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Maralinga's Long Shadow: Yvonne's story wins NSW Premier's Award
- 7 years ago
- The annual NSW Premier's Awards for History, presented in Sydney on Friday 1 September 2017, saw one of our partnership projects honoured, when "Maralinga's Long Shadow: Yvonne's Story" took out the Young People's Hi[...]
Researching the script
Hitting the Archives
Piled high in nuclear veteran Avon Hudson’s living room, there is a campaigner’s treasure trove of letters, media material, detailed reports, books of Royal Commission testimony, medical case notes, maps, photographs and documents.
During his March visit, playwright John Romeril worked with Avon and the State Library of South Australia staff on research, archiving and script development for the play.

‘Beyond Belief: The British Bomb Tests: Australian Veterans Speak Out’, written by Roger Cross and Avon Hudson, 2005, Published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide.