<div class="floatright">(http://i.ehow.com/images/a07/ua/c9/everyday-hairstyles-60s-800x800.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Michelle Jane Rawlinson; "Mitch" to her very close friends or "Em-Jay" - to her professional colleagues, it's "Ma'am".<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Lady<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>38<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Born in Sydney, 1930 to a lawyer father and orthodontist mother. Her family lacked nothing and was financially "robust" (in other words white, middle class and democrats). Educated at St. Andrews Cathedral School and Macquarie University, Mitch graduated in 1944 as a BA in psychology with a degree in Bachelor of Laws.<br/><br/>She practiced in her fathers law partnership of Melksham, Rawlinson and Grundie until the age of 29 before accepting a post of assistant under-secretary to the State Department for Internal Affairs (Immigration) in 1960. Progressing at a meteoric rate she joined Australia's diplomatic ranks and was posted to Manila during the Abercrombie-Coulson affair in 1964 and was seconded to the Australian embassy in Saigon in 1966, with a specialist portfolio in "military projected politics."<br/><br/>During her time in south-east Asian politics she has learned a small amount of Vietnamese and can speak it tolerably well and read it in limited amounts. She has also dabbled in teaching herself the Laos tongue but not progressed far. Her French (of a formalised classical variety) has been learned in school and a little more as a necessity in the diplomatic corps. While she can hold a basic conversation she is by no means fluent.<br/><br/>Further additions as the game progreses.<br/><br/><strong>Current profession:</strong>Diplomat. There are also rumours of an affair with a high ranking U.S.N. officer.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Generally a self-confident woman, and well-balanced with a sharp sense of humour and a quick turn of phrase, Michelle is outgoing and enjoys dancing, music and other social pursuits. However she suffers from seeing females treated as second class citizens, particularly in the workplace, her own career having been held back for that reason, she is convinced. This has led her to develop a lack of patience in response to certain pushy males. Had she been born fifty years earlier she would probably have been a Suffragette and twenty years later she would no doubt have been a rampant feminist and bra-burner. As it is, in the late 1960s she merely tries to get on with her job, acutely aware that many women could do the tasks men do, just as well.<br/><br/>Further additions as the game progreses.