'There he spent the next two years absorbed in the history, culture and community of the pastoral town and its district. As a first-year primary school teacher, he was transferred to Cunnamulla, in the far West of Queensland. The spark for his writing career was a single unexpected event in November 1976. Moloney considers himself 'a person with a bit of a need to write'. He resigned from teaching in 1998 in order to write full-time. He has taught in a number of Queensland State Schools, and from 1983 to 1998 worked as a teacher-librarian at Brisbane's Marist College, Ashgrove. Moloney completed his primary school teacher training at Mt Gravatt Teachers College (subsequently part of Griffith University), and holds a degree in educational studies, and diplomas in teacher-librarianship and computer education. James Moloney was born in 1954 in Sydney, but grew up and was educated in Brisbane.
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