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| x Boediono | Feb 25, 1943 |
Boediono (pronounced [budiˈjono] (help·info); born February 25, 1943) is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Boediono received his bachelor's...
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| x Robert Hodge | 1940 |
Bob Hodge is an Australian academic, author, theorist and critic. While best known as a semiotician and critical linguist, his work encompasses a wide, interdisciplinary range of fields including cultural theory, media studies, chaos theory, Marxism...
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| x Sandra Angelia |
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May 11, 1986 | Architect |
Sandra Angelia is Miss Indonesia 2008. She represented East Java. She represented Indonesia in Miss World 2008 in South Africa she was placed in "Talent show" category to compete with the other 18 contestants, the winner of the show was miss...
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| x Robert French |
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Mar 19, 1947 | Judge |
Robert Shenton French (b. 19 March 1947) is Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
Although two other Western Australians, Sir Ronald Wilson and John Toohey, have been High Court judges,...
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| x Sara Macliver |
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Opera singer |
Sara Macliver is an Australian soprano singer, born and raised in Perth, Western Australia.
Sara is one of Australia’s most popular and versatile artists, appearing in operas, concert and recital performances and on numerous recordings. She is...
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| x Neil McNeill | Jun 19, 1921 |
Neil McNeill (19 June 1921 – 8 February 2009) was an Australian politician. Born in Yarloop, Western Australia, he was educated at Scotch College, Perth, and the University of Western Australia, after which he became a farmer. He served in the...
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| x Ron Edwards | Jul 2, 1945 |
Ronald Frederick "Ron" Edwards (born 2 July 1945) is a retired Australian politician. Born in Perth, Western Australia, he was educated at the University of Western Australia and the University of Sydney, after which he became a lecturer in...
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| x David Scott | Headmaster |
David G Scott is an Australian educationalist who has been the Principal of Kingswood College, Melbourne, Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie), Brisbane, and is the immediate past Headmaster of Newington College, Sydney.
Scott taught for 21...
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| x Peter Shack | Jun 20, 1953 |
Peter Donald Shack (born 20 June 1953) is a former Australian politician. Born in Perth, he was educated at Wesley College, Perth and the University of Western Australia before becoming a company director and political advisor. In 1977, he was...
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| x Mel Bungey | Aug 30, 1934 |
Melville Harold "Mel" Bungey (born 30 August 1934) is a retired Australian politician. Born in Gnowangerup, Western Australia, he was educated at Wesley College, Perth and the University of Western Australia before becoming a farmer. Later, he was...
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| x Earl Cash | Jul 15, 1919 |
Earl Douglas Cash (15 July 1919 – 15 February 2002) was an Australian politician. Born in Manitoba in Canada, he migrated to Australia in 1923, where he attended Perth Boys' School and the University of Western Australia. He was a public servant...
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| x R. J. McKay | Biologist |
R. J. McKay is an Australia-born biologist known for his work in exotic and translocated freshwater fish in Australia. McKay is curator of fishes at the Queensland Museum and his work has been quoted extensively. He also contributed a key section on...
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| x Christopher Shanahan |
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Sep 18, 1960 | Barrister |
Christopher Shanahan (born 18 September 1960) is a Senior Counsel barrister in the state of Western Australia. He works primarily in the areas of superior court appeals, equity and administrative law.
He was educated at Aquinas College, Perth,...
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| x Ken Freeman |
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1940 | Professor |
Ken Freeman is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. He was born in Perth, Australia in 1940, studied mathematics...
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| x Harry C.J. Phillips | Feb 2, 1943 | Advocate |
Harry C. J. Phillips (born, Subiaco, 2 February 1943), is a leading civic education advocate and political commentator in Western Australia. He has extensive teaching and lecturing experience in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in...
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| x Margaret Battye |
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Aug 9, 1909 |
Margaret Battye (9 August 1909 – 16 November 1949) was a Western Australian lawyer who became influential in politics, business, and the legal advancement of women. Battye was the first woman to represent a client and begin a legal practice in...
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| x Margaret Feilman | 1921 | Architect |
Margaret Feilman (1921-) was Perth's first female town planner. She has had a highly successful professional career as an architect, town planner and landscape designer. A founding member of the Western Australian Town Planning Institute in 1950,...
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| x Hamdan Mohamad |
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Businessperson |
Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad is one of several Bumiputera businessmen who spearheaded Malaysian companies to overseas nations. He is an Executive Director, President and Chief Executive of Ranhill Berhad. He joined Ranhill Bersekutu Sdn Bhd in 1981 and...
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| x Sue Ellery |
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May 12, 1962 | Politician |
Sue Ellery is a current Australian Labor Party MP serving the role of Minister for Child Protection; Communities; Women's Interests; Seniors and Volunteering in the state of Western Australia. He is the current Member for the South Metropolitan.
She...
