Christine Fernon
Christine Fernon is the Online Manager for the National Centre of Biography. She worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics before becoming a research editor at the Australian Dictionary if Biography in 1998. She was later the Dictionary’s bibliographer and assisted in creating the online version of the ADB. She now manages this site along with the NCB’s other biographical websites. She has also written on the history of Canberra, including A Different View: The National Library and Its Building Art (2004) and is the editor of the NCB’s newsletter, Biography Footnotes.
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Edited by: Melanie Nolan, Christine Fernon
Publication date: October 2013
‘The Australian Dictionary of Biography captures the life and times and culture of this country in an absolutely distinctive and irreplaceable way. It is the indispensable record of who we are, and of the characters who have made us what we are. I could not be prouder of ANU’s continuing role as custodian of this crucial part of our national legacy.’
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