Keith Dunstan

Keith Dunstan OAM was a much-loved Melbourne journalist and book author. For 30 years from 1958, his daily column 'A Place in the Sun' was an institution in the Sun News-Pictorial . He also wrote for The Bulletin under the pseudonym Batman, and for the Courier-Mail and later The Age . Keith Dunstan wrote more than 25 books, including a quartet of books on the Australian character, pioneering works of sport history including The Paddock that Grew , about the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and The...See more

Keith Dunstan OAM was a much-loved Melbourne journalist and book author. For 30 years from 1958, his daily column 'A Place in the Sun' was an institution in the Sun News-Pictorial . He also wrote for The Bulletin under the pseudonym Batman, and for the Courier-Mail and later The Age . Keith Dunstan wrote more than 25 books, including a quartet of books on the Australian character, pioneering works of sport history including The Paddock that Grew , about the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and The Melbourne I Remember . Kiwi was his final work, completed just before he died in 2013. See less