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2025 King's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2025 King's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 9 June 2025 by the Governor-General, Sam Mostyn. The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III 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 King's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * Phillip Andrew Adams, – For eminent service to broadcast media, to journalism, to the arts, to cultural leadership, and to the community. * Emeritus Professor Roger William Byard, – For eminent service to medicine, to forensic pathology, to tertiary education as an academic and researcher, and to the community. * Dr John Maxwell Coetzee – For eminent service to the arts, particularly literature, to literary studies, to tertiary education, and to animal welfare. * Kathryn Fagg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Westacott
Jennifer Westacott is an Australian business executive. She served as the chief executive of the Business Council of Australia (BCA) from 2011 to 2023. She is the current chancellor of Western Sydney University. She grew up in Springfield in New South Wales, Australia and completed her secondary education at Henry Kendall High School. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of New South Wales. She also holds a Graduate Management Certificate from the Monash Mt Eliza Business School and was a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics. Following a career in the NSW and Victorian public sectors, she was a senior partner at KPMG in Sydney, Australia from 2005 to 2011, before assuming the role of chief executive of the Business Council of Australia. She is also a non-executive director of Wesfarmers. Recognition She received an honorary doctorate from the University of New South Wales in 2017. In 2018, Westacott was awarded an Officer of the Orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Sharman
James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director since the 1960s, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit '' The Rocky Horror Show'', its film adaptation '' The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' (1975) and the film's follow-up, '' Shock Treatment'' (1981). Life and career Sharman was born in Sydney, the son of boxing tent impresario and rugby league player James Michael "Jimmy" Sharman jr. (1912–2006) and Christina McAndleish Sharman ( Mirchell; 1914–2003). He was educated in Sydney, though his upbringing included time spent on Australian showgrounds, where his father ran a travelling sideshow of popular legend, founded by his own father, called "Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Troupe". This brought him into contact with the world of circus and travelling vaudeville. Developing an interest in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Repacholi
Michael Harry Repacholi (born June 30, 1944 in Taree, NSW, Australia) is an Australian biophysicist and radiation protection expert. He is one of the pioneer scientists and foremost authorities in Radiobiology in the world, including radiation protection standards for ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. He was one of the founders and past presidents of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and founder and director of several projects in the World Health Organization, including the International Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Project. Repacholi was also active in the study of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident in the nuclear reactor, in Ukraine. Education Repacholi received his BSc in Physics at the University of Western Australia in 1965, a Master of Science at the University of London, United Kingdom in 1969, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biology at Ottawa University, Canada, in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gita Mishra
Gita Devi Mishra is an Australian epidemiologist who is Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow at the University of Queensland. She is the director of the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre. She was awarded the 2022 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Award for Excellence in Women’s Health. Early life and education Mishra completed her doctoral research at the University of Auckland, where she studied medical statistics. Mishra was a scientific program leader at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. She moved to University College London in 2004, where she spent three years as a Women’s Health Senior Research Fellow. Research and career In 2010, Mishra joined the University of Queensland as a Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2013, and mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie McVernon
Jodie is a unisex given name. It is related to names Cody, Jodi, Jody, Codey, and Jodey. It is also a rare surname. It can be used as a nickname for Joseph, Jude, Judith, Joan and Jonathan, and a variant for Jo. People Female Given name * Jodie Allen, senior editor at the Pew Research Center * Jodie Aysha (born 1988), English singer and songwriter * Jodie Bowering (born 1982), Australian softball player * Jodie Campbell (born 1972), Australian politician * Jodie Comer (born 1993), English actress * Jodie Connor (born 1981), English musician * Jodie Cooper (born 1964), retired surfer * Jodie Davis (born 1966), Australian cricketer * Jodie deSolla (born 1982), Canadian curler * Jodie Dibble (born 1994), English cricketer * Jodie Dorday (born 1968), New Zealand actress * Jodie Dry (born 1974), Australian actress * Jodie Evans (born 1954), American political activist * Jodie Fields (born 1984), Australian cricket player * Jodie Fisher (born 1960), American actress * Jod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skye McDonald
