Australia Day Ambassador
Bruce Elder
Ambassador for Gosford City Council
Bruce Elder has been involved in the writing over 60 books and he has worked as a print and radio journalist in both London and Sydney.
He is an award-winning journalist who is currently a full time employee of the Sydney Morning Herald as well as a weekly guest on the ABC's Tony Delroy program which is broadcast on over 150 stations around Australia.
As a writer his publications have included:
(a) In 1988 he wrote a study of the massacres and maltreatment of Australian Aborigines titled Blood on the Wattle. Evonne Cawley has declared that Blood on the Wattle is the most important book about Aborigines she has ever read. It has been in print for the past nineteen years. It was selected as one of the ten most influential works of non-fiction published in Australia in the twentieth century.
(b) That same year Elder started working on a comprehensive travel guide to Australia known as Walkabout. His research involved travelling over 200 000 km. It now is 2 million words long and is part of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's website. His most recent book 1015 Things To See and Do in Australia is a product of this research
(c) Elder is the Australian editor of Trivial Pursuit.
He is on the board of Lifeline South Coast and, for the past eleven, has been an Australia Day Ambassador travelling around New South Wales and performing civic duties for the Australia Day Council. He has been an Ambassador to Kogarah, Tumut, Marulan, Crookwell, Junee, Ardlethan, Taralga, Mudgee, Gulgong, Wyong, The Entrance, Harden, Wombat, Kiama, Jamberoo, Gerringong, Grenfell, Scone, Aberdeen and Toukley.
