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he designed the suburbs which he and his neighbour Doug Lockwood recommended be named after Aboriginal
tribes: Jingili, Alawa, Moil, Wagaman, Nakara, Wanguri, and Tiwi. The later suburbs of Leanyer, Wulagi, Anula,
Malak and Karama also followed the same basic concepts but some included much larger parklands which provide
off-road play areas and pedestrian and cycle networks. The same circuitous road patterns are to be found in
Palmerston.
Elsewhere in the Northern Territory, Harcourt Long was involved in Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant
Creek that, like Darwin, all gained statutory town plans, and as Chief Town Planner he liaised with Nabalco and
BHP in the planning of their respective developments on Gove Peninsula and Groote Eylandt. By 1970 Borroloola,
Pine Creek, Cape Crawford, Larrimah and Timber Creek and a total of 32 missions and government settlements
had all received the attention of the Town Planning Section.
In 1970, Harcourt Long left Darwin to work in Tasmania, Queensland and Melbourne for a private planning
practice, Urban Design and Planning Associates, for whom he held the position of Victorian manager. In 1976,
he joined the City of South Melbourne as its first City Planner until 1984 when he moved to the Victorian State
Government Department of Industry, Technology and Resources, becoming involved in La Trobe and Monash
Universities’ Technology Estates and the Japanese Rural Project at Yea. After three years Long began working on
housing projects in the Lynch’s Bridge area for the Victorian Government Major Projects Unit. Throughout his
career, he held part-time positions lecturing in planning at the University of Melbourne, Perth Technical College
and Darwin Adult Education Centre. He has also been an examiner for the Victorian Architects’ Registration
Board.
Harcourt and Nonie Long were parents to three sons and one daughter. Long retired from government
employment in 1990 and lived in Victoria. He published works on the Darwin region, the Tamar Valley of Tasmania
and its northwest. He was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal
Australian Planning Institute.
Few people have the opportunity or expertise to leave their mark upon the land and upon the daily experience
of future populations to the extent that their work becomes integral to the life of a community. As Chief Town
Planner for the Northern Territory from 1963 to 1970, Harcourt Hilton Long had that opportunity and exercised that
expertise. Notwithstanding the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 his contribution to the Territory’s,
and especially Darwin’s, development is to be found in the lay-out of a number of the northern suburbs; in the
formulation of a unique regional approach to Darwin’s presumed growth; and in the town planning of smaller
communities that had previously grown with little or no planning
K Frey, oral history interview; Department of the Interior annual reports 1961–1970; Lands and Survey Branch Annual reports 1961–1964;
H Long, ‘Greater Darwin Town Planning Scheme’, nd; H Long ‘The Future Development of Cox Peninsula’, nd; Minutes of Evidence of
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works; personal correspondence.
DONAL RAETHEL, Vol 3.
LONG TOMMY: see MIJANU
LOVEDAY, PETER (1925– ), metallurgist, historian and political scientist, was born in South Australia on
28 December 1925. His father Ronald Redvers Loveday had migrated to South Australia from England in 1919.
Peter’s mother, Liza Mills, was the youngest of nine children of William and Lizzie Mills. Both of her parents
came from English families who had migrated to South Australia during the nineteenth century. Ronald and
Liza Loveday had in all seven children of whom Peter was the eldest.
In 1928, Ronald Loveday received a grant of land on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia under the ill-fated
Soldier Settler Scheme. Later in the same year Ronald and Liza and their two small children, Peter and Penelope,
moved on to the property and began the arduous task of clearing the mallee. The period the family spent on
the farm was particularly difficult; the hardship of clearing, and of growing wheat crops in marginal country
was compounded by years of drought. As other small landholders had done, the Lovedays tried mixed farming,
sheep raising/wheat farming, but ultimately they were unable to overcome the combined difficulties of insufficient
capital, poor seasons and lack of support from the government. In February 1936, the family left the farm and
shifted to a property near Port Lincoln.
One of the family’s main considerations was the need to educate their children. Peter attended a local primary
school and, after the family moved to Whyalla, boarded in Port Lincoln in order to complete his secondary education
at the Port Lincoln High School. His first stage of post-secondary education was undertaken at Sydney Technical
College where he graduated with a Diploma of Metallurgy. In 1952, Peter commenced undergraduate study at
the University of Sydney. He graduated Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1956 and was awarded two University
medals, one for History, the other for Philosophy. The next year he commenced his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
candidature, also at University of Sydney and in 1962 was awarded his degree for the thesis: ‘The Development
of Parliamentary Government in New South Wales 1856–1870’. Part of his PhD research was completed under
a Research Fellowship awarded by General Motors Holden for the years 1957 and 1958. Other academic awards
followed: Australian American Education Foundation Scholarship 1964; Simon Fellowship, Manchester University,
1965.
Peter married his first wife Ruth in 1952, and there were two children from the marriage, a daughter and a son.
The marriage was dissolved in 1986. In 1988, Peter married Baiba Berzins.
Following his early academic successes Peter was employed between 1959 and 1967 at the Universities of
Sydney and Adelaide, and from 1968 to 1981 as Senior Fellow in Political Science, Research School of Social
Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University (ANU). When he was appointed as Field Director and Executive