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          The leader of Brisbane's bid for the Olympic Games, she was in the forefront of the Melbourne and Sydney bids and was appointed Deputy Mayor of the Athletes'..

          Dr Sallyanne Atkinson AO is a company director, journalist, former diplomat and politician.

        1. Dr Sallyanne Atkinson AO is a company director, journalist, former diplomat and politician.
        2. In , Sallyanne Atkinson was elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
        3. The leader of Brisbane's bid for the Olympic Games, she was in the forefront of the Melbourne and Sydney bids and was appointed Deputy Mayor of the Athletes'.
        4. Once Atkinson got writing she was on a roll, enjoying herself, and constantly finding correspondence or historical material to add along the way.
        5. A trailblazer for working mothers, Sallyanne shares the challenges and the triumphs of raising five children while forging a high-profile career.

          6. Sallyanne Atkinson

          Australian politician (born 1942)

          Sallyanne AtkinsonAO (born 23 July 1942, néeKerr) is an Australian former politician who served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia.

          She is the only woman to have held the position. As of 2017, she was Chairman of the Museum of Brisbane,[1] President of the Council of The Women's College at the University of Queensland[2] and chair of the advisory board of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.[3]

          Early life

          Atkinson was born in Sydney.[4] She attended Bishop's College and the Royal Naval School in Colombo, Sri Lanka and completed her secondary education at St Hilda's School on Queensland's Gold Coast.[5] In 1960 she began an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, before becoming a journalist on the Brisbane Telegraph from 1960 to 1962, the Sydney Telegraph from 1962 to 1963, and the Courier Mail from 1963