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1988 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 13 June 1988 by the office of the Governor-General Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy t .... The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. Order of Australia Companion (AC) General Division Military Division Officer (AO) General Division Military Division Member (AM) General Division Military Division Medal (OAM) General Division Military Division References {{DEFAULTSORT:Queen's Birthda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor-General Of Australia
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Australia.Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australiaofficial website Retrieved 1 January 2015. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of government ministers. The governor-general has formal presidency over the Federal Executive Council and is commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Force. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cox (politician)
Peter Francis Cox AO (4 December 1925 – 6 October 2008) was a politician in New South Wales, Australia. Early life Cox was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and educated at Marist Brothers College in the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe. His father, Edwin, was a plumber with the NSW railways. Ben Chifley, the future prime minister, helped the Cox family. After leaving school, Peter became a public servant, working for the Department of Motor Transport in 1942. From 1943 until 1945 he was a member of the Second Australian Imperial Force and served in the Borneo campaign. Political career In 1949 Cox joined the Labor Party. He won preselection for the New South Wales state seat of Auburn at 39 and entered the Legislative Assembly at the 1965 election, when Labor, then led by Jack Renshaw, lost power. He retained the seat until his retirement in 1988. Cox became the opposition transport spokesman in 1968 and was noted for his catchphrases such as the "rustbucket railway" and "Calga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primrose Potter
Primrose Potter, Lady Potter AC (born 23 April 1931) is an Australian philanthropist and arts administrator. She is particularly associated with The Australian Ballet. She is the widow of Sir Ian Potter. Life Primrose Catherine Anderson-Stuart was born in Sydney in 1931, the daughter of a radiologist, Bouviere Anderson-Stuart. Her grandfather was Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart, who established the Medical School at the University of Sydney. She was educated at Ascham School. Her first marriage, in 1952, was to a doctor, Roger Dunlop, with whom she had a daughter, Primrose Dunlop, known as "Pitty Pat". After their divorce in 1969, she married businessman and stockbroker Sir Ian Potter in 1975, becoming Lady Potter. They had met at a dinner hosted by William and Sonia McMahon. Sir Ian Potter had children from three earlier marriages. Primrose Potter has been: director and Victorian chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1989 to 1991; director of the Bell S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Mulock
Ronald Joseph Mulock AO KCSG (11 January 1930 – 4 September 2014) was an Australian politician. A former City of Penrith mayor, he was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988. He was Deputy Premier of New South Wales under Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth from 1984 to 1988. Early years Ron Mulock was born in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst on 11 January 1930 and baptised a Catholic. His surname at birth was Moore but he was fostered at ten months to Elizabeth Mulock (née Goode). She adopted Ron when he was 14. He was educated at St Declan’s in Penshurst and De La Salle College (now Casimir Catholic College), Marrickville. Mulock was an outstanding sportsman at school and subsequently played first grade cricket between 1949 and 1962 for the St George, Waverley and Cumberland Clubs. In the 1959–60 season he was the highest wicket-taker (49) in the Sydney First Grade Competition. At his peak, Mulock was said to be one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Molnar
George Molnar ( hu, Molnár György) (25 April 1910, Nagyvárad – 16 November 1998, Sydney) was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary and came to Australia in 1939, where he practiced as a cartoonist and architecture lecturer.Attila Urmenyhazi, 'Molnar, George (1910–1998)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University accessed 26 September 2021 His work featured in the '''' and '' |
James McNulty (physician)
Dr James McNulty AO Hon.MD(ECU) MB BCh BAO (Belf) DIH (Lon) DPH (Syd) FRACMA FAFOM (1926 – 27 January 2017) was the Commissioner for (Public) Health in Western Australia between 1979 and 1984. Born in Belfast in 1926, McNulty came to Western Australia in 1956 and worked as a medical officer and superintendent at the Kalgoorlie Hospital. His career in occupational and public health included a 12-year term as Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Australian College of Medical Administrators. McNulty was known for his contributions to the improved ventilation conditions in mining in Western Australia and his analysis and reporting of the working conditions and the health of workers in the Wittenoom Asbestos mine from 1959 until its closure in 1966. Following his retirement from the Health Department in 1987, McNulty was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the New Year's Honours List of 1988 for services to medicine and health admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Lazarus
