Kara Moana Healey

Her parents, William John Vernon and Mary Vernon née Dunstone, were from Australia and in 1906 the family returned to Australia and settled in Mysia, north west of Bendigo.

After finishing high school she became a teacher's assistant at Stuart Mill State School near St Arnaud, Victoria until she met and married William Stanley McGreevy (known as Stan) in 1925.

In 1948 she married Jim Healey, the caretaker at Tarra Valley National Park; he died in 1952.

[3][4] Neville Walters,[5][6] a scientist at the CSIRO,[clarification needed] described Healey's contributions as "easily the best" of the 150 or more collectors Australia wide, and said "She knew every lyrebird in the park as well as many of the pilot birds, Crimson Rosellas and yellow robins.

She was awarded a certificate of merit for outstanding support by the Save the Children Australia.