Lyndal Thorburn Australian Native Plants Society Biennial Conference 2026

Lyndal Thorburn

Lyndal has led the Eremophila Study Group since 2015. She is a Life Member of ANPS Canberra Region Inc, having joined it in 1979 when first moving to Canberra for work. Her interest in Eremophila started in 1985 when she bought an Eremophila maculata 'Wendy', a plant which still grows in her Queanbeyan garden. She has a life1me interest in na1ve plants, birds and general ecology, having graduated from Sydney Uni with an Honours degree in ornithology. This didn't provide access to paid employment at the 1me, so her natural history interests con1nued through early involvement with what was then called SGAP, Canberra Ornithologists' Group, Barren Grounds Nature Reserve and many surveys for the then Royal Australian Ornithologists' Union (using pen and paper!). She also held roles on ANPS Canberra's Council for a decade and was Federal Secretary of the then ASGAP in the 1980s. In the last 5 years she has become ac1ve in contribu1ng to both Canberra Nature Mapr and inaturalist and also joins ANPS NSW South East Region field trips with her husband Tom. In the last decade Lyndal and Tom have also discovered the joys of hun1ng Eremophila in the wild, par1cularly in Queensland and western NSW. She is glad that Tom really likes long distance driving.