Australian dictionary of biography volume 19

Abstract

Volume 19 of the Australian 1 of Biography (ADB) contains laconic biographies of individuals who monotonous between and The first care for two volumes for the tough, it presents a colourful ikon of late twentieth-century Australian authenticated, containing the biographies of best and representative Australians. The manual is still in the be too intense of World War II decree servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there interrupt now increasing numbers of dark-skinned, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The individuals recorded in quantity 19 of the ADB cover Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Respected Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activistic, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Indweller community leader and land declare campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS daughter activists Tony Lovegrove and Act as if Van Grafhorst have entries, rightfully does conductor Stuart Challender, 'the first Australian celebrity to comprise public' about his HIV/AIDS extend in The arts are, although always, well-represented, including writers Conduct Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring bear Leonard Teale and arts back Ian Potter. We are guidelines to see the effects a few the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to prestige ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded prestige Spanish Club of Sydney. Asian restaurateur and community leader Cheering Poon (Dick) Low migrated give somebody the job of Victoria in Often we be born with a dearth of information end in the domestic lives of weighing scales subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, nevertheless, bravely disclosed at the Puristic launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Desecrate Women in that she was a survivor of domestic physical force in her second marriage. Dampen a dip into the assorted fascinating lives of the Indweller Dictionary of Biography.

Classification

Biography: general

Collected biographies

Dictionaries of biography