Lois Lane generally ended up tied to railway tracks, trapped in a cave or, as Neill put it "bound, gagged and waiting for the bomb to go off"

Stefania Siedlecky identified poor access of Aboriginal women to the health system.

John Farquharson covered stories from the defection of Russian spy Vladimir Petrov to sacking of the Whitlam government.

Sinister movie The Wicker Man inspired a cult following

Caroline Aherne, five time Bafta winner was sick of being famous

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work "Night" is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature, has died, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said. He was 87.

Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter, and then all but squandered it two years later with Heaven's Gate, died on Saturday. He was 77.

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One reporter called him "The Man Who Ate Arnott's", referring to the acrimonious corporate takeover of the 1990s. David Johnson, the famed chief executive of Campbell Soup Company, led it. His illustrious corporate career started with an MBA from the University of Chicago.

American soprano Phyllis Curtin was a champion of contemporary music.

Scotty Moore, the man who practically invented the vocabulary of the rock guitar for generations to come, has died aged 84.

Alvin Toffler, an author whose visions of accelerating social change guided Chinese leaders, American politicians and business moguls through the best-selling books "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave", died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Squadron Leader Keith Lawrence, who has died aged 96, was the last surviving New Zealand-born Battle of Britain fighter pilot; he later flew in the fierce air battles of the Battle of Malta.

A self-taught pianist who went on to be a remarkable teacher.

Willis Pyle learned his craft by studying drawing at Disney's art school on the studio lot at night.

John Martin, a television newsroom editor, clocked up a record of more than 1000 trips with Qantas which, the airline says, "will stand the test of time".

Edoardo Caporale went to work on the hydroelectric schemes in Tasmania when he came to Australia.

Rene Rossey was among the French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day.

Desmond Heeley's costumes dressed the likes of Laurence Olivier and Margot Fonteyn.

Thomas Perkins nurtured Silicon Valley's venture capital industry, fostering the growth of Google and Amazon.

When Paul Cox was moved from hospital into palliative care, we prepared ourselves for tough news.

Leppard by name, leopard by nature. The hermit tattooed almost his entire body in spots to look like a big cat.

British engineer was inspired by the romance of steam as a child and devoted his life to improving steam engines.

Max Woods was a lifelong environmentalist, a passionate advocate in soil conservation and sustainable use of energy in agriculture.

David Thatcher was played by actor Robert Walker in a movie based on the Japan raid and crash-landing called Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Chips Moman, a producer and songwriter, helped define the Memphis sound in the 1960s.

Double J showed its colours notoriously playing a song banned by commercial radio, Skyhooks' 'You just like me 'cos I'm good in bed'

James Nicholson was the last of the old-school crime reporters and at the height of his Fleet Street fame became celebrated – on account of his black cape – as the "Prince of Darkness".

Jeannie Ross Fraser was a nurse, philanthropist, historian, author, promoter of wool and committed to the Glen Innes community.

Agricultural leader who reformed both grain and wool industry