Wednesday, October 14, 2015

TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIAN WORKERS


Kiwi born photographer Oliver Strewe and  author Blanche  D'Alpuget  combined  to produce The Workers , a record of men and women toiling  throughout the  nation ,  part of  Australia's  1988  Bicentenary  celebrations.  
 
 Strewe had covered the Portuguese withdrawal from Portuguese Timor , independence ceremonies of New Guinea  and Vanuatu, photographed  the production of ceramics in China  for the Department of Foreign Affairs , produced a book, Bondi, and became a founding member of  Wildlife Photo Agency .
 
In the case of  journalist  and  author D'Alpuget , she  lived in Indonesia in 1966  and  Malaysia , wrote the highly acclaimed  novels  Monkeys in the Dark  and  Turtle Beach and  the biographies of  Sir Richard Kirby and  Bob Hawke ; on marrying   Hawke she  became  a  member of  the  working  team   dubbed  B1 and  B2 after Bananas  in  Pyjamas.