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Parents, siblings, lovers and children naturally appear in this Australian self-portrait of a woman’s progress in interesting times to illuminate the rest more sharply in the region.

Like US psychologist Stanley Milgram, Carol believes psychology is telling stories about the self and life is understood backwards but must be lived forwards. This is the story of a woman for policy purposes which question the normal party, professional and industrial approaches in the democratic interest of the population. Others in the region may feel different, but this is Carol’s story.

She was born in 1947 and left Southend on Sea in England in 1951 for a rural life in Queensland. She discusses her family and schooling, followed by her work as a shorthand typist, a secondary school English teacher in Nigeria and Australia, and a university student and teacher of teachers.

During this personal and political progression, Carol identifies herself as a Marxist student of women and children’s lot, before and after the Whitlam Labor government of the seventies. As a state public servant, she helped to establish services for women and children and then worked in the corporate planning and delivery of health, insurance, rehabilitation and fund management services for the NSW workforce. She then became a university teacher of health care professionals, retiring in 2007.

Finally, she points out why our generation should face our inevitable death for better state policy and why she became a travelling grandma making a revisionist political return to her father’s small business views. She observes that English is the most spoken language in the world and old men can’t type.

Better communication is women’s most natural advantage. Cut off old rich heads and let us all work freely if we want. We only do what we want or can contract. The quality and fairness of work are best judged openly. God alone knows how you cost them.