Ian Bruce – Webmaster, Casey 88, MI 1997, plus various summers

Vale Ian Bruce – Webmaster, Casey 88, MI 1997,  plus various summers Ian joined ANARE in 1987, after 12 years in the Australian Army, and wintered as a Radio Technical Officer at Casey in 1988 – the last year that the Tunnel was occupied. Whilst at Casey, Ian was accepted for on-going employment in a […]

Paul Butler

Lisa Roberts

From Lisa Roberts: Below is an anecdote that relates to Phil Law’s significant contribution to arts education. It is the postscript of my PhD thesis, ‘Antarctic Animation: expanding perceptions with gesture and line’ (submitted to the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, April 2010), which features the artistic responses to Antarctica of […]

Des Lugg

Des Lugg has written a piece on Phil Law for the Australian Antarctic Magazine, which is produced by the Australian Antarctic Division. Information regarding Phillip Law can be found on the AAD website

John (Snow) Williams

From John (Snow) Williams: I went south in Jan 59 on Magga Dan with the RAAF crew as airframe fitter on the Auster aircraft, Doug Leckie was the pilot and Nev Meredith was the engine fitter for the voyage to relieve Wilkes station and take it over from the US. The trip was to take […]

Ingrid McGaughey

From Ingrid McGaughey: I was lucky enough to meet Phil several times over the last few years. Usually it was at an ANARE function. Of course I knew who he was from photos, and also I guess from the way people around treated him -with respect and affection. I didn’t think he knew me from […]

Paul Chapman

From Paul Chapman: When we sailed from Melbourne on the Thala Dan in 1958, we had a well-known journalist aboard named Osmar White. He and I competed in writing scurrilous lyrics for well-known songs. Most of them were fake gripes about conditions aboard (although we were actually having a ball) or were too offensive to […]

Grahame Budd

A Short Swim at Spit Bay By Grahame Budd What follows is a minimally edited transcript of an anecdote and a letter to the Editor that were published in Aurora (vol 11 No 4, page 12) in June 1992  – a Special Issue in honour of Phil Law’s 80th birthday. The letter to the Editor of the […]

Patrick Quilty

Patrick Quilty AM wrote: My memories of Phillip Garth Law My first venture south with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) was to Macquarie Island at the end of 1968, in company with, inter alia, Martin Betts and the late Murray Price, two who would later become close friends. Thus my association with Phil Law began […]