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Shirley Shackleton Shirley Shackleton i(A20416 works by) (birth name: Shirley Doreen Venn) (a.k.a. Shirley Doreen Shackleton)
Born: Established: 1931 ;
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon The Circle of Silence : A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo Shirley Shackleton , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2010 Z1600570 2010 single work autobiography 'Australian Shirley Shackleton was launched into an unexpected life as a human rights activist when her journalist husband Greg Shackleton was killed in East Timor in 1975. Her story is filled with a profound sense of purpose, enduring love for her late husband, and a fierce determination to seek truth and justice not only regarding the events leading up to the murders of the journalists who came to be known as Balibo Five, but for the cause of democracy and freedom in East Timor.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 The Balibo Book Shirley Shackleton , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Age , 2 June 2009; (p. 14)
1 The House Divided (from a work-in-progress) Shirley Shackleton , 1992 extract
— Appears in: Blast , Winter no. 19 1992; (p. 14-17)
1 y separately published work icon Little Tree and the Everlasting Forest Shirley Shackleton , Peter Kendall (illustrator), Leederville : Little Tree Books , 1990 Z1391328 1990 single work picture book children's
1 The Entrepreneur Shirley Shackleton , 1989 single work short story
— Appears in: Dancing Poppies : An Anthology of Poetry and Prose 1989; (p. 123)
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