Outstanding People of Australia Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• gillard: first female prime minister of australia
• freeman: aboriginal athlete who lit the olympic flame in sydney 2000
• minogue: australian pop star known as the “princess of pop”
• barty: tennis champion of indigenous australian heritage who won wimbledon in 2021
• schmidt: nobel prize-winning astronomer who discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe
• irwin: famous wildlife expert and host of the crocodile hunter
• blanchett: academy award-winning actress who played galadriel in the lord of the rings
• wood: surgeon who invented “spray-on skin” for burn victims
• batty: activist who campaigned against domestic violence after her son’s tragic death
• thorpe: olympic swimmer nicknamed “the thorpedo”
• wales: country where julia gillard was born
• australia: name of the zoo founded by the irwin family in queensland
• cricket: sport ash barty played during her break from tennis