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Feb 15, 20236 min read
Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill (born 4 March 1979) is an Australian swimmer and dual Olympian who won seventy-two international medals,...
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Feb 15, 20233 min read
Blake Cochrane OAM
Blake John Cochrane born on 25th January 1991 in Charleville, Queensland . Cochrane's parents enrolled him in swimming in an effort to...
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Jan 12, 20233 min read
Stephen Comino AM
Stephen Comino was born in Laidley, Queensland in 1928, He was born to greek parents, Arthur and Mary Comino, who operated a cafe in the...
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Jan 12, 20233 min read
Scott Hocknull
Woody Point resident Scott Hocknull is a vertebrate palaeoecologist, passionate science communicator and 3D digitisation and virtual...
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Jan 12, 20234 min read
Bill Goode
Bill Goode raced Stock Cars in the 1950s and soon progressed to the Mighty Midgets. He placed second to Lew Marshall in the first...
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Jan 11, 20233 min read
Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller was born in the United States on the Fourth of July, 1962. His parents brought him to Brisbane in 1969 and sent him to De La...
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Jan 10, 20232 min read
Melissa Gorman
World Champion and Olympian Long Distance swimmer Melissa Gorman was born in Sydney in 1985. Melissa joined the Redcliffe Leagues...
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Jan 6, 20231 min read
Glenn Patching
Glenn Scott Patching (born 12th April 1958) was an Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won the...
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Dec 23, 20226 min read
Brent Tate
Brent Tate (born 3 March 1982) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre or winger in the 2000s...
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Dec 22, 20223 min read
Greg Browning
The youngest player to debut for Australia’s national men’s hockey team, Greg Browning went on to be a key figure for the Kookaburras...
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Dec 16, 20222 min read
Norman Thurecht
Norman Thurecht was born in 1924 in Kilcoy and moved with his family to Redcliffe in 1930. With his father David and brother Douglas,...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
Sir Manuel Richard Hornibrook OBE
The master builder and industrialist was born in 1893 at Enoggera. He was the second of seven children to John and Catherine Hornibrook....
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Nov 11, 20222 min read
Noel Powell OAM
Scarborough’s Noel Powell OAM spent his life following his mother’s advice: ‘you don’t want to live your life and not make a difference’....
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Oct 30, 20228 min read
Harriet Bell history and the 1893 Tornado
Charles Frederick Bell was born on the 28th March 1829 in Middlesex, England. The eldest son of Charles Bell Esq. of 29 Stanley Gardens,...
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Oct 27, 20224 min read
Ma and Pa Beedham
Harold Sleight “Jack” Beedham was born in January 1881 in Hull, Yorkshire, England. (Father was George Beedham (1850-1900) Mother was...
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Oct 23, 20224 min read
Thomas Petrie
Thomas Petrie (1831-1910), explorer, grazier and friend of Aboriginals, was born on 31 January 1831 in Edinburgh, fourth son of Andrew...
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Oct 13, 20224 min read
George Corscadden
George Corscadden was born in 1854 in Londonderry Northern Ireland. He married Kate Browne in Coleraine, Northern Ireland in 1883 and...
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Sep 24, 20223 min read
Thomas Joseph Byrnes.
Thomas Joseph Byrnes, renowned barrister and 12th Premier of Queensland was born in Spring Hill to Patrick and Anna Byrnes, chronically...
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Sep 24, 20223 min read
Trilby Misso
Trilby Misso was born on 8th June 1916 in Kandy, Central Sri Lanka, and married Mayleen Phyllis Enid Remeirs on 17th Dec 1939 in...
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Sep 23, 20222 min read
Nikki Osborne
Nikki Osborne was born in Redcliffe in 1981 and went to school at Grace Lutheran College. She is a comedian, actress, television...
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