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Bill McAuley

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Sep 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Bill McAuley

    Oarsome Foursome fellas find their stroke (opens the original)

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    Australian rowing legends, finding their rhythm and feeling the swing during a training run on the Yarra in Melbourne. (Photo, circa mid-1990s.) According to Sport Australia Hall of Fame: 'Australia’s most famous rowing team, the "Oarsome Foursome", first raced together in 1990 on Lake Barrington, Tasmania. Little did they know at the time that they would go on to become household names...' Bill McAuley's 40-plus-year news career began in 1969 as a cadet photographer at 'The Age' in Melbourne.

  2. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Bill McAuley

    Tina Yong — Moving and shaping Australian dance culture (opens the original)

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    This photograph of dancer Tina Yong performing with Bharatam Dance Company is a triumph of light and shade. (Photo, 1988.) Yong was a founding member of renowned dancer and choreographer Dr Chandrabhanu OAM's Melbourne-based company, which pioneered the bringing of Indian classical dance to mainstream professional stages in Australia. According to IndianLink, '... Bharatam paved the way for cross-cultural understanding during multicultural Australia’s infancy, achieving a level of commercial and

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Bill McAuley

    Let's 'ear' it for great Australian Graeme Clark (opens the original)

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    To bring the profound gift of hearing to deaf people, Laureate Professor (University of Melbourne) Graeme Clark AC conquered challenges such as scepticism from the scientific community and limited funding. (Photo, circa 2005.) The dedicated Australian ear surgeon and neuroscientist led the team that pioneered: '... one of the world’s greatest biomedical engineering achievements, the multi-channel cochlear implant or bionic ear – the first device to allow severely-to-profoundly deaf people unders

  4. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Bill McAuley

    Peter Moon — a 'very unattractive', pretty funny comedian (opens the original)

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    Posed here as a "derro" in a back lane in South Melbourne, Australian comedian Peter Moon is well-known for playing one of television's seedier characters. (Photo, circa mid-2000s.) Writing and performing in the sketch comedy show Fast Forward, Moon later also wrote and guested on the highly successful Full Frontal. One of Moon's memorable roles was as a "one-eyed" Soviet news presenter who would make suggestive remarks to his unflappable co-host, "Svetta" (played by actress and writer Jane Turn

  5. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Bill McAuley

    Night in pink satin: Natalia Makarova's Giselle still haunts (opens the original)

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    In 1975, I captured prima ballerina Natalia Makarova's ethereal performance in her Melbourne debut of Giselle (Act II) as a guest artist of Ballet Victoria. The pink satin pointe shoes worn by Makarova in this performance are preserved in the Arts Centre Melbourne archives. Mostly, eyes were on the mighty Baryshnikov that night, but Makarova's historic performance was equally haunting. Bill McAuley's 40-plus-year news career began in 1969 as a cadet photographer at 'The Age' in Melbourne.

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