Quentin Bryce was born in Brisbane in 1942 and spent her early years in Ilfracombe, a small town in Central Western Queensland. In 1965, she graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from The University of Queensland...

Kirk Pengilly is best known as the guitarist, saxophonist and principal backing vocalist of the iconic Australian rock band, INXS. He is recognised for wearing his trademark glasses. Kirk became an ambassador of The Eye Foundation in 2007.

Betty Churcher, known affectionately as ‘Betty Blockbuster’, is a  retired Art Educator, Gallery Director and TV presenter of arts programmes.

Born with Retinitis pigmentosa, Lorin was declared legally blind at the age of four. Yet he was determined not to let his disability exclude him from leading a full and meaningful life.