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1991 Australia Day Honours
The 1991 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1991 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June. † indicates an award given posthumously. Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ... Companion (AC) General Division Officers (AO) General Division Military Division Member (AM) General Division Military Division Medal (OAM) General Division Military Division References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Honours System
The Australian honours and awards system refers to all Order (distinction), orders, decorations, and medals, as instituted by letters patent from the Monarchy of Australia, Monarch of Australia and countersigned by the Australian prime minister at the time, that have been progressively introduced since 14 February 1975. The Australian honours and awards system excludes all state and local government, and private, issued awards and medals (although a few can be recognised in the Australian Honours Order of Wearing, order of wearing, like those in the Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), Order of St John). Honours and awards have been present in Australia since pre-Federation of Australia, Federation, primarily from the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, Imperial honours and awards system. This Imperial system remained in place until its full phase out in 1994 (although the Monarch of Australia may still confer some of these honours to Australians in their perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creighton Burns
Creighton Lee Burns, AO (19 March 1925 – 19 January 2008) was an Australian journalist and academic, who was editor-in-chief of ''The Age'' newspaper in Melbourne from 1981 to 1989. Early life and naval career Born in Melbourne, Burns attended Scotch College, and at the age of 15 became a cadet journalist at ''The Sun News-Pictorial''. In 1942, he joined the Royal Australian Navy, where he served as a sailor on board the cruiser HMAS ''Australia'', the corvette HMAS ''Warrnambool'' and the destroyer HMAS ''Nepal''.Man of letters, man of words '''', 20 January 2008. Academia After |
John Grey (Australian General)
Lieutenant General John Cedric Grey AC (born 31 January 1939) was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1992 to 1995. He was Chancellor of James Cook University from 1999 to 2016. Early life Grey was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 31 January 1939 to Aubrey Cedric and Dacia Downing Grey. He was educated at St Andrew's Cathedral School and Sydney Grammar School, before entering the Royal Military College, Duntroon as an officer cadet in 1957.Board of Directors , Tarong Energy Annual Report 1998/99, pg.8, www.tarongenergy.com.au Military career Grey was posted to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment and, as a < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian MacDougall
Vice Admiral Ian Donald George MacDougall, (23 February 1938 – 1 July 2020) was a senior commander of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), who served as Chief of Naval Staff from 1991 to 1994. He also served as Commissioner of New South Wales Fire Brigades from 1994 to 2003 and was Patron of the Submarines Association Australia. Early life MacDougall was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 23 February 1938 to James MacDougall and his wife, Eileen (née Stanbridge). In 1954, MacDougall entered the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay as a 15-year-old cadet midshipman. Career MacDougall went on to command the submarines HMS ''Otter'' and HMAS ''Onslow'', the guided missile destroyer HMAS ''Hobart'' and the fleet tanker HMAS ''Supply''. He became Director of Submarine Policy in 1982, Commander of the submarine base HMAS ''Platypus'' in 1985 and Director General of Joint Operations and Plans for the Australian Defence Force in 1986. He was appointed Maritime Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Doolan
Rear Admiral Kenneth Allan Doolan, (born 15 January 1939) is an Australian naval officer, author, and is the former national president of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL). He is a retired rear admiral in the Royal Australian Navy, his most senior commands being Maritime Commander Australia and operational commander of all Australian combatant forces deployed to the Gulf War. Early life Doolan was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 15 January 1939 and received his primary education in Brisbane, Queensland. Naval career Doolan joined the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet midshipman in January 1953, attending the Royal Australian Naval College. He graduated in 1956, undertook sea training in the frigate in 1957 and in December 1958 graduated from the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon. Significant postings held during his 41-year naval career included: * aide-de-camp to Governor General Viscount De L’Isle, 1964–1965 * Military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Walsh (neuropsychologist)
Kevin William Walsh AO (13 July 1925 – 4 December 2017) was an Australian pioneer of the profession of clinical neuropsychology. Career Walsh served with in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, then commenced medical studies in 1946. In the first year of his medical training, he became interested in psychology and enrolled in the University of Melbourne’s newly established Department of Psychology. After completing his medical studies, Walsh became interested in abnormal behaviour, and during his tenure as a Neuropsychiatric Medical Officer at the Mont Park Mental Hospital, he studied the complex behavioural alterations induced by prefrontal leucotomy, for which the degree of Master of Science was awarded in 1960. Working as a medical officer, he saw a clinical discipline that would unite psychological depth with neurology. In 1961, Walsh joined the teaching staff of the University of Melbourne's Department of Psychology, initially in an honorary posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Volker
