Elizabeth Butel

Arthur Roberts was a schoolmaster in country NSW (1861 to 1894) and it was education and the changing educational system that shaped his life. Born in the hop-growing region of Kent, England, his life and prospects were transformed by a wave of educational reform that carried him far from family, class and country. Roberts found himself on the frontier of attempts to establish a national school system in Australia. With a swiftly growing family – one with a severe disability – he was moved from...

Margaret Preston, Australia&apos;s foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney&apos;s art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years.<br /> <br />&apos;A red-headed little firebrand of a woman&apos;, she was an artist who never stood still, moving from realism to Post-Impressionism, to an Aboriginal-inspired style of art with unceasing verve and...