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Bradley Martin Collis
Bradley Martin Collis (Brad Collis) is an Australian journalist and writer and founding director of the Melbourne-based custom publisher, Coretext Pty Ltd.

Brad Collis is the author of Snowy-The Making of Modern Australia, the history of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme and the impact it had on re-shaping post-War Australia from the 1950s to the early 1970s. First published in 1990 by Hodder and Stoughton, reprinted in 1998, 2000,2002, 2006, 2010 by Tabletop Press. New chapters added for further reprints in 2015, 2017 and 2021 by Coretext Books.

Other books:
The Soul Stone (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), Fields of Discovery - Australia's CSIRO (Allen & Unwin 2002).

Background:

Born in Perth, Western Australia, March 25, 1955. Early school years were in the small township of Pinjarra before his family moved to the historic southern coastal town of Albany. The local newspaper, The Albany Advertiser, was the start of a long journalism career that began on regional and rural newspapers. He spent several years in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra for the Melbourne Age in the mid-to-late 1980s, was Business Editor of The West Australian newspaper in Perth, returning to Melbourne in the mid-1990s as chief-of-staff of the Age, before leaving mainstream media to concentrate on writing and establishing Coretext.

Career highlights include time spent in the former USSR reporting on the initial moves by Mikhail Gorbachev to reform the USSR economy, introduce more economic autonomy to the Republics and, in particular, introduce profit incentives to the agricultural sector to lift food production - all of which became the Gorbachev administration's groundwork for the eventual dissolution of the USSR.

Brad Collis's primary journalism interests have been science and business innovation which led to his commission to write the history of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).