283:. In June 2010 he was elected as Chairman of the St. George and Sutherland Division of Legacy NSW. He completed two years as chairman in June 2012 and was a member of the Legacy N.S.W. Education Committee. Bursill resigned from Legacy in July 2013 due to ill health. He is a board member for the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries trust and was a board member for the NSW Mental Health Association, but resigned from that board, again due to ill health. He was appointed a member of the
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Sutherland Shire. He has served on Sutherland Shire Council's Heritage Committee since early 2000. He was instrumental in bringing together a catalogue of both archaeological and built-heritage items for the Shire in digital
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Commanders Award for excellence in teaching. In 2008, he was appointed Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. In 2009, he was awarded a Premiers Heritage Volunteer Award and also received a Certificate of Excellence for Teaching from
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Leading Hand (Facsimile Transmission Section) and then to supervisor. At that time he and his wife Barbara Ann Bursill both commenced studies at Armidale university in 1982/83. They both started and completed a Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology (Les) and
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December 2001 and held that position till late in 2004. Remaining on the executive of the society, he changed positions to that of 'Archivist and Research Officer'. In August 2008, Bursill became the founding editor of a new journal of local history, art, and natural history named
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Jackelin Troy and Bursill as 'an important local linguistic resource' which will and give 'added meaning to all who seek environmental engagement from a Dharawal perspective'
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form on CD ROM. For over thirty years, he has been a member of the
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305:"Yura marri ngara yanga marri, barrbanga gurlibuwa" (People become great as they hear and do good things as they learn to copy the proper way of doing things.) Dharawal motto for the Sutherland Shire 'Virtual Museum', 19 July 2009.
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