About the Author

Brian Daley is a former chef and teacher, who is a member of a large family with links to early settlement in northern New South Wales. Educated in Sydney where he trained in cookery at the Wentworth hotel. He has an interest in history and politics, especially in the period of the ALP split of the 1950’s. Though now living in Far north Queensland he has a special fondness for the towns of his heritage especially Grafton, and the whole northern rivers area.