In Conversation with Kim Rubenstein
Author of The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the Fight for PLC
The Vetting of Wisdom tells the gripping story of a revered Principal - acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls' school educator of her day - being assailed by a driven Presbyterian Church minority hellbent on removing her from office and returning PLC to 'bible-centred' teaching.
'Rubenstein expands her canvas to ask the big questions: how does a woman sustain the courage for leadership, integrity and generosity?' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland and All That I Am.
'A dramatic blow-by-blow account of how proponents of bible-focused teaching overthrew a major Australian school's distinguished Principal'. Jim Mitchell, author of A Deepening Roar: Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001.
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Kim Rubenstein - lawyer, academic, author, distinguished human rights advocate, and PLC alumna - is co-director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra and a champion of equal opportunity and active citizenship.
Frank Bongiorno is a Professor of History at the Australian National University and is the author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History and The Eighties: The Decade that Transformed Australia.
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