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| x Eric John Underwood |
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Sep 7, 1905 | Scientist |
Eric John Underwood AO, CBE (7 September 1905 - 19 August 1980) was an Australian scientist who pioneered research into sheep nutrition and wool production.
Underwood was born in Harlington, Middlesex, England on 7 September 1905, the youngest of...
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| x Julian Grill |
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May 15, 1940 | Politician |
Julian Fletcher Grill (born 15 May 1940, in Sydney) is a former Australian Labor Party MP in the Burke state government as the Member for Eyre.
He was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he graduated with a law degree. He was...
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| x U. Narayan Bhat |
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1934 | Mathematician |
U. Narayan Bhat (born 1934) is an Indian born Mathematician, known for his contributions to queueing theory and reliability theory.
He received a B.A. in mathematics (1953) and B.T. in education (1954) from the University of Madras, an M.A. in...
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| x John Courtney |
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1949 | Diplomat |
Charles John Hodgson Courtney (born 1949) has served as Australia's ambassador to Zimbabwe since November 2007.
Courtney was born in Perth, Western Australia and holds the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia and a...
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| x Peter van Onselen |
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1976 | Associate Professor |
Dr Peter van Onselen (born 1976) is an associate professor in politics and government at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. He writes a weekly column for the Inquirer section of The Weekend Australian and regularly contributes to...
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| x Gordon Freeth | Aug 6, 1914 | Politician |
Sir Gordon Freeth KBE (6 August 1914 – 27 November 2001) was an Australian politician.
Freeth was born in Angaston, South Australia and attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia. He was...
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| x Thomas Meagher | Mar 26, 1902 | Politician |
Sir Thomas William Meagher (26 March 1902–27 June 1979) was a medical practitioner who, starting in 1939, served as Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia.
A native of Menzies, Thomas Meagher attended Christian Brothers College, Perth from 1911 to...
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| x David Fenbury | Mar 24, 1916 | Public Servant |
David Maxwell Fenbury (24 March 1916-14 May 1976) was an Australian public servant.
He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Perth (now Aquinas College) and the University of Western Australia.
On 29 October 1941 Fenbury joined the Australian...
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| x Alannah MacTiernan |
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Jan 10, 1953 | Politician |
Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan (born 10 January 1953 in East Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian politician. She has been an ALP member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since 1996, representing the electorate of Armadale....
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| x Christopher Steytler | Judge |
Christopher David Steytler QC is a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. In addition, he serves as the President of the Court of Appeals Division, having been...
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| x Ralph Townsend |
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Headmaster |
Dr Ralph Douglas Townsend is Headmaster of Winchester College. He was previously Headmaster of Oundle School and before that Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School.
He was educated at Scotch College, Perth, from which he went on to read English at the...
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| x Shaun Tan |
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1974 | Novelist |
Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award winning children's books such as The Red Tree and The Lost Thing.
Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1974 and, after freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley,...
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| x Neville Owen |
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Jul 23, 1947 | Judge |
The Honourable Justice Neville John Owen is a judge to the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
Justice Owen was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1991. In 2005 he was...
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| x Robert Holmes à Court | Jul 27, 1937 | Entrepreneur |
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937, Johannesburg, South Africa – 2 September 1990, Perth, Western Australia) was an entrepreneur who became Australia's first billionaire before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990.
Holmes à...
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| x John A. Hay |
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Sep 21, 1941 | College Administrator |
John A. Hay, AC
Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Queensland, Australia since 1996 to 2007.
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| x Kylie Wheeler |
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Jan 17, 1980 | Athlete |
Kylie Wheeler (born 17 January 1980 in Subiaco) is a retired Australian heptathlete.
Wheeler is a four-times Australia national champion in heptathlon in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Wheeler also won a silver medal in the 2002 Commonwealth Games and...
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| x Zarah Garde-Wilson |
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1978 | Lawyer |
Zarah Garde-Wilson (born 1978) is an Australian solicitor in Victoria who has acted for many persons under investigation by Victoria Police in relation to the Melbourne gangland killings of 1998-2006.
Garde-Wilson is a graduate of the University of...
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| x Richard Alan Fox |
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Jul 1943 | Physician |
Richard Alan Fox (born 1943) is an Australian medical physician. He was the son of Alan Fox, a businessman, and Rosalind Nee Morris.
He attended Aquinas College, Perth, the University of Western Australia and the University of Oxford. From 1970-1974...
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| x Ken Michael |
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1938 | Politician |
Kenneth Comninos Michael, AC (born 1938) is the 30th Governor of Western Australia, succeeding Lieutenant-General John Sanderson.
His vice-regal appointment was announced on 6 June 2005 by the then Premier Geoff Gallop and he was sworn in at...
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| x Kate Burridge |
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Linguist |
Professor Kate Burridge, BA (Hons), PhD (London), FAHA, is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash...
