Biography

Who’s Who in Australia 2001 by

Item: Who’s Who in Australia 2001
Author: Peter Beilharz

by Peter Beilharz •

June 2001, no. 231

Who’s Who in Australia 2001

Information Australia, 1920 pp, $175 hb

Biography

Who’s Who in Australia 2001 by

by Peter Beilharz •

June 2001, no. 231

Why bother reading Who’s Who in Australia? Obviously, it’s a tool, a standard reference, a source of information, a biographical detail, a register – a social register – a place to find an address, or to wonder who’s in, who’s out, who calls the shots. It is also a social symbol in its own right. To read it, to browse or peruse it, is to receive some sense of its own significance and pertinence in Australian social life.

Peter Beilharz

Peter Beilharz is an Australian sociologist who has taught at La Trobe and Curtin University. He is the founding editor of Thesis Eleven and has published books devoted to writers and scholars such as Karl Marx, Bernard Smith, and Zygmunt Bauman.