Les Murray’s death deprives football in Australia of its most passionate and inspiring voice
Les Murray helped football transform itself from a predominantly migrant activity in Australia into what he loved to call 'the world game'.
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Tribute to a Namibian icon: Andimba Toivo ya Toivo
Andimba (Herman) Toivo Ya Toivo remained loyal to what made him the personification of the desire to live in an independent country governed by, and for, its people.
Ken Campbell: the palaeontologist whose name lives on in many fossils
One of Australia's most distinguished palaeontologists will be farewelled at a funeral in Canberra today.
Vale Mark Colvin: eternal optimist and journalistic force of nature
Friend and colleague Jim Middleton pays tribute to legendary ABC journalist Mark Colvin, who has died aged 65.
Ahmed Kathrada: exhibit A of the values imbued in South Africa’s Freedom Charter
South African struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada believed in non-racialism to his core, even as others around him began to argue for an Africanist approach.
Chuck Berry: one of the only musicians with a genuine claim to be the founder of a genre
Legendary is an overused adjective in popular culture, but Berry’s passing is a salutary reminder of what a giant in the field actually looked like.
How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry has died age 90, rightly remembered as the legend who shaped rock and roll. But his misdeeds can't be ignored in the rush to glorify an icon.
Gerald Kaufman (1930-2017): satire, soundbites and sequins
The House of Commons' longest-serving MP has died, aged 86.
Basil Hetzel: Australian medical pioneer, and my friend
Public health pioneer Basil Hetzel died on February 4 2017. Among other career highlights, he identified the most common cause of preventable brain damage: dietary iodine deficiency.
Obituary: Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, whose invention of the MRI scanner revolutionised medicine
While Peter Mansfield didn’t have the career as a rocket scientist he craved, his contribution to humanity has been immense.
Hans Rosling was an incredibly entertaining presenter of the facts – and he made a huge impact
The world has lost a fantastic statistician at a time when the communication of facts is crucial.
Remembering Shirley Hazzard: ‘art is the only afterlife of which we have evidence’
Shirley Hazzard, who passed away this week, was one of the great prose stylists of the last 50 years. A deeply intellectual autodidact, she championed the public duty of writers and the pleasure of reading.
Goodbye Georgia Blain: a brave and true chronicler of life
The Australian writer Georgia Blain, who died last week, wrote extraordinary portraits of family relationships, in luminous prose, with devastating insight. And when she became ill, she wrote about her cancer.
Remembering Peter Corrigan: a life of movement, energy and integrity
Peter Corrigan, one of Australia's most influential architects, died last week. A man of endless enthusiasm and curiosity, he shaped Melbourne's cityscape and influenced a generation of architects.
Hallelujah: how an ignored Leonard Cohen song became a modern legend
Cohen's label declined to release the album containing Hallelujah, a song that has now inspired over 300 versions.
Dario Fo, controversial playwright and satirist, takes final bow aged 90
Over a lifetime's work, Dario Fo stood tall and would not bow to either artistic or political compromise.
With energy, ideas and cheek to spare, Richard Neville was the boy of OZ
Richard Neville was a man of his times: a smart-alec student in the 60s; a drug-smoking hippie on trial in the 70s; to a family man, writer and public speaker in the 80s and 90s.
Gene Wilder’s genius was in portraying the deluded straight man
His extraordinary talent was most evident as his 'straight guys' became increasingly deranged.
Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
Editing a movie beside the late, great Paul Cox was like attending 'a one on one' film school. The growling auteur was a brilliantly stubborn man, who treated film with reverence and wore his heart on his sleeve.
What made Muhammad Ali ‘The Greatest’ in the ring?
Central to the celebrity Muhammad Ali achieved was his exceptional ability as a boxer.
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