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye, is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated by the Cuillin, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country. Slesser (1981) p. 19. Although has been suggested to describe a winged shape, no definitive agreement exists as to the name's origin."Gaelic Culture" . . Retrieved 5 January 2013. The island has been occupied since the period, and over its history has been occupied at vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corbett Lyon
Corbett Marshall Lyon (born 13 August 1955) is an Australian architect, art patron and academic who lives and works in Melbourne. He is a founding director of Melbourne architectural firm Lyons. With partners Carey Lyon, Cameron Lyon (died 2018), Neil Appleton, Adrian Stanic and James Wilson he has designed many award-winning institutional and public buildings in Australia. Lyon is one of Australia's leading collectors and patrons of Australian contemporary art and since 1990 he has developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji. In 2003–2008 he designed and built the Lyon Housemuseum, a hybrid residence and art museum, which displays the Lyon Collection and makes it available for public viewing. Lyon is a professorial fellow and visiting professor in design at the University of Melbourne where he teaches and researches in the Melbourne School of Design. In 2016 he was awarded a Doctor of Architecture (honoris causa) by the University. He was appointed an Officer of the Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Dawn Livingstone, AO (born 24 June 1971) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. Since retiring from swimming Livingstone has had careers as a television sports commentator and media presenter and as a sports administrator. She was known for a period as Nicole Stevenson, when she was married to Australian cyclist Clayton Stevenson. Early life Livingstone grew up in Melbourne and started swimming at 9. She attended Parkdale Secondary College. Her mother worked at Metropolitan Golf Club and her father at Carlton & United Breweries. She had an older brother, Gary and older sister, Karen. Swimming career Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She held the Australian record for the 200-metre backstroke, with at time of 2:10.20, set on 31 July 1992 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for 16 years. Meagen N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Francis Lindoy
Leonard Francis Lindoy, FAA, (born 1937) is an Australian chemist with interests in macrocyclic chemistry and metallo-supramolecular chemistry, and an Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sydney and James Cook University. He moved to the University of Sydney in 1996 to take up the departmental chair in inorganic chemistry vacated by Hans Freeman. Honours and recognition Lindoy has been recognised for his professional achievements with Fellowships in the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Royal Society of New South Wales (RSN) and in 1993, the Australian Academy of Science (FAA). In 1995, Lindoy received both the H G Smith Memorial Medal and the Burrows Award, the premier award of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the RACI. Lindoy's contributions were also recognised by the Australian Government in 2001 with a Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and science in inorganic chemistry" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kingsford (ecologist)
Richard Kingsford is an environmental/biological expert and river ecologist. Much of his work has been undertaken with the Murray-Darling Basin wetlands and rivers covering approximately 70 percent of the Australian continent. He is the director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of New South Wales School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, a member of the Australian Government’s Environmental Flows Scientific Committee. Kingsford presented "A Meander Down a River or Two: How Water Defines Our Continent and Its Future" for the second Eric Rolls Memorial Lecture in 2012. In 2019 the Australian Regional Council (ARC) appointed Kingsford as chief investigator in a team to develop a new international standard for the appraisal and reporting of the status of the most crucial wetlands worldwide. Honours and recognition Kingsford has received the following awards: * 2001: Eureka Award for his research on ecological values of rivers and impact of Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Kaldas
Naguib "Nick" Kaldas (born 1958) is a former Australian police officer and former deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Though considered to be a possible future Commissioner, in March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision to leave the Police Force and currently works for the United Nations. Early life Kaldas was born in Egypt in 1958 to Copts in Australia, Coptic Australian parents. The family emigrated to Australia in 1969. Policing career In 1981 Kaldas graduated from the New South Wales Police Force's academy. He worked for more than ten years as a hostage negotiator. While the head of the New South Wales homicide squad, Kaldas was responsible for a number of high-profile murder investigations, including the death of Michael Guider#Samantha Knight, Samantha Knight, the murder of John Newman (Australian politician), John Newman and the investigation into the murders committed by Sef Gonzales. In 2004 Kaldas spent eight months in Iraq where he trained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
