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Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand.In 1961 he went to Moorfeilds Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology. In 1960 Fred Hollows came to Australia by plane in 1960 to continue eye surgery.Early in the 1970s Hollows began visiting  New South Wales towns and stations and Aboriginal communities . He became especially concerned with the high number of Aborigines who had eye defects, in particular trachoma which causes blindness if not treated quickly. In 1971 he set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in suburban in Sydney, and was subsequently responsible for the establishment of medical services for Aboriginal throughout Australia. Hollows himself spent three years visiting Aboriginal communities to provide eye care and carry out a survey of eye defects. More than 460 Aboriginal communities were visited, and 62,000 Aboriginals were examined, leading to 27,000 being treated for trachoma and 1000 operations being carried out. Without Fred Hollows there would probably be no Eye Surgery Hospitals today.

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FRED HOLLOWS

 

 

Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He had to travel to England to do this and won a prize as one of the top .
After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called 'trachoma',

 

Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trachoma. This saved many people from becoming blind. He also helped to train doctors for work in Africa and set up a program to cure another common eye disease called 'cataracts'.

His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award, made Australian of the Year, given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him.

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Dr Victor Chang

Victor Chang (Yam Him) was born in Shanghai of Australian-born Chinese parents. He came to Australia in 1953 to complete his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers College, Lewisham. Graduating from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1962, he became an intern and later a registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at St Vincent's Hospital.

Victor Chang was not only an accomplished surgeon,he was also a respected humanitarian and skilled campaigner responsible for the development of  Australia's National Heart Transplant Program.

The Program has performed more than 1200 successful heart, heart-lung, and single lung transplants at St Vincent's hospital since 1984. He was one of Australian best heart surgen.

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Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was a eye doctor for aboriginals.                                                       

Fred Hollows (1929–1993)
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He traveled to England to do this and won a prize as one of the top student.                                                                                                                                                                                                      After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called         trachoma which causes blindness most people in Australia had this.Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trachoma. This saved many people from becoming blind.

                                                                                                                                                                       His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award. Given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him.

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William Hudson

William Hudson was born in New Zealand.He was born on August 4, 1841 in New Zealand and died in October 15, 1862. He came over in 1948 by boat.  It was very hard to get on a boat to Australia in 1841 because australia was not letting people into the country. Some people tried to swim to Australia but they were never seen again.

He became a cival engineer.His disappointed father said: "Bill, that is about all you are bloody good for."   Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority in 1949, the engineer and conservationist built 16 large dams, 145 kilometres of tunnels and seven power stations, transforming inland areas by diverting rivers he told migrant workers: "You aren't any longer Czechs or Germans, you are men of the Snowy." 

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Douglas Mawson

Douglas mawson was born in England. Douglas wasthe cpatain of the people that discovered and claimed our part of antartica.This helped us discover many animals and compounds.while at Antarctica he also the forst to ascend to on mount Erebus. Also was the first to reach the south magnetic pole. 

Douglas mawson came to australia in 1884 when he was 2 years old.His father was a poor cloth maker with a farming backround.Douglas was born in Yorkshire in 1882 and died in october 14,1958(aged 76 in bighton south Australia).

 
I personally think that Douglas mawson was an inspiring man becuase of what he did for us and the world. As well as exploring the Antarctic he was a Geologist.He also was the only sole survivor of the far eastern party(A gruop of men that explored most of the antarctic coast by dog sledge).

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TAN LEE

Tan Lee was born in Vietnam 1978 and because of the wars in her country, her family escaped to Australia as refugees when she was four. She was so hard working that she entered university at the age of 16.  

Since then, she worked in Melbourne, Victoria. Her job is to help immigrants find jobs. She became the president of the group that do the same job. 

Also she tries to help with other problems Vietnamese and Australians might have. Tan has raised money for a number of poor people in Melbourne. Now she is helping business with other asian countries.

In 1998 she was named Young Australian Of The Year. Also, a television program has been made all about her life.

