Rejection for story A Journey Beyond the Valley of the Flowers, Australian Penthouse, 23 November, 1981.

Penang, Malaysia telegram, in the days of Poste Restante, in the days before email. 4 May, 1981.

The old Yellow Certificates of Vaccination, 1981.

This is what the old Certificates of Vaccination used to look like.
You had to have this document, along with your passport.

From Here To Oblivion, the Australian National Playwrights Conference assessment, 26 February, 1981.

 

Letter from Allan Patience, my supervisor for postgraduate work at Flinders University, South Australia, 16 January, 1981.

Letter from Allan Patience, my thesis and course work supervisor for postgraduate work at Flinders University, South Australia, 16 January, 1981.
We became close. He was particularly entertained by my thesis, The Glamour and the Grot: Towards an Ethnography of the Gay Bars of Adelaide.
Allan used to say, "Whatever you do, John, don't become an academic."
He himself went on to have a distinguished academic career.
https://theconversation.com/profiles/allan-patience-335107

Allan Patience is a principal fellow in political science in the University of Melbourne. He has held chairs in politics and Asian studies in universities in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Japan.

His books include Australian Federalism: Future Tense.

https://www.amazon.com/Australian-Federalism-Future-Tense-Patience/dp/019554207X