Gillian Barrett Gillian Barrett i(A116073 works by) (a.k.a. Jill Banivanua; Gillian Mar)
Born: Established: 1947 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: Sep 1949
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BiographyHistory

Gillian Barrett migrated to Australia as a child, with her parents. She grew up at Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, living in a house across the gully from Norman Lindsay (q.v.). In 1971 she graduated with a B. A. (Honours in Psychology) from the University of New South Wales and was employed as a clinical psychologist at Concord Repatriation and General Hospital in Sydney before moving to Fiji with her husband in 1972, where her two daughters were born. In 1980 she returned to Australia and settled on a farm at Newbury in the Victorian Central Highlands, where she earned a living breaking and training horses, teaching riding, and writing short stories and articles for various newspapers and magazines. In 1984 she was the Victorian correspondent for The Australian Bloodhorse Review, producing articles about breeding and training thoroughbred horses.

Barrett remarried in 1985 and moved to Moruya in N.S.W., but returned to Newbury eighteen months later and resumed her career as a psychologist, moving to Ballarat in 1989. In 1993 she married again and moved to Townsville where she continued to work as a psychologist, as well as completing a B.Litt in Journalism and an M.A. in Professional Writing and Literature, both from Deakin University.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Dan and Paddy 2003 single work short story Every year Dan, a swaggie, and his old dog, Paddy, turn up to work on the narrator's property, but one year an accident has a tragic outcome.
2003 Honourable mention Southern Cross Literary Competition
The White Dog 2003 single work short story A mysterious white dog brings comfort to a woman who has lost her daughter.
2003 Shortlisted ABC Radio Short Story Competition
Billy and the Eagle 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: The Grenfell Record , 13 July no. 55 1994; (p. 25)
When Billy sees an eagle soaring over his mother's rundown farm he devises a plan which he hopes will make people take notice of him.
1994 First Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Awards
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