Obituaries
The legendary spy who helped seize Nazi Adolf Eichmann, dies at 92
Rafi Eitan faced the Final Solution architect in the execution chamber, where the Nazi said: "Your time will come to follow me". Eitan replied: "Not today, Adolf, not today".
- by Emily Langer
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The 'king of the surf guitar'
Surf sound came from noise of a surging ocean and the energy of the big cats he raised for more than three decades.
Canberra
Vale John Turner, the public servant who helped Canberra run smoothly
A former city manager and Urban Services chief executive, John Turner was involved in so much of Canberra's nuts and bolts.
Glider pilot achieved new heights flying in thunder clouds
Derek Piggott flew vintage and replica aircraft in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Red Baron.
Opinion
A showman and a scholar who lived his passion
From his appointment as Art Gallery of NSW director in 1978, Edmund Capon strode like a giant across Sydney cultural and social landscapes.
- by Valerie Lawson
In Passing
Robert Braithwaite, founder of luxury motor yacht builder Sunseeker; and Edward Simpson, a mathematician who led codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
Doug Wendt:, soccer player who put boys club before South Africa tour
His fortune-telling aunt, who read tea leaves in cups, predicted he would play soccer for Australia one day.
Daughter of Hitler's deputy feted as Shirley Temple of Third Reich
She also retained fond memories of “Uncle” Adolf, who always had liquorice stashed away for her in a desk drawer.
Author broke ground with pornography and gay literature
Freeman novels often feature undercurrents of romance and mystery, with protagonists who are outcasts by virtue of their religion, class or sexuality.