Most driving Australians know the name Fox and the slogan ‘you are passing another Fox’. The fox being referred to is Lindsay Fox, founder of the trucking freight empire. Lindsay borrowed money to buy his first truck and turned that vision into a multi billion dollar business. Lindsay Edward Fox...
Mary was born in Belfast, Ireland, daughter of George Wilson, a civil engineer of Scottish ancestry, No other woman, with the exception of Anna Katharine Green, wrote so much crime fiction in the nineteenth century. Fortune was the first woman to write fiction centred on the detective, her...
Pat Sullivan was an Australian cartoonist, animator and film producer best known for being co-creator of the character Felix the Cat. Felix was created before Mickey Mouse and in the 1920’s was the most famous animated cartoon series in the world. Patrick Sullivan was born in Paddington, New South...
Inventor of Vegemite and Processed Cheese Born in 1893 at Chute, west of Ballarat, Cyril Callister grew up displaying an interest in science and won a scholarship to further his studies at the University of Melbourne. Callister obtained his B.Sc. in 1914, M.Sc. in 1917 and PHD. SC. in 1931. That...
Bernard Thompson is credited in some markets as the founder of the global sun protective textile industry that has estimated annual retail sales value in excess of US $20 million. As a keen surfer who hated wearing sun screens, Bernard looked at alternatives for sun protection and realised that...