'David Wansbrough is mainly known as a painter, philosopher and poet. His other interests include 22 years as the Co-Patron of the University of Sydney's China Education Centre with Sir Herman Black, and Dame Leonie Kramer. He has been the executive of the Australia's New South Wales Council of Christians and Jews, and organised the first festival of Islamic and Jewish poetry although he is neither a Jew nor a Muslim. Wansbrough was the Director of the Australian Institute of Contemporary Studies 1979-1983.
David Wansbrough was interviewed by the ABC in 1983 as Australia's Unsung Hero for his work in prison reform. He is the Patron of Regenesis, a social therapy program for street kids, and an honorary Life Member of Christophoros House, a Rudolf Steiner community for the aged. He has been a board member of the Australian Nordoff-Robbin Music Therapy Center, and of Miroma, a day therapy program for adults in need of special care. He has been deputy chairman of the Australian Friends of the Biblioteca Alexandrina, Egypt. For 21 years he was an executive director of the Arunta Group of Investment Companies, and the chief executive of the Gavemer Foundation. He has been a director of Scitec, and chairman of MOA Pty Ltd.' His book,
Pillar of Salt?, has been translated into Russian. (Source: http://www.elemoscow.net/David_Wansbrough_CV.html )
