Anne Summers

Anne Summers AO attended the University of Adelaide before moving to Sydney, where she became active in the women’s movement and began her writing career. In 1975, after the publication of Damned Whores and God’s Police, she jined The National Times as a feature writer. In 1979 she was appointed political correspondent for the Australian Financial Review. During her five years in the Canberra Press Gallery she was also Canberra correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Australian correspondent for Le Monde. In 1983 she was appointed to head the Office of the Status of Women. She rejoined the Australian Financial Review in 1986 as US editor, and was also the North American manager for John Fairfax Ltd. From 1987 to 1989 she was editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine and co-owner of Matilda Publications Inc., which owned Ms. and Sassy magazines. She returned to Australia in 1992 to become a political consultant to Prime Minister Paul Keating, a position she held until just after the 1993 federal election. From 1993 to 1997 she was editor of Good Weekend magazine. She is the author of eight books, including Gamble for Power, Ducks on the Pond, The End of Equality, The Misogyny Factor and Unfettered and Alive. She is Professor at the UTS Business School, where she continues her research on domestic and family violence.