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Lismore High Campus
Lismore High Campus, part of Rivers Secondary College, The Rivers Secondary College, is a Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded Mixed-sex school, co-educational Comprehensive school, comprehensive secondary school, secondary day school campus, located on Dalley Street, Lismore, New South Wales, East Lismore, in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1920 as Lismore High School, the campus enrolled approximately 400 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 17 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and six percent were from a English as a second or foreign language, language background other than English. The school is operated by the Department of Education (New South Wales), NSW Department of Education; the Principal (school), principal is Chris Williams. The Rivers Secondary College comprises the Richmond River High Campus, the Kadina High Campus, and the Lismore High Campus. History and description First l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Secondary College
The Rivers Secondary College is a multi- campus government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, with three campuses located in the City of Lismore in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 2016 through the administrative merger of Richmond River High School, Lismore High School, and Kadina High School, combined the College enrolled approximately 1,380 students in 2022, from Year 7 to Year 12, including approximately 20 percent of whom identified as Indigenous Australians and approximately eight percent of whom are from a language background other than English. The College is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the Executive Principal of the College is Chris Randle. See also * List of government schools in New South Wales * Education in Australia Education in Australia encompasses the sectors of early childhood education (preschool) and primary education (primary schools), followed by secondary educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond River High Campus
Richmond River High Campus, part of The Rivers Secondary College, is a dual- campus government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school campus, located in North Lismore, in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1958 as Richmond River High School, the campus enrolled approximately 620 students in 2022, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 14 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and eight percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Luke Woodward. Overview The campus has a split site campus, featuring sporting grounds and agricultural plots that when combined with the rest of the grounds, cover over . It also is commonly affected by floods. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hockings
Paul Hockings (born February 23, 1935) is an anthropologist whose prime areas of focus are the Dravidian languages, social, visual and medical anthropology. He studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and at the universities in Chicago, Stanford and Toronto. He taught anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he has been the dean of United International College's Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the current editor-in-chief of ''Visual Anthropology''. Early life and family Hockings was born on February 23, 1935 at Hertford and was raised in Hampshire, England. At the age of ten years, he developed interest in prehistory and museums. His father Arthur Hockings, a Londoner, was a cricketer and an engineer, who worked as a personal assistant for Henry Royce. Later, he helped design landing-craft for D-Day. In 1952, Paul migrated to Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Ellis
Robert James Ellis (10 May 1942 – 3 April 2016) was an Australian writer, journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator. He was a student at the University of Sydney at the same time as other notable Australians including Clive James, Germaine Greer, Les Murray, John Bell, Ken Horler, Robert Hughes and Mungo McCallum. He lived in Sydney with the author and screenwriter Anne Brooksbank; they had three children. Early years Ellis was raised a Seventh-day Adventist. He says the "seminal moment" of his life happened when he was ten and his 22-year-old sister was killed while crossing the road.Bob Ellis, "What I Know About Women" ''Daily Life'', 19 August 2012, accessed 23 October 2012. He attended [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Duncan
Robert Bruce Duncan (10 October 1928 – 7 May 2005) was an Australian politician. He was the member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1988, first as a member of the Country Party and then as an independent. Duncan was born in Lismore to farmer Robert Duncan and his wife Mary Mustard. He was educated at public schools in the Lismore area and became a dairy farmer at Konorigan. On 21 August 1953 he married Marlene Brown, with whom he had two sons. In 1965, Duncan was preselected as one of two Country Party candidates for the marginal Labor seat of Lismore, held by Keith Compton. The Liberal Party also endorsed a candidate, making the seat a three-cornered contest. In the event, Duncan easily led the non-Labor candidates and was able to defeat Compton on the other candidates' preferences. Duncan established a strong electoral record, making Lismore a safe seat in 1968 and being elected unopposed in 1971. He continued to hold the seat w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Arnison
