Christopher John Binks OAM (known as C. J. Binks) is a Tasmanian educator and writer.
Binks was born in 1931 [1] and has lived in Tasmania since the 1940s. [2] [3]
His teaching posts included The Hutchins School in Hobart, and vice principal at Don College in Devonport. [4]
His interest in Western Tasmania led him to write Explorers of Western Tasmania, a significant history of exploration of the region, [5] Pioneers of the West Coast, [6] and a later work Hills of the West Wind. [7]
He has also written about Bass Strait [8] and Devonport. [9] [10] [11]
Binks was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for "service to secondary education, and to literature". [12]
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Christopher John Binks OAM (known as C. J. Binks) is a Tasmanian educator and writer.
Binks was born in 1931 [1] and has lived in Tasmania since the 1940s. [2] [3]
His teaching posts included The Hutchins School in Hobart, and vice principal at Don College in Devonport. [4]
His interest in Western Tasmania led him to write Explorers of Western Tasmania, a significant history of exploration of the region, [5] Pioneers of the West Coast, [6] and a later work Hills of the West Wind. [7]
He has also written about Bass Strait [8] and Devonport. [9] [10] [11]
Binks was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for "service to secondary education, and to literature". [12]
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