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Nettie's last years were clouded by their own ill health and by worry about their daughter Aileen, who suffered a mental breakdown in 1948 and became an alcoholic. Aileen was an established poet in her own right and wrote extensively on the
Spanish Civil War. Nettie died in 1964, universally mourned by Australian writers and readers.
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Australian literature as a subject worthy of serious study and teaching in the academy. Nettie was active in the Goethe Institute in Melbourne. Vance and
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and studied phonetics in
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and human rights. They were also early advocates for the importance of regional environmental awareness and Nettie's book on the
Dandenongs is an important early environmental history. Nettie published
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Victorian Premier's Prizes). In 2018, Nettie was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Melbourne Press Club in recognition of her elegant prose.
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