James Hamilton

First Appearance: Episode 671
Last Appearance: Episode 708

Key Storylines:
After Andy Green unearths a previously-undiscovered will at Woombai, which shows that Gordon's father intended to leave Woombai to Gordon's brother, James, instead of Gordon himself, Gordon immediately arranges for a solicitor to contact James so that he can inherit what is rightfully his. James has been working in an opal mine in Quilpie in Queensland and is already well-off, but he has a vendetta against his brother for always being their father's favourite, and he decides to collect what is rightfully his. He subsequently turns up at Dural and causes havoc with his drunk and raucous ways. He eventually admits to Gordon that he's always been jealous of him because their father put him first. This helps clear the air and the two brothers make up.

James is blackmailed by his former business partner in Quilpie, Duncan Phipps, about the fact that James killed a man up there: Ben Simmonds. James insists that it was an accident - he hadn't realised that Ben had been in a mine when he exploded some charges. Gordon eventually resolves the situation after discovering bullets that implicate Duncan in Simmonds' murder.

When Alison Carr needs to stop Wayne and Mary Reynolds marrying, James offers to fly her up to Brolga - where the ceremony is taking place - as it's the quickest way to get there. He doesn't take the time to refuel first, though, and as the 'plane's tanks run out, the craft comes down in the middle of some woods. James and Alison spend a lot of time together, waiting to be rescued, and James finds himself becoming very fond of the woman. It isn't long before he asks her to marry him - and although she turns him down initially, she eventually says yes! James has to return to Quilpie to tie-up some business matters before the wedding. It doesn't take long, though, before he's hitting on local women and talking about his meal-ticket back in the city. He's only been back in Quilpie for a short time when he receives a letter from David Palmer, in which David outlines in anger all the rotten things that Alison - in her previous guise of Patricia - has done over the years. James reads the letter and then decides to go out, get drunk and pick up the first girl he can find. The two of them end up at a funfair and James decides to impress the girl by going on the ferris wheel - but not content with sitting in one of the cradles, he steps out onto one of the supporting steel girders. Unfortunately, he slips and falls to his death. In his will, he leaves everything to Alison.

Enid Hansen

First Appearance: Episode 289
Last Appearance: Episode 346

Key Storylines:
Enid Hansen, together with her husband, Warren, raised the boy to whom Fiona Thompson gave birth on 1 January 1953 and who was taken from Fiona by her grandparents when he was only a couple of days old; the Hansens had been told that they were too old to adopt officially. They name the baby 'Terry'. When Wayne visits the Hansens in 1983 to tell them that Terry has raped Jill O'Donnel, Enid initially misunderstands his talk about things being kept secret and tells him that Terry is their boy and that Fiona has no claim on him. It doesn't take Wayne long to put two and two together and work out the truth about Terry's parentage. Enid then talks to Fiona about her being his real mother, not realising that Fiona doesn't know, either. She pleads with Fiona not to tell Terry the truth - but it isn't long before all is revealed.

Terry Hansen

First Appearance: Episode 281
Last Appearance: Episode 518

Key Storylines:
Terry is a larrikin who likes a few tinnies and a laugh. He is a mechanic by trade and is popular around Woombai, having lived there all his life. When he meets Jill O'Donnel, he assumes she's the prositute that he's heard is working the area. He comes on to her, but when she refuses his advances he rapes her. Jill doesn't press charges, though. Terry then learns that she's pregnant and that she's having his child. Meanwhile, he's shocked to learn that the people he thought were his parents - Warren and Enid - aren't; he discovers that Fiona Thompson is his mother. He loses his sight in a tree-felling accident and spends several weeks recovering. He ends up in a tug-of-love battle with John Palmer over Terry's ex-girlfriend, Lisa Cook. Lisa eventually decides that she doesn't want either of the men. Jill gives birth to a daughter, who she names Fee, after Fiona. When the grandfather of her late-husband, Brian, turns up in Australia asking her and Fee to come and live in Ireland (he believes that Brian is Fee's father), Jill decides to accept the offer. Not wanting to lose contact with his daughter, Terry kidnaps Fee, but is later tracked down by the police and arrested. After being found guilty at trial, he's sentenced to a three-month prison sentence. He serves his sentence on a prison farm, and is let out on parole towards the end of 1984, after which he heads back up to Woombai and lands himself another job working in a garage. Jill and Fee visit him a few months later and end up staying.

