Mike Hayes (11)

Australian Banjo Player, Songwriter and former Darwin ABC journalist. (Died 10th February, 2003) Whose life on an odd hobby farm at Gundaroo, near Canberra, with his blushing child bride, became a long running source of entertainment on radio and in books. Acknowledged as one of the pioneers of Australian Country Music, he and his brother Peter Hayes (8) formed the Hayes Brothers band and their Bluegrass Ramblers were said to be Australia's first true bluegrass group. Another claim to fame for Mike was winning the highly prestigious World Yarn Spinning Championship in Darwin, downing veteran raconteur and former NT yarn spinning champion, Communist author and song writer, Frank Hardy (2).