Michael Cathcart

Michael Cathcart is an arts broadcaster on ABC Radio National. He is the author of The Water Dreamers (an award-winning history of water in Australia), Starvation in a Land of Plenty (a history of the last weeks of Burke and Wills), and Defending the National Tuckshop (the story of a right-wing secret army formed in Victoria in 1931). He has presented several history documentaries on ABC TV.  Michael and his wife Hannie Rayson curated the community theatre show, Hello, Queenscliffe! (2023). They have recently become residents of the town.