dennis 18–19
Bukharin, Nikolai 187