Michael Buxton Michael Buxton i(27313475 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

'Michael Buxton is Emeritus Professor Environment and Planning at RMIT University. His career has included senior positions in government, politics and academia. He has co-authored twenty books and monographs and over eighty articles in various forms. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.' (Booktopia)

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Personal Awards

2024 recipient Order of Australia Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For significant service to urban and environmental planning, to tertiary education, and to the community.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon 1964 Prahran : Hardie Grant Books , 2023 27313495 2023 single work novel

'1964 tells the story of a city lost in a world of relentless change. The year 1964 was one of transition from the certainty of the 1950s to the doubt and disruption of the modern world.

'A young journalist leaves the security of school and discovers an unfamiliar workplace and an escalating series of confronting experiences. As he begins university, he struggles to relate his studies to the everyday events that he encounters. As he seeks to find a place in this new world, he is torn between reporting local stories or following others who have sought grander achievements.

'While he seeks knowledge through his reporting and academic studies of philosophy and politics, it’s through lived experiences that the young journalist discovers different notions of truth. He learns the way language determines meaning and knowledge by shaping our perceptions, and he is confronted by the meaning of truth – do we construct our own truth or does one immutable truth exist? When confronted by these competing realities, along with uncertainty, doubt and incremental failure, he soon faces life changing decisions that lead to unanticipated and sudden catastrophe.

'As his world starts slowly collapsing; as the city of his youth is to be obliterated; and as he is sent to fight in a South-East Asian war, he soon becomes part of the pivotal events that he once reported on.

'1964 is a story of our inability to anticipate the future, of how we have arrived at where we are today, and of what we lost on the way.' (Publication summary)

2024 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Design by Committee.
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