Courting: Alecia Simmonds Festival Appearance

Anne Summers’s Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published 50 years ago – a time when sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape were unnamed and often ignored experiences for women in Australia.

It would be another nine years before the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

Join Anne as the bestselling and multi-award-winning writer and journalist – also an Officer of the Order of Australia and inductee to the Australian Media Hall of Fame – reflects on her groundbreaking book, what she has done since and what she is doing now with host Alecia Simmonds.