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| Date(s) | Character | Actor | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January–15 February | Jeannie Truman | Libby Stone | Jeannie is Allana and Clementine Truman's mother. Lance Wilkinson dates Allana and learns she still lives at home with Jeannie, who is a possessive mother. Jeannie states that she is sick and needs Allana at home as she cannot survive without her. Allana begs her mother not to make her choose between her and Lance. Eventually the two women sit down and talk through their issues. |
| 16 January–15 March | Richie Hampson | Michael O'Malley | Richie is a Beauty Tree Salesman, who tries to manipulate Lyn Scully into investing in the company. Teresa Bell meets Richie at a singles night. She thinks he is the perfect man until she realises he is using her to make himself look good at events. |
| 19 January–2 February | Alice Jamison | Pip Sallabank | Alice is Darcy Tyler's partner who co-owns a medical practice with him. She arrives in Erinsborough and finds Darcy at a ball with Dee Bliss and warns her off. It becomes evident that Darcy and Alice are having difficulty in their relationship and they later break up. |
| 20–21 February | Fergus MacLeod | Tommy Dysart | Fergus is Drew Kirk's great uncle who arrives from Scotland to attend Drew's wedding to Libby Kennedy. On the eve of the wedding, after preparing a haggis, he recites a Robert Burns poem. Fergus sings backing vocals with Harold Bishop for Drew's rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme", which is performed at the reception. |
| 21 February | Sally Kirk | Niobe Dean | Sally and Stuart are Drew Kirk's siblings. They come to Erinsborough for his wedding to Libby Kennedy. |
| Stuart Kirk | Stephen Godfrey | ||
| 21 February–12 April | Reverend Loftus | Bill Johnston | Reverend Loftus presides over the wedding of Libby Kennedy and Drew Kirk and the funeral of Madge Bishop. |
| 6 March–5 July 2002 | Nathan Tyson | Luke Hemsworth | Nathan plays for the Eastside Dingoes football team. His teammate Paul McClain discovers he is using steroids to enhance his performance on the field and warns him of the dangers. However, Nathan threatens him into keeping quiet. After Nathan continues using steroids, Paul informs the team doctor Karl Kennedy. Nathan attacks Paul and is dropped from the team after refusing a drug test. Nathan later takes a job as a baliff and repossesses a television set from Number 24 after Tad Reeves allegedly racks up debts. He also takes some things from Lou Carpenter's pub when he fails to settle his debts. |
| 17 April–17 May | Veronica Anderson | Monika Karwan | Teresa Bell begins house-sharing with Veronica "Ronnie" Anderson and they become good friends. Ronnie develops a crush on Drew Kirk, who fixes her car for her. Ronnie steals a photo of Drew and deliberately damages her car in order to spend more time with him. Drew tells Ronnie that he does not have feelings for her, but she later kisses him, just as his wife, Libby, walks in. Ronnie begins following Drew and making up rumours of an affair between them. Libby finds a missing poster featuring Ronnie's photo and learns that she is actually Pamela McAdam. Pamela's father, Gordon, arrives and explains that her husband died on their honeymoon and she latched on to Drew because he looked like her husband. Gordon then takes Pamela home. |
| 20–26 April | Elly Turnbull | Cherise Donovan | Elly is Michelle Scully's friend and classmate. She is a maths genius and becomes upset when her teacher Daniel Fitzgerald leaves Erinsborough High. However, she develops a crush on his replacement, Evan Hancock and refuses to hear anything bad said about him. |
| 20 April–11 May | Aleks Rama | Dean Ali | Aleks is Leo Hancock's best friend. He comes to stay with the Hancock family while his parents go away to Albania. |
| 25 April–6 March 2002 | Genevieve Murdoch | Julie Campbell | Shortly after Evan Hancock and his family move to Ramsay Street, his first wife, Genevieve, arrives to visit their son, Matt. She offers to pay for Matt to attend a culinary college in Switzerland, but when Genevieve comments on Evan's lack of ambition, he tells her to leave. Months later, Genevieve contacts Evan and admits she has had a cancer scare. She also reveals that her husband had not been very supportive. Evan asks Matt to speak to his mother, but their meeting goes badly. Evan continues to see Genevieve and supports her when she reveals she is getting divorced. When Genevieve comes to the Hancock house during a party for Evan, Maggie Hancock asks her to leave. Evan and Matt back her up and Genevieve goes. |
| 27 April–26 July | Nigel Armstrong | Andy Poulter | Nigel lives above Drew Kirk and Libby Kennedy at their apartment complex in Eden Hills. His constant drumming annoys the couple. When Drew complains, Nigel counters that he and Libby are equally noisy. Nigel's drumming gets worse and Drew threatens him, after a recuperating Libby is disturbed. Sergeant Ralph Walker turns up and Drew believes Nigel called him, but Walker reveals he is there on an unrelated matter. Nigel later apologises to the couple and they reach a compromise. |
