Carrying the Banner: Women, Leadership and Activism in Australia

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Stirred by their passion for a cause, twenty-two Australian women reveal new ways of doing leadership. Their diverse backgrounds and behind-the-scenes stories show the dramas and frustrations which colour women's experience in the public eye. In politics and business, government and sport, science and songwriting, they also lead the way in campaigns for health, education, child care, law reform, sexual preference, Aboriginal rights, cultural diversity, land care, peace and freedom.. "Carrying the Banner brims ...
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Stirred by their passion for a cause, twenty-two Australian women reveal new ways of doing leadership. Their diverse backgrounds and behind-the-scenes stories show the dramas and frustrations which colour women's experience in the public eye. In politics and business, government and sport, science and songwriting, they also lead the way in campaigns for health, education, child care, law reform, sexual preference, Aboriginal rights, cultural diversity, land care, peace and freedom.. "Carrying the Banner brims over with vivid memories and humble reflections, tales of courage and of political machinations, and strategies for leadership for new generations of women. Rather than portraying 'the woman leader' as the isolated exception the contributors show that every woman can take the path to inspiring leadership.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781876268305
  • Publisher: UWA Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/18/1999
  • Pages: 248

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
Regenerating Politics 15
Women Carrying Banners 16
One Generation after Another 32
Across the Decades 45
In Labor: An Interview 56
A Tapestry of Passion and Peace 69
My Place, My Work 81
The Colour of Stories 82
Making Strides 91
Keeping the Flame Burning 101
An Outsider on the Inside 111
Industrious Women 119
Reinventing Leadership 127
Professing Difference 135
Taking on the Academy 136
A Virus in the Priesthood 145
Juggling Activism and Leadership 153
Science, Books and Me 160
Not an Ivory Tower: Learning and Teaching in a University 168
Doing It Differently 177
Heart Dreaming 187
A Letter to Lillian 188
Public Bisnis, Private Bisnis 197
Freedom and Loss: An Iranian Story 207
It's All in the Unfolding 217
Transformative Moments 224
Suggestions for Further Reading 233
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