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1994 Australia Day Honours
The 1994 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 1994 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 Gov ... Companion (AC) General Division Military Division Officer (AO) General Division Military Division None awarded Member (AM) General Division Military Division Medal (OAM) General Division Mi ... [...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] |
Harry Holgate
Harold Norman Holgate AO (5 December 1933 – 16 March 1997) was a Labor Party politician and Premier of Tasmania from 11 November 1981 to 26 May 1982. Born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1933, Holgate was a television producer and journalist prior to entering politics, arriving in Tasmania to work for '' The Examiner'' newspaper in 1963. He first stood for election in 1972 but was unable to meet the required quota of 4,707 votes. From 1973 to 1974, he worked as a press secretary for Deputy Prime Minister Lance Barnard. In 1974, he was elected on a recount after the resignation of Allan Foster. He held his seat from 26 July 1974 until 1992, and was Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from May 1975 to December 1976. Holgate became Premier in 1981 after a motion of no confidence was raised against Doug Lowe, who subsequently resigned from the party. Holgate only stayed in office for seven months, before being defeated by Robin Gray's Liberals at the 1982 election—on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Fisher
Sylvia Gwendoline Victoria Fisher (18 April 191025 August 1996) was an Australian operatic soprano whose stage career was made in England, who was especially distinguished in German opera, and who created the role of Miss Wingrave in Benjamin Britten's ''Owen Wingrave'' in 1971. Fisher was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1994 Australia Day Honours, for "service to the arts, particularly opera". Early career in Australia Fisher was born in a private hospital in South Melbourne on 18 April 1910 to John and Margaret Maria Fisher (née Frawley). She studied the piano from the age of nine, and afterwards entered the Albert Street Conservatorium for singing and voice production and obtained the full diploma. When this was completed she continued her singing studies with Adolf Spivakovsky, and worked with him for many years. She made her debut as a student in Lully's ''Cadmus et Hermione'' at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, on 5 March 1932, at the Lully Tercentenary Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Figgis
Penelope Figgis is an Australian environmentalist, activist, and political scientist. Since 2005 she has been the Vice Chair for Oceania of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. Figgis' research and areas of interest include national and international protected areas, biodiversity conservation policy, World Heritage, sustainable tourism, natural resource management, private land conservation and public open space management. Early life and education Penelope Figgis's involvement with nature conservation advocacy began as a student in the late 1970s, when she campaigned heavily for the Wollemi National Park in NSW and the NSW Rainforests. In 1979 she graduated Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, with the thesis titled ''The Politics of Wilderness Conservation: The Movement and the Issues''. From 1981-1984 she was national lobbyist in Canberra for the Australian Conservation Foundation, where she pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Eastwood
Trevor Eastwood AM was the CEO of the large Australian corporation Wesfarmers Ltd from 1984 to 1992 and its chairman from 2002 to 2008. After graduating BEng at the University of Western Australia,Carolyn BatCool is the rule for man who leads Wesfarmers''The Age'', 7 July 2007 he joined Wesfarmers in 1963 as a cadet engineerWesfarmers chairman Trevor Eastwood to retire ''Business Spectator'', 3 July 2008 and was associated with the company for over 45 years. In July 2008, he announced his impending retirement, which took place on 13 November 2008, when he was replaced by Bob Every. He was also a director of and |
Kevin Cullen (doctor)
Kevin John Cullen, Order of Australia, AM (22 November 1922 – 9 February 1994) was an Australian medical doctor, researcher, and winemaker, active in South West (Western Australia), Western Australia's South West. He is best known for his role in founding the Busselton Health Study and Cullen Wines. Biography Cullen was born on 22 November 1922 in the Western Australian town of Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury as the younger son of Alfred, an English-born surgeon, and his locally born wife Elvie (née Clarke). He was schooled locally for two years before boarding in Perth at Hale School from 1929 to 1939. He then attended the University of Western Australia for a year, studying science, before moving to the University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Medicine in 1946. This was the standard cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Craig
Margaret June Craig AM (née Lynn; born 8 December 1930) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1983, representing the seat of Wellington. She was a minister in the governments of Sir Charles Court and Ray O'Connor, and was only the second woman in Western Australia to serve as a government minister (after Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver). Early life Craig was born in Perth, and went to Presbyterian Ladies' College in Peppermint Grove. An excellent sportswoman, she represented Western Australia at tennis, and later studied physical education at the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne. In 1951, she married Frank Craig, whose father, Les Craig, was a member of the Legislative Council for over 20 years. Her own great-grandfather, Robert John Lynn, had also sat in the Legislative Council. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Angove
Thomas William Carlyon Angove AM (191830 March 2010) was an Australian winemaker who is credited with the invention of the wine cask. Biography In 1947, Angove, grandson of the founder of Angove’s (Dr. William T. Angove) took over as Angove's Pty. Ltd. Managing Director. He held the position until 1983 when his son John Carlyon Angove succeeded him.Angove History , '' Angoves'', retrieved 2 April 2010 He was appointed a Member of the in 1994 for his service to wine making. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. Life Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan. Norman attended the American School in Japan, where his closest friend was Gordon Bowles, a Quaker who, like him, later became an anthropologist. The family returned to Perth in August 1917, and soon after moved to Adelaide where Tindale took up a position as a library cadet at the Adelaide Public Library, together with another cadet, the future physicist, Mark Oliphant. In 1919 he began work as an entomologist at the South Australian Museum. From his early years, he had acquired the habit of taking notes on everything he observed, and cross-indexing them before going to sleep, a practice which he continued throughout his life, and which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Sawer
Philippa Marian Sawer (born 20 August 1946) is an Australian political scientist. She is a professor emeritus at the Australian National University (ANU). Early life Sawer was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the daughter of Ralph and Marjorie Goodwin. She moved to Australia to attend Ascham School in Sydney, and subsequently attended the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. She graduated B.A.(Hons) in 1968, M.A. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1975. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The question of the Asiatic mode of production: towards a new Marxist historiography". Career Early years After completing her doctorate Sawer held a series of post-doctoral fellowships. She experienced difficulties with workplace gender discrimination and in 1979, after completing a survey on the status of women in Australian political science departments, she and Carole Pateman co-founded the women's caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA). She was elected president of APS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Saunders
Cheryl Anne Saunders (born 28 August 1944) is Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Career Saunders was the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the Law Faculty at University of Melbourne. She was also a founding director of its Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She has been awarded several honours in recognition of her work. In 1994 she was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia "for service to the law and to public administration" and in 2003 she received the Centenary Medal. In 2005 the University of Cordoba conferred an honorary doctorate on Saunders. She was elected to the Legion of Honour in France for her services to the Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel in 2009. Saunders is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2018. In 2022 she was awarded the Tang Prize The Tang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Rose (public Servant)
Alan Douglas Rose (born 3 May 1944) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department between 1989 and 1994. Life and career Alan Rose was born in Brisbane on 3 May 1944. He was educated at state schools: Rainworth Primary School; and Indooroopilly High School. He later attended the University of Queensland, where he earned a BA in 1966 and an LLB(Hons) in 1969, and the London School of Economics, where he earned an LLM in 1979. From 1986 to 1987, Rose was Secretary of the Department of Community Services. In the 1987 public service restructure, when all Australian Government departments were reorganised into 16 'super-ministries', Rose was named Associate Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department. He was promoted to become the Department's Secretary in 1989. In May 1994, Rose left his Secretary role and was appointed President of the Australian Law Reform Commission. Rose joined law firm HWL Ebsworth HWL Ebs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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