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Lenore Layman

Lenore Layman (co-editor) is an Australian historian, currently Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Murdoch University. Her research and publication on Australian asbestos history began in 1983. She was a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC-funded Consequences of asbestos exposure in WA and Dust-related Health Issues in Western Australians projects. She has recently co-authored and co-edited Powering Perth: A History of the East Perth Power Station and the Electrification of Perth; 110° in the Waterbag: A History of Life, Work and Leisure in Leonora, Gwalia and the Northern Goldfields; Blood Nose Politics: A Centenary History of the WA National Party; and Radical Perth, Militant Fremantle.

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    Lenore Layman and Gail Phillips

Events

Launch: Unseen by Penelope Jackson (North Caulfield)

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art 5 Malakoff Street, North Caulfield, VIC

Monash University Publishing and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art are delighted to invite you to the launch of Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia by Penelope Jackson. Please join us for a conversation between Penelope...

Launch: The Curious Diplomat by Lachlan Strahan (Melbourne CBD)

Hill of Content Bookshop Level 2, 86 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Monash University Publishing is delighted to invite you to the launch of The Curious Diplomat: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Diplomacy by Lachlan Strahan. From the Indo-Pacific and...

Book launch: Righting My World by Dennis Altman (Gleebooks)

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

In conversation with Anne Summers A collection of writings over the past half-century from the acclaimed professor of politics and gay rights activist. From the inauguration of Richard Nixon to...