Barrie, ChrisBall, DesmondLee, Sheryn2021-04-199781760460143http://hdl.handle.net/1885/230346I am very pleased to have been asked to provide an introductory note about Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb AM. However, even though I regard Paul as a close friend, I possess nothing like the detailed knowledge of Allan Hawke, who has worked with Paul over many years and shared many triumphs and a few disappointments with him as well. Also, I am not sure what to make of a geographer who, at one time in his early years, may have thought that Australia was "all desert"!application/pdfen-AU© 2016 ANU Press201610.22459/GPSDP.05.2016.022020-11-22