Source: www.theguardian.com --- Monday, January 25, 2016
Self-described ‘feminist tree-hugging pinko’ author says she admired Gough Whitlam for introducing the Order of Australia – but never expected to be admitted to it The award-winning Australian-American author and environmentalist Geraldine Brooks says that at as a self-described “feminist tree-hugging pinko”, she was shocked to have been honoured with admission as an officer of the Order of Australia. “These awards have tended to be a bit disproportionately blokey and big-end-of town, so it’s nice, as a woman who sits on the side of the political spectrum that I do, to have been awarded,” Brooks says, talking to Guardian Australia from her home in the US state of Massachusetts. Continue reading... ...
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