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- Q17198806 description "Australian activist".
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- Q17198806 abstract "Christine Elizabeth Townend (born 1944) is an Australian animal rights activist, artist and author.Born in Melbourne, Townend grew up in Sydney's lower North Shore. Townend had her first novel published by Macmillan in 1974. It was described as a precursor to Australian feminist literature and has recently been republished on-line by Macmillan Memento. In 1975 Townend journeyed to India, returning with a commitment to animal rights. She founded Animal Liberation in 1976, having been influenced by Peter Singer's eponymous book; she and Singer co-founded Animals Australia (as the Australian Federation of Animal Societies) in 1980. She joined the Australian Democrats, running for election under their banner four times before joining Milo Dunphy on an "Environment Group" ticket in 1988. In 1990 she moved to India to run an animal shelter in Jaipur, which she managed until 2007. Whilst living at the shelter in Jaipur, she founded two other animal shelters in Kalimpong and Darjeeling. She has published non-fiction, including In Defence of Living Things (1979), A Voice for the Animals (1981) and Pulling the Wool: A New Look at the Australian Wool Industry (1986), and fiction, from her first book, The Beginning of Everything and the End of Everything Else (1974), to more recent explorations of Indian spirituality such as The Hidden Master (2002) and The Teaching of Vimala Thakar (2010). In 2007 her biography Christine’s Ark, written by journalist John Little was published by Macmillan. Moti, An Indian Elephant was published in India in 2014. Townend holds a Doctorate in poetry from the University of Sydney. Her poetry collection, Walking with Elephants was published by Island Press in July 2015.Townend is also an artist. She has held five solo art exhibitions. She has used her art as a means of drawing attention to the needs and interests of animals.She founded Working for Animals Inc, an Australian NGO with the purpose of raising funds for animal shelters in India.".
- Q17198806 birthDate "1944".
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- Q17198806 birthDate "1944-07-20".
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- Q17198806 name "Townend, Christine".
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- Q17198806 shortDescription "Australian activist".
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- Q17198806 comment "Christine Elizabeth Townend (born 1944) is an Australian animal rights activist, artist and author.Born in Melbourne, Townend grew up in Sydney's lower North Shore. Townend had her first novel published by Macmillan in 1974. It was described as a precursor to Australian feminist literature and has recently been republished on-line by Macmillan Memento. In 1975 Townend journeyed to India, returning with a commitment to animal rights.".
- Q17198806 label "Christine Townend".
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- Q17198806 givenName "Christine".
- Q17198806 homepage workingforanimals.org.au.
- Q17198806 name "Christine Townend".
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- Q17198806 surname "Townend".