A diplomat discovers Trove, and imagines what could be lost after it's gone

Alison Dellit, Aileen Weir and Pi Kliniun from the team behind Trove, with Argentinian ambassador, Maximo Gowland. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

It was a chance conversation with the editor of this newspaper that first set Maximo Gowland on his fact-finding mission.

The Argentinian ambassador, who took up his post in Canberra in December, 2021, was reminiscing about his own father, Rafael Gowland, who had been in the very same post here in the 1980s.