Henry Lawson
Author, Poet (1867–1922)


Turning Points:

1. In 1876, Lawson experienced an illness left him partly deaf.
2. When he was 14 the condition deteriorated radically and he was left with a major and incurable hearing.
3. Early in 1891, Lawson accepted an offer from Gresley Lukin of the Brisbane Boomerang.
4. By September 1891, the Boomerang was in trouble and Lawson's services were dispensed with.
5. In September 1892, Lawson set out his trip to Bourke.
6. He set off on 20 April 1900 for England. With him went his wife, his son Joseph and his daughter of just over two months, Bertha.
7. In April 1903, his wife Bertha officially separated from him.

Achievements:

1.  While the Billy Boils (1896) was Lawson's first major short-story collection. It remains one of the great classics of Australian literature.
2. He became known as a great poet.
3. After his death, Lawson was heralded as one of the country's leading literary figures.

Nelson Mandela

Turning Points:

1.Whilst at university Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society.
2.Mandela resigned from the ANC and worked underground.
3. In the late 50s,  Mandela and several others were charged with treason.
4. In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate. 
5. By 1962 Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
6. Mandela’s release in 1990.
7. Nelson Mandela lost his eldest son to the HIV epidemic disease and Mandela has worked hard to campaign on this issue.

Achievements:
1.  Mandela finished his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
2.. In 1952 Mandela and his friend Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 
3. Mandela was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action such as the 1952 Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.
4. He helped to keep other Men’s spirits high in prison.
5. On 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999. 
6. He received many prestigious awards.
7. In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. De Klerk.

Time line of Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows (1929 - 1993)

1929 - Born in New Zealand

1960 - Got a job in Australia

1965 - Became head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

1970's - Launched a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians and treated 30,000 people in three years

1980 - Traveled all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries

1989 - Had cancer

1993- Died at home

Time line of Reg Saunders

Reg Saunders
1920-1990

1920 -  Born in Western Victoria
1934 - Attended school
1937 - Ran a sawmill with his father and brother
1940 - Enlisted to fight in the Second World War
1941 - Evacuated from the defence of Crete
1942 - Escaped on a British submarine and returned to            Australia
1944 - Promoted to lieutenant and married his first wife,   Dorothy Banfield
1945 - Discharged from the army
1950 - Rejoined the army as a lieutenant to fight in the Korean War
1954 - Discharged from the army
1955-1966 - Employed by a bronze manufacturer in Gippsland
1969-1980 - Worked as the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Canberra
1990 - Passed away