She is still working hard until this day.

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 Fred Hollows

This is Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows (1929–1993)
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. then he came to Australia to become an eye Doctor he was one of the best an his family was from England in new Zealand he liked to stud chemistry he went back to Newzealnd After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called 'trachoma', which causes blindness if it is not treated quickly. Many Aboriginal people suffer from this disease Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trichina.many people from becoming blind from this disease but Fred hollows changed that by going around the world to help pepole that had trachea he was an inspiration to Australia and he made the Fred hollows foundation.to help people with very bad eye diseases he help many Australians and other countries Fred believed in helping people to help themselves. He had no time for anyone who stood between him and his goals.

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Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich, England and migrated to Australia in 1883. He had a comfortable life, however he did not have very much money but he had enough to start inventing things.

In 1881 he was the first person in Australia to fly. He joined four box karts to a seat and with help from the wind he was able to fly about 5 metres above ground on the end of a wire. He also invented an aeroplane with flapping wings. He didnt want to make any money from his inventions and was happy to share his ideas with other people.

In 1915 Lawerence sadly died of blood poisoning. Lawerence's face is on the $20 note, there are places named after him and a memorial to him has been built at Stanwell Park.

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Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877)
Caroline Chisholm was born in England. She came to Australia in 1838 and set up a home for other women who had come to live here and had started a new life. She worked to helped people on the ships to come over to Australia and start a new life. She also started a loan plan to bring poor children and families to Australia. She arranged free trips so that the families  who were transported to Australia could come to join them. She also believed

"poor people should be able to buy farms cheaply"

Caroline Chisholm's work has been remembered in lots of ways. Her face has appeared on stamps and on a bank note.

By: Karla Arnesen:)

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Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was born 1929. Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin in New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He had to travel to England and to do this and won a prize as one of the top students. Fred Hollows moved to Australia in 1960. On his tour all around the world Fred gave thousands of people their eyesight back. In the 1970's he helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians. Fred was a inspirational person he got many people to volenteer in the program to help many Aboriginals.  

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Sir Douglas Mawson



Sir Douglas Mawson is famous for exploring Antarctica and he grew up and studied geology at the University of Sydney. He is on the $100 note. Sir Douglas Mawson came from Yorkshire, England in 1884 with his family when he was 2 years old. His parents moved to Australia to move to a different country by boat.

Sir Douglas Mawson went to the university at Sydney at the age of 16 and graduated in engineering and science and got a job at the university of Adelaide lecturing in geology ( studying the origin and structure of rocks.) He later explored Antarctica, risking his life for Australia and led his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to chart the 2000 mile long coastline of Antarctica to the south of Australia and the south pole.

Sir Douglas Mawson was on the $100 note for exploring Antarctica with the snow range in the backround. It is now changed but he was a brave explorer that he was on it.

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Fred Hollows



Fred Hollows was born on the 9th of April 1929. His parents were Joesph and Clarice Hollows.He was an eye doctor (opthalmologist) who helped many people across the world get their eye sight back.

Fred was born in Dunedin, New Zealend.


He immigrated to Australia in 1965.


Fred moved to Australia for work so he could help people that couldn't see there.

He flew by plane to Australia.

Fred Hollows made a great impact on Australia by helping so many less fortunet people with their eyesight, which many peolple can't do. Another great aceivement was that he won Australian of the year award in 1990. After his death the Fred Hollows fondation developed and it still running today.

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VICTOR CHANG

Victor Peter Chang was born in Shanghiai and he was a Chinese Australian.  After completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney.  He trained in England and the United states a surgeon before returning to Australia.

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                        Dr.Victor Chang
                                                                   (1936-1991)

Victor Peter Chang (Yam Him) was born in China in 1936, and came to Australia when he was fifteen years old to finish his secondary school by plane.
His mother died of cancer when he was just twelve years old. It was then he decided to become a doctor.
Early in his career, Victor Chang was inspired by Dr. Mark Shanahan, who was one of only three heart surgeons in Australia at the time.Today, with the support of many Australians and overseas supporters, The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute has been established in his honour.Victor died in a shooting in an attempt robbery aged 54.    

