Death Impends 8,008 Posted January 16, 2023 16 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Moving Jim Molan's death report here. Daily Mail QO if required: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11641863/Jim-Molan-dead-72.html Unpicked this year's DDP. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted January 16, 2023 3 minutes ago, Death Impends said: Unpicked this year's DDP. Whoopsie! Whipping Posts dropped him.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted January 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, Death Impends said: Unpicked this year's DDP. He was a unique for my b team last year which I didn’t bother to submit one this year but even if I did he probably would’ve been cut anyways 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tracy 2,432 Posted January 17, 2023 Soul singer Renée Geyer dead at 69. Mentioned a few times in this thread for her hard style of living. Was seemingly done in by complications from hip surgery, which also happened to discover inoperable lung cancer... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted January 23, 2023 Vaughan Johnson, Queensland MLA from 1989-2015 has died 75. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted January 30, 2023 John Devine, Aussie rules footballer has died aged 82. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted February 17, 2023 Hans Poulsen, an Australian singer-songwriter who hit #5 in his home country with 'Boom-Sha-La-La-Lo' and wrote songs for the likes of John Farnham and The Strangers, has died. He was 77. https://www.noise11.com/news/australian-singer-songwriter-hans-poulsen-has-died-at-age-77-20230217 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 1,126 Posted February 18, 2023 Director George T. Miller, who most notably directed The Never Ending Story II, is dead at 79 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dodrade 94 Posted February 18, 2023 5 hours ago, Sinbabad said: Director George T. Miller, who most notably directed The Never Ending Story II, is dead at 79 Always got him mixed up with the "Mad Max" director of the same name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,626 Posted February 22, 2023 Ken Warby, who set a water-speed record of 317.6 mph (511.1 km/h) in 1978, which still stands today, has died aged 83 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted February 23, 2023 On 22/08/2022 at 08:29, Thatcher said: Vincent Gil, Australian actor, has died aged 84. Appeared in Home and Away, Neighbours and Mad Max (IMDb). Obituaries: Daily Mirror, The Sun There's a forum post here indicating that Paul Johnstone, Gil's friend widely reported at the time of Gil's death, has died: https://madmaxmovies.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16140 Johnstone portrayed Cundalini in the original Mad Max movie, the guy in red leathers and heart shaped glasses who loses his hand. Source seems to be a long standing member of that forum, but we'd need corroboration. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,981 Posted March 2, 2023 On 01/04/2022 at 10:54, Sir Creep said: Jailed drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has been rushed to hospital from prison after suffering chest pains. The 56-year-old, known as 'Fat Tony', was escorted from Barwon Prison, near Geelong in Melbourne's southeast, to the emergency room on Thursday night. The once-feared figure of Melbourne's underworld is serving a minimum 22 year year sentence for large-scale drug trafficking. SC Tony Mokbel hospitalised again . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,626 Posted March 19, 2023 Peter Hardy, Aussie actor (Chopper, McLeod's Daughter...) has died aged 66. Drowned while snorkelling. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted March 20, 2023 On 07/04/2009 at 05:02, Guest Grave Mistake said: Terry Norris 1930. Actor and ex-politician Terry Norris reportedly dead: https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/03/vale-terry-norris.html IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635909/ Edit: He's a DDP pick @gcreptile and @Death Impends. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted March 20, 2023 3 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Terry Norris reportedly dead: https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/03/vale-terry-norris.html IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635909/ Edit: He's a DDP pick @gcreptile and @Death Impends. Terry Norris QO guys and gals: https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/20/terry-norris-dead-australian-star-of-jack-irish-and-cop-shop-dead-at-92-18474262/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted April 3, 2023 On 21/10/2021 at 09:18, gcreptile said: Mandawuy Yunupungu's sister, the painter Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, has died at roughly 76: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fbeloved-aboriginal-artist-nyapanyapa-yunupingu-dies%2Fnews-story%2Ff04aebcb6148c9d30d74e2fc5cd743e3&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium (behind paywall) I knew I'd heard that last name before... Another dead Yunupingu, this time Galarrwuy, probably the most notable one out of these, dead at 74: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/03/yunupingu-yolu-leader-and-campaigner-for-indigenous-rights-dies-aged-74 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted April 15, 2023 Grant "Jim" Beaumont, father of the Beaumont children, which children disappeared in 1966, reportedly dead: One of Australia's great mysteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted April 17, 2023 Maxine Klibingaitis, best known as teen punk Bobbie Mitchell in Prisoner Cell Block H and Terry Inglis an original character who was married to Paul Robinson in Neighbours, reportedly dead aged 58: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted May 2, 2023 Former Liberal MP for Chisholm in Victoria and former president of the Liberal Party in Australia, who served in the Fraser Government, Tony Staley (IMDB), reportedly dead: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wannamaker 1,414 Posted May 6, 2023 Miss Australia 2022 finalist Sienna Weir dead at 23 after a horse riding accident. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,384 Posted June 10, 2023 British-born Australian screenwriter Patrick Edgeworth (Wiki), nominated for AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in Film dead at 90 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted June 25, 2023 On 09/09/2013 at 05:52, Davey Jones' Locker said: Also, given the interest in Gough Whitlam and other Aussie politicians on this list, I though of putting together a list of opposition leaders who never became PM. Most of them are young though, so there aren't many interesting pickings but here are the failed contenders: Simon Crean (ALP, born 1949.) No known health issues. Simon Crean reportedly dead aged 74: https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/former-federal-labor-leader-simon-crean-dies-aged-74-20230625-p5djcc.html 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted June 28, 2023 Matt Rendell, Australian rules footballer, not a legend, but a "Great", dead at 64: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-12241611/Tragedy-AFL-legend-Matt-Rendell-dies-aged-64-suffering-heart-attack.html Heavy heart attack that put him on a list for next months pools. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted July 11, 2023 Alan Wilkie, Australia's first weatherman, has died at 94: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/australias-first-weatherman-alan-wilkie-dies-aged-94/news-story/a1200e04ef7aa5f37e59e0aa8cb20c8d Slightly surprising, not a DDP pick, maybe a miss for the weathermen team (was that this year or last?). 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,076 Posted August 13, 2023 On 07/04/2020 at 22:44, CaptainChorizo said: https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/roger-rogerson-likely-to-die-in-jail-after-court-declines-time-extension-to-appeal-c-266778 Likely Future GrisGris entrant and one of Australia's most Notoriously Corrut Cops Roger Rogerson is "dying in jail" Roger Rogerson moved to prison hospital: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12392031/Roger-Rogerson-prison-hospital-mystery-illness-jail-murder-Jamie-Gao.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
