and a member of the Council of the State Library of New South Wales (2013–2015). Cavalier is an ardent book collector and lover of cricket and his appointment to the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust fulfilled a life's ambition. He was a trustee (1996–2014) and chairman (2001–2014). At the completion of this, record, term the Trust made him a Life Member. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. He is currently the chairman of the C.E.W. Bean Foundation and the Southern Zone of Country Cricket New South Wales. Cavalier has published widely on governors, the workings of cabinet, premiers, political cartoons, the uses of diaries and has also published extensively on the subject of cricket. His research and writings on the childhood and adolescence of Sir Donald Bradman have altered the Bradman historiography. He has also been the editor of the monthly newsletter of the Southern Highlands Branch of the Australian Labor Party. In January 2001 he was presented with the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and the Centenary of Federation". In January 2004, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "service to the community as a contributor to a range of cultural, literary and sporting organisations, to education and training, and to the New South Wales Parliament". In June 2008, he was awarded a Doctor of the University (honoris causa) by the University of Technology, Sydney. He now resides in Bowral, New South Wales with his family. Published works Bronzed: the Basil Sellers SCG sports sculptures project (cloth). Sydney: Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. 2013. p. 240. . "Political cartoons and The Bulletin" in Lin Bloomfield (Ed.),The World of Norman Lindsay (Macmillan 1979), 9. "Labor Prepares for Government" in Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson and Ken Turner (Eds.), The Wran Model: Electoral Politics in New South Wales 1981 and 1984 (Oxford University Press 1985), 20. "The Australian Labor Party at Branch Level: Guildford, Hunters Hill and Panania Branches in the 1950s" in Whitlam et al, A Century of Social Change: Labor History Essays Volume Four (Pluto Press 1992), 92. "An Insider on the Outside: A Personal View Of Why Labor Was Always Going To Lose The 1996 Federal Election" in Clive Bean, Marian Simms, Scott Bennett & John Warhurst (Eds.),The Politics of Retribution: The 1996 Federal Election (Allen & Unwin 1997), 23–33. "Exploring Frontiers" in Mike Coward (Ed.), Sir Donald