Background
Burnet was born in Sydney, the first of three children of Kathleen (née Bradley) and Charles Alfred Burnet.
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Education
He attended Newington College, commencing in 1916, under the headmastership of the Rev Doctor Charles Prescott.
Career
He was a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. In the early 1920s, Burnet was living in Brisbane when he first came into contact with koalas. He was a resident of a boarding-house when he was given his first pair of koalas and he placed them on a tree in the garden.
Fortunately, the tree was of the right species upon which the koalas thrived.
In 1930 he opened the Koala Park Sanctuary to the public. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester visited the park in 1934 and was "intensely interested in the bears".
His photograph, with Burnet and a koala, appeared in the 8 December edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.
