Obituaries
The queen who dazzled Australia but was divisive at home
The consort to Thailand’s longest-reigning king and mother of a controversial monarch, Sirikit made a strong impression but leaves behind a complicated legacy.
- Michael Ruffles
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My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’
How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody. It’s time to seize control.
- Kate Halfpenny
Jane Goodall had ‘old friends’ in Sydney, but rebuked Australian conservation efforts
“Australia is not doing well at all,” said Goodall, who had a close relationship with Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, on one of her many visits.
- Amy Ripley
The Packers, a princess and Elton John: PR dynamo was king of Sydney social scene
Mark Patrick staged some of the biggest social events of the Noughties from James Packer’s first wedding to the Moet marquee at the Birdcage.
- Andrew Hornery
Cricket’s most famous umpire Dickie Bird dies aged 92
Bird, who officiated in 66 Tests and 76 one-day internationals, was a household name in cricket-playing nations.
- Daniel Brettig
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Joyful, original and it has a waterfall: The house that Jack built
This home left its mark on Australian modernism, its architect’s career – and my life.
- Annalisa Capurro
Hollywood legend Robert Redford has died
Robert Redford, who was a quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and a supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, has died aged 89.
‘He went where others weren’t’: War correspondent John Martinkus dies
The Melbourne-born war correspondent made his name reporting on East Timor.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Boxer ‘Aussie Joe’ Bugner, who fought Ali and Frazier, dies aged 75
Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Bugner was born in Hungary and made his name in Britain. But he only felt accepted in Australia, living more than half his life on the Gold Coast and fighting under the name “Aussie Joe”.
- Glenn Moore
Elton, Jagger, Sinatra: raconteur’s luxury shop was the destination for the stars
One of the first to stock designer European labels, Tony Yeldham’s Double Bay menswear store became the sartorial and social hot spot for the “it” crowd.
- Andrew Hornery