Christopher John Binks OAM (known as C. J. Binks) is a Tasmanian educator and writer.
Binks was born in 1931[1] and has lived in Tasmania since the 1940s.[2][3]
His teaching posts included The Hutchins School in Hobart, and vice principal at Don College in Devonport.[4]
His interest in Western Tasmania led him to write Explorers of Western Tasmania, a significant history of exploration of the region,[5] Pioneers of the West Coast,[6] and a later work Hills of the West Wind.[7]
He has also written about Bass Strait[8] and Devonport.[9][10][11]
Binks was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for "service to secondary education, and to literature".[12]