Personal profile: Dr Don Garden OAM

Dr Don Garden, OAM FFAHS FRHSV, is a former President of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies and of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, former Co-Chair of GLAM Peak Australia and a former member of the Australian Heritage Council. He is Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania, Honorary Secretary of the Amy Sherwin Fund, an Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, a life member of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and of the Albany Historical Society, and a member of a number of other community history and heritage groups.

For many years he taught History and Environmental History at the University of Melbourne. He has wFor many years he taught History and Environmental History at the University of Melbourne. He has written seventeen books, a mixture of local and regional histories, biography, company history, an environmental history of Australia and the Pacific and a history of El Nino events in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

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