[7] His performance was considered to be as good as those of Stan Rowley, who won the Australian amateur sprint titles that season.

Dave Strickland subsequently went on to play one senior game of Australian rules football with Melbourne-based VFL team St Kilda in 1900[8] and six with WAFL club West Perth spread across the 1901 and 1909 seasons.

[10] After high school, she entered the University of Western Australia from where in 1946 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics.

In her spare time she lectured in mathematics and physics[1] to returned servicemen at Perth Technical College, played wing in the university hockey team and gained a reputation as an extremely gifted sprinter and hurdler.

[11] While teaching at Perth Technical College, she was coached by Austin Robertson, a former world professional sprint champion and South Melbourne footballer.

[14] From the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, de la Hunty was a perennial candidate for state and federal political office, although never elected.

[15]: 76 At the federal level, all but one of de la Hunty's runs for office were made as a Democrats candidate.

At all other elections, she contested the Senate, where she was generally placed second or third on the Democrats' group voting ticket.

[15]: 350  Although never elected to parliament, de la Hunty served two periods as a City of Melville councillor, from 1988 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2003.

De la Hunty was one of several female Australian Olympians who carried the Olympic Flame at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Games.

[10] She was criticised by some for that but asserted she had a right to do so and the income generated would help pay for her grandchildren's education and allow a sizeable donation to assist in securing old-growth forests from use by developers.

In 1950, she married geologist Lawrence Edmund de la Hunty, who had been one of her students at Perth Technical College.

[citation needed] Phillip's intended medical career was destroyed by heroin addiction though he later graduated with honours in Science.