Born in New Zealand, Graeme Dobson came to Australia when he was 17 ‘for the adventure’. After 6 months he found himself in Darwin, then north again on a rusty cargo boat to Singapore and beyond. He’s been a traveller ever since, but Darwin became home.
Graeme graduated with a degree in Applied Science from the Northern Territory University when he was in his forties, followed by an MSc in aquaculture conducted in some of the most isolated locations on the Kimberley coast. He went on to establish a business developing aquaculture in remote Indigenous communities which won him two Prime Minister’s Awards. Graeme was also awarded a Churchill Fellowship to further his studies in Europe, a prestigious Federal Fisheries Scholarship and contracts to develop village based aquaculture in Eastern Indonesia. In 2015 he was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University for his studies in the historic ties between North Australia and the islands of Eastern Indonesia.
He and his wife, Barbara, are now building a house on a hill overlooking Gympie.