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Name	Ian Templeman
Born	10 October, 1938 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Died	3 November, 2015 (aged 77) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Education *	University of Western Australia (student)
Occupation or Descriptor *	poet (1970-1990) Western Australia, Australia arts administrator (1973-1990) Australian Capital Territory, Australia arts administrator (1990-2006) Australian Capital Territory, Australia book publisher (1990-2010) Australian Capital Territory, Australia poet (1990-2015) Australian Capital Territory, Australia landscape designer (2006-2010) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Member of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1989)
Key Organisations *	National Library of Australia (council member) Public Lending Right Committee (member) Western Australian Literary Fund (member) ACT Cultural Council (chair, 2002) Australian Academy of the Humanities (honorary fellow, 2004-2015)
Workplaces *	Molongolo Press (owner) Pandanus (publisher) Fremantle Arts Centre (WA) (director, 1973-1990) National Library of Australia (assistant director general, 1990-1998) Australian National University (Research School of Pacific Studies) (publisher, 1999-2006)

* Dates are approximate

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