Claire Mary Elizabeth Dunne OAM (born 1937) is an Irish-born Australian actress, author, lecturer and broadcaster.
She starred as "Kay" in the seminal Australian film They're a Weird Mob (1966) and was also a regular on Beauty and the Beast with Maggie Tabberer.
[2] In 1986, then-prime minister Bob Hawke delivered a "series of blows aimed at multiculturalism", including a decision to close the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs[3] and proposed legislation that would merge SBS into the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Now it is the SBS-ABC merger in spite of the fact that only six months ago the Government decided to let it be independent.
She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1999 for "service to multiculturalism, particularly through the promotion of Celtic culture, and to ethnic broadcasting".