Pioneer of industrial design enjoyed sharing his knowledge with students
Carl Nielsen, a pioneering giant in Australian design who has died aged 86, has left an impressive and significant legacy.
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Carl Nielsen, a pioneering giant in Australian design who has died aged 86, has left an impressive and significant legacy.
This is a story about an extraordinary Australian.
Richard Neville was the provocative and witty spokesman for the generation that questioned the assumed wisdom of its elders.
Entertainment with a message was the hallmark of a career in theatre and film over 45 years.
Donald Bruce Macfarlane became CEO of Amcor, a major Australian company, played a role in developing young leaders across all sections of society, was a generous supporter of the community and became an accomplished painter.
Muriel Spark: He always wanted me to say [his paintings] were good but I didn't think they were.
When the Red Army invaded gymnast went into hiding in the forests where she maintained her fitness by lifting bags of coal and swinging from tree branches
Rural cooking facilities resulted in visiting British diplomats eating lemon meringue tainted with kerosene
Joe Sutter, Antony Copley, Harry Fujiwara, Charles "Champagne Charlie" Cantan
Bill was an avid outdoorsman, physician, researcher and family man, and he touched the lives of all those he encountered.
Influential and unorthodox, costume designer Norma Moriceau had the ability to create icons.
Gene Wilder, the actor and director, who has died aged 83, became a favourite with children everywhere when he created the zany title role in the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971).
It falls to few to have their names epitomise a sport: Bradman, Cazaly, Phar Lap have the honour. So did Bernard Farrelly.
Iris Kells, Sonia Rykie, Steven Hill
Suburban apprenticeship led to honoured career in aviation
Ken Spunner, the descendant of a 19th-century limeburner, rose to become head of the Mornington Peninsula's peak planning body and was twice elected president of the Shire of Flinders.
West German president gave good parties and won Medal for Combating Deadly Seriousness.
The eight-year-old girl who beat adults playing Bach
Australia's architectural community has lost a much-loved and highly respected practitioner with the passing of Stephen Ashton at the age of 61. He was exposed to asbestos automotive brake pads in the 1970s and died after a prolonged battle with mesothelioma.
Sir Humphrey advice: "A basic rule of government, minister, is never set up an enquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be."
Dr Bernard Rooney's career embodied the best of general practice.
Donald Henderson the US epidemiologist in charge of the decade-long campaign to eradicate smallpox worldwide; the most significant public health initiative of the 20th century.
George Freedman was a leading light on Sydney's design scene.
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John Collins, was a well-educated man, passionate about lifelong learning for everyone.
"I've been portrayed as this great monster who goes round shooting black men for sport when my whole life I've striven to move away from racist behaviour," he said in an interview. "The problem is I'm a very easy target. I'm a white man, toffee nosed, titled and, on top of that, a white man in Africa... you know these are really bad things."
Arthur Hiller, who received an Oscar nomination for directing the blockbuster romantic tragedy "Love Story" during a career that spanned dozens of popular movies and TV shows as well as several career lows, has died.
Con Reed was a highly regarded physician. He was the only child of the legendary jockey, Roy Reed, who rode Nightmarch to victory beating Phar Lap in the 1929 Melbourne Cup, but it was his association with the AMA that put him on the medical map.
Masha Zeleznikow, who has died aged 89, formed with her husband Avram the dynamic duo that established the iconic Acland Street, St Kilda cafe Scheherazade.
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