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HomeWelcome To The National Centre of BiographyNCB NewsObituaries For Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain
Obituaries for Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain

Anne Deveson with (from left) Barry Cohen and Joe Skrzynski, 1986, image from National Library of Australia

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Read the recently added obituaries for broadcaster, writer, filmmaker and social commentator Anne Deveson and her equally brilliant daughter the writer Georgia Blain in Obituaries Australia. Tragically they died within days of each other; Georgia from a brain tumour and Anne from Alzheimer’s. Anne was recently the subject of an ABC Compass TV program (Paper Trails, 14 Oct 2017) which can be seen on ABC iview.