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Ipswich Girls' Grammar School
, motto_translation = Diligence Overcomes All , established = 1892 , type = Independent, day & boarding , gender = Girls , denomination = Non-denominational , slogan = , principal = Peter Britton , key_people = , chairman = Greg Ploetz , city = Ipswich , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , enrolment = ~860 , grades = P-12 , num_employ = ~170 , revenue = , products = , colours = Navy blue, pale blue & white , homepage = Ipswich Girls' Grammar School (IGGS) is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. The school is one of the eight original 'Queensland Grammar Schools'. These schools are independent, non-denominational, not-for-profit statutory bodies of the Queensland Government. They are not linked to, administered, or governed by any religious organisation or specific style of education. Both boys and girls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School
An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British English, an independent school usually refers to a school which is endowed, i.e. held by a trust, charity, or foundation, while a private school is one that is privately owned. Independent schools are usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. They typically have a board of governors who are elected independently of government and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Children who attend such schools may be there because they (or their parents) are dissatisfied with government-funded schools (in UK state schools) in their area. They may be selected for their academic prowess, prowess in other fields, or sometimes their religious background. Private schools r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zora Cross
Zora Bernice May Cross (18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964) was an Australian poet, best-selling novelist and journalist. Life Zora Bernice May Cross was born on 18 May 1890 at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, to Earnest William Cross and Mary Louisa Eliza Ann. Her father was a Sydney born accountant. Cross published and was known for her serialised novels, books of poems and children's verse and inherited her love for literature from both her parents. She was educated at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, Burwood Public School, Sydney Girls' High School and then Sydney Teachers' College from 1909 to 1910. As a child Zora was a prolific contributor to the Children's Corner in the ''Australian Town and Country Journal,'' where she attracted the attention of the editor, writer Ethel Turner, who went on to be a significant friend and mentor throughout Zora's writing career. Zora combined her teaching career with writing and acting, including tours with the Cherry Abraham's Comedy Costume Company i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Barker (artist)
Caroline Barker (1894–1988) was an Australian artist. She is best known for her portraits and still life. The Museum of Brisbane (formerly Brisbane's Civic Art Gallery) holds a large collection of her works. Early life Caroline Barker was born on 8 September 1894 in Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She commenced her art studies at the art school at the Melbourne Art Gallery (now the National Gallery of Victoria) where she studied painting with Bernard Hall and drawing with Frederick McCubbin. There she was awarded second prize for her monochrome painting in 1917, which provided her with a year's free tuition, enabling her to complete her studies in 1919. Due to her father's ill-health, the family relocated to Brisbane in Queensland in 1920. From 1921 to 1922, Barker became an art teacher at the Ipswich Girls Grammar School, saving her money in order to continue her studies in England. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly, Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Rudkin
Violet may refer to: Common meanings * Violet (color), a spectral color with wavelengths shorter than blue * One of a list of plants known as violet, particularly: ** ''Viola'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants Places United States * Violet, Louisiana * Violet, Missouri * Violet, Texas * Violet, West Virginia Elsewhere * Violet, Ontario, Canada Media and entertainment Film * ''Violet'' (1921 film), a German silent film * ''Violet'' (1978 film), a Croatian feature film * ''Violet'' (1981 film), a short film * ''Violet'' (2021 film), an American drama film Music Albums * ''Violet'' (The Birthday Massacre album), 2004 * ''Violet'' (Closterkeller album), 1993 * ''Violet'', a 2018 EP by Pentagon Songs * "Violet" (Hole song), 1995 * "Violet" (Seal song), 1992 * "Violet", a 2017 song by Pentagon from '' Demo_02'' Other uses * ''Violet'' (opera), a 2005 opera by Roger Scruton * ''Violet'' (musical), by Jeanine Tesori * ''Violet'' (computer game), a 2008 interactiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Nolan
Rachel Genevieve Nolan (born 1974) is a former Australian politician. She was elected as the state member for Ipswich on 17 February 2001. At the time she was Queensland's youngest ever female MP. She held the seat until 26 March 2012. Nolan was educated at the Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, in Ipswich, Queensland. Prior to entering Parliament she worked as a political adviser to the Northern Territory's then Leader of the Opposition and the Queensland Labor Government. In October 2006 Nolan was recognised as the University of Queensland's Young Alumnus of the Year. Anna Bligh appointed Nolan Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth (Lindy Nelson-Carr) in her first Ministry. Following the March 2009 state election, she was promoted to Minister for Transport. Then, in the February 2011 reshuffle, she was given the new post of Minister of Finance and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Lutkins
