Diamond was sent four chunks - looking like sugar lumps, she recalled - in a mayonnaise jar in 1984.

The 11th Duke of Beaufort, Fadwa Suleiman, Christian Millau

• Jenny Rafeld

Susan (Sue) Mair, who contributed in many ways to the life and activities of the Mornington Peninsula, has died aged 82.

• Jim Claven

Gil Easton survived the World War II battles of Tobruk and Alamein, and brought back an archive of photographs which he donated to the people of Victoria.

Tessa Mallos led two overlapping lives, acting and political activism. She was fiercely passionate about both. Drama touched much of what she said and did.

Richard Gordon, who has died aged 95, was one of Britain's most popular novelists in the 1950s and 1960s, creating the light-hearted Doctor books, beginning with Doctor in the House, that spawned several classic film comedies of the era.

• Kate Hedley

During a memorial service in Mandurah, mourners remembered Betty not just for her sporting prowess, but for her humility, her love of God, and her loyal friendship.

Sister Ruth Pfau, who has died aged 87, was a Roman Catholic nun who, after a childhood spent in Nazi Germany, became known as "the Mother Teresa of Pakistan" for her work in combating the spread of leprosy.

Asked if she was offended by a publicity calendar featuring scantily clad golfers, Bridges answered: "I think they look good".

Keating referred to him as "a true prince of the Labor movement".

Blanche Blackwell, Haruo Nakajima, Helen Alexander.

• John Thompson 1939 - 2017

Among his memorable encounters was a morning spent with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their home near Ascot.

Hall was a range taker in the foremast of HMAS Canberra when she was crippled and sunk on 9 August 1942

• Jim Robb

Dr Jean Cannon, who was the first woman in Australia to achieve a Masters degree in dentistry through research, switched to orthodontics in her 50s and believed that she was still reaching her peak into her late 60s.

• Bruce Holloway

Golda Isaac became a foundation member of the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne in 1983, and had a major role in establishing the ethos and direction of the group's early days.

At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Betty Cuthbert was a shy 18-year-old who hardly been away from home.

• Joan Kellett, May 2, 1929 – June 20, 2017
• Chris Gould

Joan Kellett was a respected and influential participant in the life of the Canberra community.

Actor Robert Hardy, who has died aged 91, could claim a fine record of television performances spanning more than 40 years.

Jeanne Moreau, Albert S. Zuidema, Hywel Bennett

Migrants often bring something that changes and enriches the community that takes them in. In the case of Laszlo Ürge, an 11-year-old Hungarian refugee arriving in Australia in 1957, it was a passion for football.

Judith Jones, the editor who discovered Julia Child and advanced a generation of culinary writers that revolutionised cooking and tastes in American homes, and who for a half-century edited John Updike, Anne Tyler, John Hersey and other literary lions, died on Wednesday at her summer home in Walden, Vermont. She was 93.

The Q was the first company to perform at the unfinished Sydney Opera House to 500 workers in hard hats.

Australian tennis champion Mervyn Rose, who won seven grand slam tournament titles in the 1950s and later coached champions including Billie Jean King and Margaret Smith Court, died on Sunday in Coffs Harbour at the age of 87.

Sam Shepard, who has died aged 73, overcame a difficult childhood and poor education to become one of America's leading literary figures – a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, an Oscar-nominated actor, an author, director, poet, musician and long-time partner of actor Jessica Lange.

• Helen Evans, Robert Griew and Dallas Ariotti

Passionate, eccentric, warm-hearted, unpretentious, generous. Mary Scott lived life on her terms.

"I worked with so many monsters: the Daleks first, then the Ice Warriors and the Cybermen – they were horrendous.

• John Quay, David Polmear and Helen Haysom

Graham Miller's love of teaching science made him a natural choice to be the presenter of the first television science series to be broadcast directly from the studio to the classroom.

• Damien Murphy and Bruce Elder

The blind singer-songwriter who took Indigenous music to the world has died after battling health problems for most of his life.

Invited to join Sinatra and the Rat Pack at a casino bar she kept walking and told a friend 'I don't want to deal with drunks'.