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      Council’s Annual Reports                      Onetime high profile Noosans include tennis          Holden and lectured in thermodynamics and
                                                    great Thomas Muster who lorded it in our             social psychology at Swinburne College of
      are now web-friendly,
                                                    hinterland with bride Jo Beth Taylor for a few       Technology before pursuing a full-time
although hard copy versions are
                                                    years   before    opting    for     Europe   and     writing career.
available on request. The latest                    bachelorhood.
                                                                                                         In 1971 he became the first person outside
report and its images of local                      Fellow famous tennis star Pat Rafter was for         Britain to receive the prestigious George

birdlife (2001-2002 edition)                        some time a favourite local celebrity. Australian    Devine    Award      (for The                 Removalists).
                                                    of the Year in 2002, Rafter was schooled in          Subsequently, among numerous other awards,
and flora (forthcoming 2002-
                                                    Eumundi, won the US Open in 1998 and was             his work has been recognised with the 1973
2003 edition) is accessible on                      a finalist at Wimbledon in the Year 2000. His        London Evening Standard Award for Most

www.noosa.qld.gov.au                                Cherish the Children Foundation takes up the         Promising New Playwright of the Year, the
                                                    cause of emotionally, mentally and physically        Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award (11
/annualreport
                                                    challenged children. Sad to say he has decided       times) and the Australian Film Institute's
                                                    to make Sydney home base for himself and his         Award for Best Screenplay (four times). In
                                                    burgeoning family - we can only hope that in         1998 the National Trust named him as one of
                                                    time he changes his mind.                            Australia's 100 Living National Treasures.

                                                                               Famous and prolific       David Williamson holds honorary doctorates
                                                                               writer         David      from the University of Sydney (1988), Monash
                                                                               Williamson and his        University (1990) and Swinburne University
                                                                               wife Kristin settled in   (1998) and was a member of the newly-formed
                                                                               Noosa in the late         Australia Council for the Arts from 1972 to
                                                                               1990s.     Williamson     1975. He visited Aarhus University in
                                                                               is Australia's best-      Denmark as associate professor of drama in
                                                    known and most widely performed playwright.          1978. During 1978-79 he was a member of
                                                    His plays have been translated into many             the Australian Broadcasting Commission and
                                                    languages and performed internationally,             was President of the Australian Writers' Guild
                                                    including major productions in London, Los           from 1979 to 1993.
                                                    Angeles, New York and Washington. (In 2002
                                                                                                         David and Kristin (also a writer) have taken to
                                                    at her own request Madonna starred in a
                                                                                                         Noosa like ducks to water, lending their
                                                    London production of Up for Grabs).
                                                                                                         remarkable talents to community activities and
                                                    The mechanical engineering graduate worked           invaluable support to events such as the annual
                                                    as a design engineer for General Motors              Noosa Long Weekend.


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