Broken Hill Who's Who
Public Profile
Coach Aza
For us, it begins with water, with a story, and with a slash (/).
The slash is more than just a symbol —
It’s a lifeline. A current.
A reminder that we are not separate, but with.
With the game. With the land. With each other.
With those who came before, and those who are yet to come.
This is the story of the WaterBros and SistaFlo/Ws.
We are not athletes. Not influencers.
We are witnesses.
Grassroots storytellers.
The ones who show up —
to carry water, to run lines, to capture moments in the dirt,
on the edge of the field, in the heat of the grind.
We are the unseen force that has always been there.
Every splash of hydration, every call from the boundary,
every pep talk at halftime, every parent on the fence.
We move with the game,
we carry the Flo/W.
Our symbol, the slash ( / ), is inspired by the tail of the stingray —
graceful and powerful, protective and precise.
It slashes through time, connecting the old with the new,
ceremony with sport, the sacred with the everyday.
It is the mark we wear, and the rhythm we follow.
And @ —
the spiral, the body, the wings, the eye, the echo of everything.
We don’t just tag it. We live it.
It captures presence. Attention. Connection.
Where we are @/
As a Culture.
As Individuals.
As Community.
Together, @/ become more than brand marks.
They are ceremonial signs.
Markings of a movement.
Signals of belonging.
This is not just a campaign.
It is a resurrection.
A global storytelling movement led by those who stand
in the shadows of the game, and shine light from the sidelines.
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WaterBros and Sistas Worldwide.
Powered by the Flo/W.
Guided by the slash.
Carried by water.
Connected through story.
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Welcome to the WaterBro & SistaFlo/W World Wide Movement.
The current begins here —
with every sip.
We
/ Flo/W /
T.O.WaterBro @/
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Distinguished and Famous people from Broken Hill
Broken Hill's mining and artistic histories overlap in lives shaped by work, observation and the surrounding country. These connections include a boundary rider's claim and two painters who made the city a long-term home.
⛏️ Charles Rasp
Charles Rasp was working as a boundary rider on Mount Gipps station when he pegged a claim on the Broken Hill outcrop in September 1883. He initially thought the mineral deposit was tin. A syndicate of seven took up the ridge, and the later discovery of rich silver ore led to the formation of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company in 1885. Rasp subsequently moved to Adelaide. His local significance lies in that early mining venture, not a lifelong residence in the city; an imperfect first identification still led to an extraordinary mineral development.
🎨 Pro Hart
Pro Hart was born in Broken Hill in 1928 and spent his early years on the family sheep station, Larloona. After moving into town in his twenties, he worked underground while continuing to draw and paint. Mining life and its characters became subjects for his work, alongside the wider outback. He also made sculpture in welded steel, bronze and ceramics. International recognition did not remove his working base from Broken Hill, where he maintained a gallery and died in 2006. His artistic career grew out of the district's lived experience as well as its landscapes.
🎨 Jack Absalom
Jack Absalom made Broken Hill his home for roughly seventy years, establishing a gallery in Chapple Street. One of the five “Brushmen of the Bush”, he painted outback landscapes and exhibited beyond Australia. His public work also included books and television programmes about bushcraft and safe travel through remote country. He had been born in South Australia, so Broken Hill's claim is the substantial adult life and creative work he built there. His gallery connects that career with paintings, books and the opals he also collected.
🩺 Vivian Bullwinkel
Vivian Bullwinkel trained as a nurse and midwife in Broken Hill before joining the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1941. Her service took her to Malaya and Singapore, caring for soldiers wounded during the Japanese advance. After an evacuation ship was sunk, she survived the massacre of nurses on Banka Island and subsequently endured more than three years as a prisoner of war. After liberation, nursing and remembrance remained central to her life. She returned to Banka Island in 1992 to unveil a shrine to the nurses who had been killed. Her story connects professional care with an enduring responsibility to remember colleagues who never came home.
⚙️ Essington Lewis
Essington Lewis worked for BHP at Broken Hill after training as a mining engineer, beginning a career that took him into the leadership of Australian industry. He became the company’s general manager in 1921 and looked overseas for ways to improve mining and steel production. Carrying notebooks on his travels, he collected ideas as methodically as other travellers might collect souvenirs. During the Second World War he directed munitions production, coordinating resources and factories making weapons, vehicles and equipment. He later returned to BHP and became its chairman. The scale of those national responsibilities grew from a working life grounded in engineering, organisation and close attention to how things were made.
