Great Australians : 20 living legends of the bush
- Bib ID:
- 8049974
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Alexandria, NSW : R.M. Williams Publishing Pty Ltd, [2019]
- 145 pages, 58 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780992288174 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Ideas man : inventing ways to farm better is Ray Harrington's life purpose / story, Jill Griffiths ; photos, Rebecca Mannsell
- Farmers' voice : Fiona Simson manages to rattle a few cages in her advocacy work for fellow farmers / story, photos, Mandy McKeesick
- Old and the new : internationally recognised painter Balang John Mawurndjul belongs to an uninterrupted artistic tradition that is tens of thousands years old / story, photos, David Hancock
- Opal champion : palaeontologist Jenni Brammall leads a team determined to shine an international spotlight on Australia's opalised national treasures / story, photos, Mandy McKeesick
- Boardrider : a gun shearer with an eye for the perfect wave, Steve Woolstun has left a 50-year mark on the South Australian town of Robe / story, Liz Harfull ; photos, Kristal Baker
- Stars in her eyes : Donna Burton : the first Australian to discover to comets is committed to popularising astronomy, especially among country kids / story, Virginia Tappscott ; photos, Josh Smith
- Your captain speaking ... : John Hardy has navigated a long and illustrious career as a proud Territorian / story, Kerry Sharp ; photos, Shane Eecen
- Regional believer : from the corridors of Federal Parliament to rice farms of the Riverina, Kay Hull has spent three decades fighting for the bush / story, photos, Nathan Dyer
- Cut above : world champion woodchopper David Foster is a veteran of his sport and a stalwart of his local community in Tasmania / story, photos, Andrew Bain
- Keeping coutnry : Keelen Mailman is uniquely placed to combine a successful pastoral operation with the preservation of culture and family for her Bidjara people / story, photos, Mandy McKeesick
- Breaking the mould : drawing on a tough childhood and deeply conservative schooling, author and educator John Marsden is passionate about teaching a different way / story, photos, Nathan Dyer
- Rare diamond : like the pink diamonds she trades, Franke Bolten-Boshammer's character was forges under pressure in the east Kimberley / story, photos, Kerry Sharp
- Family spirit : starting out as teenage baggage handlers in their family's bush pub, Andre and Courtney Ellis have gone on to become outback tourism luminaries with their far flung luxury treks / story, Sue Wallace ; photos, Simon Dalinger
- Ladies first : instead of missing absent friends, Michelle Reay of Durham Downs, Qld, has found a way to see them all - and be pampered - once a year, while improving the lives of isolated women / story, photos, Therese Hall
- Just reward : the tide has turned for the troubled Darling River town of Bourke, thanks largely to the persistance of Alistair Ferguson / story, Robert Milliken, photos, Kylie Fisher
- Unstoppable Vida : known as the 'Lady of Mundulla', Vida Maney has contributed across the board to her community, with scant regard for her own disability / story, Gretel Sneath ; photos, Ockert Le Roux
- Hunger fighter : Lou Revelant is 'filling the pantry' for the needy with rescued fruit and vegetables from Australia's largest food bowl / story, photos, Nathan Dyer
- Radiant joy : musician, mentor and country music icon Joy McKean has been a much-loved hit since 1940 / story, phtotos, Ken Eastwood
- Just what the doctor ordered : the 2018 Rural Doctor of the Year, far north Queensland-based Renée Cremen, is a perfect bundle of energy and care / story, photos, Ken Eastwood
- New breed : Lynley Anderson is a sheep-breeding innovator who wants to see more women running their own farms / story, Jill Griffiths ; photos, Rebecca Mannsell.
- Notes:
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- Title from cover.
- Text and colour illustrations on end papers.
- "R.M. Williams outback"--Cover.
- Subject:
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- Harrington, Ray
- Simson, Fiona
- Mawurndjul, John, 1952?-
- Brammall, Jenni
- Woolstun, Steve
- Burton, Donna
- Hardy, John
- Hull, Kay
- Foster, David R
- Mailman, Keelen, 1965-
- Marsden, John, 1950-
- Bolten-Boshammer, Frauke
- Ellis, Andre
- Ellis, Courtney
- Reay, Michelle
- Ferguson, Alistair
- Maney, Vida, 1935-
- Revelant, Lou
- McKean, Joy
- Cremen, Renée
- Anderson, Lynley
- Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography
- Country life -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Biography
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Griffiths, Jill, 1965-, author
- Mannsell, Rebecca, photographer
- McKeesick, Mandy, author, photographer
- Hancock, David, 1954-, author, photographer
- Harfull, Liz, author
- Baker, Kristal, photographer
- Tappscott, Virginia, author
- Smith, Josh, photographer
- Sharp, Kerry, author, photographer
- Eecen, Shane, photographer
- Dyer, Nathan, author, photographer
- Bain, Andrew, 1970-, author, photographer
- Wallace, Sue, author
- Dalinger, Simon, photographer
- Hall, Therese, author, photographer
- Milliken, Robert, author
- Fisher, Kylie, photographer
- Sneath, Gretel, author
- Le Roux, Ockert, photographer
- Eastwood, Ken, author, photographer
- R.M. Williams Pty. Ltd, issuing body
- Also Titled:
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- Great Australians : twenty living legends of the bush
- R.M Williams Outback great Australians
- Terms of Use:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this publication may contain names and images of deceased persons.
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2019
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