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noirua said:
Hi 2020, Does Governor Arthur Phillip (1738-1812) really count as an Australian? He came to found a Penal Colony and his roots are solidly in Europe.

I've decided to disqualify him. Sorry, but the decision is final, unless of course you think otherwise.
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kennas said:
Ditto. Sorry 20/20, the guy is a Pom. :)

Although, I think my nom was a Pom too. He was in his 20s when he moved to Oz I think.....
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I actually posted :-
Governor Arthur Phillip (1738 - 1814) Our first great Australian ?

Now, lol, if you think I added the question mark because of a question of his being an Australian, you're mistaken ;)

I actually meant it to apply to the word "first" lol.

ok - would you believe, mmm
a) he only went back to England so that there was one less mouth to feed? - philanthropic to the end?

b) he only went back for his health (certainly a factor this one)

c) in those days, Aus didn't even have a McDonald's m8 !! - they were doing it tough! The colony almost starved as the stocks of food reached alarmingly low levels etc.

I guess at least in those days you could drink the creek water :(

Can you imagine the number of decisions he had to make in that first year of Australia's existence !! - sheesh.

What A Giant of a Man! - Even if he was arguably a sort of part time Aus and part time Pom. :2twocents

(PS I call him an Aus - that way an Aus gets the credit for his works;) )
 
2020hindsight said:
I actually posted :-
Governor Arthur Phillip (1738 - 1814) Our first great Australian ?

Now, lol, if you think I added the question mark because of a question of his being an Australian, you're mistaken ;)

I actually meant it to apply to the word "first" lol.

ok - would you believe, mmm
a) he only went back to England so that there was one less mouth to feed? - philanthropic to the end?

b) he only went back for his health (certainly a factor this one)

c) in those days, Aus didn't even have a McDonald's m8 !! - they were doing it tough! The colony almost starved as the stocks of food reached alarmingly low levels etc.

I guess at least in those days you could drink the creek water :(

Can you imagine the number of decisions he had to make in that first year of Australia's existence !! - sheesh.

What A Giant of a Man! - Even if he was arguably a sort of part time Aus and part time Pom. :2twocents

(PS I call him an Aus - that way an Aus gets the credit for his works;) )
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So, do we call Phar Lap a great Australian too? :)
 
kgee said:
If we add phar lap can we put in a few more kiwi's maybe Edmund Hillary?
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We could also maybe take Russell Crowe as an actor, Crowded House as musicians, but leave Richard Wilkons back home....
 
This fella was a great Aussie. The furry one....
 

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Of course,

they can only be Great Australians if they're celebrities or are in the encyclopedia for some reason, typical populist mindset, the rest of us aren't important at all!
 
vishalt said:
Of course,

they can only be Great Australians if they're celebrities or are in the encyclopedia for some reason, typical populist mindset, the rest of us aren't important at all!
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My Mum has been a crossing lady for 30 years. I think she's a great Australian....
 
kgee said:
If we add phar lap can we put in a few more kiwi's maybe Edmund Hillary?
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Hey! You can't have Edmund Hillary! He's a Kiwi through and through and not available for poaching across the Tasman. You're welcome to Russell Crowe though.
 
yeah I get muddled up I'm actually a kiwi who thinks he's an ozzie and I would be but for the feeling I'd fail the test.duh;)
well unless I could get away with naming skippy as a great australian...I might just scrape thru
 
very provocative noi lol....
I'd prefer....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtin
The Australian government had agreed that the Australian Army's I Corps — centred on the 6th and 7th Infantry Divisions — would be transferred from North Africa to the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, in the Netherlands East Indies. In February, following the fall of Singapore and the loss of the 8th Division, Churchill attempted to divert I Corps to reinforce British troops in Burma, without Australian approval. Curtin insisted that it return to Australia, although he agreed that the main body of the 6th Division could garrison Ceylon.

The Japanese threat was underlined on February 19, when Japan bombed Darwin, the first of many air raids on northern Australia.

By the end of 1942, the results of the battles of the Coral Sea, Milne Bay and on the Kokoda Track had averted the perceived threat of invasion. In August, Curtin led Labor to its greatest election victory up until that time.
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or even ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Mack_(politician)
He was successful in what would normally have been a safe Liberal seat, and served as a state MP until 1988, when he retired two days before he was due to qualify for his parliamentary pension entitlements, as a statement against the excesses of public political office
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... After two years of being out of politics, Mack achieved even broader fame by winning the federal seat of North Sydney in 1990....
Mack retired at the 1996 election for the same reasons he had quit state politics eight years previously.
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The greatest australian is one I doubt most people know about.

F.H.(Harry) Riches.

Harry was born in the early 1900s Hardly went to school and worked before he was a teenager. Joined the army and was a prisoner of war, Burma railway. After the war he returned to find his wife gone and his two boys in a foster home. He applied for a farmers settlers block but was refused on the grounds he was not fit enough. He wanted a farm so he got two full time jobs, one at a tyre retreading works during the day and the other cleaning at a hospital at night. With all this he still managed to manage his two boys.
He saved for a small dairy farm and with hard work he expanded and was reasonably successful. His sons turned out OK. When he finally retired he spent most of his time helping others. They don't come any better than that
 
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter He was born in Mount Duneed, near Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874.

He commenced study at the National Gallery Schools in 1882. Streeton was influenced by French Impressionism and the works of Turner. During this time he began his association with fellow artists Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts ”” at Melbourne including at Box Hill and Heidelberg. In 1885 Streeton presented his first exhibition at the Victorian Academy of Art.
 

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