Born: Established: 1946 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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Notes
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Peter Singer was included in the Bulletin's '100 Most Influential Australians' list in 2006.
Personal Awards
- 2012 recipient Order of Australia — Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) For eminent service to philosophy and bioethics as a leader of public debate and communicator of ideas in the areas of global poverty, animal welfare and the human condition.
- 2004 recipient Australian Humanist of the Year Award
- 1992 recipient Wingate Scholarship To research and translate from German the experiences of Austrian Jewish refugee Moriz Scheyer in France 1938 - 1945
Awards for Works
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Pushing Time Away : My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
Pymble
:
Fourth Estate
,
2003
Z1010376
2003
single work
biography
- 2003 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Non-Fiction Prize
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Rethinking Life and Death : The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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1994
Z1179820
1994
single work
non-fiction
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