Dr Anne Summers AO
Professor for Family & Domestic Violence at the the University of Technology Sydney | Keynote Speaker & Author
CATEGORY
- Domestic Violence Prevention Speakers
- Women In Business Speakers
- Workplace Health & Safety Speakers
TOPICS
- Research Report Summary – The Choice: Violence or Poverty
- Research Report Summary – The Cost of Domestic Violence: To Women’s Employment & Education
- How Australian Workplaces can care for their staff facing Domestic Violence and Coercive Control
- How Australian Universities can care for and temporarily house at-risk students facing Domestic Violence, Coercive Control, Intimidation and Stalking
Biography
Dr Anne Summers AO is currently a Professor of Domestic and Family Violence at the University of Technology of Sydney Business School. She has been awarded substantial funding by the Paul Ramsay Foundation and UTS to continue her innovative data-based research into domestic violence in Australia.
Her report, The Choice: Violence or Poverty (2022), used previously unpublished ABS data to reveal the far greater prevalence of domestic violence than was previously known, and especially the shockingly high incidence among women who have become single mothers as a result. The report influenced the federal government to make changes in the 2023 federal budget to the payment system for single mothers, enabling these mothers to remain on the Parenting Payment until their youngest child reaches the age of 14.
In early 2025 Dr Anne Summers AO released her second report: The Cost of Domestic Violence: To Women’s Employment & Education.
Previously, Anne has advised Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, run the Office of the Status of Women, been Canberra Bureau Chief for the Australian Financial Review newspaper, been editor-in-chief of America’s leading feminist magazine Ms., editor of Good Weekend, chair of the Board of Greenpeace International and a Trustee of the Powerhouse Museum. She was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia for her services to journalism and to women in 1989; had her image on a postage stamp as an Australian Legend in 2011 and in 2017 was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame.
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