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Don McMurdo (1930–2001)
[Portrait of Jennifer McGregor as Fe-an-nich-ton in Ba-ta-clan, July 1984]
In: Don McMurdo Performing Arts Collection
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an23351536

January 2004 Volume XIV Number 4

FAREWELL TO WARREN HORTON AM, 1938–2003

 

Staff of the National Library of Australia, the library community and friends were saddened to hear of the death, after a long illness, of the Library’s former Director-General Warren Horton on 25 November 2003

AUSSTAGE: RECORDING AUSTRALIAN PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS
  Richard Stone describes how the online index to Australia’s performing arts history is helping to preserve a snapshot of society that would otherwise be lost forever
THE STORY OF THE HAPPINESS BOX
 

Meredith Hinchliffe reveals how Sir David Griffin came to write a children’s fable in the grim surroundings of Changi prison camp

BUSH POLICEMAN WITH THE SOUL OF AN ARTIST
 

Judy Cannon looks at the life of Constable John William Stokes through his 1930s diaries, and relates his adventures policing remote Australian settlements

HUNTING FOR THE NEW LEFT IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Jennifer Clark finds clues in the Libraries’s collections to a shift in Australian political consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s

CULTURAL GIFTS

Penelope Layland uncovers the largerly hidden community of benefactors whose generosity helps to enrich the cultural life of institutions such as the National Library
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