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Ainsley Gotto<\/h4>\n

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Ian Hancock<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Hardback with dust jacket, 368 pages<\/div>\n
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ISBN: 9781925826555<\/div>\n
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In 1968 the new Prime Minister, John Gorton, appointed Ainsley Gotto, aged 22, as his principal private secretary.\u00a0 Ainsley became one of the most talked about young women in Australia.\u00a0 Hitherto, no woman had been so close to the centre of power, and certainly none was known publicly to be so close.<\/div>\n
Ainsley refused to see herself as a role model for secretaries and said she could not understand what the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement was all about.\u00a0 She thought her performance in the job answered the senior public servants, conservative Liberal politicians and some business leaders who considered it inappropriate that \u2018a mere girl\u2019 should exercise \u2018power and influence\u2019.<\/div>\n
In November 1969, when Dudley Erwin was dumped from the Gorton ministry, he memorably and wrongly identified the cause of his removal: \u2018it wiggles, it\u2019s shapely and its name is Ainsley Gotto.\u2019 Ainsley became a celebrity, renamed in the tabloid press as \u2018Miss Wiggle\u2019 or \u2018The Wiggle\u2019.<\/div>\n
Leaving Gorton in 1972 Ainsley took several jobs in what she called her \u2018afterlife\u2019. Remaining obsessively private, Ainsley was a great networker in a national and international setting, and her diaries are full of meetings with the rich, the powerful, the titled and the very interesting. Yet, although Ainsley\u2019s connections, sharp mind and social skills opened many doors, she needed more than her \u2018unique experience\u2019 of government to replicate the excitement and fulfilment of her years with Gorton.<\/div>\n
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This book describes and explains Ainsley\u2019s rise from a typing pool and shows how the Gorton years provided her with many opportunities but ill-equipped her to take advantage of them and probably cost her lasting personal happiness.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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