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'Angry' Anderson
Edmund Barton
Sir Garfield Barwick
Sister Scholastica Carillo
Caroline Chisholm
Sir Ian Clunies-Ross
Edith Cowan
Stanislawa Dabrowski Alfred Deakin
Elizabeth II
Lord Howard Florey
John Flynn
Cathy Freeman
Dame Mary Gilmore
Vida Goldstein
John Gould
Lawrence Hargrave
Archbishop Peter Hollingworth
Fred Hollows
Sir Isaac Isaacs
Stepan Kerkyasharian
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Charles La Trobe
Henry Lawson
Louisa Lawson
Tan Le
Dame Enid Lyons
Lachlan Macquarie
Eve Mahlab
Sir Douglas Mawson
Gladys Moncrieff
Sir Douglas Nicholls
Lowjita (Lois) O'Donoghue
Sir Henry Parkes
'Banjo' Paterson
Mary Seah
Dick Smith
Shirley Smith ('Mum Shirl')
John Tebbutt
Truganini
Robert Tudawali
Steve Vizard
Michael Waldock
Mandaway Yunupingu

Cathy Freeman

Cathy Freeman
(Courtesy National Library of Australia)

Cathy Freeman (1973–)
Cathy Freeman was born in Mackay in Queensland in 1973. She is a very good runner and won a scholarship to boarding school where she was able to have professional coaching.

Freeman is the first Aboriginal sprinter to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games (1994). She also won a silver medal in the 1996 Olympic Games. She is very proud of her Aboriginal background and has carried the Australian and the Aboriginal flags around the track after winning a race. She has often appeared on television to encourage young people to live healthy lifestyles and to do their best.

She was made Young Australian of the Year in 1990 and Australian of the Year in 1998. She is the first person to receive both awards.

This site was developed by Curriculum Corporation for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs under the Discovering Democracy Program. ©1998 Commonwealth of Australia. This URL: http://www.curriculum.edu.au/democracy/teaching/primary/werememb.htm Email: civsite@curriculum.edu.au