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Geoffrey Blainey
Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is a prominent Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator with a wide international audience. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including ''The Tyranny of Distance''.〔(Encyclopedia Britannica Online – ''Geoffrey Blainey'' ); web 22 April 2013〕 He has published over 35 books, including world histories such as ''A Short History of The World'' (2001) and ''A Short History of Christianity'' (2012) – and has written for newspapers and television.〔(BBC: ''Professor Geoffrey Blainey'' ); 22 April 2013〕〔(Australian of the Year Awards Honour Roll ); State Finalist Senior Australian of the Year 2010〕〔(Prime Minister's Literary Awards – 2012 Shorlist )〕 He held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years.〔 In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.〔 He received the 1988 Britannica Award for dissemination of knowledge and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.〔
He was once described by Professor Graeme Davison as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the 1980s and 1990s, most controversial of Australia's living historians".〔Essay on "Blainey" by Professor Graeme Davison, "The Oxford Companion to Australian History", Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, p. 74)〕 He has been chairman or member of a wide range of Australian Government and other institutional councils, boards and committees, including the Australia Council, the University of Ballarat, the Australia-China Council, the Commonwealth Literary Fund and the Australian War Memorial.〔 He chaired the National Council for the Centenary of Federation.〔 His name sometimes appears in lists of the most influential Australians, past or present.〔"100 Most Influential Australians" in Sydney Morning Herald, 22 January 2001〕〔The Bulletin, Sydney, 26 June 2006〕〔“Australia's 100 Living National Treasures”, National Trust of NSW, 1997, 2004, 2012〕 The National Trust lists Blainey as one of Australia's "Living Treasures".〔(''Our Living Treasures'' ); the Age, 18 November 2003〕 He currently serves on the boards of philanthropic bodies, including the Ian Potter Foundation since 1991 and the Deafness Foundation Trust since 1993, and is patron of others.
==Early life==
Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he resided at Queen's College, and was editor of ''Farrago'', the newspaper of the University of Melbourne Student Union.
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