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2016 Australia Day Honours
The 2016 Australia Day Honours were announced on 26 January 2016 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, announced on Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours The Birthday Honours, in some Commonwealth realms, mark the reigning British monarch's official birthday by granting various individuals appointment into national or dynastic orders or the award of decorations and medals. The honours are present ... which are announced on the second Monday in June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) General Division Member of the Order of Australia (AM) General Division Military Division Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) General Division Military Division Meritorious Service Public Service Medal (PSM) Australian Police Medal (APM) Australian Fire S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General Of Australia
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the Monarchy of Australia, 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 (Australia), Federal Executive Council and is commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Force. The functions of the governor-general include appointing Minister (government), ministers, judges, and ambassadors; giving royal assent to legislation passed by Parliament of Australia, parliament; issuing writs for election; and bestowing Australian honours. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Andrew (management Consultant)
Michael John Andrew is an Australian management consultant and former global chairman and CEO of KPMG. Andrew has served on the International Advisory Board for the Moscow International Financial Centre, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Business Council of Australia, and the Steering Committee of the United Nations Global Compact for the environment. In January 2016, Andrew was appointed an Officer of the 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 ... for distinguished service to the accountancy profession at the national and international level, and to a range of business, anti-corruption, finance and community organisations. References Australian chief executives Living people KPMG people Officers of the Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan H
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), from Greek ''Sousanna'', from Latin ''Susanna'', from Old French ''Susanne''. Variations * Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah * Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah * Susann, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne (given name), Suzanne * Susanne (given name) * Suzan (given name) * Suzanne * Suzette (given name) * Suzy (given name) * Zuzanna (given name) *Cezanne (Avant-garde) Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Poosan, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * fa, سوسن (Sousan, Susan) ** tg, Савсан (Savsan), tg, Сӯсан (Sūsan) * ku, Sosna,Swesne * ar, سوسن (Sawsan) * hy, Շուշան (Šušan) * (Sushan) * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Richardson (priest)
David John Leyburn Richardson (born 14 March 1946) is an Australian Anglican priest, former cathedral dean and director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. Early life and ministry David Richardson was born in Townsville, Queensland, but spent most of his childhood in England in North Devon and then the Midlands where his father worked as a priest. He finished his schooling in Brisbane. After studying English literature at the University of Queensland, Richardson studied theology at St Barnabas College in Adelaide and then received his postgraduate diploma in pastoral theology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Richardson remained in the United Kingdom and served a curacy at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, the civic and university church of Cambridge, while also serving as chaplain at Girton College at the university from 1976 to 1979. He then returned to St Barnabas’ College as sub-warden where he taught New Testament studies, liturgy and pasto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Nelson
Brendan John Nelson (born 19 August 1958) is a business leader and former Australian politician. He served as the federal Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2008, going on to serve as Australia's senior diplomat to the European Union and NATO. He now has a global leadership role with Boeing, an aerospace company. A medical doctor by profession, he came to public prominence as the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association (1993–95), and served as a Minister in the third and fourth terms of the Howard Government, serving as Minister for Education, Science and Training (2001–06) and Minister for Defence (2006–2007). Nelson was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2009, as the Liberal member for the Division of Bradfield in northern Sydney. Following the 2007 federal election, at which the Howard Government was defeated, Nelson was elected leader of the Liberal Party in a contest against former Minister for Environment and Water Resou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Her works are held in the collections of the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia and Art Gallery of New South Wales. She currently lives in Sydney and New York City. Though she is best known for her photographic works, Moffatt has created numerous films, documentaries and videos. Her work often focuses on Australian Aboriginal people and the way they are understood in cultural and social terms. Early life and education Moffatt was born in Brisbane in 1960 to a white father and an Aboriginal mother. At age three she was fostered out of her family, growing up as the eldest of three daughters in a white family and often left to look after her foster sisters. Moffatt holds a degree in vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick McKibbin
Warwick James McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of Economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modelling. Education He initially studied at the University of New South Wales, where he received a bachelor's degree with First Class Honours in both economics and econometrics and was awarded the University Medal in 1980. McKibbin then studied under Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard University and was awarded a PhD in economics in 1986. Roles He was founding director of the ANU Research School of Economics until stepping down in mid-2012. He moved to the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU in August 2012. He is also an adjunct professor of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health. He formed the ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Harding (economist)
Ann Margaret Harding (18 May 1958 – 30 January 2023) was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra. Academic career Harding completed a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. She was a contributor to Business Review magazine in 1980 and then joined the Department of the Parliamentary Library in Canberra as a legislative research specialist in January 1981. In 1982 she was employed as a policy analyst by the Department of Social Security. She graduated with a PhD titled Lifetime income distribution and redistribution in Australia: Applications of a dynamic cohort microsimulation model' from the London School of Economics in 1991. Harding returned to Australia to the University of Canberra where she was appointed Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy on 12 October 1992, at 34 becoming one of the youngest women professors in Australia. In 1993 she founded and was inaugural Director of the National Centre for Social a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce French (agricultural Scientist)
Bruce Reginald French is an Australian pastor and agricultural scientist. French founded Food Plants International in 1999 with the goal of documenting food plants around the world. , there were 31,170 edible plant species detailed on its website. French was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Australia Day Honours list, for "distinguished service to agricultural science through the provision of edible plant information for improved food security, nutrition, and improved health outcomes for people in developing countries." On 29 October 2021, he was named the 2022 Tasmanian Senior Australian of the Year. French has also pastored two churches in Tasmania: Romaine Park Christian Centre and Penguin Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ... Baptist Church. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ergas
Henry Isaac Ergas is an economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission) as well as at a number of economic consulting firms. He chaired the Australian Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee set up by the Australian Federal Government in 1999 to review Australia's intellectual property laws as they relate to competition policy. He was Adjunct Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore and has taught at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, the Centre for Research in Network Economics and Communications at the University of Auckland, Monash University and at the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique in Paris. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Infrastructure Economics at the University of Wollongong, and also served as Senior Economic Adviser to Deloitte Australia. He was an independent contributor to a paper submitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Drysdale
Peter David Drysdale (born 24 October 1938, in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He was executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) until 2002.Dysdale, Peter 4th I-House Academy: "Japan and China: Toward Asia- Pacific Cooperation," International House of Japan. 22 May 2007. Drysdale is Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER). He is also co-editor of East Asia Forum, which is consistently cited in Reuters, The Telegraph, The Australian Financial Review, PBS, BBC News and Global Times, among others. His areas of interest are international trade and economic policy and diplomacy; the East Asian economy; Australia's economic relations with Asia and the Pacific; and direct investment. His expertise encompasses work on the Japanese economy and economic pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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