Great Australian Aviation Stories

Jim Haynes is the bestselling author of more than 30 books as well as an entertainer, historian, songwriter and verse-writer. His wildly popular books include Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags; Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia; Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts and The Big Book of Australian Yarns among many others. He currently presents three Australian history segments a week on Sydney Radio Station 2GB. Haynes was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2016 'for service to the performing arts as an entertainer, author, broadcaster and historian'. His most recent book is Great Australian Odysseys (2025).

Jillian has written extensively both personally and professionally. Since 2000 she had six articles published in the Curriculum Corporation’s EQ as well as articles in Synergy, The Australian Educational Researcher, Unicorn, Connections, The Practising Administrator, The Australian Library Journal and the Australian College of Educators. She made presentations to, and had papers published as conference proceedings by the Sampoerna Foundation’s Kongres Guru Indonesia, Australian College of Educators, Independent Schools of Queensland, Curriculum Corporation, Canarie (Canada), Communities of Practice (Sheffield), UNESCO-ACEID, the Chinese University of Hong-Kong, and the Australian Library and Information Association. Jillian also co-edited and wrote Great Australian Aviation Stories ABC, Sydney, 2006, with her brother, Jim Haynes. She has an embroidery blog at http://jillian-alwaysstitching.blogspot.com and is researching and documenting her family’s history.

Anna Steen is a Theatre graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Anna has worked with various theatre companies across Australia, working nationally and internationally. Anna works as a regular voice over artist and has performed in a number of radio dramas and poeticas for Radio National. She has both produced and narrated over 20 novels and anthologies for Audio Books.