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KEN ROSEWALL (MBE, AO)

  Ken Rosewall is a former Australian tennis player who held a number one world ranking for a total of six years. This living legend from Sydney is considered to be one of the top male tennis players of all time.   Despite his phenomenal career, Rosewall...

PAUL MCNAMEE (AM)

  Paul McNamee back in his day, was undoubtedly just as much tennis eye candy as he was a legendary player .   Born and raised in Melbourne, 12 November, 1954, McNamee started playing tennis in 1961 at the tender age of seven years old. Then, after...

EVONNE FAY GOOLAGONG CAWLEY (MBE, AO)

  The name Evonne Fay Goolagong-Cawley is well known in the history of Australian sport and the sport of tennis throughout the world. At the end of the 1960s this young athlete emerged from the small township of Barellan, New South Wales to become one...

PAT CASH

  Patrick “Pat” Hart Cash was born 27 May, 1965 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Cash won a total of 6 titles and reaching a career high singles ranking of World #4 in May 1988, but the rise to fame came at a terrible cost, to...

JOHN NEWCOMBE (MBE, AO)

  As a boy and a natural athlete, Newcombe played, dominated and mastered several sports before choosing Tennis as a career at the age of 10. Born in Sydney, Newcombe said his tennis inspiration came form watching Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad and Frank Sedgman. Newcomb: “There was...

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

Imbruglia’s rise to fame took the music industry and the world by surprise, however it's probably not a surprise to all those who knew her in her early days.     Natalie Jane Imbruglia was born 4 February 1975 in Berkeley Vale, a town situated between Sydney...

NATHANIEL NEWMAN

(Living with Treacher Syndrome) Treacher Syndrome is a very rare cranio-facial condition that effects 1 in 50,000 births in the USA alone and sadly there is no way of knowing if your child is going to have it until the day of birth. This is one...

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

  Christopher Columbus was one of the greatest seamen and navigators of all time. He is called the discoverer of America, even though Indians had lived in both North and South America for thousands of years before Columbus arrived in 1492. Europeans didn’t even know...

THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY - RIP DAVID CASSIDY "COME ON GET HAPPY"   It may seem inconceivable that a widow and her five children could become the nation’s most successful pop act, but it is the storyline that dominated the hit television series “The Partridge Family”. This...

DOUG PARKINSON

  AUSTRALIAN MUSIC LEGEND Article written with the full support of Doug and Suzie Parkinson   Doug Parkinson has enjoyed a 4 decade long and remarkably varied career in the Australian Music Fraternity, Stage, Musical Theatre, Acting and Advertising. He is regarded as one of Australia’s finest veteran...