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James McCusker (banker)
Sir James Alexander McCusker (2 December 1913 – 30 September 1995) was a prominent Australian financial services industry figure and philanthropist during the 20th century. Early life McCusker was born in North Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Highgate Primary School in the Perth suburb of Highgate before winning a scholarship to Perth Modern School, which he attended until aged 14 when, due to his parents' financial circumstances, he left to join the Commonwealth Bank as a junior clerk. When World War II broke out, he joined the AIF, and became a sergeant with the 1st Armoured Division. When the war ended, he re-joined the bank and was transferred to its Hobart branch as valuer and accountant, in 1948. He returned to Western Australia in 1953, when he became a senior manager of the William Street branch of the bank in Perth. Building society movement In 1959, he left the bank to establish and manage several " terminating" building societies, which provided finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Services
Financial services are the Service (economics), economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer finance, consumer-finance companies, brokerage firm, stock brokerages, investment management, investment funds, individual asset managers, and some government-sponsored enterprises. History The term "financial services" became more prevalent in the United States partly as a result of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, GrammLeachBliley Act of the late 1990s, which enabled different types of companies operating in the U.S. financial services industry at that time to merge. Companies usually have two distinct approaches to this new type of business. One approach would be a bank that simply buys an insurance company or an investment bank, keeps the original brands of the acquired firm, and adds the Takeover, acquisit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lions Eye Institute
The Lions Eye Institute (LEI) is an Australian medical research institute affiliated with the University of Western Australia. It was established in 1983 with support of the Lions Clubs of Western Australia and headquartered in the suburb of , Western Australia. The LEI is a not-for-profit centre of excellence that combines an ophthalmic clinic with scientific discovery developing techniques for the prevention of blindness and the reduction of pain from blinding eye conditions. History At a 1970 convention in Albany, Western Australia, the Western Australian Lions Clubs created the Lions Save Sight Foundation (WA) Inc. with the aim of leading the development of ophthalmic care. In 1975 the Lions Save-Sight Foundation (LSSF) established the Lions Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Western Australia. Since its establishment, clinical facilities, new equipment, and research laboratories have been strategically commissioned to support the LEI's core activities. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Agriculture And Food (Western Australia)
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) is a Western Australian government department responsible for regulating and advancing agricultural and food industries, fisheries and regional development within the state. It was formed by an amalgamation of the Department of Agriculture and Food, Department of Fisheries and Department of Regional Development in 2017. The Minister for Agriculture and Food, the Minister for Regional Development and the Minister for Fisheries are responsible for the department. In 2004 the department had operating costs of $215,000,000 approx with $120,000,000 provided directly by the state government. The balance was from federal government grants, public operating activities and user charges and fees. This department was also responsible for quarantine control on all plants, soil and animal products brought into the state. The Agricultural Protection Board eeds updatingis also part of this and responsible for the erad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany and various other facilities elsewhere. UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia and began teaching students two years later. It is the sixth-oldest university in Australia and was Western Australia's only university until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973. Because of its age and reputation, UWA is classed one of the "sandstone universities", an informal designation given to the oldest university in each state. The university also belongs to several more formal groupings, including the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight and the Matariki Network of Universities. In recent years, UWA has generally been ranked either in the bottom half or just outside the University rankings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Agricultural Society Of Western Australia
The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia (RASWA) was established 1831 in Western Australia. Early history It held its first annual agricultural show, the Fair and Cattle Show, at Guildford on 7 November 1834. The show was moved to the Claremont Showground in 1905, when it became the Perth Royal Show. In 1907, a range of other agricultural societies merged. Despite the action, separate agricultural societies remain throughout the state. Agricultural Hall of Fame In 1999 the ''Agricultural Hall of Fame'' was established by the Society, to honour "the men and women who have significantly contributed to Western Australian agriculture and pastoral life." Each year since then (other than 2016), inductees have been chosen by a selection panel (after being nominated by members of the public) and has had their portraits commissioned and hung in David Buttfield House at Claremont Showground. The Hall of Fame was established after then-President, Lou Giglia, visited the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Plains
