JACK LANG – THE FIRST DISMISSAL

JACK LANG  - THE FIRST DISMISSAL

This piece on NSW Labor Premier Jack Lang was inspired by a draft article written by Miss M.E. (Joyce) Cocks, in 1932. I was researching Joyce’s life at  Sydney’s Mitchell Library when I came across a diatribe she had written against Lang; ‘The present Government deliberately refuse

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THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES

THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES

Libraries (well in my opinion) are the most exciting places in the world. That’s because I was born curious. How right Eleanor Roosevelt was when she said; ‘I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most

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