The first breakfast for 2010 will be held on Wednesday 14 April, and will feature Dr Anne Summers AO (PhDArts '79).
TOPIC
'I remember... Autobiography and the personal politics of memory'
Anne Summers is a best-selling author and journalist who has had a long career in politics, the media and the non-government sector.
As a journalist she has been Editor of Good Weekend, and written for many newspapers including The Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, Far Eastern Economic Review, Le Monde, and The National Times. She is a winner of the Walkley Award for journalism. Her books include the now classic Australian book, ‘Damned Whores and God’s Police’ (first published in 1975 with new editions in 1993 and 2002), ‘Ducks on the Pond’, her autobiography published in 1999 and her most recent book ‘The Lost Mother ’, published in 2009.
Her political background includes her time as a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal elections and a three year stint running the Office of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986.
In 1987 in New York she was editor-in-chief of Ms. – America’s landmark feminist magazine – and the following year, with business partner Sandra Yates, bought Ms. and Sassy magazines in the second only women-led management buyout in US corporate history. In 1989 she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to journalism and to women.
From 2000 to 2006 she was Chair of the board of Greenpeace International and was Deputy President of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum from 1999 to 2008.
Anne is a dynamic speaker who addresses key issues facing Australia in the 21st century. She has inspired a generation of young people to think differently about their country, their work, their families and their futures.
Register online here.
RSVP deadline: Wednesday 7 April 2010
Cost:
$45 for Alumni, Staff and Students of the University
$50 for Friends or Guests
$320 for a table of eight |