| About
the Book
Of interest to ages 15 years
and up and especially appropriate for use in Australian secondary and
undergraduate studies, this unique book does not try to define leadership,
but instead encourages the reader to fulfil that task themselves through
a series of short essays on the personal and professional life of some
contemporary Australians recognised nationally as aspiring leaders in
their fields. A brief overview on the concept of leadership, plus a
short series of questions about leadership and coping, provides a framework
for individual study or group discussion.
The Australian Leadership
Reader presents six engagingly written leadership profiles on:
- Ann Sherry, a-stereotypical
corporate CEO.
- Peter Garrett, leading
rock-star-cum-environmentalist.
- Fiona Stanley, eminent,
entrepreneurial scientist.
- Michael Kirby, internationally
respected Supreme Court Judge.
- Larissa Behrendt, award-winning
author and Indigenous leader.
- Gordon Samuels, former
Governor of NSW and respected statesman.
Five of the leadership profiles
were written by talented young Australians who are already well on their
way to future leadership roles in their respective fields. The sixth
profile was written by the subject herself.
These essays provide readers
with examples of non-fiction writing centred on contemporary Australian
culture and recent history. Each essay uses an individual approach to
the question of leadership thus demonstrating a range of writing skills
and styles such as interviewing, informative narrative, personal reflection,
descriptive prose, critical analysis, and humour.
This book is suitable across
a range of key learning areas including Personal Development, English,
Pastoral Care, Modern History, and Studies of Society.
About
the Editors
Dr Helen
Sykes is the founder of Future Leaders (www.futureleaders.com.au)
, a national initiative designed to provide young people with inspiration
and skill development for effective leadership and Going Further, a
leadership program exploring the relationship between economic, environmental,
social and cultural issues. Helen has conducted extensive research about
young people and leadership and the attitudes of young people to the
environment. She is editor and principal author of Youth Homelessness:
Courage and Hope and co editor of Environment Education and Society
in the Asia Pacific and Young People and the Environment. Helen is President
of the Trust for Young Australians, Chair of the Royal Children’s
Hospital MHS Community Reference Group and Member of the Australian
Collaboration Steering Committee.
Dr Erica
Frydenberg is a clinical, organisational, counselling and educational
psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational
setting before joining the staff of the University of Melbourne. She
is an Associate Professor in psychology in the Faculty of Education
where she is a member of the organisational leadership cluster of academics.
She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She has authored
60 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, published
psychological instruments to measure coping and developed programs and
a CD-Rom to teach coping skills. Her most recent volumes are Morton
Deutsch: A Life and Legacy of Mediation and Conflict Resolution, published
by Australian Academic Press and Thriving, surviving or going under:
Coping with everyday lives published by Information Age Publishing in
2004. She has co-authored the Schooling Issues Digest Motivation and
Engagement which was published by DEST in 2005 and the Australian entry
in the four-volume Routledge Encyclopedia on Adolescence that is scheduled
for publication later in 2006.
About
the Authors
Kylie Miller
has worked for eight years at The Age in Melbourne, the past
six as a television columnist, feature writer and deputy editor of the
Green Guide. Her 16-year career has included a couple of years reporting
for Canberra TV news bulletins, five years as a reporter at the Newcastle
Herald, and a year on the foreign desk at the Bangkok Post in Thailand.
Kylie won the NSW Young Journalist of the Year award in 1994 for a feature
article on youth unemployment, which included a month-long placement
at the Straits Times in Singapore.
Selina
Samuels has an Arts/Law degree with Honours in English, a University
Medal from the University of NSW, and a PhD in literature from the University
of London. She is the editor of four volumes on Australian writers for
the Dictionary of Literary Biography and is Head of English at an independent
girls’ school in Sydney.
John Heard
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws cum laude from
the University of Melbourne in 2005. He took the Supreme Court and Hearn
Exhibitions for Jurisprudence and an advanced legal research thesis
he wrote on natural law won the Freehills Prize. He writes an online
weblog as DREADNOUGHT and balances work in the corporate sector with
an increasing output of articles and reviews. He made his first featured
television appearance in January 2006.
Lucinda
Holdforth lives in Sydney and is a speechwriter. She has previously
worked as a researcher at ABC television, career diplomat with the Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, speechwriter for Kim Beazley
when he was Minister for Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, and communications
specialist for a management consulting firm. She has had articles and
columns published in Australian newspapers and magazines. Her first
book True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris was published in 2004.
Felena
Alach is a writer and visual artist who graduated with a Bachelor
of Arts with first class honours in English from the University of Western
Australia. Felena has worked for many recent years in the arts, and
has written for various arts journals including RealTime/OnScreen, Broadsheet,
Artlink, and Photofile, and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma
in Internet Studies through Curtin University.
Larissa
Behrendt is Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director
of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology
Sydney. She is a practicing lawyer and lecturer and has worked with
the United Nations. She sits on various tribunals and councils including
the Administrative Decisions Tribunal and the University of Technology
Sydney Council. She is widely published. Home is her first
novel.
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