Sydney librarian, Helen Bersten, is announced as the co-winner of the 2010 Republican Short Story Competition for her work, “Double Lives”. Ms Bersten has been the Hononary Archivist at the Australian Jewish Historical Society for many years for which she was awarded an OAM in 2005. She has also been a voluntary reader on Radio 2RPH assisting people with reading difficulties, an avid writer of letters to the editor and an amateur poet.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
