In all there were more than 100 artworks in the Nickl collection, some from other well-known artists including Norman Lindsay. Over the past 18 months the Nickls have been working to “repatriate” pieces with the families of the artists who created them, while each of Joseph and Josie Nickl’s descendants have selected one piece to keep.

On Wednesday the Nickl family gathered at the NGA to officially hand over the painting.

“Our grandparents would be super stoked,” a proud Tracy said as he watched the unveiling of the painting.

The National Gallery has three works by Robertshaw, but Bush walkers is its first, major figurative painting to be acquired for the national collection.

The acquisition is seen as a major step in the gallery’s commitment to acquiring the work of women artists, especially those that have historically been overlooked such as Robertshaw.

And now, courtesy of a small plaque adjacent to the painting, the Nickl family’s extraordinary generosity won’t be forgotten.

Zimmermann market leaders

From tenacious, hard-working daughters of a migrant panel beater in Cronulla where mum did the books, to billion-dollar fashion powerhouses, Sydney’s Nicky and Simone Zimmermann clearly deserve all their success.

And no one was applauding louder this week than Reverend Danielle Hemsworth-Smith from the Paddington Uniting Church, which hosts the weekly Saturday markets where the Zimmermanns first made their mark in 1990.

But the sisters are not the only success story from the Paddington Markets, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. Others include Dinosaur Designs which is famous for its handmade resin homewares and jewellery. Co-founder Louise Olsen recalls crossing paths with the Zimmermanns and said the markets were “a great hothouse to test products”.

Other Australian fashion luminaries that started out shopping their creations at the markets include Studibaker Hawk, Von Troska, Black Vanity, Lisa Ho and Johnny Schembri.

“We are really focussed on the markets continuing as an incubator of creativity,” Hemsworth-Smith said, adding the next Zimmermann could be setting up their stall this Saturday.

Nicky Zimmermann started making her own clothes around the age of 13, going on to study at East Sydney Tech (now the Fashion Design Studio at Ultimo TAFE). She then started making and selling clothes at the markets.

She made $1000 in her first market run with a series of red, white and black stretch T-shirts and cotton voile shirts with embroidered sleeves and blanket stitching.

Soon after sister Simone quit her job and joined the business, telling Harper’s Bazaar Australia in March: “We were ready to make the step to work together. So I took my bonus and my computer system and printer and set up shop with Nicky.”

Clearly, it turned out to be a canny move.

King Kyle’s report card

Next month Kyle Sandilands’ bosses at KIISFM have to report to the media watchdog about the measures it has taken since his inexplicable comments mocking Paralympians, which resulted in him being ordered to undergo “sensitivity training”.

ARN agreed to deliver the training to the program’s hosts, producers, censors and other relevant staff, and to report its progress every six months for two years.

On Thursday the Australian Communications and Media Authority also admonished him over other comments from a year ago – which PS first highlighted – where he described the monkeypox virus as “the big gay disease” among other questionable commentary. ACMA’s most recent findings are to be implemented into future training and reporting.

PS has repeatedly asked Sandilands’ bosses what his “sensitivity” training has involved, but so far they have declined to share any details.

Twiggy’s outback bash

The dress code is “cocktail”, but given the venue is in the dusty Pilbarra iron-ore fields at the appropriately named Solomon Mine, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s party invitation to mark 20 years of Fortescue Mining has set tongues wagging.

There’s no mention of his former wife Nicola on the invitation, which clearly states Forrest as the sole host. This raises the obvious question if she, now being a larger stakeholder in the empire, will actually be there.

Festivities are due to kick off on August 26, with guests invited to stay the night in the outback location some 60km north of Tom Price in Western Australia. And with the Working Class Man Jimmy Barnes himself belting out his trademark bangers, it’s set to be quite a party.

Kylie fans in a spin

It all started out so promisingly for Kylie Minogue who announced her Las Vegas “residency” at the Venetian casino a fortnight ago. But since tickets went on sale online in the early hours of Wednesday morning, would-be concert-goers across the world have been venting.

Site crashes, hours-long wait times, an inability to check out and claims of price gouging from $US950 ($1448) to $US1150 ($1752) after the site refreshed: it had all the hallmarks of the recent Taylor Swift Ticketek disaster.

But none of this is surprising. Unlike other big-name residencies (Celine Dion did five nights a week at Caesars Palace for three years), Minogue’s mini residence starting in November is just on weekends in a room that fits around 1000 people and there are about 10 shows scheduled. You do the maths.

Patty cakes

He’s still reportedly earning around $10 million a year playing for the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA, but it appears expat basketball superstar Patty Mills didn’t have to pay a cent for his birthday celebrations in Roseberry last night.

PS was alerted to the celebrations courtesy of the tequila and fashion sponsors who were hosting the shindig, complete with a socialite rent-a-crowd list – some who have never even met the birthday boy – on hand to mark the auspicious occasion. The price of fame is indeed high.

Stealth wealth

Leonard Joel Auctions chief bauble boffin Hamish Sharma shared a story this week about a wealthy client who turned her nose up at an expensive diamond jewel because she did not want to be seen wearing something that was so obviously expensive.

Instead, she dropped $300,000 on a diamond bracelet that was more, ahem, restrained.

Sharma says the “stealth wealth” trend, the opposite of blinged-up status symbols, is having an impact on jewellery sales in Australia. Not that it seems evident in the lineup of items about to go under the hammer at the auction house’s next Important Jewels sale in Woollahra.

Among the items is a brilliant yellow diamond necklace from the exclusive American jeweller Kwiat that weighs about 81.60 carats and is mounted in platinum and 18ct gold. Even to PS’s untrained eye it looks expensive, and turns out it is, with a price estimate between $240,000 and $300,000.

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