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Tan Le

Tan Le was born in Vietnam on the 20th of may 1977 she lived in Vietnam for 3 years she came to Australia on a boat that measured 15 metres by 4 metres it was dark, misty and fearful there were 161 people on the boat, she came with her mother and sister the reason they left was because feared for their future her mother and because of the terrible war that was happening over their. Mai Ho was terrified of getting shot by pirates, finally when they reached land they had to spend 3 months in a refugee camp in Malaysia after the 3 months at the refugee camp they got on plane and came to Australia she was only 4 when she came here.

At the age of 16 (she got in at a younger age because she was so hard working)  she started studing a double degree in laws and commerence at the Monarsh University in a Melbourne she recieved a KPMG schoolar ship for academic achievment. About a year after she started realising that how hard it is for refugee communty to find work Tan Le started to devote herself to Australian Vietnamese resource centre at the age of 18 she had become the president of it and in those 3 years she helped bulid it up to what it is now. In 1998 she was appointed Australian Youth Embassador to Asia. In the same year she recived young Australian of the Year and now has a documentry of her she is even on Australia Most Successful women under 30.

 

 

In 2000 she cofounded a company with other young people from overseas she helped make a SASme into one of the leading wireless technology companys providers in Australia and operations in Europe and in Asia

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Victor Peter Chang, AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991), was a Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he grew up in Hong Kong before moving to Australia. After completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney and working in St Vincent's Hospital, he trained in England and the United States as a surgeon before returning to Australia. In St Vincent's Hospital, he helped establish the National Cardiac Transplant Unit, the country's leading centre for heart and lung transplants. Chang's team had a high success rate in performing heart transplantations and he pioneered the development of an artificial heart valve.^[1]    

victor chang
.Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong, before coming to Australia in 1953 and completing his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham.

He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Medical Science with first class honours in 1960, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1962, then worked for two years as an intern at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney before leaving for further training in England.

Chang apparently chose to study medicine because of his mother's death from breast cancer when he was 12 years old.
After becoming a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons and American College of Surgeons, he returned to St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney in 1972 to join the cardiothoracic team there, which already included top surgeons Dr. Harry Windsor (who had performed Australia's first heart transplant in 1968) and Dr. Mark Shanahan.

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Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich,England and migrated to Australia in 1883.He Sailed on a boat to get to Australia.He sailed to get back with his dad who was getting a job in Australia.

Lawrence got to Australia because his dad had been living in Australia for a while and he was now seen as an Australian so Lawrence did the exact same thing as his father and became an Australian citizen.

He was the fist man in Australia to fly a plane.

Lawrence is on the $20 note.

To fly the first plane in Australia Lawrence made four box kites and attached a seat to them.When the wind blew he managed to float five metres above the ground.After he flew he started making engines for planes and he invented a flapping plane.He unfortunately died of blood-poisoning in 1915. There are places named after him and there is a memorial of him at Stanwell Park in New South Wales.Without Lawrence Hargrave Australia might not have as much of an understanding of aircrafts as we do.

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Stanislawa Dabrowski

Stanislawa Dabrowski was born 1926 in  Poland she was part of World War Two.The German invasion in 1939 made Stanislawa Dabrowski migrate to Australia in 1964.Her attitude to  her role in saving the lives of a large group of Russian women and children.

Every Friday night, she took all the food to Canberra and gave it out to people who don't have any homes to go to. During the week, she used her own money to buy  lots of soup and collects leftover bread and cakes from local bakeries.About 500 people came every Friday night for her food.

 In her spare time, she visited people in jail who have no one else to visit them.
In 1996, the government of Australian gave her Citizen of the Year and gave her $9000 to help with the cost of food for the poor.

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Fred Hollows

Fred hollows was born in dunedin, New Zealand.

