The Inspector-General of Misconception (19 page)

The Office wishes to thank the following Special Inspectors attached to the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception on this investigation: barrister and woman-about-town, Angela Bowne; author-chef Tony Bilson; man-of-letters, Dr Donald Anderson; architect Peter Bridges; and Andrew and Laurie Derwent of the NSW Department of Fisheries.

We wish to thank Counsel Assisting the Cheese Inquiry, namely, Owen and Arthur Moorhouse.

Special thanks to Christopher Koch, McKenzie Wark and Dr Anderson for personally assisting the Inquiry into Deconstruction.

On net-sex the Inquiry wishes to thank Johan Wehtje, special consultant to the Inquiry; Sherry Turkle and her book
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the
Internet,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, distributed in Australia by Allen and Unwin; and Sandy Stone's interview in
Wired
magazine, May 1996; and other sources who wish to remain anonymous.

For those who would like to read an academic study into the future of the Australian party system, we recommend Professor Ian Marsh's book
Beyond the Two Party System
, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1995.

The Inspector-General wishes to thank Martin Groen of the Flying Squid Brothers for his invaluable assistance. Earlier versions of most of these pieces appeared in the
Adelaide Review
under the editorship of Christopher Pearson; ‘In Defence of the Committee', ‘National Festivals', ‘The Art of Fun' and ‘The Lost Art of Speech-making Rediscovered' first appeared in other versions in the
Age
; ‘A Musing: The Music of Ice' first appeared in the
Mentalle Notes
; ‘The Connoisseur of Dust' in the
Financial Review
; ‘The Art of Fun' first appeared in the
Bulletin
; ‘Prime Ministership' first appeared in the
Age
Centenary of Federation supplement; ‘The Grave Case of Australian Oyster Abuse' and ‘Dining Alone at Christmas' appeared in
Best Australian Essays 1999
and
HQ
magazine; ‘Ballad of the Sade Café' appeared in the
Bulletin
.

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator, and became a full-time writer in the 1970s. He has written fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and essays, and edited many collections of writing.

Forty-Seventeen
was given a laudatory full-page review by Angela Carter in
The New York Times
and was named Book of the Year by
The Age
and ‘moral winner' of the Booker Prize by the London magazine
Blitz
.
Grand Days
, the first novel in The Edith Trilogy, won the SA Premier's Award for Fiction.
Dark Palace
won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the
Age
Book of the Year Award.

Moorhouse has undertaken numerous fellowships and his work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Griffith University in 1997.