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Walter Liberty Vernon
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- <p>Walter Liberty Vernon is one of Australia’s most important architects, responsible for numerous iconic Sydney buildings.</p><p>As the NSW Government’s head architect between 1890 and 1911, Walter’s diverse designs included the stately Registrar General’s Building, the original David Jones department store, Long Bay Prison and Mitchell Library on Macquarie Street. He also built numerous suburban post offices and fire stations. His works – often displaying his love of yellow sandstone – envisioned and helped shape the look of present-day Sydney.</p>
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- Walter Liberty Vernon (1846–1914) is one of Australia’s most important architects, responsible for some of Sydney’s iconic buildings.
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Duke Kahanamoku
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- Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club, Kooloora Ave, Freshwater NSW 2096
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- <p>Duke Kahanamoku was a champion Hawaiian swimmer and surfer. His dazzling demonstrations of wave-riding techniques at Freshwater and Dee Why Beaches in the Summer of 1914/15 are credited with popularising the sport of surfing in Australia. An Olympic gold medallist swimmer, Duke was invited to Sydney to give swimming demonstrations, then persuaded to add a surfing display. On 24 December 1914, with onlookers lining the Freshwater sands, Duke paddled out into the waves and caused a sensation with a magnificent display of surfing prowess. His exhibition of skill and grace inspired many locals to take up surfing and helped the sport become what it is today.</p>
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- Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968) was a champion Hawaiian swimmer and surfer who helped to popularise surfing in Australia.
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Sarah 'Fanny' Durack and Wilhelmina 'Mina' Wylie
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- <div><p paraid="1628690801" paraeid="{d9fc99c3-e90b-435f-9299-ff97c87b8e47}{218}">The sporting world has long been dominated by rivalries that have captivated audiences and made for history making clashes. However, 100 years before we had Serena vs. Venus, Kobe vs. LeBron or Thorpie vs. Phelps, we had Mina vs. Fanny.</p></div><div><p paraid="716439651" paraeid="{d9fc99c3-e90b-435f-9299-ff97c87b8e47}{252}">Sarah ‘Fanny’ Durack and Wilhelmina 'Mina' Wylie were born in North Sydney just two years apart. Though they had radically different starts to their swimming careers, fate would bring them together and create a story for the ages. The pair overcame many hardships to become the first Australian women Olympic champions and the first women in the world to win Olympic medals in swimming. Their remarkable story highlights the strength and resilience of pioneering female athletes.</p></div>
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- Sepia image of Sarah (Fanny) Durack, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie and British swimmer Jennie Fletcher doing a diving pose together on a dive board in their swimming costumes at a pool
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Brett Whiteley
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- <p>Brett Whiteley is one of Australia’s most celebrated 20th-century artists. He conceived some of his most famous works, including <em>Self portrait in the studio</em>, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1976 and The Sulman Prize for <em>Interior With Time Past</em> at his home and studio in Lavender Bay. In 1977, Brett won the Wynne Prize for T<em>he Jacaranda Tree (on Sydney Harbour)</em> and in 1978, won the Archibald prize for <em>Art, Life and The Other Thing</em>, the Sulman prize for <em>The Yellow Nude</em> and the Wynne prize for <em>Summer at Carcoar</em>.</p><p>Filled with brilliant blocks of colour, his most-loved paintings capture Lavender Bay on Sydney’s harbour in all its moods, white yachts bobbing on its surface.</p><p>Brett’s work is held in the permanent collections of all Australian state galleries including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, and the Brett Whiteley Studio. Brett’s work is also part of the permanent collection at the Tate Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.</p>
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