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  1. Stephen Murray-Smith AM (9 September 1922 – 31 July 1988) was an Australian writer, editor and educator. Early life and education. Murray-Smith's father ran a lucrative business shipping Australian horses to India for the armed forces.

  2. Stephen Murray-Smith (1922-1988), editor, writer, educator and man of letters, was born on 9 September 1922 at Toorak, Melbourne, son of Scottish-born William David Murray-Smith, indentor, and his Victorian-born wife Alice Maud, née Margrett.

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  3. Stephen Murray-Smith was an improbable communist. Born to a wealthy family and an ex-Geelong Grammar boy, he joined the CPA in 1945. Subsequently he worked in Czechoslovakia, and on returning to Melbourne, worked as a peace activist, and founded and edited the literary magazine Overland .

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  5. It Is Difficult with a man of as many parts as Stephen Murray-Smith to identify his most important legacy. For his friends and students, it is probably the memory of the man himself, with his magisterial authority, polymathic knowledge, unswerving principle, compassion, generosity and conviviality. These qualities changed the world by changing ...

  6. When Stephen Murray-Smith sailed south, the heroic era of Antarctic history—the world of Douglas Mawson, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton—seemed far in the past.

  7. Join Rose Hiscock as she delivers the 2021 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture, ‘Why we need to tear down the borders between science, design and art in a ...

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  8. Oct 11, 2009 · 54m. Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture 2009: The Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament. Transcript. Two weeks ago Iran announced that they had testfired medium and short range missiles that had sufficient range to strike Israel, parts of Europe and American bases in the Persian Gulf.

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