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Australian Dictionary of Biography 📖 Est. 1959
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21/10/2026

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20/10/2026

The love for the ADB just keeps on coming 🥰

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Who Am I? Wednesday time!

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07/10/2026

Who Am I?

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30/09/2026

Who Am I? 🧐

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With spring in the air, we've been reading up on various nature lovers whose lives are captured in the ADB 🌱One such per...
29/09/2026

With spring in the air, we've been reading up on various nature lovers whose lives are captured in the ADB 🌱

One such person was the botanist & conservationist Nancy Burbidge 🌷

Hailing from Yorkshire, as a baby she came to Australia, where she dedicated her life to studying plant life. Her career took her to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew & the CSIRO in Canberra.

Want to know more? Check out her entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography 📘

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