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Finnish Australians
Finnish Australians () are Australian citizens of Finnish ancestry or Finland-born people who reside in Australia. According to Finnish estimates, there are approximately 30,000 Australians of Finnish ancestry, and about 7,500 Finland-born Finns residing in Australia. History The first person from Finland to arrive in Australia was Herman Spöring Jr. from Turku, who was part of the first voyage of James Cook that landed on the continent in 1770. The first Finns to migrate permanently were joining the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s. More migration followed in the following decades to Queensland. In 1899, Matti Kurikka tried to establish a Intentional community, utopian community in Chillagoe, Queensland, Chillagoe with about a 100 Finns, though the experiment failed within a year. Many Finnish immigrants began arriving in Australia between 1947 and 1971. When these new immigrants came to Australia, they were taken to migrant camps. Once in the camp, they were given free room ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census In Australia
The Census in Australia, officially the Census of Population and Housing, is the national census in Australia that occurs every five years. The census collects key demographic, social and economic data from all people in Australia on census night, including overseas visitors and residents of States and territories of Australia#External territories, Australian external territories, only excluding foreign diplomats. The census is the largest and most significant statistical event in Australia and is run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Every person must complete the census, although some personal questions are not compulsory. The penalty for failing to complete the census after being directed to by the Australian Statistician is one federal penalty unit, or . The ''Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975'' and ''Census and Statistics Act 1905'' authorise the ABS to collect, store, and share anonymised data. The 1911 Australian census, first Australian census was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonegilla, Victoria
Bonegilla is a town of the City of Wodonga local government area in north-east Victoria, Australia, east of Wodonga, and around north-east of Melbourne. At the , Bonegilla and the surrounding area had a population of 610. History Bonegilla Post Office opened on 20 August 1878 and closed in 1951. Bonegilla Military Post Office was open from 1940 to 1947 and from 1983 to 1998, after which it relocated to nearby Bandiana. Much of the development of the town was due to the Cudgewa railway line which opened in 1889 and closed in 1981. The line was used both in the development of, and transporting materials for, the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the main method of transporting thousands of migrants to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre from Station Pier in Port Melbourne. The rail line has since been removed, and is now the High Country Rail Trail, a bike path linking Wodonga to Lake Hume. Bonegilla migrant camp As part of the Post war immigration to Australia, Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Michael (politician)
David Robert Michael (born 25 January 1980) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election, representing Balcatta. Michael is the WA Parliament's first MP of Finnish descent, his mother emigrated to Australia from Finland with her family in 1969. Michael worked for several state Labor MPs, and ran unsuccessfully for Churchlands in 2001. In 2005 he was elected to City of Stirling council, becoming its youngest ever member, aged 25. He served as deputy mayor from 2011 to 2013. Michael's current priorities as MP are upgrades to Balcatta Senior High School and Osborne Park Hospital and for the McGowan Government as is the Stephenson Avenue Extension. In March 2021, he was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary to the returned McGowan Labor Government, after having served as Government Whip since the 2017 election. Michael also acts in the following roles for various organizations: * Minister f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Jacobson
Shane Jacobson (born 18 March 1970) is an Australian actor, entertainer, director, writer, and comedian, best known as the " Dunny Man" for his performances as the eponymous character Kenny Smyth, a plumber working for a portable toilet rental company, in the 2006 film ''Kenny'' and the spin-off TV series, '' Kenny's World''. In 2006, he won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for that performance. In 2017 and 2018 he presented '' Little Big Shots'', on the Seven Network, based on the American series of the same title. In 2019, Jacobson became a judge on ''Australia's Got Talent''. Career Jacobson began his career on the stage at the age of 10 with amateur theatre and the Melbourne Gang Show. At 18, he began his comedy career with regular theatre restaurant, musical theatre, stand-up and MC gigs. He was also hired to play to corporate functions, impersonating business icons and luminaries. In 1999, Jacobson received a regular segment on Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satu Vänskä
Satu Vänskä (born 1979) is a Finnish Australian violinist. Early life Vänskä was born to a Finnish family in the Kinki region of Japan, where she took her first violin lessons at the age of three. Her family moved back to Finland in 1989 and she continued her studies with Pertti Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy. At the age of 11 Vänskä was selected for the Kuhmo Violin School in Finland, a special institution for talented young violinists where she attended master classes with Ilya Grubert, Zinaida Gilels and Pavel Vernikov and had the opportunity to perform at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival with the Kuhmo Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. In her teens Vänskä studied violin at Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany. This led to her performances with the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, at the Tuusulanjärvi Festival, and at Festivo Aschau. From 1997 Vänskä was a pupil of Ana Chumachenco at the Hochschule für M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sironen
