According to historian Geoffrey Blainey "It was perhaps the most generous concession offered by a governor to a major opponent in the history of Australia up to that time. The members of the commission were appointed before Eureka...they were men who were likely to be sympathetic to the diggers."
He was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list of 2000 for his service to academia, research and scholarship.
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Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (born 11 March 1930), is a prominent Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator with a wide international audience.
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poet Octavio Paz, who were awarded gold medals for “excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind”.
Geoffrey Blainey, Leonie Sandercock, Ian Turner and Sean Fagan have all written in support for the theory that the primary influence on the game was rugby football and other other games emanating from English public schools.
According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, "In the following forty years, Christians and Jews were to come together more closely than at perhaps any other time since the half-century after Christ had died.
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He made many portraits of Australian and other celebrities, including Geoffrey Blainey, Judy Cassab, Manning Clark, Arthur Boyd, Dame Joan Sutherland, Yehudi Menuhin and Luciano Pavarotti.
Among the staff Crawford employed and encouraged were Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, Greg Dening, John La Nauze, John Poynter, Margaret Kiddle and Kathleen Fitzpatrick - several of these also studied under Crawford.