Career
Tipping"s works focus on the history of art and colonial Australia, and include Eugene von Guerard"s Australian Landscapes (1975) Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition (1978), Melbourne on the Yarra (1978) and Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia (1988). Tipping was the first woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Letters by examination from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire.