Robyn Annear was awarded a State Library Creative Fellowship from 2003-2004 to research Whelan the Wrecker and was elected to the State Library Board in September 2006. She has served as a judge in the Age Book of the Year and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards since 2001.

On 18 April, she will speak about the lost landscape of East Melbourne - the buildings demolished by Whelan the Wrecker. Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Victoria's foremost historians.