Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (1860-1936), adventurer, writer and newspaper correspondent, left school and started writing short stories in his teens. He worked in a variety of odd jobs (including fossicking, dingo-trapping and managing a boxer) and then on the WA goldfields in the 1890s. Here, he wrote accounts of goldfields life for local newspapers. Hales worked as a war correspondent during the Boer War and later worked as a freelance journalist in London.
Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ronald Walker (23 portraits)
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
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