by Ann McGrath
Mickey was born on New Year’s Day, 1956, in Caulfield, Melbourne to Elizabeth (née Taylor) and Geoffrey Dewar. She majored in classics, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Honours at the University of Melbourne in 1978. She gained a Graduate Diploma of Education from the Darwin Community College (now Charles Darwin University) and a Master of Arts from the University of New England. She was awarded the first Doctorate from Charles Darwin University in 1994, and completed a Masters of Library and Information Management at the University of South Australia in 2015.