Victoria Plains is a rural locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. In the , Victoria Plains had a population of 364 people. References {{Mackay Region Mackay Region Localities in Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandaragan
Dandaragan is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The name of Dandaragan was first recorded in 1850 as the name of a nearby gulley and spring or watering hole known as Dandaraga spring. The word is Indigenous Australian in origin and is thought to mean ''good kangaroo country''. The first recorded land lease was to William Brockman in 1848; he had a land lease at Muchamulla Springs. James Drummond settled in the area in 1850 and established a farm. A police station was built later and the townsite was gazetted in 1958. The Dandaragan plateau is the underlying geological feature of the area the town is located. Select Harvests unsuccessfully attempted to grow a large almond The almond (''Prunus amygdalus'', syn. ''Prunus dulcis'') is a species of tree native to Iran and surrounding countries, including the Levant. The almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the genus ... orchard near Dandaragan betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascoyne River
The Gascoyne River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. At , it is the longest river in Western Australia. Description The Gascoyne River comprises three branches in its upper reaches. Draining the Collier Range, the river rises as the Gascoyne River (North Branch) on Three Rivers Station near the Great Northern Highway, northeast of Peak Hill and flows for approximately . The Gascoyne River (Middle Branch) rises west of Beyondie Lakes, east of and east of the Great Northern Highway and flows for approximately . The Gascoyne River (South Branch) rises near the Doolgunna homestead and flows for approximately . The Gascoyne flows generally west by southwest and is joined by 36 tributaries including the Lyons River, Landor River, Thomas River, and numerous other creeks and gullies. The two main rivers, the Gascoyne and Lyons together provide a catchment area of that lies entirely to the east of the Kennedy Ranges and extends some inland. The river r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landor Station
Landor or Landor Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The station is situated approximately by air north west of Meekatharra. The distance by road is considerably longer, via the Great Northern Highway. The station occupies an area of and has double frontage to the Gascoyne River, Landor Creek and Aurila Creek over a total distance of over with the property mostly composed of flood plain country. It is well grassed with buffel, saltbush, bluebush, cotton bush and other vegetation, including mulga, acacia and currara. The property was established prior to 1925 as a cattle station, but then swapped to sheep. Approximately 12,00 sheep were shorn in 1925, with numbers increasing to 40,000 in 1926 and 50,000 in 1927. In 1998 the property was acquired by Richie Brennan from Malcolm McCusker. In 2013 Brennan had reported that cattle worth 500,000 had been stolen from the property over the last decade. The statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murchison River (Western Australia)
The Murchison River is the second longest river in Western Australia. It flows for about from the southern edge of the Robinson Ranges to the Indian Ocean at Kalbarri. The Murchison-Yalgar-Hope river system is the longest river system in Western Australia. It has a mean annual flow of 208 gigalitres, although in 2006, the peak year on record since 1967, flow was 1,806gigalitres. Basin The Murchison River basin covers an area of about in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It extends about inland from the Indian Ocean, onto the Yilgarn Craton east of Meekatharra and north of Sandstone. Rain generally falls in the upper basin during summer cyclones, so for much of the year the Murchison River does not flow, leaving a dry sandy river bed and intermittent permanent pools. The eastern reaches of the basin contain large chains of salt lakes, which flow only following rainfall. The drainage lines from these lakes merge to form the Murchison River about north-northea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boolardy
Boolardy Station is a remote former sheep and cattle station in the Mid West (Murchison) region of Western Australia, about north-north-east of Pindar and west-south-west of Meekatharra. It is within the Shire of Murchison and situated on pastoral lease no. 3114/406 (Crown lease 146/1966). The area of the lease is . In 2009 the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) purchased the property for , in order to provide the location of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, while the owners continued running the property as a cattle station until around 2014. Description An area of within the station was composed of reserves and crown land. In 2011 a report stated that the soil had a low level of erosion, with 87% of the land being described as nil or minor. The perennial vegetation condition was fair, with 39% of vegetation cover being described as poor or very poor. The property was an important pastoral property in the Murchison region, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
