{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}} The '''Australian Legends''' is an annual series of commemorative postage stamps issued by Australia Post since 1997.<ref name="some legends">{{cite web |title=Australia Post – our past |work=Australia Post |url=http://auspost.com.au/education/ourpost/students/our-post/timeline.html#tline4 |accessdate=2015-06-10 |archive-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122060519/http://auspost.com.au/education/ourpost/students/our-post/timeline.html#tline4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The stamps commemorate living Australians who have made lifetime contributions to the development of the Commonwealth's national identity and character.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating sport on stamps |url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/articles/celebrating-sport-on-stamps |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=Australia Post Collectables |language=en}}</ref> Prior to 1997, the only living persons who could appear on Australian stamps were members of the British royal family, with the exception of Gwoya Tjungurrayi in 1950.<ref name="auspost2007">Australia Post: [http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH4444%257EMO19,00.html "Racing Legends are first past the post,"] 2007. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211191031/http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0%2C1467%2CCH4444~MO19%2C00.html |date=11 December 2007 }}</ref>
As examples of Australian graphic art, the stamps are designed to tell the story of events and personalities that shaped contemporary Australia. Each becomes part of a collective Australian memory which reflects Australian values and documents the development of Australia's national identity.<ref>[http://www1.auspost.com.au/priority/index.asp?area=features&article_id=707&issue_id=33 "156 years collecting Australian graphic art,"] ''Priority'' (Australia Post), 2000. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107224302/http://www1.auspost.com.au/priority/index.asp?area=features&article_id=707&issue_id=33 |date=7 November 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/articles/history-of-australian-legends-stamp-series|title=History of the Australian Legends stamp series 11 December 2015|website=Australia Post Collectables|access-date=3 November 2016}}</ref>
In addition to the philatelic commemoration, the honour is also known as the Australia Post Australian Legends Award.<ref name="auspost2005">Australia Post: [http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH3007%257EMO19,00.html "Previous Australia Post Australian Legends,"] 2005. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110200526/http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0%2C1467%2CCH3007~MO19%2C00.html |date=10 November 2007 }}</ref>
Russell Crowe appears in the series despite not holding Australian citizenship.<ref>{{cite news|author=Michael Idato |url=http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/russell-crowe-rejected-twice-as-australian-citizen-20150325-1m70m7.html |title=Russell Crowe rejected twice as Australian citizen |work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=2015-03-26 |accessdate=2015-06-09}}</ref> <!--Commented out per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The sources however might be useful to write some additional prose; so feel free hunting through them if you wish ==Issue details== * 1997 – Sir Donald Bradman, one of the world's greatest cricket players<ref name="some legends"/> * 1998 – ''Australian Olympians'', Betty Cuthbert, Herb Elliott, Dawn Fraser, Marjorie Jackson, Murray Rose and Shirley Strickland * 1999 – Arthur Boyd, artist<ref name="some legends"/> * 2000 – ''The Last Anzacs'', Roy Longmore,<ref name="nyt2001">Goldstein, Richard. [https://archive.today/20130104214859/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7D61339F931A35754C0A9679C8B63&scp=7&sq=New+Zealand+anzac&st=nyt "Roy Longmore Dies; Australian 'Legend,' 107,"] ''The New York Times''. 2 July 2001.</ref> Walter Parker--><!--not Walter Richard Parker (1881-1931)-- and Alec Campbell<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Legends in their lifetimes |journal=Australian Stamp Explorer |issue=60 |pages=4|date=April 2000 |url=http://auspost.com.au/education/stamps/media/pdfs/Explorer60.pdf |accessdate=24 February 2016 }}</ref> * 2001 – Slim Dusty, a celebrated country music composer and performer<ref name="some legends"/> * 2002 – ''Medical Scientists'', haematologist Professor Donald Metcalf, microbiologist Professor Nancy Millis, immunologists Professor Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Peter C. Doherty, and epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley * 2003 – ''Tennis Champions'', Margaret Court and Rod Laver<ref name="some legends"/> * 2004 – Dame Joan Sutherland, world-renowned soprano opera singer<ref name="some legends"/> * 2005 – ''Fashion designers'', Prue Acton, Jenny Bannister, Collette Dinnigan, Akira Isogawa, Joe Saba and Carla Zampatti<ref name="auspost2005"/> * 2006 – Barry Humphries, satirist and actor<ref name="some legends"/> * 2007 – ''Legends of Australian Horse Racing'', George Moore, Roy Higgins, Bart Cummings, Bob Ingham, John Tapp and Arthur "Scobie" Breasley<ref name="auspost2007"/> * 2008 – ''Australian Legends of Philanthropy'', Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Victor Smorgon and Loti Smorgon, Lady Mary Fairfax, and Frank Lowy<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.theage.com.au/national/new-stamps-honour-five-philanthropists-20080125-1o6n.html |title=New stamps honour five philanthropists |work=The Age |date=25 January 2008 |accessdate=30 July 2011 |agency=Australian Associated