Dear Angus Taylor ... let me remind you of our encounter at Oxford and why it matters

Dear Angus Taylor,

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor.

When you say that you remember Naomi Wolf living a few doors down from you in Oxford 28 years ago, I wonder if you’re mythologising a much less glamorous encounter with a fellow female student – me?

Naomi Wolf wasn’t at New College when you and I were fellow Rhodes Scholars there in the early 1990s. She had been there in the 1980s, but she was long gone by then, riding the wave of publicity for her book, The Beauty Myth. Newly arrived from the patriarchal colonies, I was avidly reading the bestseller at the time – I would have noticed if Wolf was living among us or had come back to visit. She did not.

Read the opinion piece from The Age by Denise Myer - “Dear Angus Taylor ... let me remind you of our encounter at Oxford and why it matters.”