High on the hill: Melbourne's iconic Nylex Clock

High on the hill: Melbourne's iconic Nylex Clock

Independent Australia
21 Dec 2025, 06:30 GMT+

It's the end of another year, so time to look back at some of the iconic photos featured in EYE FOR AUSTRALIA in 2025.

December's gift(above) is animage of the man who once maintainedMelbourne'sprominent Nylex Clock. The site featuring the clock has long since been deserted after Nylex closed in 2004. The signcrowns the14-storey silos situated between Melbourne's Yarra River and theMCG, and famously appears in singerPaul Kelly's track'Leaps and Bounds'.

IA series Eye for Australia looks at the nation through the lens of award-winning photojournalistBill McAuley.

We hope you enjoy our pictorial wrap-up for the year that was.

Eye for Australia: 2025

November

Gough Whitlam, the day after the infamous sacking of the Whitlam Government (1975)

October

Australian boxing world champion, Lionel Rose(1988)

September

Late American musicianFrank Zappawas a clever, complex, "one-of-a-kind" artist(1973)

August

The boy who went bush:Matthew Naughton, "wearing" hisrabbit trap(1978)

July

Cleo Laine jazzes up the SydneyOpera House(Circa, 1975)

June

Dame Edna Everage: The cultural ambassador who made them blush(2008)

May

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush 'shines' on(Circa, 2000)

April

Adigger walks 'to remember them'(Circa, 2000)

March

Colleen McCullough's 'Thorn Birds' still wears the crown (Circa, 2000)

February

David Williamson 'Don'sParty' was just the beginning(1979)

January

Black Monday: When money talked in Melbourne... and said 'goodbye'(1987)

Bill McAuley's 40-plus-year news career began in 1969 as a cadet photographer at 'The Age' in Melbourne.

Bill has several publishedcollections, including 'Portraits of the Soul: A lifetime of images with Bill McAuley'. To see more from Bill, clickHERE.

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