Not Just a Bunnings Man, 9781760803278
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Beyond hardware: a life of business, war, and community impact.
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Not Just a Bunnings Man

The life and times of Tom (G.M.) Bunning

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2026

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Summary

G. M. ‘Tom’ Bunning helped to drive the ascent of Bunnings as one of the great successes of Western Australian private enterprise and a household name nationwide. The youngest son of the company’s founder, and one half of a successful executive partnership with elder brother Charles, Tom joined Bunnings on the eve of the Great Depression and remained with it throughout the long post-war boom, before orchestrating the sale of a stake in the family business to Wesfarmers following the stock mar…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760803278
ISBN-10:1760803278
Author:Joseph Christensen
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWA Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:31 March 2026
Weight:398g
Dimensions:36mm x 234mm x 155mm
About The Author

Joseph Christensen

Joseph Christensen is a Lecturer in History at The University of Western Australia, and was formerly a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. He has published widely in the fields of environmental and maritime history, with a focus on fisheries and marine environmental change, and cyclones and other extreme weather events. He has also contributed to a number of publications in Western Australian history, including the Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia and the centenary history of the University of Western Australia. He is the author of The Game that Counts: Irvine Owen Gaze, Antarctic Adventurer and Airman (2018).

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