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Name	John Mayo Farquharson
Born	7 September, 1929 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Died	29 June, 2016 (aged 86) Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	stroke
Education *	Wollongong Public School (NSW) (student, 1935-1941) King's School (Parramatta, Sydney) (student, 1942-1947)
Occupation or Descriptor *	journalist (1950-1953) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1953-1988) Australian Capital Territory, Australia political journalist (1953-1988) Australian Capital Territory, Australia journalist (1965-1966) Papua New Guinea, Australia
Key Events *	Women and Politics Conference (1975) (sit-in)
Key Organisations *	Canberra & District Historical Society (president) Moral Re-Armament (member) Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU) (author, 1996-2008)
Workplaces *	Australian United Press (journalist, 1951-1965) South Pacific Post (newspaper) (editor, 1965-1966) Canberra Times (journalist, 1966-1988)

* Dates are approximate

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