The Author

Edward Moxon. CPN, CGN, CMRN, Cert. Recreation, DNE, DNA, MNA, Bed, Postgrad Dip. Sp. Ed. Registered Nurse, Educator and Author.

Ted has spent 20 years working at Callan Park. His career has encompassed working as a Recreation Officer, experience in ward administration and area supervision, Principal Nurse Educator, Head Teacher in TAFE, Clinical Nurse Specialist, teacher of emotionally disturbed children, Lecturer at Avondale University, teacher and consultant to the Education Department and community mental health nurse.

For most of his life, he was a voluntary youth worker with the Boy’s Brigade, Pathfinders, and the Aboriginal community in Redfern.

Professionally he has been: President of the Hospital Branch of the NSWNA, Crown delegate NSWNA, Member of the Crown Employees Appeal Tribunal (GREAT), Member of the Chairman’s Consultative Committee, Chair of the Hospital Standards and Patient’s Rights Committees and many others and has written three major research papers.

In 2015, he was a founding member and Director of The Way Community Services Ltd. and listed in the Who’s Who Publication.

His broad experience and intimate knowledge of Callan Park has enabled him to produce this in-depth three-volume history of Callan Park in a sympathetic and sometimes controversial, if not provocative style. The detailed events and reference material in his book will add considerably to Callan Park’s history, the Jewel of the West.