Obituaries
Last WW2 triple ace pilot downed 16 German planes in dogfights
Dogfights, lasting only a minute or two, were spectacular bursts of marksmanship as well as airmanship.
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‘Ivan the Terrible’: The rise and fall of a notorious Wall Street titan
Ivan Boesky, who rose to fame and fortune before heading to jail, was believed to have been the model for Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko, one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains.
- by Greg Farrell
We’ll remember you: Australian singer Frank Ifield
Ifield’s Confessin’ (That I Love You) kept the Beatles’ Please Please Me out of No.1.
- by Glenn A Baker
AM for services to education and the community
Alan Gregory was known as an outstanding teacher, who was published widely, mainly in economic education books for schools, and Australian history.
- by Lizzie Gregory and Christian Gregory
Australian music icon Frank Ifield dies aged 86
How big was Frank Ifield? At one point the Beatles played as his support act.
- by Glenn A Baker
Events director was creative genius at Mardi Gras, Vivid and Olympics
Jimmy & the Boys was an act so outrageous that Joh Bjelke-Petersen sought to have them banned from Queensland.
- by Glenn A Baker
Historian who put colonial frontier violence on the map dies at 81
Professor Lyndall Ryan was a leading historian who showed that rather than being rare, massacres were a key tool of colonisation in Australia.
- by James Bennett
Main defence witness in trial of Michael and Lindy Chamberlain dies
Scientist Barry Boettcher said tests on the Chamberlains’ car showed the presence of copper dust – not blood.
- by Malcolm Brown
‘Teenage Rage’ producer who unleashed Wild Thing and managed The Kinks
Larry Page was at the controls for a classic rock moment that “was either going to number one or have us laughed out of the business.”
- by Glenn A. Baker
Titanic and Lord of the Rings actor dies at 79
With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, Bernard Hill embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary stoicism.
- by Alex Traub
Journalist was held hostage in Lebanon for nearly seven years
Anderson had just dropped his tennis partner when men armed with pistols yanked open his car door and shoved him into a Mercedes-Benz.