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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991-1995 (a-Z)



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Autore: Nolan Melanie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991-1995 (a-Z) Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021
Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2021
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (970 pages)
Soggetto topico: Biography: general
Collected biographies
Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who)
Soggetto non controllato: history
biography
Dictionary
Australian
ADB
Persona (resp. second.): NolanMelanie
Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Pages -- Preface: Refitting the ADB -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Board -- Working Parties -- Authors -- Research Editing -- A Note on Some Procedures -- Corrigenda.
Sommario/riassunto: Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, 'the first Australian celebrity to go public' about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Altri titoli varianti: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19
Titolo autorizzato: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-76046-413-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910445548303321
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Serie: Australian Dictionary of Biography