• Obituary

Jonathan Demme created a body of work that resists easy characterisation.

• Margaret Watters

Surgeon Jim Downie was honoured for his valuable contribution to the Austin Hospital over many years.

• Harry Barber and Alex Skovron

When teacher Connie Barber's children became more independent, she used her spare time to pursue painting and drawing and then started to write poetry, publishing five books of her poems.

Dennis Edwards Jr, Olga Hegedus, Kate O'Beirne

Jones gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, the first in NSW to survive to a juvenile onset diabetic.

Pirsig maintained that 121 publishing houses rejected Zen before William Morrow accepted it. Within months of its release, it had sold 50,000 copies.

Producers on Happy Days began to pressure Erin Moran to watch what she ate and to wear more revealing outfits.

Voluntary advocacy work for veterans, their widows and families earned Ryan an OAM.

Clifton James, Trish Vradenburg, Lady Hambro

• Wendy Owen Antonini

Mary Owen's 'first life' revolved around family, home, mothers' clubs and church. But a job and contact with the union movement led her to become a tireless advocate for women's rights, health care and workplace equality.

Guitarist said of Dylan: "Bobby was telepathic, and when I use that word, I mean it. Between the two of us, the communication was always very strong."

John Southwell - 1930-2017

In 1955, a Chicago milkshake machine salesman was so impressed by a California client's assembly line-style restaurant that he bought the franchising rights and opened his own hamburger stand modelled after it in suburban Des Plaines, Illinois.

• Beverley Kingston

Roe's strong egalitarian principles meant the ADB became freely available on-line as the great research tool to everybody.

• Robin Norling 1939 - 2017

Sign writing was the early beginning to Robin Norling's trajectory.

She had lived in the same small, two-room apartment since 1926, with her collection of watches and her big bed.

• Charlie Murphy 1959 - 2017

Charlie Murphy became best known for a part on Dave Chappelle's acclaimed sketch-comedy series Chappelle's.

Sonographer's desire for the highest quality image led to development of new scanning techniques.

Carme​ Chacón, David Peel, Christopher Morahan

• Andrew Herington

John Stocker, a pre-war child migrant from England who became a professor of English, overcame great adversity in his childhood to achieve success.

• Ian Roberts

A leading light in the folk revival from the 1960s, singer Danny Spooner will be a massive loss to the folk movement in Australia.

Ian Gordon Stewart's boyhood dream to become a foreign correspondent led to a long and storied career as a journalist and author.

Peter Lawler, who became one of the giants of the Australian Public Service, might be said to have started with nothing.

• Appreciation
• Tony Wright

Satirist John Clarke was forever taking himself out of contact and communing with the natural world.

Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was a seasoned Shakespearean stage actor before achieving television stardom as the sadistic police superintendent turned Army colonel Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown.

The biggest names in show business felt that "if they hadn't been insulted by Rickles, they weren't with it".

Darcus Howe, Arthur Bisguier, Jill Martin

After the United States Supreme Court legalised gay marriage in 2015, more than 26 million people on Facebook changed their profile photos to include the flag.

The best a suburban GP could do for a woman 'in trouble' was to find out who was currently the least dangerous abortionist and advise her where to go.