Category: Remarkable Characters

Sal Rees was a groundbreaking Victorian footballer, the first woman to nominate in the men’s AFL draft.

Ruth Hollick was a pioneering Victorian photographer, the first Australian woman to have a solo exhibition in this country.

The real Crocodile Dundee was an outback bushman whose survival skills made him a celebrity, before a tragic fall from grace.

Ethleen Palmer was a pioneering artist and designer, sometimes called ‘Australia’s Hokusai’.

Hurricanes, cyclones and other major storms are given human names to make them easily identifiable. The idea came from Queensland meteorologist Clement Wragge.

Yvonne Audette was a pioneering local artist, one of the first to bring the radical ideas of Abstract Expressionism to Australia.

Lina Bryans was a successful female artist and an independent single mother, at a time when both were less common. She also threw a hell of a party.

Annette Kellerman was a champion swimmer, a Hollywood movie star, and a pioneer for healthy living and women’s rights.

From a riverbank in Mildura, to the world’s most prestigious art galleries: this is the story of artist Trevor ‘Turbo’ Brown.

Henry Fielding is a literary legend; the 18th century author of the classic ‘Tom Jones’. In 1754, he witnessed a kitten go overboard.