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The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd
Biography
Kevin Gilbert
Biography
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Kevin Weldon AM
Biography
Kevin Weldon (1933-2023), businessman and philanthropist, spent his early years in Ingham in far north Queensland, where his father ran a car dealership.
1 portrait in the collection
Julia Gillard AC
Biography
Julia Gillard AC (b. 1961) was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from June 2010 to June 2013.
1 portrait in the collection
Lee Kernaghan OAM
Biography
Lee Kernaghan (b.1964) is a country music singer and songwriter. Born in Victoria, son of travelling country music artist and impresario Ray Kernaghan, Lee Kernaghan grew up in the Riverina area of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Tingwell AM
Biography
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell AM (1923-2009), actor, became the youngest radio announcer in Australia when he was employed at Sydney radio station 2CH as a cadet.
1 portrait in the collection
Victor Trumper
Biography
Victor Trumper (1877-1915), is one of Australia's all-time great cricket batsmen.
1 portrait in the collection
Percy Lindsay
Biography
Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.
4 portraits in the collection
Alf Vincent
Biography
Alfred Vincent began working for the Bulletin in 1896, taking over from the renowned Phil May, his idol, with whom he was often - inevitably - unfavourably compared.
1 portrait in the collection
Ann Mary Windeyer
Biography
Ann Mary Windeyer (née Rudd, c. 1783–1865) arrived in Sydney in 1828 with her husband Charles Windeyer (1780–1855) and nine of their ten children.
1 portrait in the collection
Marion Halligan
Biography
Marion Halligan AM (1940–2024) is a novelist, short story writer, reviewer and essayist.
1 portrait in the collection
Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser AC CH
Biography
The Rt. Hon John Malcolm Fraser AC CH PC (1930-2015) was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.
5 portraits in the collection
Dillon Kombumerri
Biography
Dillon Kombumerri is a Yugembir man who grew up on Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island).
1 portrait in the collection
Rick Carey
Biography
Rick and Thelma Carey comprise Australian country music's most famous double act, Rick and Thel.
1 portrait in the collection
Maurice Newman AC
Biography
Maurice Newman AC (b. 1938), a career stockbroker, was chairman of ASX from 1994 to 2008, during which period the Australian Securities Exchange was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange (in 2006).
1 portrait in the collection
Chips Rafferty MBE
Biography
Chips Rafferty MBE (1909–1971), screen actor, was born John Goffage in Broken Hill and nicknamed 'Chips' as a boy.
5 portraits in the collection