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Instagram Star / Wendy Lotter
Aunty Wendy Lotter is an esteemed Aboriginal Community Elder. A proud Yuin woman, with strong affiliations with nations throughout NSW, Queensland, the Northern Territory and ACT, Wendy was born in Walgett, in northern NSW, and moved to the Southern Highlands 37 years ago. For more
Instagram Star / R.A. Spratt
Before she became a best-selling author, R.A. Spratt was a stand-up comedian and sketch writer for satirical television comedies such as Good News Week. Not a huge leap, then, to writing her 24 best-selling books for children, lauded and loved the world over for making
Instagram Star / Sue Hearn
Dressage rider and instructor Sue Hearn is unbothered by imagined age constraints. Five years ago, in 2016 aged 60, Sue became one of the most seasoned athletes ever to be selected for the Australian Olympic team. “The thing about dressage is it really doesn’t matter
Instagram Star/Rick Shepherd
Rick Shepherd is head gardener at Retford Park, Bowral, a jewel in the National Trust’s crown, bequeathed by late media mogul James Fairfax. Fairfax, who bought the property in 1964 and lived there until his death January 2017, always believed his beloved home should be
Instagram / Brad McGee
Olympic gold medallist and track world champion Brad McGee is a legend on two wheels. The Southern Highlands track and road cyclist began his competitive career at age 16 in 1993 when won his first junior world title. He later went on to win five
Insta Star / Vanessa Stockard
Artist Vanessa Stockard grew up on NSW’s north coast playing in remnant rainforests, chasing ‘butterflies as big as my hands’ and dreaming of becoming a concert pianist. At 19, when she realised she wasn’t going to make it on the international music stage, Vanessa reverted
Insta Star / John Waters
Actor and musician John Waters arrived in Australia from London in 1968 as a 19 year old with a guitar, a duffle bag and a voice in his head that kept saying, ‘it only costs £10 to go … why don’t you do it for
Insta Star / Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes is the original Working Class Man. The Glaswegian who came to Australia from Scotland as a five-year-old in 1962 smashed into our national conscious with Cold Chisel in the 1970s and has stayed there, beloved, ever since. In 2016, Jimmy, who has more
Instagram Star / Wendy Lotter
Aunty Wendy Lotter is an esteemed Aboriginal Community Elder. A proud Yuin woman, with strong affiliations with nations throughout NSW, Queensland, the Northern Territory and ACT, Wendy was born in Walgett, in northern NSW, and moved to the Southern Highlands 37 years ago. For more
Instagram Star / R.A. Spratt
Before she became a best-selling author, R.A. Spratt was a stand-up comedian and sketch writer for satirical television comedies such as Good News Week. Not a huge leap, then, to writing her 24 best-selling books for children, lauded and loved the world over for making
Instagram Star / Sue Hearn
Dressage rider and instructor Sue Hearn is unbothered by imagined age constraints. Five years ago, in 2016 aged 60, Sue became one of the most seasoned athletes ever to be selected for the Australian Olympic team. “The thing about dressage is it really doesn’t matter
Instagram Star/Rick Shepherd
Rick Shepherd is head gardener at Retford Park, Bowral, a jewel in the National Trust’s crown, bequeathed by late media mogul James Fairfax. Fairfax, who bought the property in 1964 and lived there until his death January 2017, always believed his beloved home should be
Instagram / Brad McGee
Olympic gold medallist and track world champion Brad McGee is a legend on two wheels. The Southern Highlands track and road cyclist began his competitive career at age 16 in 1993 when won his first junior world title. He later went on to win five
Insta Star / Vanessa Stockard
Artist Vanessa Stockard grew up on NSW’s north coast playing in remnant rainforests, chasing ‘butterflies as big as my hands’ and dreaming of becoming a concert pianist. At 19, when she realised she wasn’t going to make it on the international music stage, Vanessa reverted
Insta Star / John Waters
Actor and musician John Waters arrived in Australia from London in 1968 as a 19 year old with a guitar, a duffle bag and a voice in his head that kept saying, ‘it only costs £10 to go … why don’t you do it for
Insta Star / Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes is the original Working Class Man. The Glaswegian who came to Australia from Scotland as a five-year-old in 1962 smashed into our national conscious with Cold Chisel in the 1970s and has stayed there, beloved, ever since. In 2016, Jimmy, who has more