Alex The Astronaut will one day be called a Bloody Legend. Alex is a gifted story teller, sports women, academic and musician. All achieved in her youth and blazing a trail for others to follow. She is a Bloody Clever Australian. We all may be a little intimidated by the fact that Alex achieved a...
John Michael O’Keefe was born on 19 January 1935 in Sydney New South Wales. Johnny attended Christian Brothers’ College Waverley. During his journey he became an Australian music industry legend and in 1988 his name was included in the Australian Record Industry Association’s hall of...
Midget Farrelly was the ‘first man’ to win the first official surfing world championship at Sydney’s Manly Beach in 1964, and dominated the sport throughout the decade. Midget was a ‘water baby’, craftsman, leader and visionary. He grew up and lived in paradise on the Northern Beaches of...
Most driving Australians know the name Fox and the slogan ‘you are passing another Fox’. The fox being referred to is Lindsay Fox, founder of the trucking freight empire. Lindsay borrowed money to buy his first truck and turned that vision into a multi billion dollar business. Lindsay Edward Fox...
Mary was born in Belfast, Ireland, daughter of George Wilson, a civil engineer of Scottish ancestry, No other woman, with the exception of Anna Katharine Green, wrote so much crime fiction in the nineteenth century. Fortune was the first woman to write fiction centred on the detective, her...