| 10 May–6 June | Luke Dawson | Adrien Foley | Luke is a student and skateboarder. He dates Felicity Scully, but realises things are not working out between them because Felicity is not over Joel Samuels. They break up, but remain friends. Luke later invites Felicity to stay with him for a while. |
| 15 May–6 June | Simone Pike | Amanda Levy | Simone is a British traveller, who meets Joel Samuels. She comes to Ramsay Street and notices there is tension between Joel and Felicity Scully. Simone later ends the relationship as Joel is in love with Felicity. |
| 17 May | Gordon Scott | Lachlan MacDonald | Gordon is Pamela McAdam's father. Libby Kennedy contacts Gordon and explains that his daughter is in Erinsborough and has become fixated on her husband, Drew Kirk. Gordon thanks Libby and Drew for contacting him and he takes his daughter away to get her some help. |
| 14 June–2 July | Dean Hearn | Jason Buckley | Dean is the P.E teacher at Erinsborough High. He starts bullying Leo Hancock and is confronted by his father, Evan. Dean claims Leo has got the wrong end of the stick, but Evan witnesses Dean pushing Leo to the ground. Susan Kennedy speaks to Dean and he tries to manipulate her emotions. Susan then witnesses more incidents involving Dean and when he throws a board duster at Leo, she tells him a full internal investigation would take place. However, Dean resigns. |
| 18 June–6 July | Laura Wallace | Fiona Choi | When Laura goes to Lou's Place to ask about a job, she is chatted up by Matt Hancock. She gives him her number and they arrange a date. Laura and Matt discover they have a lot in common. Matt claims that he lives alone, but when Laura notices toys lying around his house, he admits he lives with his family. Laura tells Matt that she is a strippogram and that her past boyfriends have had a problem with that. Matt initially accepts Laura's job, but his jealousy starts to come out and he admits that he hates it. Laura gives him another chance and asks him to fill in as her minder at a party. However, Matt punches one of the party goers who gets too close and Laura is sacked. She breaks up with Matt, but they decide to stay friends and Laura later puts Matt's name forward for a job as an Elvis impersonator. |
| 28 June–4 November 2002 | Collector Bob | Henry Ismailiw | Collector Bob owns a store called Toy Heaven in the local mall, which is visited by Leo and Emily Hancock. Emily notices a doll in the store similar to one she owned before it went missing. Emily accuses Bob of stealing the doll and she and Leo plan to get it back. Leo uses a remote control car to distract Bob and they hide in the store, but they are caught. Bob accuses of them of theft and calls their mother, Maggie. She proves the doll belongs to Emily as she owned it when she was a child and the doll has teeth marks caused by her dog. Bob reluctantly surrenders the doll. A year later, Bob gives Joe Scully a cheque for $2000 when he cashes in his vinyl collection to fund his daughter Michelle's exchange trip to New York. |
| 18–19 July | Margaret Woolstead | Helen Noonan | Dame Margaret comes to Eden Hills and Libby Kennedy seeks an interview with her. She goes to her house, but Margaret refuses to give her an interview. However, just as Margaret goes to close the door, Libby doubles up in pain and believes that she is losing her baby. Margaret calls an ambulance and takes Libby inside, where she grants her the interview to take her mind off the pain. Margaret later visits Libby in the hospital. |
| 13 August-17 October | Marcus Teague | David Gould | Marcus is a reperesntative of Total Cover Healthcare who meets with Darcy Tyler who plots to sell the Erinsborough medical centre from under Karl Kennedy's nose. Marcus is prepared to offer $1.6 millon for the practice but refuses to proceed unless Karl is involved. He later pulls out of the deal after finding another site. |
| 15–22 August | Rhonda Wilson | Brenda Addie | Rhonda is the mother of Sheena Wilson. She flirts with her daughter's boyfriend, Toadfish Rebecchi and tries to give him a shoulder massage one day, but he quickly leaves. Rhonda comes to Toadie's house for dinner with him and Sheena, but they are left alone when Sheena is called into work. Rhonda attempts to seduce Toadie, but they are interrupted by his housemates. Toadie and Sheena later break up and Rhonda calls Toadie about meeting up, but he turns her down. |
| 29 August–10 September | Victor McMillan | Desmond Connellan | Darcy Tyler asks Victor to cover some shifts at his practice, which he co-owns with Karl Kennedy. Darcy later tells Victor that he needs to integrate himself into the practice, so he might become a partner and then they can take it over and sell it off as a superpractice. Victor meets Dee Bliss at a singles night and they go on a date. Victor mentions the superpractice to Dee and she tells Karl, ruining Darcy's plan. |
| 4–11 September | Monique Disney | Jacqi Swallow | During a Year 12 camping trip, Paul McClain and Tad Reeves try to impress Monique. She holds Paul's hand, while Tad talks about the stars. Felicity Scully is annoyed when she has to share a tent with Monique as she believes she is stringing Paul and Tad along. The group share a bottle of whiskey, which Tad had brought with him. Tad is stung by a scorpion and he collapses. The others fetch their teacher Susan Kennedy and she realises they have all been drinking. Tad is taken to hospital and the following day, Susan suspends Monique, Felicity and Paul. Monique then takes the opportunity to reveal that Tad brought the alcohol along. |
