The People

Queen Elizabeth II

1926 – 2022

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, who subsequently became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Jack Charles

1943 – 2022

Jack Charles (1943–2022) was a revered Wiradjuri, Boon Warrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta　Elder, activist, actor, musician and artist.

Archie Roach AC

1956 – 2022

Archie Roach AC (1956–2022), singer/songwriter and storyteller, has been described as the voice of the Stolen Generations.

Olivia Newton-John AC DBE

1948 – 2022

Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (1948-2022) came to Australia as a five-year-old with her father, Brin Newton John, who had worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley, and her mother, Irene Born, who was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.

Judith Durham AO

1943 – 2022

The Seekers formed in Melbourne in 1962 when jazz singer Judith Durham met Athol Guy, who was in a folk trio with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger.

Wesley Stacey

1941 – 2023

Wesley Stacey (1941–2023), photographer, was an apprentice silk screener and studied drawing and design at East Sydney Technical College in the early 1960s before working as a graphic designer and photographer in Sydney and London.

Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC

1924 – 2022

Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC (1924-2022), physiologist, was born in Launceston and graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1947.

David Naseby

1937 – 2022

David Naseby (1937–2022) was born in England and studied in the United Kingdom before coming to Australia in 1953.

Nicholas Harding

1956 – 2022

Nicholas Harding (1956–2022) was one of Australia's most highly regarded artists, known for his portraits and drawings, and his light-filled, vigorously painted images of the bush and the coast.

Brian Sherman AM

1943 – 2022

Brian Sherman AM (1943–2022) was a leading philanthropist, company director and animal rights activist.

Richard Woolcott

1927 – 2023

Peter Kingston

1943 – 2022