Ruby Hawkins

First Appearance: Episode 765
Last Appearance: Episode 836

Key Storylines:
Prostitute, Ruby Hawkins, gave birth to Craig in the late-1960s. The guy who got her pregnant went overseas and she lost touch with him. She conned another guy into thinking Craig was his, but when he found out Ruby had been lying, he put her in hospital. Ruby decided that she couldn't cope with single-motherhood, so she handed Craig over to a neighbour, Maisie, who'd agreed to look after him.

Eighteen years later, Craig comes back into Ruby's life after discovering that he'd been fostered. Ruby looks at how he's made a success of himself and immediately decides to use him to earn herself some easy money. Despite Craig's pleas that he wants to get to know her as a mother, Ruby makes it clear that she's not interested. Meanwhile, Ruby blackmails Colin Hopkins over the fact that they had an affair. When the blackmail becomes too much for him, Colin murders her.

Jennifer Healy

First Appearance: Episode 219
Last Appearance: Episode 257

Key Storylines:
Jennifer was adopted by Martin Healy after her father - one of Martin's airforce colleagues - was killed in the Vietnam war. She returns to Australia after some time spent travelling abroad, but has a secret: she's pregnant to Martin's eldest son, Adam, whom she met while overseas; she doesn't tell Martin who the father is, though. Martin tells her that he'll support her, but Jen finds it hard to live with the guilt and she turns to Patricia, who persuades her to have an abortion - a decision which Jen reluctantly goes along with. When she admits to Martin that she's got rid of the baby and that its father was Adam, Martin tells Jen that he's disgusted with her. Jen moves out to stay with an aunt for a while, but she returns to Melbourne when Martin comes to see her to try and reconcile the family. However, she has to face further trauma when Peter receives a letter from Adam stating that Martin was the reason that her father died. She moves in with the Palmers, but then faces another shock when Martin commits suicide. After the funeral, she returns to live with her aunt.

Peter Healy

First Appearance: Episode 201
Last Appearance: Episode 276

Key Storylines:
Martin Healy's 18-year old son is a fitness fanatic, budding artist and cook, who most definitely isn't following his father into the airforce; in fact, he and Martin conflict frequently over Martin's involvement in the Vietnam war. The conflict worsens when Peter fails to fix the gate that protects the Healys' swimming pool, leading to a Sharon, a young girl from next door, toddling through, falling into the pool and drowning: Martin blames his son for the child's death - even though Sharon's parents forgive him - and dishes out his own brutal brand of medicine, holding Peter under the water in the pool until he, too, almost drowns. Peter moves out of home, but has to come to terms with his relationship with his father when he commits suicide. He decides the best way he can honour his father is to join the airforce after all.

Colin Hopkins

First Appearance: Episode 839
Last Appearance: Episode 850

Key Storylines:
Jean Hopkins' weak-willed husband imports construction materials but forges the paperwork, thus ripping off the Customs and the Taxation departments. His boredom with Jean and his weakness for women lead him to have a fling with Ruby Hawkins - but she then starts blackmailing him over it. When the blackmail demands become too much, Colin takes the ultimate option: he kills her. He and Jean frame Craig Maxwell for the murder - but when Craig goes on the run, Colin finds himself trying to track him down.

Craig manages to stay one step ahead, leading Colin to become more and more nervous about being identified as Ruby's murderer - and when he finds himself confronted by an apparently-alive Ruby, his composure falls apart completely and he cries that he didn't mean to kill her. To his horror, the doors of a nearby van are flung open and a number of police officers emerge. Colin is arrested, shocked that he's actually been taken in by Beryl Palmer dressed to look like Ruby.