| 13 September–7 October 2002 | Adam Stevens | Nicholas Colla | Adam is a student at Erinsborough High, who hassles Leo Hancock. In order to make some money, Leo begins writing essays for Adam and his mates. When Adam and his friend hand in identical essays, he tells Susan Kennedy who wrote them, before being suspended. Adam bullies Boyd Hoyland on his first day at school, but later thanks him when he takes the rap for a prank. Adam becomes captain of the cricket team and befriends Max Hoyland. |
| 24 September–14 November | John Allen | Adrian Mulraney | John has an affair with Cheryl Stark and seven years later, he sends Lou Carpenter a letter explaining that he believes he is Cheryl's daughter Louise's biological father. John meets Lou and he takes a DNA test, which proves he is Louise's father. John and his wife Sandy meet and bond with Louise. Lou tells John that he can have access to Louise for one day each month, but John explains that he wants more. John later applies for full custody of his daughter and wins. He and Sandy then decide to move to the country and they take Louise with them. |
| 4 October–6 February 2002 | Zack Shaw | Owen Lee | Michelle Scully meets Zack, while he is doing community service for a graffiti charge. They begin dating and Zack starts attending Erinsborough High. He ignores Michelle when she tries to get his attention and later tells her that as he is older, he thought it was best that they only see each other outside of school. Zack tells Michelle that they should take their relationship to the next level, but Michelle is unsure that she wants to have sex with him. Zack turns his attentions to Elly Conway and asks her out to a gig, but she turns him down. Zack then tells Michelle their relationship is over and he spreads rumours about her being frigid. Michelle retaliates by writing rumours on the blackboard that he is gay. |
| 29 October–25 July 2003 | Annabelle Mann | Justine Press | Annabelle is hired to be a mediator when John Allen and Lou Carpenter fight for custody of Louise Carpenter. Annabelle decides that Lou should retain custody of Louise. A few years later, Annabelle represents Cameron Hodder a doctor who was fired by Karl Kennedy. Cameron reveals that he had been in a relationship with Karl's daughter and that it ended badly. Annabelle realises that Cameron has cost them the case and the judge rules that Karl pays Cameron for the remainder of his contract. |
| 16 November–6 December | Vernon Wells | Vince Gil | Joel Samuels visits marine biologist Vernon in the hopes of getting a job. Joel brings Matt Hancock and Toadfish Rebecchi along and they climb aboard Vernon's boat. Vernon initially assumes they are there to rob him, but Joel asks for a job and Vernon puts him on his dive team, which is scheduled to dive on a ship wreck. Joel lies that he has his deep sea diving certificate and Dee Bliss tells Vernon that he has an ear infection to stop him diving. Joel later gets his certificate and Vernon gives him a second chance. Joel finds the items they are searching for and Vernon offers Joel a research job with him. |
| 21 November–25 February 2002 | Scotty Gibson | Philip Cameron Smith | Scotty asks his friend, Drew Kirk, for a large loan to keep his farm open. Drew and his wife Libby decide to lend Scotty the money, but Drew makes him sign a contract to have the money back before their baby is born. A few weeks later, Drew and Libby realise they need the money and during a trip to the rodeo, Drew asks Scotty about it. Scotty explains that he does not have it and he later turns up in Erinsborough asking for more money. Drew gives him $50 and gets him a job at Lou's Place. However, Scotty does not show any gratitude and Drew ends their friendship. |
| 28 November–5 March 2002 | Serena Lucas | Ruth Callum | Serena works for Karl Kennedy and Darcy Tyler as their receptionist. She starts flirting with Karl, but he asks her to stop and issues her with a warning. Darcy asks Serena out on a date and when he steps outside, Serena steals a prescription pad from his bag. Serena steals more prescription pads from the surgery and hands them over to Cam Crane. Fake prescriptions start turning up and Serena lies that someone may have stolen them when she went to the Coffee Shop. Darcy later spots Serena handing over some pads to Cam and calls the police on her. |
| 5 December–7 May 2002 | Liz Conway | Christine Keogh | Liz barely spoke to her sister Susan after they fell out. She married Ian Conway and had a daughter, Elly. When Liz is offered some work in Sweden, she visits Susan and after apologising to her, she asks her to look after Elly. Susan accepts and Elly arrives shortly after. A few months later Liz returns and announces she has a new boyfriend and is pregnant. Elly confronts Liz about her paternity, asking her if Karl Kennedy is her father. Liz realises how confused Elly is and reassures her Ian is her biological father. Karl tells Liz that Elly needs some love and attention from her mother and she eventually decides to take Elly to Sweden with her. |
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