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4 unusual facts about Charles Moses


Charles Moses

Moses retired in 1965 and was succeeded as head of the ABC by Sir Talbot Duckmanton.

With the arrival of television in Australia in 1956, he oversaw the ABC's move to provide Australia's first national television service, ABC-TV, in time for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Sir Charles Moses CBE (21 January 1900 in Little Hulton, Lancashire, England – 9 February 1988 in Sydney, Australia) headed the Australian Broadcasting Commission (which became the "Australian Broadcasting Corporation" in 1983) from 1935 until 1965.

Jon Molvig

Molvig was an accomplished and honest portrait painter - painting fellow artists Charles Blackman, John Rigby, Joy Roggenkamp, Russell Drysdale and Barry Humphries as well as many privately commissioned portraits, i.e., Paul Beadle, Sir Charles Moses, Sir Percy Spender, Clem Jones and Dr. Scougall.



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