Derek Volker, (born 1939) is a retired senior Australian public servant. Life and career Born in 1939, Volker was educated at Toowoomba State High School and the University of Queensland. Volker's early Australian Public Service career was in the Department of Labour and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser appointed Volker as Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs in 1981, with the mandate to clean up the administration of the department. In 1986, Prime Minister Bob Hawke transferred Volker to a position as Secretary the Department of Social Security (DSS). In his time at DSS, Volker had to deal with the pressures of the recession and its impact on Social Security offices, including long queues and increasing tension. Prime Minister Paul Keating announced Volker's transfer from the Department of Social Security to the Department of Employment, Education and Training in March 1993. In 1996, Volker was one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sadleir
David Marshall Sadleir (born 20 February 1936) is an Australian business consultant and former diplomat and ambassador, who was Director-General of Security (head of the intelligence agency ASIO) from 1992 to 1996. Early life Sadleir was born in Dehradun, British India. He settled in Australia in 1949, and attended Scotch College, Perth and the University of Western Australia where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours.''Who's Who in Australia 2014'', ConnectWeb, 2013. Diplomatic and intelligence career Sadleir joined the Australian Department of External Affairs in 1958. He was an advisor to the Australian delegations to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and was posted in Tokyo and Washington DC as Assistant Secretary of the department's North Asia branch. From 1977 to 1981, he was Deputy Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, an intelligence agency reporting to the Prime Minister of Australia, under Director-General Robert Furlonger. He was a Perma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Lansdown
Robert Broughton Lansdown (9 May 1921 – 6 May 2006) was a senior Australian public servant and policymaker. Life and career Bob Lansdown was born on 9 May 1921 in East Maitland. At the age of 14, he first joined the Australian Public Service, as a post office bicycle messenger in Strathfield. During World War II, Lansdown joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, serving in the Middle East and New Guinea. Lansdown first rejoined the Australian Public Service in 1950 as a Private Secretary in the Prime Minister's Department. In December 1972 Lansdown was appointed Secretary of the Department of Urban and Regional Development and he remained head of the department when it was transitioned to Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. Between July 1979 and November 1980, Lansdown served as Secretary of the Postal and Telecommunications Department. He was the inaugural head of the Department of Communications when the Postal and Communications Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Kinnaird
Malcolm Alexander Kinnaird Companions of the Order of Australia, AC DUniv FIEAust List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, FTSE (1933–2014) was a South Australian engineer, joint founder of international engineering company Kinhill Engineering responsible for many major engineering projects including the Alice Springs to Darwin railway. Within South Australia, he was responsible for developing West Lakes, South Australia, West Lakes, North Haven, South Australia, North Haven and the David Jones Limited, David Jones building."Malcolm Kinnaird, former South Australian of the Year, dies aged 80". 26 September 2014, www.abc.net.au [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Robert Jackson
Alan Robert Jackson (30 March 1936 – 4 August 2018) was an Australian businessman who was the Director of BTR Nylex between 1984 and 1996 and Chief Executive Officer of BTR plc between 1991 and 1996 as well as Chairman of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) between 1996 and 2001. He was also a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia between 1991 and 2001. Personal life and education Jackson was born in Drouin but grew up in Bunyip, in the Western part of the Gippsland during the Great Depression. His father was James Jackson and his mother was Doris Lane. Jackson had two siblings, his brother, Wallace Jackson and his sister, Elizabeth Jackson.Jackson, Shirley. "Drouin and Cartagen." Cartagen Pty Ltd. 2011. His family are descendants of early European explorers in Victoria, including Joseph Henry Jackson who in the 1850s, founded modern day Jindivick by carving out a track which he named 'Jackson's Track' in the North-Western Gippsland area in the Baw Baw Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Galbally
Rhonda Galbally AC has been a CEO, Chair and board member for over thirty years, across business and the not for profit sector, the public sector and philanthropy. As a woman with a lifelong disability, Galbally first began focusing on disability rights and policy in the early 1980s while working as the senior policy officer for the Victorian Council for Social Services. Galbally next became the CEO of the Sidney Myer Fund and the Myer Foundation, in that role she served as Chair of the Australian Association of Philanthropy. Galbally was appointed as the founding CEO of a number of new organisations, including the Australian Commission for the Future, the Australian International Health Institute, the Australian National Preventative Health Agency and OurCommunity Pty Ltd. Galbally established the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) as the first organisation in the world to use a levy on tobacco for tobacco control, reducing demand for alcohol, tackling risk fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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