{"product_id":"australian-dictionary-of-biography-volume-19-1991-1995-a-z-paperback","title":"Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19: 1991-1995 (A-Z) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelanie Nolan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 19 of the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Dictionary of Biography\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eADB\u003c\/em\u003e) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the \u003cem\u003eADB\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eADB\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake a dip into the many fascinating lives of the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Dictionary of Biography\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 972\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.91 x 9.76 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48767742640376,"sku":"9781760464127","price":70.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/jfT9rwqC1l9781760464127.webp?v=1780386641","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/australian-dictionary-of-biography-volume-19-1991-1995-a-z-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}