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2017 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 12 June 2017 by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. 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 Officer (AO) General Division Military Division Member (AM) General Division Military Division Medal (OAM) General Division Military Division Meritorious Service Public Service Medal (PSM) Australian Police Medal (APM) Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) Emergency Services Medal (ESM) Distinguished and Conspicuous Service Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM & Bar) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Queen's Birthday Honours
The 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours are 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. The Queen's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom were announced on 16 June; the honours for New Zealand were announced on 5 June and for Australia on 12 June. The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour. They are arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised the Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades, ''i.e.'' Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander ''etc.'', and then by divisions, ''i.e.'' Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate. United Kingdom Below are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the United Kingdom with honours within her own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Joyce (executive)
Alan Joseph Joyce, (born 30 June 1966) is an Irish-Australian businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Qantas Airways Limited. Early life and education Joyce was born and raised in Tallaght, now a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His mother was a cleaner, and his father worked in a tobacco factory. Joyce attended secondary school at St Mark's Community School in Springfield, Tallaght. Joyce attended Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. He graduated with Honours, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science (Physics and Mathematics) and a Master of Science degree in Management Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Career In 1988, Joyce commenced work at Aer Lingus, the flag carrier of Ireland. He held various positions in sales, marketing, information technology, network planning, operations research, revenue management and fleet planning. In 1996, he resigned to join the now-defunct Ansett Australia.O'Sullivan, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Herrman
Helen Edith Herrman AO is the President of the World Psychiatric Association. She is the second woman, and first Australian to be elected to the position. Educated at Monash University, Herrman received an MD for her 1981 thesis, "An Epidemiological Study of Patients Diagnosed as Schizophrenic : Use of record-linkage to examine mortality and general hospital admission". Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry at Orygen, the National Centre for Excellence in Youth Mental Health. She is also Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health in Melbourne. Before moving to Orygen, Herrman was Professor and Director of Psychiatry at St Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne. International appointments Herrman was President of the International Association for Women's Mental Health (IAWMH) from 2015-2017. Herrman is immediate Past President of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists (PRCP). In 2017 Herrman began her three-year term as President of the World Psych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Handlin
Denis Anthony Handlin AO (born 1951) is an Australian former entrepreneur and business executive who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Music Entertainment Australia and New Zealand and President of Sony Music Entertainment Asia Inc, commencing employment in the company in 1970 until 5 June 2021, making him the longest serving global Sony Music employee. Additionally, Handlin has served on the committees of several industry associations and has held various positions including Chairman of the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia, Vice Chairman of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and Chairman of the ARIA Industry Chart Committee and has been a member of the ARIA Board from 1984 until 5 June 2021. In October 2021, the Australian current affairs television program '' Four Corners'' interviewed over 100 Sony Music employees who alleged abuse, intimidation and bullying perpetrated by Handlin. Early life and education Handlin was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Green
Antony John Green (born 2 March 1960) is an Australian psephologist and commentator. He is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's chief election analyst. Early years and background Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in northern England, Green emigrated to Australia with his family in 1964. He attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, graduating in 1977. Green graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computing, and a Bachelor of Economics with honours in politics from the University of Sydney. He worked initially as a data analyst in the computing industry and for a polling company before joining the ABC in 1989. Green recalls he saw an ad for a six-month position as an ABC election researcher and applied, along with 150 other applicants. His experience and his “slightly bubbly personality” helped him get the position. ABC producer Ian Carroll and journalist Kerry O’Brien recommended he stay on and he remains with the ABC until today. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Goldsworthy
