Biography

Noel Sanders was born in Auckland in 1948. He studied English Literature at Auckland University and linguistics at Harvard in the 1970s. Currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, in cultural studies and media history areas. Writings in this area include histories if the NSW Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA), the Commercial Traveller’s Association (CTA), and the Australian nuclear testing and uranium industries in the 1950s and 60s. The Thallium Enthusiasms and Other Australian Outrages (local Consumption Press 1994) represents current study interests, has chapters on the thallium murders that happened in Sydney 1947-53, the Graeme Thorne murder in 1960, the Whiskey a GoGo fire of 1973, the ‘white slavery’ scandals of the late 50s and the Fairlie Arrow disappearance of 1991 on the Gold Coast, and can be bought for the price of a small potplant (orders from the above address). In 1995 was joined by small black dog, Littledog, rescued from RSPCA Yangoona, in the enjoyment of our struggling garden and many long walks along the Georges River (a polluted mess at low tide, a joy at high) and surrounding suburbs. In 2003 and 2004 he was awarded the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin.

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