Dick smith australia biography

Richard Harold SmithAC (born 18 March ) is an Australianbusinessman, aviator, philanthropist and political activist. He is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Dick Smith Foods and Australian Geographic. He was named as the Australian of the Year. In , he co-founded the media production company Smith & Nasht. The reason for this company is to make movies about global problems. He also made the first balloon trip across Australia in June ^[1]

Smith was born in Roseville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. He is married to Phillipa Aird McManarney. The couple have two daughters, Jenny and Hayley.^[2]

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‘I never met my Uncle Harold — he died in the Second World War as a Rat of Tobruk — a young soldier with his whole life in front of him. Harold was an electronics genius.

Before the war, at his parents’ home in Roseville, Sydney, he created a radio room crammed with equipment he built himself. After his death my grandparents locked the room; everything inside was just as he left it.

I have vivid memories, as a boy of five, being allowed in — I would stand among this wonderful radio equipment and marvel at it. This is where my interest in radio began: Harold was the inspiration behind my career.

Today I have Harold’s diary. It was given to me years ago by my grandmother, a small brown leather diary, worn and much-loved. As a young man myself I was particularly struck by Harold’s entries about a young lady he was incredibly fond of, and whom he referred to only as ‘JA’.

Intrigued, I asked my mother if she knew who the mysterious ‘JA’ was. ‘That’s Joan Ashburner,’ she said. ‘She’s now the Mrs Moppet, you know, who lives around the corner. We think Joan and Harold were secretly engaged, but they never announced it, and Harold died before we could find out.’

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