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Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser AC CH
Biography
The Rt. Hon John Malcolm Fraser AC CH PC (1930-2015) was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.
5 portraits in the collection
Dawn Fraser AC MBE
Biography
Dawn Fraser AC MBE (b. 1937), swimming champion, had a stranglehold on the women's 100m freestyle from 1956 to 1964.
2 portraits in the collection
Noel Fraser Hickey
Biography
Noel Fraser Hickey (1921–2010) was born in Kensington, in Sydney, New South Wales, a stone's throw from the Royal Randwick Racecourse.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG
Biography
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG QC (1926-1987), politician, was elected as a federal member in 1955.
1 portrait in the collection
Clement Meadmore
Biography
Clement Meadmore (1929-2005), sculptor, was born in Melbourne and studied aeronautical engineering and industrial design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
2 portraits in the collection
Fiona Foley
Biography
Fiona Foley (b.1964), Badtjala artist, activist, curator and writer, grew up on Fraser Island and in nearby Hervey Bay before moving south to study art at the East Sydney Technical College.
2 portraits in the collection
Hon. Gough Whitlam AC QC
Biography
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (1916-2014) was prime minister from the end of 1972 to the end of 1975.
12 portraits in the collection
Hon. Jim Carlton AO
Biography
Hon Jim Carlton AO (1935-2015), a Liberal Party politician, represented the Sydney electorate of Mackeller in the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1994.
1 portrait in the collection
Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL
Biography
The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL (1919-2011), academic, writer and former Governor-General, was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne before serving in the navy in the Second World War.
3 portraits in the collection
Mungo MacCallum
Biography
Mungo MacCallum (1941–2020) was one of Australia's best-known political journalists.
1 portrait in the collection
Clyde Cameron
Biography
Clyde Cameron (1913-2008), Labor politician and historian, worked as a shearer and union organizer before serving as a Member for Hindmarsh between 1949 and 1980.
1 portrait in the collection
Janine Burke
Biography
Janine Burke (b. 1952) art historian, biographer, novelist and curator, graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1974.
1 portrait in the collection
Tilman Ruff AO
Biography
Tilman Ruff AO (b. 1955), infectious diseases and public health physician, was a founder of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
1 portrait in the collection
Evert Ploeg
Biography
Evert Ploeg began his career as a commercial illustrator in the mid-1980s.
7 portraits in the collection
E.O. Hoppé
Biography
Emil Otto Hoppe (1878–1972) is considered one of the most important and influential portrait and documentary photographers of the twentieth century.
2 portraits in the collection
Bryan Westwood
Biography
Bryan Westwood (1930-2000) was a painter and printmaker who twice won the Archibald Prize, for his portrait of artist and critic Elwyn Lynn (1989) and of the then Prime Minister, Paul Keating (1992).
10 portraits in the collection