Departures of note

Sheila Kennelly was a British-born Australian actress whose career spanned more than five decades. From the late 1950s she worked almost exclusively in theatre and music hall before beginning her screen career in the late 1960s, going on to appear in a wide range of television soap operas, serials, sitcoms and mini-series. She was best known to audiences for her role as Floss McPhee in the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away. She died at her home in New South Wales in September 2026 at the age of 88.