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A warrior for thoughtful, social change

Anne Deveson talking about Alzheimer's at home in Clovelly, 2015.

Former Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce: "I remember with a deep fondness listening to you on ABC Radio at home with babies, desperate to keep in touch with the outside world."

In Passing

Leonard of Mayfair at his salon, London, 1981.

Leonard of Mayfair, Keo Woolford, Grant Tinkler

Friend, fixer, best man and pallbearer to Elvis

Elvis Presley's former road manager and friend Joe Esposito, left, shakes hands with Bremerhaven mayor Manfred Richter ...

Joe Esposito, who was Elvis Presley's right-hand man, close friend and road manager for nearly two decades, has died at his home in Calabasas, California aged 78. The cause was complications of dementia, his daughter Cindy Bahr said.

Holocaust survivor revived lost town in photographs

Yaffa Eliach, historian, with her Tower of Faces exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Yaffa Eliach memorialised victims of the Holocaust not by recording their deaths but by remembering their lives in a massive photography collection that became a centrepiece of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.