- John Williamson
John Robert Williamson AM (born 1 November 1945 in Quambatook, Victoria) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson was raised in the Mallee district of northwestern Victoria. In 1965, his family moved to Croppa Creek, near Moree, New South Wales, where John began performing at a local restaurant. Throughout his career, John Williamson has released over 32 albums, 10 videos, 5 DVDs, and 2 books of lyrics. - Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (c. January 1855 - 11 November 1880) is Australia's most famous bushranger, and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Born near Melbourne to an Irish convict father, as a young man he clashed with the police. After an incident at his home, police parties went in search of him. After killing three policemen, he and his gang were proclaimed outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, … - Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born September 22, 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England. - Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September , 1961 ), Australian politician , has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998 , representing the Division of Lalor, Victoria . She has been Shadow Minister for Health since July , 2003 . Gillard was born in Barry , Wales . In 1966 , she migrated to Australia with her family, settling in South Australia . - Peter Costello
Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957), Australian politician, has been Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 1994, and Treasurer in the Australian government since 1996, making him the longest serving treasurer in Australian history. - Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian trade union leader turned politician who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at the 1980 elections and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister, … - Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser was Australia's 22nd Prime Minister, leading the nation from November 1975 to March 1983. He was an Oxford graduate and a grazier when he won the Victorian seat of Wannon for the Liberal Party in December 1955. Entering politics aged just 25, he was the youngest member of the 22nd parliament. His first ten years were spent as a backbencher in the Menzies Government but when Robert Holt became prime minister in 1966, Mr Fraser was appointed as Minister for the Army. - Duel
Duel (born 1969) is a Melbourne-born, Australian graffiti artist and break dancer,(John Williams). Starting out painting trains and walls in the 1980s, Duel was one of Australia's earliest accomplished graffiti artists. He featured in the 1994 television Australian documentary, Sprayed Conflict by producer/director Robert Moller which appeared at a number of Australian film festivals and was released on video and later on DVD. - Ken Smith
Kenneth Maurice Smith (born December 30, 1944) is an Australian politician who is currently the member for Bass in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Smith was a plumber before he entered Parliament in 1988, winning the Legislative Council seat of South-Eastern Province for the Liberal Party. During his time in the council, Smith served on the backbench, although after being returned at the 1996 election he served as government Whip. - Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. He had a rapid rise to power, but his first term as Prime Minister was a failure. He spent eight years in opposition, during which he founded the Liberal Party. He was re-elected Prime Minister at the 1949 elections, … - Jenny Macklin
Jennifer Louise Macklin (born 29 December 1953), is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Jagajaga, Victoria. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Macklin grew up in country Victoria. She spent time in Japan as a student before graduating from the University of Melbourne with an honours degree in economics. - Xavier Rudd
Xavier Rudd is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in 1978 and grew up in Torquay, Victoria. He has developed a strong reputation for playing live performances at musical festivals and concerts in Australia and in North America. His following is particularly strong in Australia and in Canada, where he has recorded several albums. - Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams AO (born 26 July, 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator and satirist. - Chris Judd
Christopher Dylan Judd (born 8 September, 1983) is the premiership captain of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. - Kirsten Sweetland
Kirsten Sweetland (born September 24, 1988 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian triathlete. - Peter Carey
Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and after living in Melbourne, London and Sydney, he is now based in New York. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. He wrote advertising copy in the early days of his literary career. He also collaborated on the screenplay of the film "Until the End of the World". - David Johnston
David Johnston (Born. Jan 14, 1941) is a retired Australian television newsreader. Johnston, known as "DJ" to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, read his last bulletin on Seven on September 23, 2005. He and wife Eve retired in a property at Bendigo to enjoy country life and be close to their daughter, her husband and their grandchildren. - Jean Kittson
Jean Kittson is a comedian and actress from Melbourne, Australia. She appeared in such television shows such as The Big Gig and Let The Blood Run Free. - Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian politician and leader of the National Party of Australia in Victoria. Ryan was a lawyer in Sale before he entered the Victorian Legislative Assembly at the 1992 election as the member for Gippsland South. - John McDonald
John James McDonald, Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1914. Born in East Ballarat, Victoria on 21 July 1869, John McDonald was the son of cordial manufacturer Michael McDonald. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in East Melbourne, then spent three years raising stock for his father. In 1895 he emigrated to Western Australia, where he spent the next twelve years as a prospector. - John Cain
John Cain (19 January 1882 - 4 August 1957), Australian politician, was the 33rd Premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party Leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was the only Premier of Victoria whose son also served as Premier. Cain was born in Greendale, near Bacchus Marsh. His father, Patrick Kane, was an Irish-born Catholic who worked as a small farmer and contractor. John was one of eighteen children. - Simon Findlay Crean
