Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, (15 November 1926 – 11 February 2018) was a
Lord Mayor of Sydney
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(1973–1975) and
national representative rugby union
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captain, who made thirty career test appearances for Australia between 1947 and 1958. He was President of the Australia Rugby Union from 1980 to 1987; in that role he pushed for and succeeded in persuading the International Rugby Board to launch the
Rugby World Cup
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. He is an inductee into both the
Australian Rugby Union
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Hall of Fame and the
IRB Hall of Fame
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.
Early life
Nicholas Michael Shehadie was born to a
Lebanese Greek Orthodox family in the beachside
Sydney suburb of
Coogee.
He was the third of five children born to Hannah (née Khouri) and Michael Shehaidie, who arrived in Sydney from Lebanon in 1925, one year before Nicholas was born.
Nicholas grew up in
Redfern, Sydney and attended the Cleveland St Public and later Crown St Commercial schools.
Rugby career
The young Shehadie embraced Sydney's sporting lifestyle and joined the
Coogee Surf Club where many of the surfers were avid rugby players, Keith and
Colin Windon among them. He joined the
Randwick Rugby Club and was first picked as a replacement in first grade when he was still aged fifteen. He made his first representative appearance for
New South Wales
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against a Combined Services side at age sixteen.
[Howell, ''Wallaby Test Captains'' p147] In 1947 he appeared in a New South Wales XV against
New Zealand
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and then made his debut for
Australia in the final Test against those same touring
All Blacks
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.
He was selected on the
1947–48 Wallaby tour, the fourth youngest of the 30-man squad. He dislocated his shoulder in the fourth tour match against
Cardiff
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but recovered to make 24 tour appearances including the final two Tests against
England
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and
France
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. He finished the tour in the Wallabies side that met the
Barbarians
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in their inaugural match against an international touring team.
Shehadie made representative appearances against the
New Zealand Māori in 1949 and that year toured New Zealand in
Trevor Allan's team which for the first time in history returned victorious with the
Bledisloe Cup
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.
He made further representative showings against the
British and Irish Lions
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in 1950, the All Blacks in 1951 and
Fiji in 1952.
He made his second tour of New Zealand in 1952 and then on the 1953 Wallaby tour of
South Africa
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he was honoured with the Australian captaincy in eight tour matches and in one Test. He continued to represent at the highest level from 1954 to 1956 and then in 1957 he made history as the first Wallaby to repeat a
tour of the British Isles and Europe. While he played in 24 matches of the trip including two Tests, the tour was a disappointment with the Wallabies losing all five Tests. Shehadie was signally honoured however when he became the first tourist to be asked to play for the
Barbarians
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in the final tour match against his own team.
All up, Shehadie made 175 appearances for Randwick in a 16-year club career. He represented for Australia on 114 occasions – the first player to reach the century mark. He played 30 Tests – a record at the time – 3 of them as
captain.
Business and public life
Shehadie worked in the 1950s selling fire doors and securities systems for Wormald Industries and later became a sales manager with an
asphalt
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company. When his footballing days ended he commenced a business supplying and fixing vinyl tiles used in hotel bars and in computer room installations requiring anti-static floors. The business was successful, being first to market with a product in high demand by the growing information technology departments of corporate Australia.
Lord Mayor
Shehadie's career in public office commenced in 1962 when he stood as an
alderman
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for the
council elections of the
City of Sydney
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. He ran on a ticket with the
Civic Reform Association, a non-aligned ratepayers' association. He was elected and then served a second term from 1966. When city council boundaries were changed in 1967, his ward moved into the
South Sydney precinct and he and his fellow councillors were dismissed overnight. In the next election of 1969 he stood again and was chosen as
Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney. He was instrumental in an administration that presided over the development of
Martin Place
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historic buildings
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would no longer be penalised because they weren't able to develop the building.
In 1973 he was elected as
Lord Mayor of Sydney. He was in office at the time of the opening of the
Sydney Opera House by
Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973. He officiated at visits by
Charles, Prince of Wales
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in 1972 and by
Anne, Princess Royal
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in 1974. He was in office during the
Green Bans
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when the
New South Wales
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Builders' Labourers Federation led a campaign to protect the
built and
natural environment
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of Sydney's
Woolloomooloo
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area from excessive development.
In 1973 Shehadie stood for Liberal Party preselection for the seat of
Parramatta
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with the support of future prime minister
John Howard
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, losing by one vote to
Philip Ruddock
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Ruddock is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and currently the state president of the party's New South W ...
.
[Van Onselen, Peter, and Wayne Errington, ''John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography'', Melbourne University Publishing, 2008.] The party head office favoured Shahdie, and this was the first "significant pre-selection" in which the favored candidate did not win.
Service and Patronage
Shehadie was appointed as Chairman of the
Special Broadcasting Service
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in 1981, and served that organisation until 1999. SBS is a government-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network, chartered to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that reflect Australia's multicultural society.
Shehadie served as patron to
The Infants' Home Child and Family Services
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Background ...
during his wife's
Marie Bashir
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tenure as Governor (2001-2014). He was an active patron, opening new childcare centres in 2013.
