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City stamp king, 94, worked to the last day
Lawrence Money 6:17 PM Melbourne city stamp dealer Max Stern loved his work. Hi 68-year stint behind the counter finally ended last month.
Perfect for the role but never too keen
Actor Tommy Kelly, who has died aged 90, was never especially keen on Hollywood.
Engineer's bridge of life spanned many lands
Keith Adams Jan van der Molen helped build more than 1000 bridges in Indonesia, but several sappers, including Dick, chose to be demobilised there in 1950 before he migrated to Australia.
Schools' powerhouse head fondly remembered
It is probably rare for any 93-year-old to be commemorated at a "family and friends" funeral for 250 people, just to start with, but the Rev Stan Kurrle was also remembered at a chapel service at Caulfield Grammar, where he had been headmaster, and a service for nearly 1000 old boys at The King's School, Parramatta, where he had also been headmaster.
Reality TV star loved 'any excuse for a party'
Angela Raiola was the formidable but lovable reality television star known as "Big Ang". She attracted a cult following on the series "Mob Wives", which started in 2012.
City bank chief was a country boy at heart
Charles Sitch Jack was born in Herbertson on the Atherton Tablelands. He rose to be one of the highest-ranking executives at the National Australia Bank. He was later appointed Director and Chairman of the Rural Finance Bank of Victoria.
When the poetry 'voice from outside' came indoors
Judith Rodriguez, Helen Nickas In 1983 a handsome bilingual poetry book won the Australia Book Council Award for best book of the year. Tsaloumas' path to this award was long and anguished.
Gifted, generous – but look out for the Silver Bullet
Elaine Barry, Grace McAllister Gifted, generous – but look out for the Silver Bullet
In Passing
Douglas Slocombe, one of the finest cinematographers of the 20th century, whose work became indelibly associated with Ealing Studios' celebrated post-war comedies, died aged 103.
ABC maestro Noel Cantrill's talent for always doing his best was just the way things were
NOEL CANTRILL 1941–2016
Newspaper chief turned cancer into a rescue mission
A diagnosis of prostate cancer at age 53 did nothing to slow down Shepparton media chief Chris McPherson.
Literary superstar's work divided
Umberto Eco became Italy's "best known literary export" when his medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose (1980) became a surprise international bestseller; he so boosted his country's literary reputation that publishers described his influence on sales as "l'effetto Eco".
In a house of women, wine and song, 'The Expert' lived a very good life
Felicity Lewis No one was quite sure when Ian's appreciation of life's finer things started. Perhaps it was during 20 years' globetrotting as a sales manager with Qantas.
Harper Lee never expected success
Harper Lee's first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American.
Chemist played a quality innings
Helen Botham Ken Sheahan was a kind and gentlemanly man with indefatigable interest in anything that sparked his inquiring mind.
Wife's departure was the start of peer's sad decline
Wife's departure was the start of peer's sad decline
Pioneer who taught Australia about Asia
Tony Milner In the words of a former president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Elaine McKay, John Legge more than any other was the founder of modern Asian studies in Australia.
Pioneering surgeon and cancer crusader much respected by patients
Emeritus Professor Fred Stephens was a man of many extraordinary professional achievements which were perhaps not as widely known or appreciated as they should have been.
In Passing
Peter Wood, the theatre, opera and television director, who was a traditionalist in the best dramatic sense, died aged 90.
End of the line for Great Train Robber
Did Gordon Goody, one of the 15-man gang jailed for Britain's Great Train Robbery, eventually realise the error of his ways? Perhaps not.
Gypsy poet closes the book
Kevin Childs At few funerals could a coffin have represented so much of a person's life as the handmade casket in which 93-year-old Venie Holmgren was buried.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali sparked hopes for peace after the Cold War
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian diplomat who led the United Nations in a chaotic 1990s tenure.
Antonin Scalia, leader of conservative intellectual renaissance in the US Supreme Court
Justice championed originalism, which seeks to apply the understanding of those who drafted and ratified the US constitution.
