Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976Ducks on the Pondis the unflinching personal story of Anne Summers, a woman who challenged the world she was given. Hers was a long journey through unfamiliar cities and a succession of low-paid typically female jobs before she emerged as a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement, award-winning journalist and ultimately a key adviser to prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Her bookDamned Whores and God's Policewritten before she was 30, became a publishing sensation and helped change the way Australians, and especially women, see themselves. Anne Summers' story encompasses the conformity and repression of the 1950s, the political radicalism and rock music of the 1960s, and the sexual revolution, women's liberation and the Whitlam phenomenon of the 1970s. Written with wit and wry humour,Ducks on the Pondis a story of success and fulfilment achieved against considerable odds. |
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... thought of having to wash and tend old men in a general hospital , so I applied to the Children's where , after pass- ing a series of easy tests , I was accepted . There was only one prob- lem . The next intake of students was not for ...
... thought of having to wash and tend old men in a general hospital , so I applied to the Children's where , after pass- ing a series of easy tests , I was accepted . There was only one prob- lem . The next intake of students was not for ...
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... thought so . They had a welfare officer located in the Alice whose job it was to help the people avoid being ripped off by unscrupulous car - dealers or preyed upon by the grog merchants , who thought nothing of charging $ 10 for a ...
... thought so . They had a welfare officer located in the Alice whose job it was to help the people avoid being ripped off by unscrupulous car - dealers or preyed upon by the grog merchants , who thought nothing of charging $ 10 for a ...
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... thought I'd had enough . It was a shame I did not have any Slim Dusty because he and other Australian country and western singers soon became the all - time favourites of outback Aboriginal people , greatly preferred to the American ...
... thought I'd had enough . It was a shame I did not have any Slim Dusty because he and other Australian country and western singers soon became the all - time favourites of outback Aboriginal people , greatly preferred to the American ...
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