Sir Nicholas served as Chairman of The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia from 1992 - 1994.
Sports administration
Rugby Administration
Shehadie was appointed Chairman of the
New South Wales Rugby Union in 1979, a position which gave him a seat on the
Australian Rugby Union
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board, where he was immediately selected Deputy President. In 1980 he became President of the ARU, a position held till 1987. He was instrumental in the schoolboy rule changes which outlawed forceful scrum engagements aimed to avoid neck injuries and make schoolboy rugby safer. He performed as tour manager on the
1981-82 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland.
He was first involved in discussions regarding a
Rugby World Cup
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from 1983 when the ARU raised the matter with the
International Rugby Football Board. Initial resistance came from the
Home Nation unions with the push coming from Australia and New Zealand. After much international lobbying a 1985 vote saw France, New Zealand and Australia all for it; Scotland and Ireland against it; with England and Wales both split. The vote was carried and Shehadie was appointed joint chairman on the inaugural
Rugby World Cup
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committee with
John Kendall-Carpenter
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of the IRB and Dick Littlejohn of the
New Zealand Rugby Union
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. Shehadie retired after the inaugural
1987 Rugby World Cup and was made a life member of the ARU.
On 24 October 2011, at the
IRB Awards ceremony in
Auckland
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, Shehadie was inducted into the
IRB Hall of Fame
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in recognition of his role in the creation of the Rugby World Cup.
Sydney Cricket Ground
Shehadie had been a member of the
Sydney Cricket Ground for 29 years when in 1978 he was invited by the New South Wales Minister for Sport, Ken Booth, to become a Trustee. At the time he was patron of the
Randwick Rugby Club and a committee member of the
Sydney Turf Club. He served as Trustee of the SCG from 1978 to 2001 and was chairman from 1990 to 2001. His time on the trust saw the installation of lights at the Cricket Ground and the building of the
Sydney Football Stadium where a stand was named in his honour. In his final year as chairman a Walk of Honour was opened, with thirty-three plaques honouring sporting champions who have performed at the SCG. Sir Nicholas Shehadie is one of the thirty-three.
Family
His grandfather Nicholas Shehadie was a clergyman in the
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ ...
Orthodox Church who migrated from
Lebanon
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in 1910 and later became the head of that church in Australia and New Zealand. Sir Nicholas' father Michael remained in Lebanon due to the outbreak of
World War I
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, won a scholarship to study chemistry at the University of Kiev and in the 1920s chose to migrate to Australia to join his father in Sydney's growing Lebanese community. Michael earned a living as a chemist and shopkeeper, and having been ordained in Russia took over as the pastoral head of the Antioch Church upon the death of Nicholas senior in 1934.
In February 1957, Nick Shehadie married
Marie Bashir
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(later Dame Marie). She was the
Governor of New South Wales between 2001 and 2014. They had three children and six grandchildren. Shehadie lived in
Mosman
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with his wife from 1960 until his death.
Funeral
Shehadie died aged 92 on 11 February 2018 and was granted a state funeral which was presided over by the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney
Glenn Davies
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at
St James' Church on 21 February 2018. His funeral was attended by one of the largest groupings of national dignitaries in recent New South Wales history which included: Governors-General
Sir Peter Cosgrove
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A graduate of the Royal Military College, ...
,
Dame Quentin Bryce and
Michael Jeffery
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;
[ New South Wales Governors Dame ]Marie Bashir
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and David Hurley
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;[ former Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, ]Paul Keating
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and John Howard
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; current and former Premiers of New South Wales Barrie Unsworth
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Early years
Unswort ...
, Nick Greiner, John Fahey, Morris Iemma
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, Kristina Keneally
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, Barry O'Farrell
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, Mike Baird
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and Gladys Berejiklian
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Berejiklian became a member ...
; Lord Mayor Clover Moore;[ Police Commissioners ]Andrew Scipione
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and Mick Fuller
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;[ Wallabies players and coaches ]Nick Farr-Jones
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, Michael Cheika
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Cheika was the coach of the Australia r ...
, Alan Jones, Mark Ella
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Ella made his debut tour wit ...
and Glen Ella
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, and Olympian Dawn Fraser
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.[ Shehadie was buried privately at ]Waverley Cemetery
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in Bronte, New South Wales.
Honours
*1 January 1971 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to Local Government.
*1 January 1976 Knight Bachelor
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for his service as Lord Mayor of Sydney.
*In 1985, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
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.
*11 June 1990 Companion of the Order of Australia
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(AC) for "service to the media, to sport and to community".
*28 July 2000 Australian Sports Medal
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for his service as "Both President of Australian Rugby Union and Captain of Australian Rugby Team (1969–1973)".
*1 January 2001 Centenary Medal for "service to the community".
* 17 May 2001 Knight of the Order of St John
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* In 2006 he was honoured in the second set of inductees into the Australian Rugby Union
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Hall of Fame.
* On 24 October 2011, Shehadie was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame.
References
* Shehadie, Nicholas (2003) ''A Life Worth Living'', Simon & Schuster Australia
* Howell, Max (2005) ''Born to Lead – Wallaby Test Captains'', Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ
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