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Anh's Brush With Fame

Fiona Wood
ABC  |  June 28, 2017

Media arts

Intercultural understanding

Ethical understanding

Personal and social capability

Visual arts
9-10 11-12
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Anh paints burns specialist and 2005 Australian of the Year Fiona Wood. The daughter of a Yorkshire miner became one of our greatest medical minds and inspires Anh with her enthusiasm and optimism.

Anh paints burns specialist and 2005 Australian of the Year Fiona Wood. The daughter of a Yorkshire miner became one of our greatest medical minds and inspires Anh with her enthusiasm and optimism.

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