'Writer and GP Kath O’Connor died from ovarian cancer while working on the final draft of her novel, Inheritance. Fellow writer and friend Inga Simpson helped complete the manuscript'
'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.'