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National Library of Australia News August 2003 cover with a colourful image of a scene from an Australian opera performance of Don Giovanni, June 1997
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Don McMurdo (1930–2001)
[A Scene from an Australian Opera Performance of Don Giovanni] June 1997
col. negative; 35 mm
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an23380145

 

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Editors: Paul Hetherington & Leora Kirwan
Photographers:Loui Seselja, Jim Nomarhas, Greg Power, Andrew Stawowczyk Long, Damian McDonald
Designer: Noel Wendtman
Web Page Design: Seuth Sirimanotham
Picture Researcher: Seuth Sirimanotham

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August 2003 Volume XIII Number 11

THE BARONS LYTTELTON OF FRANKLEY

 

Angus Trumble examines a fine replica of a portrait, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, of William Henry, 3rd Baron Lyttelton of Frankley, and recounts some of the family’s history in the peerage

A STEADFAST REVENGE: DR DUNCAN AND MR CROW
  Stephen Holt traces the ideological development of the social scientist who rejected Christina Stead and, in turn, received a scathing literary punishment
HIKING WITH HURLEY
 

Simon Kleinig describes a bushwalk to Frenchmans Cap in Tasmania and the resulting suite of photographs in the Frank Hurley Collection

THE BIRDMEN OF BIG DOG ISLAND
 

Each year millions of short-tailed shearwaters, also known as mutton-birds, nest on islands around Australia’s south-eastern coastline. Since the early years of European settlement the chicks have been hunted from their nesting burrows. Trish Ainslie and Roger Garwood visited the few remaining birders on Great Dog Island in Bass Strait to record their rare lifestyle

CONVERSATIONS FROM THE PAST

Barry York recalls the pioneering work of the Library’s first oral history interviewer, Mel Pratt

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