Bill Bunbury

Bunbury was born in Glastonbury, England in 1940, to an Australian father and an English mother. He graduated with an honours degree from the University of Durham in 1963, then decided to visit his father's homeland, Australia. He worked as a farmhand on his cousin's farm in Broomehill for 2 months before moving to Perth, where he taught English at Guildford Grammar School. A visit to the school by an ABC television crew introduced Bunbury to ABC producer Roger Penny. Penny recommended Bill to apply for an ABC position and he joined the ABC'S Education in May 1969. ==Career==

Bunbury's first couple of years at the ABC consisted of radio work. He moved to television shortly afterwards to present a children's program called Here in the West. including the NSW Premier's Media Prize in 1996 for his six part series UNFINISHED BUSINESS,- RECONCILIATION & THE REPUBLIC, the New York Radio Festival Gold medal for Best History Documentary, "Timber for Gold", Gold Mining and Timber ] in Kalgoorlie, and the UN Australia Peace Prize for "The War Rages On", Australians in Vietnam. In 2017 Bill Bunbury was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to broadcasting and Aboriginal communities. ==Personal life==

Bunbury and his wife Jenny now live in Margaret River. They have two daughters and two grandsons. On 26 January 2017, Australia Day, Bill Bunbury was awarded the Order Of Australia for services to the broadcast media and the Indigenous people of Australia. ==Published works==

• Bunbury, Jenny & Bunbury, Jill (2024) Settlement, Struggle and Success: Margaret River and its Old Hospital, 1924-2024, Crawley, WA, UWA Publishing, • Bunbury, Bill & Bunbury, Jenny (2020) Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures:First Nations and Europeans in Western Australia, Crawley, WA, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-76080-141-0 • Bunbury, Bill (2015). INVISIBLE COUNTRY South-West Australia: Understanding a Landscape Crawley, WA : UWA Press • Bunbury, Bill & Bunbury, Jenny, (2015), Sound of the Cockies, Perenjori: One hundred Years of Stories, Shire of Perenjori ISBN 9780646936918 • Bunbury, Bill. (2010). Till the stream runs dry. A history of hydrography in Western Australia. Department of Water WA • Bunbury, Bill. (2006). Caught in time: talking Australian history. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bunbury, Bill. (2002). ''It's not the money it's the land: Aboriginal stockmen and the equal wages case / talking history with Bill Bunbury''. North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bunbury, Bill. (2002). Timber for gold: life on the Goldfields woodlines / talking history with Bill Bunbury. North Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bunbury, Bill. (1998). Unfinished business: reconciliation, the republic and the constitution Sydney: ABC Books. • Bunbury, Bill. (1995). Rabbits & spaghetti: captives and comrades, Australians, Italians and the war, 1939-1945 / talking history with Bill Bunbury. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bunbury, Bill. (1994). Cyclone Tracy: picking up the pieces / talking history with Bill Bunbury. South Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bunbury, Bill ''We'd lost all four engines'' • Bunbury, Bill. (1993). Rag, sticks & wire: Australians taking to the air Sydney: ABC Books. • Bunbury, Bill. (1993). Reading labels on jam tins: living through difficult times South Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. • Bowden, Ros, & Bunbury, Bill. (1990) Being Aboriginal : comments, observations and stories from Aboriginal Australians / from the ABC Radio programs by Ros Bowden and Bill Bunbury. Sydney: ABC Enterprises. ==Notes==