Paul Sironen (born 23 May 1965) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of Finnish descent who was a prominent Second-row forward for the Balmain Tigers during the late 1980s, and early 1990s. He was part of the team that played in successive Grand Finals in 1988 and 1989, and included other representative players Steve "Blocker" Roach, Wayne Pearce, Benny Elias and Garry Jack. He made a number of appearances for both New South Wales in State of Origin, and also for Australia, and has been named as part of the Wests Tigers Team of the Century. Sironen is the father of St Helens second rower Curtis Sironen who made his NRL debut for the Tigers against the North Queensland Cowboys in Round 12 of the 2012 NRL season and Bayley Sironen. Playing career Sironen was born in North Sydney, New South Wales. In the early 1980s, the University of Hawaii offered him a scholarship to move to Waikiki in Hawaii and play American football in the position of defen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanna Jalomäki
Artist Sanna is a Finnish Australian singer, songwriter, painter and formally trained actress. She studied at Tampere University of Technology in Finland, then worked as a professional actress appearing on national and international television. From 2008 to 2011 she lived in Athens, where she started painting specializing in portraiture. Her subject matter focuses on people and their environments. Since 2011 she has lived in Finland where she works as an artist and adult educator. Education * Sarah Redfern High School, Sydney, Australi* University of Tampere, Finlan* The Transmission Project (European Union sponsored pilot programme), London, England * Music :Singer/songwriter for alternative pop-rock band Sansibar 2013- :Songwriter and lead singer in rock band ''mute8, Helsinki, Finland 2004-2008. Exhibitions *: SANNA aA Series of Paintings 2009-2010a22.2 - 6.3.2010 her solo exhibition as part of events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the institute, Athens, Greece *: SA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Garner
Connie Garner (born 22 May 1979) is a fitness competitor and NABBA Miss World Fitness. She won the Miss World Fitness title in 2000."ACT's Miss World Fitness relishes being at the top", ''Canberra Times'', Canberra Australia, 30 June 2000."2000 Honour Role", '' Australian Ironman'', Australia, December 2000. Biography Garner was born to a Finnish mother and Italian-French father, and was raised in Canberra, Australia. She began jazz ballet dancing at 7 years old. She played water polo, netball, basketball, hockey and soccer throughout high school. She was introduced to the gym by her physical education teacher. Garner became a personal trainer and fitness instructor herself in 1993."Australian Profile, Connie Garner", '' Australian MuscleMag'', Australia, AUS Issue 15. Her first competition was in sport aerobics in 1997, in which she won the state title. Garner then went on to compete in fitness competitions in the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association (NABBA)/World F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian former professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as List of World Number One male golfers, world number one in the 1980s and 1990s. He won 88 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two Men's major golf championships, majors: The Open Championship in 1986 Open Championship, 1986 and 1993 Open Championship, 1993. Norman also earned thirty top-10 finishes and was the runner-up eight times in majors throughout his career. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and Great white shark, his birthplace's native coastal animal, Norman's nickname is "the Great White Shark" (often shortened to just "the Shark"), which he earned after his play at the 1981 Masters Tournament, 1981 Masters. Norman's business interests began during his playing career. He is the chairman and CEO of the Greg Norman Company, a global corporation with a portfolio of companies in fields including apparel, inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries. Life and work In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA, Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems. Between 2010 and 2018 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen Tizen () is a Linux-based operating system primarily developed by Samsung Electronics and supported by the Linux Foundation. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. It was backed by o .... References External linksCarsten ''Rasterman'' Haitzler's private site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Acton
Matthew Michael Acton (born 3 June 1992) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Brisbane Roar. Besides Australia, he has played in Myanmar and the Philippines. Club career Acton played for Brisbane Roar. He became the first Australian goalkeeper to join the Myanmar National League when Yangon United signed him in. He was a starting player in all of his 14 caps for Yangon where in five games he managed to keep a clean sheet. He assisted Yangon in their second-place finish. After his stint with Yangon he return Brisbane Roar then joined Olympic F.C. In December 2015, Kaya F.C. of the United Football League announced that they had signed Acton. On 25 November 2016, Melbourne Victory signed Acton as an injury replacement for Alastair Bray, after both had trialled with Melbourne Victory pre-season. After Lawrence Thomas was ruled out with injury, Acton made his debut for Melbourne Victory on 26 November 2016, in a 2–0 victory over the Newcastle Jets. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Church Canberra 2006
The Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the Christian doctrine concerning the nature of God in Christianity, God, which defines one God existing in three, , consubstantial prosopon, divine persons: God the Father (Christianity), God the Father, God the Son (Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (''Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), hypostases'') sharing one essence/substance/nature (''homoousion''). As the Fourth Lateran Council declared, it is the Father who s, the Son who is , and the Holy Spirit who proceeds. In this context, one essence/nature defines God is, while the three persons define God is. This expresses at once their distinction and their indissoluble unity. Thus, the entire process of creation and grace in Christianity, grace is viewed as a single shared action of the three divine persons, in which each person manifests the attributes unique to them in the Trinity, thereby proving that everything comes "from the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