Major General Peter Maurice Arnison, (born 21 October 1940) is a retired Australian Army officer who served as the 23rd Governor of Queensland, in office from July 1997 until July 2003. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1962, and served as Land Commander Australia from 1994 until he retired from the Australian Army in 1996. For the year prior to his appointment as governor, Arnison was the executive director of Allied Rubber Products, a manufacturing firm. He is a former Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, and is Chairman of Panbio Limited,CEO on extended medical leave press release, Panbio Ltd, 8 August 2006, www.panbio.com.au Chairman of the Centre for Military and Veterans' Health, Director of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Cross University
Southern Cross University (SCU) is an Australian public university, with campuses at Lismore and Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, and at Coolangatta, the most southern suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland. It is ranked in the top 100 young universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. History The initial predecessor institution to Southern Cross University was the Lismore Teachers' College, which commenced operation on 23 February 1970, at what is now the Northern Rivers Conservatorium site.Jordan, M. A Spirit of Learning: The Jubilee of the University of New England. University of NSW Press, Sydney. p.244. On 1 September 1971, the Lismore Teachers College became a College of Advanced Education, under the Higher Education Act 1969, with the institution soon renamed Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in 1973. Dr (later Professor) Rod Treyvaud was appointed principal in 1984, and oversaw an extensive building program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LHS 1920s
The initials LHS are used for: Australia * Leumeah High School, New South Wales * Lyneham High School, Australian Capital Territory United Kingdom * Litherland High School, Liverpool, England * Larbert High School, Stenhousemuir, Scotland United States * Lafayette High School (other) * Lahainaluna High School, Maui Hawai’i * Lamar High School (other) * Lanphier High School, Springfield,IL * Lawrence High School (New Jersey) * Lebanon High School (other) * Lee High School (other) Lee High School is the name of several high schools in the United States: * Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama) * Lee High School (Arkansas) * Lee High School (Massachusetts) * Lee High School (Wyoming, Michigan) * Lee High School (Lee County, Vi ... * Legacy High School (other) * Lejeune High School, Jacksonville, North Carolina * Lexington High School (other) * Linganore High School, Frederick Co, Maryland * Lowell High School (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Chow Yung (journalist)
Vivian Yung Chow (Chinese: 周成貴, pinyin: ''Zhou Chenggui''; 1906–1941) was a Chinese-Australian journalist, who has been called "one of the key newspaper editors in China in the 1930s." Chow co-founded the ''United China Magazine,'' and wrote extensively on the Chinese Masonic network, and on contemporary Chinese revolutionaries, such as Loong Hung Pung and Sun Yat-sen. Early life and career Chow was born and raised in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Jessie Mary King and Chow Toong Yung (sometimes spelt Foon or Foong Yung), and his maternal grandparents were the Grafton storekeeper King Jung Sao (also known as Stephen King), and Annie Lavinia Lavett (a great-granddaughter of James Squire). He enjoyed close family connections with the Hung League: he would later claim his grandfather, Stephen King was the Grand Master of a Chinese revolutionary lodge in Australia. King was reputedly the leader of the Tung Meng Whui, “familiarly known to Australians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murwillumbah High School
, motto_translation = I strive, I undertake, I achieve , established = , type = Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school , principal = Peter Howes , enrolment = 440 , enrolment_as_of = 2018 , teaching_staff = 50.1 FTE (2018) , newspaper = ''Endeavour''(fortnightly newsletter) , yearbook = The Parnassian , mascot = , colours = Navy blue and white , campus = , coordinates = , city = Murwillumbah, Northern Rivers, New South Wales , country = Australia , website = , pushpin_map = Australia New South Wales , pushpin_image = Australia New South Wales relief location map.png , pushpin_mapsize = 250 , pushpin_map_alt = , pushpin_map_caption = Location in New South Wales , pushpin_label = , pushpin_label_position = left , module= , footnotes = Murwillumbah High School, (abbreviated as MHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located on Riverv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian National Library
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Canberra, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscripts and images, as well as born-digital material. History In 1901 the Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brisbane Courier
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory. History The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four mastheads. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' later became '' The Courier'', then the ''Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the Daily Mail in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Issue frequency increased steadily to bi-weekly in January 1858, tri-weekly in December 1859, then daily under the editorship of Theophilus Parsons Pugh from 14 May 1861. The recognised founder and first editor was Arthur Sidney Lyon (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
