Obituaries for Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain
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.…
Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography: Stories Waiting to be Told
The Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography project, along with a Support program for refugee students, are the focus of this year’s ANU Giving Day. Watch a short video about the IADB, and…
Phillip Playford's obituary added to Obituaries Australia
Read two obituaries for Phillip Playford, an outstanding Western Australian geologist, who died in July this year. Playford also took an interest in the shipwreck of the Zuytdorp off the Western…
Life Sentences - Detecting Deceivers
The latest edition of the ANU Reporter contains an article by ADB editor, Dr Nicole McLennan, about some of the infamous fraudsters, quacks, confidence artists, hustlers and double–dealers in the…
Gareth Evans: Incorrigible Optimist
The ANU’s chancellor Gareth Evans most recent book, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir was published by Melbourne University Press today. In it he looks back over the highs and lows of his…
Hazel King obituary added
Ken Cable’s beautifully written obituary for historian Hazel King (1908-1997) was added to Obituaries Australia today. It was not until she was 40 years of age that Hazel got the chance to enrol for…
Biography Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his…