Australia's First University Press

with Alister Danks


Alister Danks is the youngest of David Danks' five children. Alister has worked as a professional engineer, business consultant and logistics manager across Australia and Asia. He completed an MBA at the London Business School to complement his engineering studies at the University of Melbourne. He was previously an editor of Strategic Supply Chain Alignment (Gower, 1998). Alister saw the opportunity to document the story of his father who had always been an inspiration to the family and the wider community. He embarked on a series of interviews in 2002, supported by his sister Jenny and mother, June, which formed a base for the biography Double Helix, Double Joy written by Carolyn Rasmussen. Alister is currently living in Shanghai with Heather and their three daughters.

Books

Related News

Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?  

Extract: Beyond Green by Lesley Head

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

Culture, society and human behaviour have forever been linked to nature. In her thought-provoking book, Lesley Head, geographer and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at…

Letter From the Publisher

Posted on

We started the year by moving tens of thousands of physical books across state lines, swam through oceans of metadata and updated our back-end systems…

Related Events

Dymocks Luncheon with Chris Hammer (NSW)

Fri 27 June at 12:00PM

Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Join Chris Hammer in conversation with ABC's Fran Kelly to discuss the updated edition of The River.

Author Talk: Chris Hammer on The River (SA)

Thu 10 July at 6:30PM

Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road Tusmore, SA 5065

Learn more about author Chris Hammer's prize-winning non-fiction book about the Murray Darling Basin.