Name:  Anne Summers

Bio: Journalist and Author of a feminist classic Dammed Whores and God’s Police, The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love [MUP, 2009]

Searching for the lost mother – the painting and the person – 21st July 2009

The End of Equality – 11th December 2003

This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.16 No.1 in 2004 (pages 43-50)

The Perils and Pleasures of Autobiography – 3rd November 1999

This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.12 No.1 in 2000 (pages 29-38)

Damned Whores and God’s Police Revisited – 1st February 1994

This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.6 No.2 in 1994 (pages 44-51)

Feminist Issues in the 1990s – 8th September 1992

This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.4 No.4 in 1992 (pages 100-108)

From Lucky Country to Lonely Country? Australia and the American Alliance – 17th September 1991

This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.3 No.3 in 1991 (pages 106-111)