Kay Maree Goldsworthy (born 1956) is an Australian bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia. She is the current archbishop of Perth in the Province of Western Australia.ABC Online Upon her installation as archbishop, on 10 February 2018, she became the first female archbishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. Previously, she served as diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. Early life, education and ministry Goldsworthy was born and raised in Melbourne, where she studied theology at Trinity College from 1980 to 1983. In 1986 she was ordained as one of the Anglican church's first female deacons in Australia and served as curate at parishes in Thomastown/Epping and Deer Park/St. Albans before moving to Western Australia to become school chaplain at Perth College in Mount Lawley. In 1992 she was ordained as one of a group of Australia's first female priests by the then archbishop, Peter Carnley. She served as recto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordian Fulde
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Andrew Fletcher (businessman)
Andrew Vernon Fletcher is a South Australian engineer and defence industry businessman, best known for his role as chief executive officer of Defence SA. In May 2015 he was appointed CEO of Rheinmetall Defence Australia. Career Fletcher began a career in engineering in 1970 in Adelaide with Kinnaird Hill deRohan and Young. For the next decade, he worked for Sir Alexander Gibb and Pak Poy and Kneebone then began his own consultancy. He later merged with Scott and Furphy, which would eventually become CMPS&F. Fletcher then worked at Kinhill, eventually rising to dual positions of Senior Vice President – Global Infrastructure and Senior Vice President – Asia Pacific in 2001. In 2005, Fletcher was appointed chair of the South Australian government's Major Projects Facilitation Group (MPFG) . The group was tasked to advise on the implementation of the ''Building South Australia – Strategic Infrastructure Plan'', which was developed that year. He also represented the Economic D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collette Dinnigan
Collette Mary Ann Dinnigan (born 24 September 1965) is an Australian based fashion designer. Born in South Africa, Dinnigan moved to New Zealand, then Australia, where she obtained work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She opened her own range in 1990, with the launch of a dry-clean only lingerie collection, and was the first Australian to launch a ready-to-wear collection, in Paris in 1995. Early life Collette Dinnigan was born in South Africa on 24 September 1965. When she was eight, her family including a younger brother lived on their yacht for a number of years, eventually sailing around the southern coast of Australia and on to New Zealand, where they decided to remain. She graduated from a fashion design course at Wellington Polytechnic because she liked fashion designing. She later moved to Sydney, where she worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's costume department. Career and fashion range In 1995, Dinnigan was the first Australian to lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Anderson (professor)
Ian Phillip Anderson , (born 1965) is an Australian academic and senior public servant. Education Anderson qualified his MBBS at the University of Melbourne, and then obtained his PhD at the La Trobe University. Career Anderson rose to be a Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. He was then seconded to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia). Here Anderson became Deputy Secretary for Indigenous Affairs. In 1993, Anderson delivered one of the annual series of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer Lectures called "Voices of the Land". Personal Ian Anderson born near Devonport, Tasmania in 1965 was the eldest child of Sandra Smith (née Anderson). Honours and awards * 2017 Officer of the Order of Australia for "For distinguished service to the Indigenous community, particularly in the areas of health equality, aged care and education, as an academic, researcher and medical practitioner, to policy reform, and as a role model". * 2018 Elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shine
John Shine (born 3 July 1946) is an Australian biochemist and molecular biologist. Shine and Lynn Dalgarno discovered the nucleotide sequence, called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, necessary for the initiation and termination of protein synthesis. He directed the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney from 1990 to 2011. In May 2018 Shine was elected President of the Australian Academy of Science. Background and early career The brother of scientist, Richard Shine, John Shine was born in Brisbane in 1946 and completed his university studies at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, graduating with a bachelor of science with honours in 1972 and completing his PhD in 1975. During the course of his studies he and his supervisor, Lynn Dalgarno, discovered the RNA sequence necessary for ribosome binding and the initiation of protein synthesis in the bacterium ''Escherichia coli''. The sequence was named the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. This was a key discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pettit
Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. Education and career Pettit was educated at Garbally College, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (BA, LPh, MA) and Queen's University, Belfast (PhD). He has been a lecturer at University College, Dublin, a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and professor at the University of Bradford. He was for many years professorial fellow in social and political theory at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University before becoming a visiting professor of philosophy at Columbia University for five years, then moving to Princeton. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland. He was keynote speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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