My favourite image from the Australian Sporting Dreamtime

By Peter Fitzsimons
Updated January 27 2018 - 12:43pm, first published January 26 2018 - 11:57pm
Australian swimmer, Shane Gould, competes in the second session of the NSW Championships at North Sydney Pool, 8 January 1972.
SMH Picture by P. MOXHAM

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Australian swimmer, Shane Gould, competes in the second session of the NSW Championships at North Sydney Pool, 8 January 1972. SMH Picture by P. MOXHAM 720108/35

Wonderful, that both Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Shane Gould were named in the Australia Day Honours List yesterday, with Evonne becoming an Companion of the Order of Australia, (AC) and Shane becoming a Member of the Order of Australia (AM,) both for their services to their communities, even well beyond sport.

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