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NORMAN LINDSAY 1879-1969 | VIC, NSW | Artist, painter, author and sculptor Lindsay was an accomplished black and white artist, painter, author, and sculptor whose technical skills were often lost in the controversy over his frequently vulgar or risqué subject matter. He became a household name through his cartoons and illustrations of the political commentary published in The Bulletin and other magazines for 50 years from 1901. He maintained cartoons should reflect the views of the publication, rather than the artist, earning notoriety through his visual definition of The Bulletin’s isolationist and racist editorial policies. He championed the role of the artist as a moral and social critic in an era torn apart by two great wars. He became at ease with many areas of artistic comment: satire, comedy, anti-war, the freedom movement, an interest in model yachts, and erotica. Bruce Petty, on Norman Lindsay Source: halloffame.melbournepressclub.com/article/norman-lindsay

ESTELLE THOMSON. A versatile little lady is Mrs. Estelle Thomson, the author of a charming booklet on Australian wild flowers. Living in happy domesticity in her home on the Eight Mile Plains, she is within easy reach of her beloved bush and its rich harvest of shrub and vine and flower. Mrs. Thomson chose her parents well, inheriting from one her love of nature, and from the other artistry that with a deft touch of pencil and brush can make form and colour the medium of her beauty. At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Thomson was elected as President of the Queensland Naturalist Club, an honour that has only been accorded to one other woman in this State. Botanists, of course, have named and labelled all our Queensland flowers. Mrs. Thomson is interested in an attempt being made to add fanciful descriptive names to many of these flowers—names that the children growing up will remember and love. Not content with helping her own three young Queenslanders to study nature, she has visited a country school week-in and week-out to teach the students there something of the joy and loveliness he found in bushland. A fitting title for her is surely this: "The little lady of the flowers." FLAME. Source: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/182842542# The Week, 27, May 1931

Above we see the team adding stripes and Amtrak graphics to the RTL.

One Flickr user claims three RTL-IIIs (upgraded RTLs) still exist: