Excerpt from the film Floating Life (1996).

Tom Uren (1921–2015) was one of the most respected Labor politicians of his generation.

Artist Albert Tucker (1914–1999) was born in Melbourne.

Born into a working class Catholic family in 1915, 'Diamond' Jim McClelland (1915–1999) worked as a lawyer, specialising in industrial relations, after serving in the army during the Second Wo

Victor Smorgon (1913–2009) was born in Heidelberg, Ukraine.

Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014) was born in Launceston, Tasmania. 

Bartholomew Augustine (Bob) Santamaria (1915–1998) was a political activist, ardent anti-Communist, committed an

Bill Roycroft (1915–2011) was a gold medal Olympic equestrian.

In a life of exceptional achievement, Charles Perkins (1936–2000) – soccer star, university graduate, Aboriginal activist and Canberra bureaucrat – w