Obituaries
Ian Siggins: A true Renaissance man
Dr Ian D. K. Siggins was a polymath, distinguished historian, public servant and healthcare advocate. He passed away surrounded by family at his home in Brisbane on November 28th after a brief period of serious illness.
- by Eamon Siggins
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Murray Wilcox: “One of the poets of Australian law”
Wilcox was on the bench that granted an injunction preventing the termination of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Noongar native title case.
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Opinion
George H W Bush: Triumph in Iraq before electoral defeat
Approval ratings that had stood at 90 per cent at the end of the Gulf War were in freefall as the election year got under way.
Cycling mourns death of Paul Sherwen
British road race champion and cycling commentator Paul Sherwen has died at the age of 62.
Bernardo Bertolucci: director’s passion near obsession
Bertolucci was regarded as a master craftsman who devised ravishing palettes as the backdrop for emotional torments.
- by Harrison Smith
Screenwriter William Goldman a towering craftsman of the movies
Butch and a female companion riding a bicycle to the tune of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head became one of the most memorable sequences in 1960s cinema.
Sydney actor who played Frank Pickle in Vicar of Dibley
Bluthal was one of Spike Milligan’s collaborators since they had first met in Australia in the 1950s
Nanoscience advocate broadcast first TV in Australia
Hooke followed in the footsteps of his father, Sir Lionel, who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton’s voyage to the Antarctic in 1914 as the wireless operator on the Aurora.
Korean POW Gordon Harvey one our best RAAF pilots
The first Australian captured in the Korean war, Harvey was a prisoner of war for nearly three years - 45 days of it in a two by one-metre hole as punishment for escaping - and a little recognised participant in one of the war's most enduring controversies.