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Phil Day (town Planner)
Philip Denny Day (1924 – 17 March 2011) was an Australian town planner and politician. Day was educated at Yeronga before attending Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane. He began studying law but enlisted in the Australian Army during World War II, serving for three years after the war in occupied Japan as an intelligence officer. He graduated in 1953 and joined the public service in Canberra, and was also elected to the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council, serving from 1955 to 1957 as a Liberal and then from 1957 to 1959 as an Independent. He was an Independent candidate for the Division of Australian Capital Territory in the 1958 Australian federal election. He subsequently moved to Sydney, where he trained in town and country planning. Initially with the Department of Local Government, he moved to the Department of Decentralisation and Development in 1968, eventually becoming director. He was next director of town planning for Brisbane City Council, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeronga, Queensland
Yeronga is a southern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeronga had a population of 6,535 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the west and north by the Brisbane River and to the south-east by Ipswich Road. A total of 16 streets in the Yeronga West area begin with the letter O, including Orvieto Road, Orsova Road and Oriana Crescent, locally known as the 'O zone'. Many of these streets appear to be named after ships and passenger liners owned by the Orient Line, which became part of P&O. They include , , ''Ormuz'' and . Some names were used for two or more ships over time. For example the first was launched in 1911 and sunk by a torpedo in 1917, and the second was launched in 1924 and sunk in the Norwegian campaign in 1940. Four streets in Yeronga (including two forming a circuit) appear to have been named after prominent architects, being Dalton St, Grounds St, Seidler St and Utzon St. There were a series of lagoons adja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
