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Distinguished and Famous people from Southern Tablelands
📚 Dame Mary Gilmore
Mary Gilmore was born at Mary Vale near Woodhouselee, in the Goulburn district, in 1865. Teaching, journalism, poetry and social reform took her well beyond that birthplace, including a period with the New Australia settlement in Paraguay. She later returned to Goulburn at intervals during the early 1920s, seeking relief from the pressures of city life. Her poetry collection The Rue Tree was described by her as a tribute to the Sisters of the Convent of Mercy there. Her writings about rural life remain important, while their reminiscences also need to be read as crafted recollection rather than a faultless historical record.
🎬 George Lazenby
George Lazenby's association with Goulburn gained a suitably cinematic celebration when he returned for Spyfest in 2015. The former James Bond actor was welcomed with a parade and the keys to the city, while locals recalled his schooldays and the family home in Faithfull Street. His single Bond appearance, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969, made his face familiar internationally. The hometown return gave that screen fame a local setting again, complete with an open-top Aston Martin.
