• 1874-1932
• farmer, naturalist and conservationist
• born on 23 February 1874 at Spittal an der Drau, Karnten, Austria; migrated to Australia in 1900
• ‘a courtly and jovial host who often sang to his guests and who had a mischievous sense of humour’
• My name is Gustav Weindorfer and I represent ‘Golden soil, wealth for toil’ because I was a pretty good farmer. More important I worked for a long time to convince the Tasmanian government to make the region stretching from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair a reserve, which they finally did in 1922.

IDEA FOR SCENE: GUSTAV WEINDORFER HAS A PART IN THE PLAY SCRIPT PROVIDED WITH THIS PLAY KIT!

1901-2001 Centenary of Federation

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