David Dunstan

Dr. David Dunstan is Deputy Director of the National Centre of Australian Studies, based at Monash University.

He joined the Centre in 1997 and served as its Director from 2004 to 2006, and remains a collaborative researcher and senior lecturer.

Dunstan has previously worked as a freelance journalist, contributing articles throughout the 1980s and 1990s in newspapers such as The Age and Sun-Herald, and continues to feature in scholarly journals.

He is also the son of Melbourne writer and Anti Football League founder Keith Dunstan.

Publications

Dunstan was the founding and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne and has also been a regular contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography , writing on prominent Australians such as Sir Henry Bolte and Sir Bernard Evans.

He was commissioned to publish a history of wine in the Pyrenees, culminating in the book Wine from the hills : Australia's Pyrenees region, and in 2000 he edited an autobiography on Owen Suffolk, who detailed his experiences as a convict in Hobson's Bay in 1858.

Some of Dunstan's other books include Better Than Pommard! A History of Wine in Victoria, Victorian Icon: Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building and Governing the Metropolis: Melbourne 1851-1891 .

Guest Speaking

Dunstan's wide-ranging knowledge has seen him become a popular figure on the seminar circuit.

In 2001 he presented a talk at the Monash University library on his book Better Than Pommard! A History of Wine in Victoria, while in 2007 he joined fellow lecturer Dr Tom Heenan to give a seminar for the Monash Tourism Research Unit on the commercial implications of Australian Football's move into Asia.

External links

• Dr David Dunstan Dunstan's Monash University profile page
• National Centre of Australian Studies Official NCAS website
• Owen Suffolk's days of crime and years of suffering on Monash University Library page