Writers@Stanton: Grantlee Kieza
Event description
The extraordinary life of the World War I hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings.
Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia’s national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two rickety biplanes to the age of the jumbo jets. More than anyone, Fysh shaped the way that Australians saw the world.
Hudson Fysh is a fascinating, lively and thoroughly researched portrait of a modest, resolute family man who changed the way that millions of Australians saw the world; an Aussie war hero and innovator whose courage and grit helped him transform a little bush airline into a global giant.
Award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza OAM held senior editorial positions at the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
and the Courier-Mail for many years. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the author of twenty acclaimed books, including the recent bestsellers Lawson,
Banks, Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly and Monash. Grantlee lives in Brisbane.
Bookings are essential and numbers will be limited.
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