Biography Footnotes 18
Author/editor: C. Fernon
Year published: 2018
Read Frank Bongiorno’s obituary for historian Ken Inglis, who chaired the ADB’s Editorial Board from 1977 to 1996. You will also find a fascinating article by Ross Carpenter on the Legends of Australian Ice website; a piece about some family history sleuthing by Jennifer Higgins; an article by…
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Biography Footnotes 17
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2017
Read Chris Cunneen's obituary for the ADB’s great friend Jill Roe, as well a review of Jill's recent book, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, and the citation for her ADB Medal awarded in November 2016. You will also find Malcolm Allbrook’s reflections on John Mulvaney’s ADB entries, some preliminary…
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Biography Footnotes 16
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2016
Read Michael Kirby’s speech to the guests at the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of volume one of the ADB; Kent Fitch’s controversial suggestion that we should place ADB entries in Wikipedia; information about the relatively new, but very useful, Biographical Database of Australia;…
Quick Link: bf-no-16_1.pdf(5.55 MB)
Biography Footnotes 14
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2015
Read about how the Australian Dictionary of Biography deals with corrigenda; the entries for people who died in 1991 that have been added to ADB online; former prime minister Malcolm Fraser’s interesting family tree; and Ann Moyal’s address ‘Writing Autobiography’ presented to the Independent…
Quick Link: bf-no-14_0.pdf(2.21 MB)
Biography Footnotes 15
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2015
Read Malcolm Allbrook’s obituary for ADB stalwart, Geoffrey Bolton; find out who were some of the people, who died in 1992, who were added to the ADB's website in March and learn more about former prime minister Malcolm Fraser’s fascinating Jewish heritage.
Quick Link: bf-no-15_0.pdf(2.65 MB)
Biography Footnotes 13
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2014
Read the obituaries of two of the Australian Dictionary of Biograhy’s greatest supporters, Martha Campbell and Gerry Walsh; news of our new e-journal, Using Lives; a profile of the Commonwealth Working Party, and some hints on making the best use of the simple search and faceted browse options…
Quick Link: bf-no-13v2_0.pdf(2.18 MB)
Biography Footnotes 12
Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2013
Read the transcripts of Malcolm Turnbull’s speech at the launch of The ADB’s Story and Gareth Evans’s speech at the launch of Barry Jones’s Dictionary of World Biography. Both books were published this year by the National Centre of Biography in association with ANU Press. We also discuss the…
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