Uncommon Australians

About this book

Exploration and development - Government, law and order - Creative Australia - Research, education and the media - Sporting Australia; Geoffrey Blainey - Donald Bradman - Vivian Bullwinkel - Macfarlane Burnet - Stuart Challender - Ben Chifley - Manning Clark - Hector Crawford - John Curtain - William Dargie - William Dobell - Edward (Weary) Dunlop - Herb Elliott - Howard Florey - John Flynn - Dawn Fraser - May Gibbs - Dame Mary Gilmore - Percy Granger - James Hardy - Rolf Harris - Bob Hawke - Robert Helpmann - John Howard - William "Billy" Hughes - Barry Humphries - Eileen Joyce - Thomas Keneally - Charles Kingsford Smith - John Simpson Kirkpatrick - Walter Lindrum - Dame Enid Lyons - Elizabeth Macarthur - Charles Mackerras - Douglas Mawson - Dame Nellie Melba - Robert Menzies - John Monash - Albert Namatjira - Sidney Nolan - Mark Oliphant - Margaret Olley - Hubert Opperman - Frank Packer - Arvi Parbo - Ian Potter - Clifton Pugh - Henry Handel Richardson - Tom Roberts - Helena Rubinstein - Peter Sculthorpe - Athol Shmith - Grace Cossington Smith - John Spooner - Arthur Streeton - Charles Sturt - Dame Joan Sutherland Maggie Tabberer - Abel Tasman - Barry Tuckwell - Charles Ulm - Patrick White - Brett Whiteley - Edward Gough Whitlam - John Williams ; Simpson and his donkey.