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Distinguished and Famous people from Noosa Heads
🎭 David Williamson
David Williamson helped establish the Noosa Longweekend festival, adding a substantial local arts project to a career already familiar through The Removalists, Don’s Party and The Club. He and his wife, writer Kristin Williamson, made their home on the Sunshine Coast. The festival association brought theatre and other performances into Noosa’s cultural calendar, extending his contribution beyond supplying plays for distant stages. His dramas often turn on ambition, status and people who insist they are being perfectly reasonable. A resort district, like a football club or dinner party, is unlikely to run short of human material.
🎾 Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Goolagong Cawley returned to Australia in 1991 and settled at Noosa Heads after years overseas. The Wiradjuri tennis champion had grown up at Barellan in New South Wales and won Wimbledon singles titles in 1971 and 1980. Her later work included encouraging Aboriginal children to play tennis and exploring family and cultural history with her children. Noosa belongs to the homecoming chapter of a life that crossed continents. The famous results remain part of the story, alongside the less visible work of making opportunities available to another generation.
