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1 1 y separately published work icon Charles Robert Scrivener : The Surveyor Who Sited Australia's National Capital Twice Terry Birtles , North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2013 6517484 2013 single work biography

'This well-illustrated biography celebrates the achievements of ‘Charley’ Scrivener 1855–1923 – drawing upon his official reports, maps and family letters. The result is insight into suburban expansion of Victorian-era Sydney, rural closer settlement of the Riverina, and choice of Australia’s national capital.

Loaned to the Commonwealth government to survey prospects of an ‘alpine’ federal capital, Scrivener recommended Snowy River water and hydroelectricity to Dalgety, gazetted 15 August 1904, but NSW objections led to his later demarcation of a territorial boundary and city site for ‘Yass–Canberra’ 1909.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Miles Franklin and Her Brindabella Childhood Terry Birtles , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: Margin , November no. 70 2006; (p. 16-28)
1 Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson, Bush Poet, Lawyer and Journalist Terry Birtles , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 68 2006; (p. 21-39) This article was originally compiled for a Friends of the National Library of Australia excursion. (Margin, April 2006 p.3)
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