Program for Change… Affirmative Action in Australia. I began to make my rash assumptions. Here was the book that was going to provide me with the blueprint for future affirmative action initiatives. I anticipated new perspectives and innovative strategies. I expected this collection of essays to be interesting, stimulating and provocative. I thought this would be the vehicle for the eleven contributors, well known and respected in the field of equal opportunity and social change, to present their original ideas on how the barriers to women’s participation in the workforce could be broken down. I was disappointed and I was bored. But was I fair?