Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1976-2012

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Containers:
Box 29 (MS Acc17.127)
Component identifier:
File 222
Content Summary:
National Taxation Summit Handbook; Minneapolis Press Club - speech notes; memoir notes; World Press Institute Alumni Directory; typescript article submitted to Glamour: 'My Brother's Death'; Press Gallery election result; luncheon guest list; photocopies of letter from Kris; press clippings; 'Future direction of Newspapers'; 'The Fate of Legal Abortion in the United States'; 'Me and the Women's Movement - notes for an article'; 'The Tomb Of Eva Peron'; Notes for 60 Minutes interview on Abortion; Draft - 'A very special street - Victoria Street, Potts Point'; notes on Sassy controversy in Germaine Greer's book; correspondence; ASJA speech notes; typescript address - 'Is Equality really over?'; notes on the 2004 election; Newcastle Speech, publications, correspondence Includes Humphrey McQueen 17 September 1985; Judy Moylan 30 January 1986; Phillip Frazer, 15 July 1983 (postcard); AS to Liz Fell, 10 March 1977 with detailed observations of NY: 'NY is an awe-inspiring place: to me it is like watching the end of western civilization – all the contradictions of capitalism exposed with all their sexist and racist manifestations. There is a lot of tension in the streets and the subway, with a fear always present that something – anything – could happen… Everyone I've spoken to about the women's movt. talks in the past tense, or refers to it as something that NY no longer needs. They acknowledge that it is blooming in the south and the mid-west. I'm looking forward to Saturday and the IWD March to see how many, and what kinds of women, turn up'; Ilsa Konrads 8 December 1983; Robert Sessions 20 September 1985; Peter Lawler 31 December 1985 and AS to Peter Lawler February 1986; Blanche d'Alpuget 26 January 1986; Pat O'Shane 13 November 1985; Graham Little 4 June 1984; Irene Greenwood 7 October 1985; photocopy of letter - AS to Nancy Keesing, 6 December 1976 (regarding funding policies of the Literature Board); a few miscellaneous items; and printed text Anne Summers, The Challenges Facing Young Australians Today. Address delivered at St Albert's College, UNE, 21 July 1994, 10pp

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