• Doug Anderson

Her colleagues recall the vitality and the sense of fun that radiated from her office.

An editorial in the Herald proclaimed: "So our scientists are not doing so badly after all!"

• Ron Pretty

Deb Westbury had a gift for friendship and for words.

• Marilyn Lake

Over the next several decades she became an earnest and fierce – but always good-humored – supporter of the many causes she deemed necessary to overthrow the patriarchy.

• Fiona McDonald

Stuart Richard McDonald AM was born in Timmering, near Rochester, Victoria on April 18, 1928 to Angus, a farmer, and Lily. He was the eldest of three brothers. Russ was born in 1929 and Murray in 1940.

• Jack Nicholls and Sophie Cunningham

Peter Nicholls was born in Melbourne in 1939 to parents Alan and Shirley Nicholls. He was followed by sisters Margaret and Helen, and the children grew up embedded in Melbourne's left-wing intellectual scene.

• Kim Carr

Ana understood the struggles faced by migrants to this country, particularly those for whom English was a language that had to be grappled with quite late in life.

Toner could be loud, funny, opinionated and sometimes bombastic.

Steven Bochco, the writer and producer who has died aged 74, was responsible for some of American television's most intelligent and innovative crime dramas, including Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue; he was regarded by many as the most influential figure in modern television drama. He pioneered the idea that crime series could be constructed in the manner of soap operas, with as much focus on the police characters' private lives as on their work, and with storylines that stretched across several episodes rather than being wrapped up neatly in an hour. He favoured a style of documentary realism over glossiness, exploring gritty issues and employing salty language. Although his programmes usually featured large ensemble casts, he was acclaimed for investing his characters with a depth rarely seen in popular television drama. Perhaps his greatest creation was Detective Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue who, brilliantly portrayed by Dennis Franz, won viewers' hearts despite being a drunk and a racist.

Young advocated powerfully for the voices of refugee women, based on her experiences over the years as a trailblazer for women in a number of organisations.

Winnie Mandela - despised and denigrated or loved and revered in equal measure.

Murdoch avoided the media and his old friends, living a nomadic existence in the Outback.

Stéphane Audran, the coolly elegant and craftily enigmatic French actress who drew acclaim for performances in the Oscar-winning films Babette's Feast and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as well as many dramas by her husband, director Claude Chabrol, died on March 27 at 85. Her persona on-screen was that of a glossy, almost mannequin-like sophisticate, a swan-necked beauty with high cheekbones who yearns, cuckolds and destroys with not so much as a Gallic shrug. She was the stylish fire-and-ice muse for a stylised New Wave filmmaker such as Chabrol, who cast her in menacing dramas with overtones of class consciousness begetting sexual violence. She was one of the ill-fated young Parisian salesgirls in Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls, 1960), a rich and moody Saint-Tropez lesbian at the centre of a bisexual ménage à trois in Les Biches (The Does, 1968).Washington Post.

Judith Simons, who has died aged 93, was a rare female pioneer of Fleet Street pop journalism, and one of the inspirations for the title of Paul McCartney's 1968 song Hey Jude; yet in a career of unusual duality, she had also covered the worst of times as a cub reporter at the 1946-48 Hamburg trials of guards and doctors from Ravensbruck concentration camp for women.

Being a concert pianist is a lonely business. We practise alone, we mostly perform alone and even when we are lucky enough to perform with others, the piano -  perhaps because of its size - seems on stage to be alone, separate, as if you're behind an invisible wall. If you're lucky, such as I have been, to have had a wonderful person in your corner, this strange alienation is alleviated somewhat. My person was a lady called Beryl Potter, my mentor and coach for much of my life.

The Five Riding St Leons ranked as one Australia's most popular circus acts in the post-war period.

Gary Lincoff, a self-taught mycologist whose contagious enthusiasm turned him into a pied piper of mushrooms, died on March 16 in Manhattan. He was 75.

St Vincent's team, led by Cooper, made sure people with HIV had the best new treatments

Caroline Chojecki, Barbara Wersba, Robert Grossman

Results of Vatican investigation into Cardinal O'Brien were said to be "hot enough to burn the varnish" off the Pope's desk.

Moya O'Sullivan was a familiar face on our TV screens for more than 50 years. She used to joke that during her long career she had played everybody's mum. Her assessment rang true, but there was a lot more to the popular actor's talent than merely playing mum (and later grandmother). Her remarkable career began in the 1950s and encompassed theatre, TV, film and radio in Australia and Britain.

Gary Burden had a simple description of his work. "How to visualise the music," he said. "That's been my mission."

Driving force behind campaign to block Duffys Forest airport plans

Billy Snow probably re-faced more billboards than anyone else.

Vince Collier, George Downing, Eddy Amoo, Sir Ken Dodd

• Huon Hooke

Wine industry stalwart Ian Laurie Hickinbotham, who has died at the age of 88, is credited with many innovations in Australian winemaking.

From ballet career to guardian for young women at risk

• Les McLaren

Chris Owen was the guiding presence behind many prominent documentaries from Papua New Guinea.

Worried that she might die during cardiac surgery without passing on a secret she had concealed for 50 years, in 1991 Sala Kirschner handed her daughter, Ann, a battered red cardboard box from an outdated children's game.