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2024 King's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2024 King's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 10 June 2024 by the Governor-General, David Hurley. The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the King's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * The Honourable Daniel Michael Andrews – For eminent service to the people and Parliament of Victoria, to public health, to policy and regulatory reform, and to infrastructure development. * Professor Karen Canfell – For eminent service to medicine as an epidemiologist, particularly through cancer research, to tertiary education, and as a mentor and leader. * The late the Honourable Simon Findlay Crean – For eminent service to the people and Parliament of Australia, to tertiary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor-General Of Australia
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Australia.Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australiaofficial website Retrieved 1 January 2015. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of government ministers. The governor-general has formal presidency over the Federal Executive Council and is commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hardy (sailor)
Sir James Gilbert Hardy OBE AASA (born 20 November 1932) is an Australian winemaker and businessman who is also noted for his yachting achievements. History A great-grandson of the South Australian winemaker Thomas Hardy, James Hardy was born at Seacliff, South Australia on 20 November 1932. His father, Tom Mayfield Hardy, who was appointed chairman and managing director of Thomas Hardy and Sons in 1924, was one of those killed near Mount Dandenong on 25 October 1938 in the crash of the plane "Kyeema". Tom Hardy was a noted sailor, associated with the yacht ''Nerida'' at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron. Hardy was educated at Brighton Primary School, St. Peter's College and the South Australian Institute of Technology. On leaving school, he spent two years share farming at Port Vincent, South Australia, then joined the family wine company Thomas Hardy and Sons in 1953, working as a shipping clerk. He then served as Sales Supervisor from 1957 to 1961, then as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Clapham
Kathleen Frances Clapham is an Indigenous Australian anthropologist and health researcher, who was the recipient of an Order of Australia, for services to "indigenous community health and tertiary education". She is the founding director of both the Ngarruwan Ngadjul: First People's Health and Wellbeing Research Centre as well as Professor of Indigenous Health at the University of Wollongong. Education and career Clapham's father was the source of her drive and passion for education, and inspired her to work in academia. She is a descendant of the Murrawarri The Muruwari, also spelt Murawari, Murawarri, Murrawarri and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of New South Wales and the southwestern area of Queensland. Language A monograph on and a dictionary of Muruwari have ... people, who are based in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. She has worked in improving health and learning of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Burgess (intelligence Chief)
Michael P. Burgess is an Australian intelligence official, and the current Director-General of Security in charge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Prior to his appointment to this role on 16 September 2019, Burgess was director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). Early life Burgess was born in England, and immigrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1973 at the age of seven. He was the first member of his family to study in higher education, receiving a degree in electrical engineering from the South Australian Institute of Technology in 1988. Intelligence career Burgess joined ASD (then called the Defence Signals Directorate) in 1995, and worked there for 18 years, most notably as Deputy Director for Cyber and Information Security, before leaving to work in the private sector. Working in the private sector, Burgess served as the Chief Information Security Officer at Telstra, before finding work as a cyber-security consultant and adviso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Brown (Domestic Violence Researcher)
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Peter Blunden
Peter Blunden was the Managing Director of ''The Herald and Weekly Times'', publisher of News Limited titles in Victoria, Australia; the ''Herald Sun'', ''Sunday Herald Sun'', ''The Weekly Times'' and '' mX''. A journalist, he was appointed to this role in 2001, after serving as the editor of the ''Herald Sun''. The man to whom he reported, John Hartigan, said about him "He's a person who certainly expresses energy in everything he does". He is a board member of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and the Royal Children's Hospital The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia. As a major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care, as we ... Foundation. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blunden, Peter Living people Australian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bancroft
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a fashion designer, and is an artist, illustrator, and arts administrator. In 1985, Bancroft established a shop called Designer Aboriginals, selling fabrics made by Aboriginal artists, including herself. She was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Art work by Bancroft is held by the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She has provided art work for more than 20 children's books, including ''Stradbroke Dreamtime'' by writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and books by artist and writer Sally Morgan. She has received design commissions, including one for the exterior of a sports centre in Sydney. Bancroft has a long history of invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Rawlins
Major General Anthony John Rawlins, is a senior officer in the Australian Army. He joined the army via the Australian Defence Force Academy in 1986 and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Armoured Corps The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is a corps of the Australian Army which provides the Australian Defence Force's armour capability. Armour combines firepower, mobility, protection and networked situational awareness to generate shock .... He has commanded the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2006–08), Overwatch Battle Group (West) (2006–07) and 7th Combat Brigade (2016–18), and deployed on operations to Israel and Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He served as Deputy Chief of Army from 2018 to 2022, and was appointed Head Force Design within the Vice Chief of Defence Force Group in February 2022. References , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlins, Anthony Australian generals Australian military personnel of the Iraq War Australian military personnel of the Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Jones (admiral) , Australian explorer, endurance athlete and motivational speaker
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Kevin Weldon
Kevin Ernest Weldon (born 1933) is an Australian book publisher, businessman, philanthropist and supporter of the lifesaving movement. He is best known for book publishing, firstly for the Paul Hamlyn Group, and later for his own publishing company. He is a founder of Earthwatch Australia, a voluntary organisation supporting scientific research expeditions. He has served on a variety of committees and boards, including Powerhouse Museum ( Sydney) and the Institute of Aboriginal Studies (Canberra). He is the founding president of the World Lifesaving and International Life Saving Federation, a member of the President's Board of National Council of Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia. In 1994, he became a member of the Order of Australia for his philanthropy, contribution to water safety as president of World Life Saving, and service to the publishing industry. Early life Weldon was born in 1933 in the small town of Ingham, Queensland, the youngest of five children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Tewson
Jane Tewson CBE (born 9 January 1958) is a British charity worker and the originator of several charitable organisations and ideas for community strengthening in the UK and Australia. Early life and education Tewson is the daughter of Edward Tewson and Jocelyn (née Johnston), a doctor in rural South East England. With dyslexia, she left Lord Williams's Grammar School in Thame without qualifications, but later attended lectures at Oxford while working as a cleaner in the city.ABC local conversations with Richard Fidler: Jane Tewson Career In 1981, aged 23, Tewson founded Charity Projects in London, with funding from Lord (Tim) Bell and numerous other donations. Its initial focus ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Smith-Miles
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