Women's Electoral Lobby Australia INVITES YOU To the Canberra launch of WENDY MCCARTHY's autobiography DON'T FENCE ME IN At Parliament House, Canberra -Committee Room 1R1- (use Main Entrance) On Tuesday, 11 April 2000 at 5.30pm Hosted by Senator Helen Coonan, Jenny Macklin MP and Senator Aden Ridgeway REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL TO GAIN ENTRY Registrations to WEL Australia, PO Box 191, Civic Square ACT 2608 Phone: (02) 6247 6679 Fax: (02) 6247 4669 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suggested donation $10.00 ------------------------------------------------- Title Don't Fence Me In Author Wendy McCarthy Published April 7 2000 Imprint Random House Price $24.95 ----------------- For more than three decades Wendy McCarthy has been at the leading edge of feminism and public life in Australia. In this candid and fascinating autobiography she takes us behind the scenes from her rural university days, to women's rights campaigns of the 1970's, to the boardroom battles in the ABC and her husband's seven year struggle with a life threatening illness. Born in 1941, Wendy grew up in Central West NSW, despairing as her witty, charming father was destroyed by alcoholism. The 1950's offered escape to university, and the happy discovery of sex and academic learning. After adventuring and working in Britain and the US, Wendy and her husband Gordon returned home to start their family and Wendy gradually became a tireless and effective force in shaping Australian Society. In the '70s, Wendy worked for the Family Planning Association, lobbied for child care and abortion law reform, and assisted in the development of the Women's Electoral Lobby, while bringing up 3 children. In the '80s, she served as deputy chair of the ABC Board at a crucial time in the organisation's history, and was General Manager of the Australian Bicentennial Authority (ABA). In the '90s Wendy headed the National Trust and the Australian Heritage Commission. Honest, moving and thought provoking, it is the story of a woman of her times. Don't Fence Me In will be available in bookstores Friday For further information please contact: Benython Oldfield, Random House Publicity, (02) 8923 9836 / 0410 516658. LL.AD -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink