Obituaries
African National Congress diplomat Eddie Funde made a powerful contribution
On seeing Mandela on the Sydney Opera House steps: "It was a day that triumphantly represented the crowning point of my life’s work with the ANC."
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The Queen wanted avocados, a Queensland farmer delivered thanks to an electric blanket
Sir Reginald Barnewall placed unripe avocados, out of season at the time, under an electric blanket and they were ripe two weeks later.
- by Toby Crockford
Live music
Guitar legend Phil Emmanuel dies suddenly aged 65
Emmanuel died after suffering an asthma attack on Thursday night.
- by Barbara Watt
In Passing
Joan Wile, a former songwriter and actress who in her 70s weaponised the power of grandmotherhood by organising a nine-year-long weekly vigil by fellow venerable protesters against the war in Iraq, has died in Nanuet, New York. She was 86. Wile had written letters and marched against the war, but it was a horrific photograph in Time magazine — of a 12-year-old Iraqi boy who had been burned and lost both arms and whose family had been killed by American bombs — that galvanised her to do even more. "I've got to do something," Ms. Wile later recalled saying to herself. "Suddenly the word 'grandmother' popped into my head. 'Wow,' I thought, 'that's a magic word. It connotes wisdom, love, nurturing, maturity, good common sense. People will take us seriously.'" New York Times
John Carrick: influential Liberal Party figure
Principles, persuasion and the peaceful competition of ideas were vital to John Carrick’s conception of democracy.
Philip Roth: seminal author of comical and simmering discontents
Roth's appeal was not limited to elite critical circles, drawing enthusiastic fans such as Bruce Springsteen.
Pulitzer-winning author Philip Roth dies at 85
Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, has died.
Farmer and wartime pilot attempted aerobatics in Wellington bomber
Perry, preparing to go solo in a Wellington, said: “I thought I'd do a stall turn, and then if that worked ok, I'd do a loop.''
Fenech, Lewis lead tributes for the late Troy Waters
Champion former Australian boxer Troy Waters has lost his long battle with leukaemia.
- by Adrian Warren
Linguist who changed the way languages are taught
Halliday’s ground-breaking work was recognised by the University of Sydney.
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Company behind Sirius building one of first to employ women labourers
Company won contracts with NSW housing Commission constructed Sirius building, the Waterloo and Redfern towers and the Wooloomooloo redevelopment.