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Lawrence Hargrave



Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich in England on January 29, 1850. He was educated in England at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. In 1872 he came to Australia in search of gold, but the ship chartered by the group of adventurers was wrecked off the Queensland coast. Lawrence was the first person to fly a plane in Australia. To fly the first plane in Australia Lawrence made four box kites and attached a seat to them.When the wind blew he managed to float five metres above the ground.After he flew he started making engines for planes and he invented a flapping plane.He unfortunately died of blood-poisoning in 1915. There are places named after him and there is a memorial of him at Stanwell Park in New South Wales.Without Lawrence Hargrave Australia might not have as much of an understanding of aircrafts as we do.

Lawrence  Hargrave

Who is this?

This is Lawrence Hargrave, he was born in

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Sir William Henry Bragg

Sir William Henry Braggwas born on 2 July 1862 at Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, England, son of Robert John Bragg, merchant navy officer and farmer, and his mother Mary, née Wood. His mother died when he was 7 and, almost isolated him from other children, he was raised by his uncle William Bragg at Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

Sir William Henry Bragg  to Adelaide in 1886 after being accepted into a university also  hoping for a good job and life style.On 1 June 1889 he married Gwendoline Todd , a skilled water-colourist. They had two sons, one of whom was later killed at Gallipoli, and a daughter.

In 1896 Bragg found a thing he called braggs law. This was the structure of an x ray machine that was later invented. He did not invent the machine but his son was the first person to get an x-ray.

Thanks to william everyone can now get x-rays to help them fix broken bones, teeth and other important things.

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Sir William Henry Bragg

Born: In England , Cumberland in 1862 on the 2nd of January.

 He studied mathematics and physics in the Cavendish Laboratory during 1885. At the end of that year was elected to the Professorship of Mathematics and Physics in the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the X-Ray but Bragg decided to make the first to see what was wrong with his son's elbow. This was the first use of diagnostic tool used in Australia. So he migrated to Australia because and of this achievement. Because of this he won the Nobel Peace Prize for physics in 1915. Sir William Henry Bragg has made a big difference to Australians.

Bragg said that Australia was like fresh air and sunshine.

 William Henry Bragg has changed history because if he hadn't have built the first X-Ray machine then we may not have been able to see whether we have a broken bone or had a major injury.

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Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was born in 1929 and was born in Dunedin in New Zealand.

He immigrated on 5 Sep 1965 Because the government was interested in his social activism.

He was the doctor for the disease of the eye.
He had to travel to England to be the doctor for disease and he won a prize as one of the top students.

He spent a time on the Australia studying a eye disease called 'Trachoma', that can cause the patient to blindness if not treated fast. Many aboriginal suffered from this eye disease.

Fred Hollows helped the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams to travel all over the country to treat the 'Terachoma'.

This saved many people to become blind.

The team was sent to Africa to work on curing a common eye disease called 'cataracts'.

Fred hollows has been recognised in many ways. He was given Human Rights Medal, Australian Achiever Award, Australian of the Year, Order of Australia Award. He also has a foundation named after him.





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Mary Seah


 

 Mary Seah

 Mary Seah lived in Singapore during World War 2. She migrated to Australia on boat with the soldiers and was sometimes guest of honour at their celebrations. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1996.

Who she was?

This is Mary Seah, during World War 2 Australians were kept in a very bad prison camp called Changi, in Singapore. They were given little food or medicine and Seah risked her life to help the prisoners. She would go to the camp with her son, dressed up as a street seller, and offer items for sale to the Japanese guards. When they were busy looking at her goods, she would sneak food and medicine to the Australians. If she had been caught, she would have been killed. When the guards became suspicious, she was beaten up, but she told the guards nothing and kept on helping the Australians. Many of the men would have died without her brave work.

Where she came from and her migration to Australia?

How she impacted on Australia's history?

 Mary Seah is a highly respectable figure to all Australians. She risked her own life to save many others, and that is why she is a hero.