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What the 2015 feature covered
PerthNow described the series as STM’s “75 Best & Brightest” roundup. Part one focused on business, health and science, though its profiles also reached into art, archaeology and engineering. Companion installments were labelled fashion, food, arts and entertainment, and sport. The feature did not set out a shared rubric for comparing the people, so its “best and brightest” framing is editorial rather than a transparent comparative ranking. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Business, building and technology
Frank Tedesco: a carrot-growing family business
The feature traced Tedesco’s move from mixed vegetables to specializing in carrots. It reported that the family farm packaged and shipped about 150 tonnes daily. PerthNow also attributed to the WA Department of Agriculture and Food figures of 64,430 tonnes of carrots exported in 2012–13, worth $48 million and representing 94 per cent of Australian carrot exports. These are historical figures reported in 2015, not current production or export estimates. Tedesco’s stated principle was: “I’ve always believed in quality before quantity.” PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Jon Stone: from apprenticeship to hospital construction
Stone’s profile followed his path from a bricklaying apprenticeship into construction management and his work overseeing construction of Fiona Stanley Hospital. The feature quoted him describing the industry’s central concern: “This industry is all about people.” PerthNow, 1 June 2015
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Mark Stothard: an ambitious Echo Yachts project
PerthNow reported on a planned superyacht project at Henderson. The 2015 description specified a $100 million project involving an 84-metre trimaran, a 55-metre sun deck, accommodation for 65 guests and 11 support boats, including a 46-metre shadow yacht and a 12-metre supply catamaran. The reported workforce had grown from 70 to 220, with 300 expected by launch. Those dimensions, costs, staffing numbers and launch expectations describe the project as reported at the time; the forecast is not evidence of what was ultimately built. Stothard, identified as a boatbuilder and Echo Yachts co-owner, called it “one of the most exciting projects of all time in the shipbuilding industry.” PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Michael Ottaviano: wave energy and desalination
The feature discussed Carnegie Wave Energy’s ocean-wave technology and a grid-connected array at Garden Island. It described the array’s electricity generation and forecast a contribution to desalinated-water supply. The article’s account is a 2015 report; it does not establish the project’s later performance or current status. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
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Science, space and archaeology
Josh Richards: science graduate and Mars One contender
PerthNow introduced Richards as a comedian and Curtin University science graduate, and reported that he was among the top 100 contenders for the Mars One project. It also recounted his varied work history and bucket-list ambitions. The selection and travel details belong to the feature’s 2015 moment, not a current account of a space mission or Richards’s status. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Enrico Palermo: leading a Virgin Galactic team after a fatal accident
The profile described UWA graduate Palermo as leading a 270-person Virgin Galactic team after a fatal test-flight accident and quoted his reflections on the team’s response and outlook. It also mentioned a $250,000 ticket price as reported at the time. These details are period claims; the feature does not establish present roles, prices or commercial-spaceflight outcomes. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
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Veth’s profile covered shipwreck-protection work and archaeological findings on Barrow Island and the North-West Shelf. As reported in 2015, his account referred to more than 40,000 years of human occupation, an 18,000-year reference to the last ice age, and beads described as 30,000 years old. Veth said: “Someone was making and wearing ornamental gear at least 30,000 years ago.” The ages and context here are the feature’s reported claims, not a substitute for the underlying archaeological publications. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Stelarc: performance at the edge of body technology
The artist’s profile described body-technology performances and lab work at Curtin University. It mentioned a kinetic sculpture, five centimetres long, inserted 40 centimetres into his stomach, as well as a prototype robotic orthosis. The article said the orthosis needed further engineering before testing; it should not be read as a proven treatment or an available product. Stelarc described his practice this way: “My artistic work is exploratory and happens at the edges, which is what this award is about.” PerthNow, 1 June 2015
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Melanie Walls: fertility research using IVM
PerthNow described Walls’s UWA PhD work at Fertility Specialists of WA, involving in-vitro maturation (IVM) and an embryoscope. The feature printed a 16 per cent IVM success rate for most clinics and 35–40 per cent at FSWA with an embryoscope. It did not provide independently validated comparative evidence in the account summarized here, and those historical percentages are not current clinical guidance. They should not be used to estimate an individual’s chances or compare clinics today. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Anne Carey: nursing during the Ebola response
The article profiled Carey, an Esperance nurse who volunteered in Sierra Leone during the Ebola response. Her comments reflected on the work of care teams and what institutions could learn from the outbreak. “There are lots of lessons we learn in fighting Ebola,” she said. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
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Angus Turner: a planned mobile eye-health service
Turner’s profile described Lions Outback Vision’s proposed mobile service. The plan was reported as having capacity for 200 patients a week and travel of more than 24,000 kilometres annually; those were plan figures, not proof that the service later operated at that scale. The article also attributed to Turner a blindness rate among Indigenous Australians 6.2 times the rate for non-Indigenous Australians, and the claim that 94 per cent of vision loss was preventable or treatable. These are statistics as reported in 2015, not current clinical or population-health guidance. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Barry Marshall: a Nobel laureate in a popularity poll
The feature recalled a Nobel Foundation popularity poll in which Marshall had ranked second before later falling behind Malala Yousafzai. That ranking was time-bound. It also noted that Marshall and Robin Warren received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work related to ulcers. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
A historical business-list sidebar
A “Did you know?” sidebar cited BRW’s rich-executive list and gave shareholding valuations for three Mineral Resources executives: $156.5 million, $37.8 million and $26.6 million. These valuations and list positions were reported in the 2015 feature and should not be treated as present-day wealth estimates. PerthNow, 1 June 2015
Quick Recap
How to read the roundup now
- Use it as an archival snapshot of whom PerthNow profiled in 2015, rather than as a current list of Western Australian leaders.
- Read project schedules, selection claims, prices and proposed service capacity as statements or forecasts made at that time—not confirmed outcomes.
- Treat the fertility and vision figures as claims printed in the feature, not as updated medical evidence or advice.
- For current biographies, project status or clinical information, consult current sources specific to the person, organization or health question.
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