2006 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January – Dawn Lake, 78, entertainer and widow of Bobby Limb
  • 3 January – Steve Rogers, 51, Cronulla rugby league great
  • 5 January – Sophie Heathcote, 33, actress
  • 9 January – Andy Caldecott, 41, motorcyclist
  • 31 January – Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer
  • 9 March – Harry Seidler, 82, architect
  • 28 March – Pro Hart, 77, artist (born 1928)
  • 24 April – Jimmy Sharman jnr, 94, boxing troupe impresario
  • 6 May – Grant McLennan, 48, musician
  • 7 May – Richard Carleton, 62, journalist
  • 18 August - Ken Kearney, 82, rugby league footballer and coach
  • 28 August – Don Chipp, 81, politician
  • 4 September – Steve Irwin ("The Crocodile Hunter"), 44, environmentalist & documentarian
  • 4 September – Colin Thiele, 85, author
  • 8 September – Peter Brock, 61, motor racing driver
  • 11 September – Nancy Borlase, 92, artist
  • 15 September – Abe Saffron, 86, notorious Sydney nightclub owner and suspected underworld figure
  • 3 October – Peter Norman, 64, athlete
  • 2 November – Wally Foreman, 58, sports commentator
  • 11 November – Belinda Emmett, 32, actress
  • 27 November – Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, Australian-born UK radio personality
  • 25 December – Sir Bob Cotton, 91, politician

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    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)