Ann Jones

At the age of three, Ann Jones arrived from Sydney with her parents and her sister to live on a sheep and cattle property in the Gulf of Carpentaria where the family remained for the major part of World War II. It was this experience that inspired her to document a way of life that has long since gone.

Since her first labourious encounters with correspondence lessons at the kitchen table, education and motherhood have been the major focuses of Ann’s life. She became a teacher by default ‘to escape the expected female career of her early teen years, as a shorthand-typist’ and discovered a lifetime vocation. Her interest in speech and language led to her to attain a Fellowship in Speech remediation with the Trinity College of London. She has a Diploma of Primary Teaching, a Bachelor of Education and studied for her Graduate Diploma in Special Education. She tutored in Speech Remediation and lectured in Practical Studies at University level and taught in various roles in Queensland and Papua New Guinea where she and her husband, lived for a number of years.

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