Joan Healey, born in Melbourne in 1934, worked various jobs, including pressing shirts in a factory, as a lingerie salesgirl, clerk telephonist and assistant librarian, until she was offered a journalism cadetship at Murdoch’s Woman’s Day magazine. She went on to work at Adelaide News Ltd and ABC Sydney radio news.
Joan then hitchhiked and camped around Australia for six months, before heading off on overseas adventures for several years, and found herself in London. Looking for work, she discovered adventure playgrounds and landed a job in a rough part of the East End working at one.
After deciding to return home to Melbourne, Joan brought back information about adventure playgrounds with her, and reluctantly agreed to try one as a short holiday program in Fitzroy.
Joan currently lives in Altona, Melbourne, with her foster grandson, Haylen.
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Mount Beauty Writers Festival
Mount Beauty Community Centre
Kiewa Cres, Mount Beauty, VIC, Australia
Mount Beauty Writers Festival ABOUT Everyone has a story ... Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty, awarded Tourism Victoria's...
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Elise Stephenson at Blue Door Books – YASS
Blue Door Books
135 Comur St, Yass, NSW
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon with Dr Elise Stephenson author of the brilliant 'Space XX'. After leading world first research Dr Elise Stephenson shares a story of the space...
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The Places that Made Social Work in Melbourne 1887-1940 – a historical walking tour
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC
This walk will be led by social worker historian Jane Miller drawing on the research in her book For Social Betterment – Social Work Education in Australia (2024). Commencing at...
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Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews
RHSV
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...
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In conversation: Catherine Gay discusses Australian Girls (Canberra)
In conversation event to launch Australian Girls: Growing Up in the Nineteenth Century. Join Emily Gallagher (National Centre of Biography) in conversation with Catherine Gay to celebrate the launch of Australian...
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Mount Beauty Writers Festival
Mount Beauty Community Centre Kiewa Cres, Mount Beauty, VIC, AustraliaMount Beauty Writers Festival ABOUT Everyone has a story ... Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty, awarded Tourism Victoria's...
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Elise Stephenson at Blue Door Books – YASS
Blue Door Books 135 Comur St, Yass, NSWJoin us for an unforgettable afternoon with Dr Elise Stephenson author of the brilliant 'Space XX'. After leading world first research Dr Elise Stephenson shares a story of the space...
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The Places that Made Social Work in Melbourne 1887-1940 – a historical walking tour
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VICThis walk will be led by social worker historian Jane Miller drawing on the research in her book For Social Betterment – Social Work Education in Australia (2024). Commencing at...
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Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews
RHSV 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...
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In conversation: Catherine Gay discusses Australian Girls (Canberra)
In conversation event to launch Australian Girls: Growing Up in the Nineteenth Century. Join Emily Gallagher (National Centre of Biography) in conversation with Catherine Gay to celebrate the launch of Australian...
