They later immigrated to Australia, settling in Sydney where Dunn attended SCECGS Redlands and Strathfield Girls High School.
Dunn complained to a recruitment firm about sexism in their advertisements; however, her attachment of her business card to the letter got her fired, an action which became front-page news in Sydney.
Their eventual release (Anderson was in fact jailed again, before having his sentence quashed a second time in the early 1990s) was something Dunn regarded as her most significant achievement.
She became a Senator—notably, the first with Asian ancestry[8] —in unusual circumstances, when Robert Wood was disqualified under section 44 of the constitution from holding the seat he had won in the 1987 general election.
[11] During her time in office Dunn was active on one of the Australian Senate committees: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.
Dunn has worked as an editor and made documentary films, including Frame-Up and Fighting for Peace (see bibliography).
Dunn coined the famous catch phrase: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," which was subsequently popularised by Gloria Steinem and became a popular slogan among feminists.