Nothing Like a Dame

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The Life of Dame Phyllis Frost

Dame Phyllis Frost often says, I m just a suburban housewife , and that s just what she looks like. But it s all a fa ade. In reality, she s a human dynamo, a woman who s chaired countless organisations, raised millions of dollars for charitable causes, galvanised states into action after natural disasters and shamed countless politicians into action.

Far from being just a suburban housewife a phrase that she has wielded like a weapon in her campaigns Dame Phyllis has been a force to be reckoned with. Politicians and police commissioners listened to her. The Queen damed her. And she was given a direct phone line to her favourite talkback radio station.

NOTHING LIKE A DAME, her biography by Bernadette Clohesy reveals how Dame Phyllis Frost fought for prison reform at a time when prisoners were locked away and forgotten; how she started Keep Australia Beautiful in 1968; and how she became the national president of the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign. An amazing story following one woman s battle for social reform.