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Keitha Dunstan FCPA started out as an accountant and is now deputy vice chancellor at a uni. Find out how she's forged her way in academia.

Professor Dunstan is driven by a family legacy of resilience in her accounting career and personal life.

For a woman to grow up with the belief that there are no boundaries to what you can do and what you can achieve is surely a gift – and a pathway to becoming a self-confident and ambitious individual.

Now the provost of Bond University in Queensland, Professor Dunstan began her career in accountancy before moving into academia. The eldest of five daughters, she was the first in her family to go to university.

It was there, for the first time, that Dunstan says she learned about the notion of gender discrimination. “I’d never encountered the idea before. The thought that men were more talented than women had never occurred to me.”

This perspective might be due, in part, to the examples of her great-great-grandmothers. Although from a humble background, Dunstan comes from a family whose matriarchs were role models for resilience and determination.

One great-great-grandmother emigrated from Scotland alone at the age of 15. Another, an Aboriginal woman, suffered the loss of custody of her two eldest children when she was removed to the Taroom Aboriginal Settlement, in south-east Queensland.

Looking for more? You can read the full interview with Professor Keitha Dunston in INTHEBLACK digital magazine here: https://intheblack.cpaaustralia.com.a...

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