Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 103, Melbourne’s Great Philanthropist (And Rupert’s Mum)

“She was devoted to the arts, to gardens and the landscape, to education and medicine, to the disabled and the underprivileged. Her name is perpetuated at places as diverse as the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the former Langwarrin Secondary College.”