Kate Lutkins (born 31 May 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's. She was the "best player on the ground" at the 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final. Early life Lutkins was born in 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland. Her mother is Debbie Bowe. She attended and completed high school at West Moreton Anglican College and Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, in Ipswich, Queensland. Lutkins captained the "undefeated" Yeronga Devils Aussie Rules team. In 2012 she was working as an animal technician for the University of Queensland when she was announced as the captain of the national team to play in October at the Pacific Cup in San Francisco. She was playing for Wilston Grange when she was drafted. AFLW career Lutkins was recruited by with the number 79 pick in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the Lions' inaugural game against at Casey Fields on 5 February 2017. At the end of the season, she won the Lions' Most Courageous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vi Jordan
Ellen Violet Jordan (née Perrett; 29 June 1913 – 7 May 1982) was an Australian politician. She was the second woman elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and the first representing the Labor Party. Early life Jordan was born in Ipswich to James Berties Perrett and Anne Jane Jordan, ''née'' Brown. She attended Brassall State School and then Ipswich Girls' Grammar School before earning a Diploma of Education and becoming a schoolteacher. On 14 June 1932 she married David Jordan, with whom she had two children. Politics Joining the Australian Labor Party in 1946, Jordan was a delegate to the Labor-in-Politics Convention in 1956. She was the inaugural president of the Women's Central Committee Queensland from 1956 to 1967 and secretary of the Ipswich Labor Party Executive from 1958 to 1965. In 1961 she became the first woman elected to Ipswich City Council, serving until 1967. In 1966 she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Ips ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Harch
Bronwyn Harch (born Bronwyn Christensen in 1969) is an Australian data scientist. Early life and education Harch comes from a farming family in the rural Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane. Career She has worked with initiatives with government and industry, predominantly in the environmental and agricultural sectors. These large-scale projects combined statistical expertise with the expertise of scientists from other parts of CSIRO as well as universities, government and industry. The projects were initiated to address environmental issues, for example monitoring the ecological health of waterways in one of Australia's most populous regions, south-east Queensland. At CSIRO, she contributed to statistical design for landscape-scale sampling protocols and monitoring programs, and spatio-temporal statistical modelling of agri-environmental systems. She moved to Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Dictionary Of Biography
The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history. Initially published in a series of twelve hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published online since 2006 by the National Centre of Biography at ANU, which has also published ''Obituaries Australia'' (OA) since 2010. History The ADB project has been operating since 1957. Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in the History Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since its inception, 4,000 authors have contributed to the ADB and its published volumes contain 9,800 scholarly articles on 12,000 individuals. 210 of these are of Indigenous Australians, which has been explained by Bill Stanner's "cult of forgetfulness" theory around the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Constance Greenham
Eleanor Constance Greenham (15 April 1874 – 31 December 1957) was the first woman born in Queensland, Australia, to be a registered physician. Early life Greenham was born in Ipswich, Queensland on 15 April 1874, the daughter of John Greenham and Eleanor (née Johnstone). Her father was a draper and later ran a general store in Ipswich. Greenham attended Ipswich Central Girls’ and Infants School and from 1889 to 1890 she attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School. She won prizes in English and natural history. Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School opened in 1892, and Greenham became the first pupil of this school. She won prizes in science and completed her senior public examination, in anticipation of undertaking studies toward university entrance. She moved to Sydney in 1895, to study at the University of Sydney where she resided at The Women's College. After studying toward a B.A. for the first year, Greenham was then able to proceed toward medical studies, taking her M.B. and Ch. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about west of centre of the state capital, close to Penrith on the outskirts of Greater Sydney region. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin. The ''Blue Mountains Range'' comprises a range of mountains, plateau escarpments extending off the Great Dividing Range about northwest of Wolgan Gap in a generally southeasterly direction for about , terminating at . For about two-thirds of its len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Gibbons
Violet may refer to: Common meanings * Violet (color), a spectral color with wavelengths shorter than blue * One of a list of plants known as violet, particularly: ** ''Viola'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants Places United States * Violet, Louisiana * Violet, Missouri * Violet, Texas * Violet, West Virginia Elsewhere * Violet, Ontario, Canada Media and entertainment Film * ''Violet'' (1921 film), a German silent film * ''Violet'' (1978 film), a Croatian feature film * ''Violet'' (1981 film), a short film * ''Violet'' (2021 film), an American drama film Music Albums * ''Violet'' (The Birthday Massacre album), 2004 * ''Violet'' (Closterkeller album), 1993 * ''Violet'', a 2018 EP by Pentagon Songs * "Violet" (Hole song), 1995 * "Violet" (Seal song), 1992 * "Violet", a 2017 song by Pentagon from '' Demo_02'' Other uses * ''Violet'' (opera), a 2005 opera by Roger Scruton * ''Violet'' (musical), by Jeanine Tesori * ''Violet'' (computer game), a 2008 interactiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
