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A SHORT HISTORY OF

AUSTRALIA

Born in Sydney in 1915, Manning Clark won scholarships to Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, and in the early 1940s taught history at schools in England and Australia. He was senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne and, later, Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History and had honorary doctorates awarded by the Universities of Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney.

In 1975 Manning Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his six-volume A History of Australia, and was named Australian of the Year for 1980. Professor Clark died in 1991.

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