Press}}</ref> * 2009 – ''Australian Legends of the Screen'', Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Geoffrey Rush<ref name="auspost09">[http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH4661~MO19,00.html "Academy winners are stamped as 2009 Legends,"] (Australia Post), 2009 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206140747/http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0%2C1467%2CCH4661~MO19%2C00.html |date=6 February 2009 }}</ref> * 2010 – ''Legends of the Australian Word'', Peter Carey, Bryce Courtenay, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Tim Winton and David Malouf * 2011 – ''Advancing equality of women'', Eva Cox, Elizabeth Evatt, Germaine Greer and Anne Summers * 2012 – ''Australian Legends of Football'', Mark Schwarzer, Gary Ablett Jr, Billy Slater, David Pocock, Ron Barassi, Joe Marston, John Raper and David Campese<ref>{{cite web |title=Schwarzer stamps his name in history |url=http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/schwarzer-stamps-his-name-in-history/44679 |date=23 January 2008 |accessdate=23 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426130210/http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Schwarzer-stamps-his-name-in-history/44679 |archivedate=26 April 2012 }}</ref> * 2013 – ''Legends of Australian Music'', Cold Chisel, Men at Work, INXS, The Seekers, AC/DC, Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Kelly, and Molly Meldrum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://auspost.com.au/about-us/legends-of-australian-music-on-stamps.html |title=Legends of Australian music on stamps! |work=Australia Post |date=2013-01-18 |accessdate=2015-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617071014/http://auspost.com.au/about-us/legends-of-australian-music-on-stamps.html |archive-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2014 – ''Legends of Cooking'', Margaret Fulton, Maggie Beer, Stephanie Alexander, Neil Perry, and Kylie Kwong.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://auspost.com.au/about-us/legends-award-2014.html |title=About us – Australia Post |work=Australia Post |accessdate=2015-06-09}}</ref> * 2015 – ''The Victoria Cross'', Keith Payne, Mark Donaldson, Ben Roberts-Smith, Daniel Keighran, and Cameron Baird.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://auspost.newsroom.com.au/Content/Home/02-Home/Article/Victoria-Cross-Legends-honoured-on-postage-stamp/-2/-2/4019 |title=Victoria Cross Legends honoured on postage stamp |work=Australia Post |date=2015-01-22 |accessdate=2016-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315135310/https://auspost.newsroom.com.au/Content/Home/02-Home/Article/Victoria-Cross-Legends-honoured-on-postage-stamp/-2/-2/4019 |archive-date=15 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2016 – ''Legends of Singles Tennis'', Pat Cash, Ashley Cooper, Roy Emerson, Neale Fraser, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, John Newcombe, Patrick Rafter, Tony Roche, Ken Rosewall, Frank Sedgman, and Fred Stolle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.australiapostcollectables.com.au/blog/australian-legends-of-singles-tennis/ |title=Australian tennis greats honoured as 2016 Australia Post Legends |publisher=Australia Post Collectibles |date=2016-01-21 |accessdate=2016-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123052818/http://www.australiapostcollectables.com.au/blog/australian-legends-of-singles-tennis/ |archive-date=23 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2017 – ''Indigenous Leaders'', Tom Calma, Lowitja O'Donoghue and Galarrwuy Yunupingu.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Legends 2017|url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/australian-legends-2017|website=Australia Post Collectables|accessdate=6 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> * 2018 – ''Legends of TV Entertainment'', Daryl Somers, Denise Drysdale, Bert Newton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Ray Martin<ref>{{cite web |title=Australian Legends 2018 |url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/australian-legends-2018 |website=Australian Post |accessdate=13 August 2018}}</ref> * 2019 – ''Legends of Children's Literature'', Mem Fox, Morris Gleitzman, Leigh Hobbs, Alison Lester and Shaun Tan<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/australian-legends-of-childrens-literature|title=Australian Legends of Children’s Literature|website=Australia Post Collectables|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> *2020 – ''Legends of Comedy'', Adam Hills, Noeline Brown, Magda Szubanski, Garry McDonald<ref>{{Cite web|title=Australian Legends of Comedy|url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/australian-legends-of-comedy|access-date=2021-02-15|website=Australia Post Collectables|language=en}}</ref> *2021 – ''Legends of Cricket'', Allan Border, Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie, Dennis Lillee, Ellyse Perry, Ricky Ponting<ref>{{Cite web|title=Living legends of cricket honoured in this year’s Australia Post Legends Awards|url=https://newsroom.auspost.com.au/article/living-legends-of-cricket-honoured-in-this-year-s-australia-post-legends-awards|access-date=2021-02-16|website=newsroom.auspost.com.au}}</ref> --> ==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== * "Australia Day: Australian Legends," [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090306023851/http://www.auspost.com.au/download/bull_254.pdf ''Stamp Bulletin'' (Australia Post).] No. 254. March–May 2000. * "156 years collecting Australian graphic art," [https://web.archive.org/web/20080726041426/http://www1.auspost.com.au/priority/index.asp?issue_id=33 ''Priority'' (Au00.]
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