Anne Summers

Anne Summers is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author. She was formerly the Canberra bureau chief for the Australian Financial Review, the Australian correspondent to Le Monde and the editor of Good Weekend. Her books include The Lost Mother, On Luck and The End of Equality.

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The Lady Killers: Women in the Military

Anne Summers

A few years later, that soldier asked the other three officers who had assisted her maiden fast-rope that day to be bridesmaids at her...

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The Bolt Factor: Andrew Bolt and the Making of an Opportunist

Anne Summers

At one minute past midnight on 30 August, Andrew Bolt posted the following tantalising words on his blog: “No politics until further notice...

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What’s Sex Got To Do With It: 'Sex: An Unnatural History'

Anne Summers

If I were to nominate the key milestones in the history of human sexual activity – where ‘progress’ is considered to be sex becoming more...

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