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Sydney : Top 10 Sydney Personalities

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1. Pemulwy

This Eora warrior resisted white settlement until he was caught and beheaded in 1802.
2. John & Elizabeth Macarthur

The resourceful Macarthurs established Australia’s agricultural industry in 1790.
3. William “Billy” Blue

He started a ferry service between Dawes Point and the North Shore.
4. Wentworth, Blaxland & Lawson

Opening up Australia’s interior, these European explorers crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813.
5. Caroline Chisholm

She arrived from Madras in 1838 to establish much-needed services for poor immigrant women.
6. Sir Henry Parkes

A five-time premier of NSW, Parkes was a major proponent of Federation in the late 1890s (see Federation Pavilion).
7. Tilley Devine & Kate Leigh

These madams of crime vied for control of Sydney’s 1920s and 30s “razor gangs”.
8. Lars Halvorsen

This boatbuilder arrived from Norway in 1921 to establish Sydney’s most famous boatbuilding dynasty.
9. Jack Mundey

Secretary of the Builders’ Labourers Federation, Mundey led the Green Bans (see Victoria Street) movement in the 1970s.
10. Ita Buttrose

Indomitable media doyen and former editor-in-chief of the Australian Womens Weekly during the 1970s and 1980s.