Annette Kellerman by Leo Gamble
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Annette Kellerman (1887-1975) contracted polio as a young child in Sydney, but it did not stop her from becoming a world famous long distance swimmer, a vaudeville star in America and Europe, and a megastar of silent movies.
Banjo Paterson - Aussie Notables by Allan Drummond
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Category: Aussie Notables | Series: AUSSIE NOTABLES
Aussie Notables Banjo Patterson
Edith Cowan - Aussie Notables by Allan Drummond
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Category: Aussie Notables | Series: AUSSIE NOTABLES | Reading Level: 17
The first woman elected to any Australian parliament, and the second to any English speaking country. Discover how Edith Cowan overcame a tragic childhood to become a feminist heroine in this engaging and fully illustrated biography, ideal for children aged 10 - 14 years. Follow-up activities linked to ...Show more
Edmund Barton: Our First P.M. by Allan Drummond
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These days, we have trouble making one change to our constitution. Edmund Barton managed to persuade the people of diverse colonies to accept a whole constitution! How did he do that?
Elizabeth Macarthur by Allan Drummond
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It is often said that John Macarthur was the father of the wool industry in Australia. But he spent so much time exiled in England, leaving his good wife in charge, that she surely deserves to be acknowledged as the more important parent who enabled Australia to 'ride on the sheep's back' for so long. ...Show more
Fred Hollows by Allan Drummond
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Thanks to Fred, well over a million people who were blind are able to see. He gave sight to the blind in far away places such as Nepal, Eritrea and Vietnam, but it was his unselfish commitment to the eye health of Australian Aborigines that first made us sit up and take notice. Australian of the Year in ...Show more
George Augustus Robinson by Allan Drummond
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George Augustus Robinson was appointed Protector of Aborigines in Van Diemen's land and in the Port Phillip district in the 1830s and 1840s. He wasn't much of a protector! In truth, no individual could have done much better. There was a war on: a battle over the land, in which the Aboriginal people were ...Show more
Henry Parkes - Aussie Notables by Allan Drummond
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Father of Federation and father of seventeen children. Arrived in Sydney with 53 cents in his pocket, and died with about the same amount.This is the third book in the Aussie Notables Series
John Flynn - Aussie Notables by DRUMMOND ALLAN
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John Flynn OBE (25 November 1880 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.
John Monash - Aussie Notables by Allan Drummond
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First in the Aussie Notables series depicting the history of the people on the Australian money
John Simpson Kirkpatrick by Allan Drummond
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John Simpson, aka John Kirkpatrick, aka the Man with the Donkey, was a hero of the Gallipoli campaign, though he never fired a shot in anger. He was an Englishman, yet he was typical of the young Australians who set out on a great adventure in 1915...and never came back. He was a larrikin, didn't like b ...Show more
Lachlan Macquarie An Excellent Man by Allan Drummond
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Category: Aussie Notables | Reading Level: 17
The Duke of Wellington described Macquarie as "An Excellent Man." He certainly was an excellent governor of New South Wales. He saw beyond a convict colony to a vision of a great city on a great harbour.