Jean Hopkins

First Appearance: Episode 741
Last Appearance: Episode 850

Key Storylines:
Jean Hopkins found herself lumbered with looking after the young Craig Maxwell after her sister, Maisie - Craig's foster mother - died. Craig's real mother was prostitute and Beryl Palmer lookalike, Ruby Hawkins. Craig had never been told he was fostered, and he believed Maisie was his mother until Jean told him otherwise. When he sets off to track down his real mother, Jean hopes that that is the last she'll have to have to do with him.

Unfortunately, a complication is thrown into the works by Jean's weak-willed husband, Colin: he has an affair with Ruby and Ruby gleefully blackmails him over it. When the blackmail demands become too much, Colin murders Ruby - and he and Jean frame Craig. Craig goes on the run and enlists Beryl to dress up as Ruby's ghost to trick Colin into confessing. He does so and Colin and Jean were arrested.

Doris Hudson

First Appearance: Episode 675
Last Appearance: Episode 702

Key Storylines:
Rod Campbell employed Doris Hudson as a housekeeper following the death of his wife, Jessica. Doris helped raise his son, Barry, and daughter, Jess. When Rod starts seeing Beryl Palmer in late-1985, Doris is upset as she has feelings for Rod herself. She starts to scheme to split them up, hiding Rod's wallet so that he can't pay a restaurant bill and deliberately causing Beryl to let slip to Jess that her mother was having an affair before she died.

Jess arranges a romantic meal for Rod and Doris. Rod gets very drunk and he and Doris end up sleeping together. Doris is then shocked when, the next morning, Rod tells her that he'll understand if she wants to leave his employment, as the previous night was a mistake. Doris insists that she'll stay, but she sees red when Rod continues to lavish attention on Beryl. She eventually snaps and storms round to see Beryl - where she almost smothers baby Robert after locking Beryl out of the house. She's stopped just in time when David turns up. He insists that the police be called, and Doris is arrested for attempted murder. She's released on bail, but has to agree to undergo psychiatric treatment. She subsequently checks herself into a clinic after saying a sad goodbye to Rod and Jess.

Nguyen Hung

First Appearance: Episode 659
Last Appearance: Episode 672

Key Storylines:
Fiona Thompson takes in this Vietnamese teenager after meeting him on the 'plane as she's flying back to Australia from Rio, having left David to track down Patricia on his own. Hung is confused about where he should be going: he planned to stay with relatives in Australia, but they weren't at the airport to meet him and he's scared that he'll be deported back to Vietnam.

While staying with Fiona, Hung meets hostility at the hands of Chris Bainbridge, who is still bigoted against the Vietnamese after his father's experiences in the Vietnam war. Hung ends up running away from Fiona's and staying in a shed in the grounds of Crossley House - where Chris works alongside Leo Walsh, who Hung befriends; it's Leo who hides him in the shed. However, Hung is bitten by a funnelweb spider and he almost dies. It's Chris who eventually finds him in the shed after Leo is arrested for Roger Carlyle's murder. As a result of this incident, Chris realises that Hung is really just another teenage boy, and that he didn't need to be so vicious towards him. After Hung's plight is covered in a newspaper article, his relatives in Australia come forward and Hung heads off to live with them.

Maggie Hunt

First Appearance: Episode 781
Last Appearance: Episode 804

Key Storylines:
Gordon meets Maggie Hunt when he rents a room at Seabreeze Towers while recuperating from the accident that left him with amnesia; Maggie is the cleaner. She takes pity on his inability to look after himself and teaches him to cook, and the two of them begin gradually to develop a friendship. Maggie introduces her daughter, Cassie, to Gordon, and is delighted when the two of them get on like a house on fire.

A spanner is thrown in the works, however, when Maggie receives a visit from Alison Carr, who orders her to stay away from the 'good thing' that is Gordon. Maggie is astonished when Alison then reveals that Gordon is worth a fortune; he had led her to believe that he was just an ordinary man. Maggie rebutts Alison's attempts to pay her to keep away from Gordon, but she does then tell Gordon that she can't see him again, as he lied to her. It is Cassie who eventually brings about a reconciliation between Maggie and Gordon when she misses Gordon and runs away to see him. Maggie and Gordon make up, but Maggie tells Gordon that she's decided to to take a job as a cleaner in a small mining town, and she and Cassie leave Sydney.