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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2011 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Established Writers $50,000 for non-fiction writing.
- 2004 State Library Victoria Fellowship — Creative Fellowship
Awards for Works
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The Blackburns : Private Lives, Public Ambitions
Melbourne
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Melbourne University Press
,
2019
15779730
2019
single work
biography
'When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love-with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better. Theirs would be an exacting partnership as they held one another to the highest ideals. They worked as elected members of parliaments and community activists, influencing conscription laws, benefits for working men and women, atomic bomb tests, civil rights and Indigenous recognition. Together, they shook Australia.' (Publication summary)
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