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Geoffrey Sawer Geoffrey Sawer i(A12868 works by)
Born: Established: 21 Dec 1910
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Burma,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ; Died: Ceased: 8 Aug 1996
Gender: Male
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Geoffrey Sawer was born at Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma). He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne and was admitted as a solicitor in 1934 and a barrister in 1938. Sawer went on to lecture in Law at the University of Melbourne and later became Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

During World War II Sawyer was 'in charge of radio propaganda to Japan and Japanese-occupied territories'.

Source: Australia Writes : An Anthology (1953)

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