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          Australian dictionary of biography: Volume 8 Cl-Gib.

        1. Australian dictionary of biography: Volume 8 Cl-Gib.
        2. The National Centre was established in to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of.
        3. This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (Melbourne University Press), View the front pages for Volume
        4. This is the third part in a five-part series on the development of Australian military malariology during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
        5. An oil portrait painted by Brian (`Bim') O'Reilly hangs at Varuna.
        6. This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (Melbourne University Press), View the front pages for Volume.

          Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 17 A-K

          Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990.

          The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-à-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann.

          Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey.

          Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, others—such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dor