Leslie "Les" Lazarus (11 December 1929 - 17 December 2022) was an Australian endocrinologist who was one of the first co-Directors of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney from 1966 to 1969 and sole Director from 1969 to 1990. At the Garvan Institute he led a joint laboratory and clinical research team studying diabetes and pituitary hormone secretions, in particular the secretion and clinical uses of human growth hormone. From 1974 until 1988 Lazarus was an Associate Professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales and from 1988 until 1995 he was a Professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales. In 1995 he was appointed an Emeritus Consultant to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Early years and education Leslie Lazarus was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney, which he entered on a scholarship (Public Exhibitioner) in 1947. He graduated in Medicine in 1953 and after clinical training at St Vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Jones (broadcaster)
Caroline Mary Jones (born Caroline Mary James; 1 January 1938 – 20 May 2022) was an Australian radio and television journalist and social commentator who had a career in the media industry for over 50 years. Career Jones joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission, now known as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in Canberra in 1963 and later became the first female reporter for the daily ''This Day Tonight'' current affairs television program. She then became a presenter on ''Four Corners'', a weekly current affairs television program, from 1972 to 1981. From 1987 to 1994 she presented a spirituality-focused radio program called ''The Search For Meaning'' on ABC Radio National, on which she interviewed people about their lives. In 1996, Jones began hosting the weekly biographical program ''Australian Story'' on ABC television. During 1988, Jones worked alongside Aboriginal broadcasters at Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Alice Springs as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Jolley
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.Hacket (2007) Her novels explore "alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment." Life Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrian-born mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands. She was educated privately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Johnston (NT Administrator)
Commodore Eric Eugene Johnston (29 July 1933 – 26 February 1997) was a Royal Australian Navy officer and the Administrator of the Northern Territory from 1 January 1981 to 1 July 1989. Career During his naval career he commanded in the Vietnam War. Later he commanded from 1976 to 1978. After Cyclone Tracy in 1974, as Naval Officer Commanding Northern Australia, he was involved in the administration of emergency naval assistance. Recognition and honours He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1970, and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. The Eric Johnston Lectures Library & Archives NT comprises the Northern Territory Library and the two Northern Territory Archives Centres in Darwin and Alice Springs. Located in Parliament House in Darwin City, it is the premier public research and archival organisation ... of the Northern Territory Library were named in his honour. He gave the first lecture in 1986. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Jacobs
Marjorie Grace Jacobs (26 August 1915 – 12 July 2013) was an Australian historian and emeritus professor at the University of Sydney. Early life and education Jacobs was born in 1915 in Gordon, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. She was educated at Ravenswood School but, when that school was sold to the Methodist Church, she transferred to the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School at North Sydney. Jacobs lived at Women's College during her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and in 1934 won the George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize for first year British history. In her second year she won the Frank Albert Prize with a high distinction in anthropology. She graduated with a BA Hons in 1936 and won a University Medal. Jacobs won the Frazer Scholarship for History in 1937 to work for her MA. In 1941 she won a second University Medal for her MA thesis on German colonialism in the Pacific. Career Jacobs joined the staff of Sydney University in 1938 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Hazelwood
Donald Leslie Grant Hazelwood Officer of the Order of Australia, AO Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 1 March 1930) is a celebrated Australian violinist and concert master. Career 1952-1998 Donald Hazelwood first played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1952, as a second violinist under Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Eugene Goossens. In 1965 he was appointed co-concertmaster with Robert Miller, later becoming concertmaster, a position he held for 33 years until his retirement in 1998. From 1988 to 1989 Donald Hazelwood was Artistic Director of the National Ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. From 1989 to 1991 and in 1996 he was Director of the Australian Youth OrchestrNational Music Camp He is a life member of Australian Youth Orchestra. In 1997 Hazelwood had a tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House, where he performed Dvorak's ''Romance in F minor'' with the Sydney Symphony. In 1998 he retired as concertmaster after 33 years with the Orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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