Robert La Nauze, who is also an artist, has had a distinguished career in research and technology management for the energy and extractive mining industries in which he held senior positions both in the CSIRO and in industry. His biography of William Thwaites, Engineer to Marvellous Melbourne (2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 Victorian History Publication Awards.
‘A carefully researched history of a skilled, free-settler family whose design skills, workmanship and control over the quality of their work gave both style and class to those enriched by the seemingly unlimited discoveries of gold in nineteenth-century Melbourne.’ — John Hawkins, JB Hawkins Antiques
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