Anne Summers
Anne Summers is a best-selling author and journalist who has had a long career in politics, the media and the non-government sector. She is author of several books, including the now classic Australian book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, still in print, thirty-two years after it was first published in 1975. Her most recent book is The End of Equality, published in 2003 by Random House. Her political background includes her time as a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal elections and she ran the Office of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986. From 2000 to 2006 she was chair of the board of Greenpeace International. Since 2001 she has facilitated the annual Serious Women’s Business Conference, is on the board of the newly established Institute for Cultural Diversity and she is also Deputy President of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.
