In a just released book , former Northern Territory Administrator and entertainer , Ted Egan , gives a reappraisal of the controversial , dogged by bad luck Scottish veterinary scientist , Dr John Anderson Gilruth , the first Commonwealth Administrator of the NT , forced to flee Darwin in 1919 after the so called Darwin Rebellion . Gilruth went on to become a founder of the CSIRO. One of Egan's better known songs was about bloody good drinkers in the Territory . He will deliver a talk on Gilruth in Darwin on September 8.
