Judith Wright
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Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Lit
Judith Wright
Bust of Wright in Garema Place, Canberra
The Judith Wright Arts Centre in Fortitude Valley, Australia
H. C. Coombs
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Herbert Cole "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant. He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, in which capacity he served from 1960 to 1968. He is noted for
Judith Wright
…Union. For the last three decades of her life, Wright lived near the New South Wales town of Braidwood. She moved to the Braidwood area to be closer to H. C. "Nugget" Coombs, her lover of 25 years, who was based in Canberra. Wright started to lose her hearing in her mid-20s and became completely deaf by 1992…
Coombs at the Lapstone Conference in 1948
Coombs c. 1970
John, Janet, Jerry, Jim (looking to camera) Nugget and Lallie Coombs, March 1951