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| x Allan Fels |
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Lawyer |
Professor Allan Fels is an Australian economist, lawyer and public servant. He was most widely known in his role as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from its inception in 1995 until 30 June 2003. Upon his...
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| x Rod Eddington |
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Jan 2, 1950 | Businessperson |
Sir Roderick Ian Eddington (born 2 January 1950, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businessman. He is currently chair of the government body Infrastructure Australia, a director of News Corporation, continuing his long association with that...
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| x Trevor Marshall |
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1948 | Biomedical scientist |
Trevor G. Marshall (b. 1948, Adelaide, South Australia), is a biomedical researcher. Marshall has advanced both a pathogenesis of and treatment for many chronic inflammatory autoimmune diseases and many cancers. According to Marshall,these diseases...
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| x Michael Chaney |
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Businessperson |
Michael Alfred Chaney AO (born in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businessman, and current Chairman of the National Australia Bank Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Gresham Partners Holdings Limited. He is Chancellor of the...
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| x Victor Garland | May 5, 1934 | Politician |
The Hon. Sir Ransley Victor Garland KBE (born 5 May 1934), usually known as Victor Garland or Vic Garland, is an Australian former politician, Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom and director of many UK and US public companies. A...
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| x H. C. Coombs |
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Feb 24, 1906 | Economist |
Herbert Cole Coombs (24 February 1906 – 29 October 1997), referred to in his professional life as Dr. H. C. Coombs but commonly known as "Nugget" Coombs, was an Australian economist and public servant.
Coombs's political and economic views were...
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| x Ameer Ali |
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Economist |
Ameer Ali is the ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils in Australia. In 2006, he was the chairman of the Australian Muslim Community Reference Group, which was an...
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| x Fred Chaney | Oct 28, 1941 | Politician |
Frederick Michael (Fred) Chaney, AO (born 28 October 1941) is a former Western Australian politician who, until April 2007, held the position of deputy chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal and is Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia and...
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| x Mike Fitzpatrick |
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Jan 28, 1953 | Businessperson |
Michael 'Mike' Fitzpatrick is an Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former Australian rules footballer.
He is the current chairman of the Australian Football League having recently succeeded Ron Evans in the position. He has been an...
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| x Barry Hickey |
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Apr 16, 1936 | Archbishop |
Barry James Hickey, OAM (born 16 April 1936 in Leonora, Western Australia) is the current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia.
Hickey was ordained as a priest in Rome by Paolo Cardinal Giobbe on 20...
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| x Tim Minchin |
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Oct 7, 1975 | Actor |
Tim Minchin (born 7 October 1975 in Northampton, UK) is a British born Australian comedian, actor and musician. He is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in three CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has...
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| x Rolf Harris |
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Mar 30, 1930 | Composer |
Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality.
Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, a suburb...
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| x Yeo Cheow Tong |
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1947 | Politician |
Yeo Cheow Tong (Chinese: 姚照东; born 1947) was the former Minister for Transport in Singapore and is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency.
In his early life, Yeo attended the Anglo-Chinese School. He...
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| x Fiona Wood |
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Feb 2, 1958 | Scientist |
Fiona Melanie Wood, AM (born 2 February 1958) is a British born plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service. In addition, Dr Wood is also a...
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| x Richard Court |
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Sep 27, 1947 | Politician |
Richard Fairfax Court AC (born Nedlands, 27 September 1947), was a Western Australian politician, representing the seat of Nedlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1982 to 2001. He served as...
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| x Peter Dowding |
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Oct 6, 1943 | Politician |
Peter McCallum Dowding SC (born 6 October 1943 in Melbourne) was the 24th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 after an internal party dispute.
He was educated at three independent...
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| x Alan Carpenter |
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Jan 4, 1957 | Journalist |
Alan John Carpenter (born 4 January 1957) is a former Australian politician. He was the 28th Premier of Western Australia, serving from from 2006 to 2008. He took office following the resignation of Dr Geoff Gallop. His government was defeated at...
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| x John Toohey |
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Mar 4, 1930 | Judge |
John Leslie Toohey AC, QC (born 1930), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1987 to 1998.
Toohey was born in rural Western Australia on 4 March 1930, to Albert and Sylvia Toohey. He was the eldest child, with two...
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| x Dorothy Hewett |
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May 21, 1923 | Writer |
Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May – 25 August 2002) was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.
Hewett...
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| x Ronald Wilson |
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Aug 23, 1922 | Social activist |
Sir Ronald Darling Wilson, AC, KBE, CMG, QC ( 23 August 1922- 15 July 2005) was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and...
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| x Kenneth Richard Norris |
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Mar 28, 1914 | Entomologist |
Dr. Kenneth Richard (Dick) Norris (28 March 1914 - 14 July 2003) was an eminent Australian entomologist.
He was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. The family moved to Fremantle in 1922, which was to provide the opportunity for Dick and his...
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