Simon Crean is the Minister for Trade and the member for Hotham (Victoria) in the Parliament of Australia. After graduating from Monash University, Mr Crean assumed several trade union leadership positions, including assistant general secretary and general secretary of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia from 1976-1985. In 1985, he was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), having been active in the organisation since 1981. - John Ryan
John Ryan (born February 23, 1944) was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The Victorian combined with Bob Windle, David Dickson and Peter Doak to win silver in the 4x100m medley relay, behind the United States and Germany, the first time this event had been contested at the Olympics. He also made the semifinals of the 100m freestyle. - John Flynn
The Reverend John Flynn (25 November, 1880 - 5 May, 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister and aviator who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance. Born in the gold rush town of Moliagul, about 202 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. His mother died in childbirth when Flynn was three, and he spent part of his childhood growing up with relatives. Flynn moved to Sunshine, now an outer western suburb of Melbourne as a child, … - Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor was one of the leading Australian poets of the 1970s. Although he lacks the public profile of several of his contemporaries, he has since come to be regarded as a major figure in Australian poetry, with a body of work notable for its intelligence and its formal, emotional and geographical diversity. He was Born in Warrnambool, Victoria in 1940. - David Williamson
David Keith Williamson AO (born 19 February, 1942) is one of Australia's most well-known playwrights who has also developed screenplays for film and television. - Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans is former Foreign Minister of Australia and now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group. The I.C.G. is a multinational, non-governmental organization headquartered in Brussels and Washington, D.C. that focuses upon crisis prevention and follow-up. - Theo Theophanous
Theo Charles Theophanous (born: 16 June, 1948) is an Australian politician, currently serving in the Victorian Legislative Council representing Northern Metropolitan Region. Before the reforms to the Legislative Council that introduced proportional representation, Theophanous served from 1988 to 2006 as one of the two members for Jika Jika province and served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council from 1993 until 1999. - Bill Johnston
William Arras Johnston (February 26, 1922 - May 24, 2007) was an Australian cricketer who played in 40 Tests from 1947 to 1955. A left arm pace bowler as well as a left arm orthodox spinner, Johnston was best known as one of the spearheads of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring team which was well known as "The Invincibles". Johnston headed the wicket-taking lists in both Test and first-class matches on the tour, … - Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock <small>AM</small> (26 February, 1945 – 8 September, 2006) otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, … - Jacinta Allan
Jacinta Marie Allen (born: 19 September, 1973) is an Australian politician, currently serving as the member for Bendigo East in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. She represents the Australian Labor Party. Allan was first elected at the 1999 election at the age of 25, making her the youngest ever female parliamentarian in Victoria. Allan entered the ministry after the 2002 election, serving as Minister for Education Services and Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs. - Tom Wills
Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited along with his cousin Henry Colden Harrison as one of the inventors of Australian rules football. - Tony Robinson
Anthony Gerard Peter Robinson (born: 9 May, 1962) is an Australian politician, currently serving as the member for Mitcham in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He represents the Australian Labor Party. Robinson was first elected at the 1998 Mitcham by-election, one of the first signs of discontent that was to see the Kennett thrown out the following year. Since his by-election win, Robinson has successfully defended his traditionally bellwether seat, … - Dan Kelly
Dan Kelly (1861 - 28th June 1880) was the youngest brother of Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly. He was a member of the Kelly Gang and was killed at the siege at Glenrowan. Born in 1861, Dan grew up with his brothers and sisters and their widowed mother near Greta in the state of Victoria. He first came into trouble with the law when aged ten. He and his brother Jim, aged twelve, were arrested by Constable Flood for riding a horse that did not belong to them. - John Barnes
John Barnes, 1868-1938, was an Australian politician for the Labor Party. Born at Hamilton, South Australia, he was educated at a primary school, and subsequently worked as a farm labourer, shearer, miner and general bush worker. In his swag he carried copies of works by Henry George, Robert Blatchford and other writers on economic and social questions and he thus became largely self-educated. He was an early member of the Shearers' Union, … - Alan Brown
Alan John Brown (born 25 January 1946), Australian politician, was an Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Leader of the Opposition from 1989-1991. A local businessman before entering politics, Brown entered the Legislative Assembly at the 1979 election as the Liberal member for the now abolished seat of Westernport easily defeating Doug Jennings who had been expelled from the Liberal Party in 1977. - Petro Georgiou
Petro Georgiou (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 1994, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria. He was born in Kerkyra, Greece, and was educated at Melbourne University. Georgiou was a senior tutor in politics at La Trobe University 1970-73, Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser 1975-79, Secretary of the Ethnic Television Review Panel 1979-80, … - Sophie Mirabella
Sophie Mirabella (née Panopoulos is an Australian federal politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of Indi, Victoria. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak and was previously a solicitor and articled clerk from 1995 to 1997. - Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 - 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called "The King" of Australian television. - John Connolly
John Francis Connolly was an Australian prospector and mine owner. Born in Victoria, he prospected and owned mines in New South Wales. He discovered a platinum field at Fifield before joining the gold rush to Cossack, Western Australia in 1889. He discovered the Nannine gold field the following year, and was rewarded by the Government of Western Australia with £500. Later, he prospected in New Guinea and New Zealand.
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