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List Of People From Fremantle
This is a list of notable people from Fremantle, Western Australia. They may have been born there or have been resident there at some time. A *William Angwin (1863–1944), politician; Deputy Premier of Western Australia *Tahnee Atkinson (1992–), model; winner of the fifth cycle of ''Australia's Next Top Model'' B *Craig Barnett (1974–), model; crowned Mr Australia in 2007 * Bill Bateman (1866–1935), Australian rules footballer and cricketer; inaugural captain of the Fremantle Football Club * Tom Bateman (1922–2003), politician *Walter Bateman (1826–1882), merchant; member of the Western Australian Legislative Council *Neville Beard (1936–), Australian rules footballer; Sandover Medal winner *Kim Edward Beazley (1917–2007), politician; served as Father of the House in the Whitlam government *K. A. Bedford (1963–), science fiction novelist; two-time Aurealis Award winner *Marcus Beilby (1951–), artist; Sulman Prize winner for his 1987 work ''Crutching the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo. Prior to British settlement, the indigenous Noongar people inhabited the area for millennia, and knew it by the name of Walyalup ("place of the woylie")."(26/3/2018) Inaugural Woylie Festival starts tomorrow" fremantle.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2020. Visited by in the 1600s, Fremantle was the first area settled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Weekly
''News Weekly'' is an Australian current affairs magazine, published by the National Civic Council, with its main headquarters in Balwyn, Victoria. It also has offices in Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia. History and profile ''News Weekly'' was founded by B. A. Santamaria and first published in September 1943, under the name ''Freedom''. It later changed its name to ''Australia's national news-weekly'', and adopted its current name in 1946–47. ''News Weekly'' adheres to the five primacies of thNational Civic Council promoting the national interest, assisting small enterprise, supporting the family, fostering the tested values derived from Judeo-Christian heritage and defending life. According to the Kempsey Library listing, ''News Weekly'' provides analysis of current cultural, social, political, educational, and economic trends in Australia, focusing on ethics. In 1955, it had a circulation of 30,000 copies. Associated groups include the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Institute Of Sport
The Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) is an elite sports institute set up in 1983 by the Government of Western Australia to support athletes in Western Australia. Previously, if elite athletes from Western Australian needed to train or receive coaching at an international level they had to move to one of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) campuses which were generally based in the eastern states. The founding director was Wally Foreman who held the position for 17 years until 2001. The institute is based at the WAIS High Performance Service Centre (next door to HBF Stadium) and has sport programs including athletics, baseball, canoeing, cycling, gymnastics, men and women's hockey, netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ..., Rowing (sport), rowing, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Bickle
Trevor Sydney Bickle (born 17 July 1943 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Western Australian athlete and Commonwealth pole vault champion.''W.A. Hall of Champions'' inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport At 16, Bickle was "volunteered" to contest an F-grade pole vault event at his local athletics club by his coach. He won the event and went on to a highly successful international career in the sport. In the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth at Perry Lakes Stadium, he won the gold medal with a vault of . In Jamaica four years later at 1966 Games he won again, retaining the Commonwealth title with a vault of - his best competition result. He won Australian titles in 1963, 1966 and 1967 but was unlucky to miss selection for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when he broke his pole in the selection trials. Bickle retired from competition in 1967 when he represented the Commonwealth of Nations against the United States in Los Angeles. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Tasmania
The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The incumbent governor is Barbara Baker, who was appointed in June 2021. The official residence of the governor is Government House located at the Queens Domain in Hobart. As the sovereign predominantly lives outside Tasmania, the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on their behalf. As with the other state governors, the governor performs similar constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as the governor-general of Australia does at the national level. The position has its origins in the positions of commandant and lieutenant-governor in the colonial administration of Van Diemen's Land. The territory was separated from the Colony of New South Wales in 1825 and the title "governor" was used from 1855, the same year in which it adopted its current name. In accordance with the convention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of The Defence Force (Australia)
The Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) is the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and is the principal military advisor to the National Security Committee and the Minister for Defence. The current Chief of the Defence Force is General Angus Campbell, who took office on 6 July 2018. Responsibilities The CDF commands the ADF under the direction of the Minister for Defence and provides advice on matters that relate to military activity, including military operations. In a diarchy, the CDF serves as co-chairman of the Defence Committee, conjointly with the Secretary of Defence, in the command and control of the Australian Defence Organisation. The CDF is the Australian equivalent position of what in NATO and the European Union is known as the Chief of Defence, in the United Kingdom is known as the Chief of the Defence Staff, and in the United States is known as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, although with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General (Australia)
General (abbreviated GEN) is the second-highest rank, and the highest active rank, of the Australian Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of general; it is also considered a four-star rank. Prior to 1958, Australian generals (and field marshals) were only appointed in exceptional circumstances. In 1958, the position which is currently called Chief of the Defence Force was created, and since 1966, the rank of general has been held when an army officer is appointed to that position. General is a higher rank than lieutenant general, but is lower than field marshal. General is the equivalent of admiral in the Royal Australian Navy and air chief marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force. A general's insignia is St Edward's Crown above a star of the Order of the Bath (or 'pip') above a crossed sword and baton, with the word 'Australia' at the bottom. Australian generals The following have held the rank of general in the Australian Army: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Bennett
General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett, (born 27 December 1928) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army who served as Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 1984 to 1987, and later as Governor of Tasmania from 1987 to 1995. Early life Bennett was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Perth Modern School and the Royal Military College, Duntroon, from which he graduated as a lieutenant on 14 December 1948. With 13 other new officers, he was posted in March 1949 to 67 Infantry Battalion, The Australian Regiment, then in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan. Military career Bennett served in Japan until September 1950 and then embarked with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment for Korea where he served for a year during which he was wounded in action on 14 October 1950, remaining on duty, and Mentioned in Despatches in 1951. He served again for 12 months in Korea from 1 September 1952 as Senior Instructor, then Chief Instructor, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shearing The Rams
''Shearing the Rams'' is an 1890 in art, 1890 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts. It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed. Distinctly Australian in character, the painting is a celebration of pastoral life and work, especially "strong, masculine labour", and recognises the role that the wool industry played in the development of the country. One of the best-known and most-loved paintings in Australia, ''Shearing the Rams'' has been described as a "masterpiece of Australian Impressionism, Australian impressionism" and "the great icon of Australian popular art history". It forms part of the National Gallery of Victoria's Australian art collection, held at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Ian Potter Centre in Federation Square, Melbourne. Composition Roberts modelled his painting on a shearing shed at what is now called Killeneen, an Cattle station#Outstations, outstation of the Brocklesby sheep station, near Corowa in the Riverina regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulman Prize
The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936. It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney. Criteria The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the losingdate", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years."Major art prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize" |
Marcus Beilby
Marcus Charles Beilby (born 20 November 1951, in Western Australia), is an Australian realist painter. Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant. He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, where he received a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1975. Beilby was the winner of the 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting. The winning painting, ''Crutching the ewes'' has been described as a homage to Tom Roberts' ''Shearing the Rams''. In 1988, Charles Bush received a royal commission from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to depict the inauguration of the permanent Parliament House. Bush died the next year, leaving behind an initial sketch. As a result, Marcus Beilby was chosen to finalize the artwork and carry out the completion of the painting. He currently resides in East Fremantle East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by '' Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of ''Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
