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Son of the West: A tribute to Peter Haffenden
On the day Peter Haffenden died the waters of the Maribyrnong River were rising, the floods peaking, lapping at the doors of Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West.
- Arnold Zable
- Eureka Street
Peter passed at 4.24am, with his partner Kerrie Poliness, and daughter Phoebe, by his side.
That afternoon, as Peter lay in state in the bedroom of his Footscray home, young volunteers shifted documents from the museum for safekeeping in the weatherboard house.
Among them, the negatives of thousands of photos taken by Peter during his long association with the museum.
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