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🏉 Brendon Parker
Brendon Parker’s football journey began at Nathalia, where he won the club’s best-and-fairest award as a teenager. After success at Tongala, he reached Carlton and played five AFL matches across 1992 and 1993. His later career included North Adelaide and coaching before a return to Nathalia in 2004. Back with the Purples, he became an influential forward during a remarkable run of local premiership success. The short AFL record tells only part of the story: his years in country football carried achievements and community significance of their own. Nathalia was both the starting point and the place to which a much-travelled player returned.
🏛️ Sir Frank Selleck
Frank Selleck was born at Nathalia in 1895 into a milling family. He moved to Melbourne, worked in the Victorian Audit Office and served in the First World War, receiving the Military Cross. Accountancy, cinema interests and municipal politics followed. As Melbourne’s lord mayor from 1954 to 1957, he helped prepare and promote the city during the 1956 Olympics. He had also been an early treasurer of Melbourne Legacy. The formal honours did not apparently require endless ceremony: despite his military background and knighthood, he asked uniformed council attendants to stop saluting him.
