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The Search For Meaning (radio Program)
''The Search for Meaning'' was an Australian national weekly radio program, hosted by Caroline Jones and broadcast on ABC Radio National, aired from 1987 to 1994. In 1988 ''The Search for Meaning'' became Radio National's most popular evening program. The program featured Jones interviewing prominent and interesting Australians about how they make sense of their lives, while pioneering a new non-combative ‘confessional’ interview technique. Conception In 1968, Jones had become the first female reporter in Australian television current affairs when she began working for ''This Day Tonight'' at the ABC. In 1972 she became the first female presenter on ABC's ''Four Corners, where she remained until 1981.'' During this period she was also on ABC radio's ''City Extra''. In 1985 Jones converted to Catholicism, where it was said her own personal search for meaning began. With these experiences behind her, in 1987 Jones created ''The Search for Meaning'', the same year in which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Jones (broadcaster)
Caroline Mary Jones (born Caroline Mary James; 1 January 1938 – 20 May 2022) was an Australian radio and television journalist and social commentator who had a career in the media industry for over 50 years. Early life Jones was born on 1 January 1938 and grew up in Murrurundi, New South Wales. At age 12, Jones enrolled in SCEGGS Moss Vale Boarding School. During the 1950s, Jones' family moved to the Central Coast and she later attended Gosford High School. Jones' mother, Nancy Rae James, struggled with mental health issues throughout Jones' childhood. James attempted suicide when Jones was 17, before ultimately taking her life 13 years later. Career Jones joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission, now known as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in Canberra in 1963 and later became the first female reporter for the daily ''This Day Tonight'' current affairs television program. She then became a presenter on ''Four Corners'', a weekly current affairs te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Gilbert (author)
Kevin John Gilbert (10 July 1933 – 1 April 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. A Wiradjuri man, Gilbert was born on the banks of the Lachlan River in New South Wales. Gilbert was the first Aboriginal playwright and printmaker. He was an active human rights defender and was involved in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972 as well as various protests to advocate for Aboriginal Australian sovereignty. Gilbert won the 1978 National Book Council prize for writers, for ''Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert'' (1977). Early life Gilbert was the youngest of eight children, born on 10 July 1933 to a Wiradjuri mother Rachel Naden and an English father John Gilbert. He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condobolin">/ref> He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condobolin in New South Wales and at age seven he and his siblings were orphaned. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Uren
Thomas Uren (28 May 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Australian politician and Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1975 to 1977. Uren served as the Division of Reid, Member for Reid in the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1990, being appointed Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Minister for Urban and Regional Development (1972–75), Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories, Minister for Territories and Local Government (1983–84) and Minister for Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Local Government and Minister for Finance (Australia), Administrative Services (1984–87). He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and, in particular, worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney. Early life Uren was born in Balmain, New South Wales, Balmain, Sydney, then a working-class suburb, and was educated at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Patrushev
Pyotr Egorovich Patrushev (; 26 May 1942 – 28 March 2016) was a Russian author who escaped the Soviet Union by swimming to Turkey across the Black Sea border in 1962. Early life and education Patrushev was born in Kolpashevo, Tomsk Oblast, on 26 May 1942. His father, Egor Grigorievich Patrushev was a Second World War soldier who was killed in action one month before Patrushev's birth. His mother, Marina Vasilievna Leschina raised him and his two siblings after the death of their father. Patrushev trained at a college in Tomsk as a competitive swimmer. A backstroke champion, he participated in competitions in Moscow and other cities around Russia. His swimming skill came with prestige and food coupons. Prior to leaving Russia, Patrushev was training for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Patrushev graduated from college and was attempting to enroll in university, however, he and his swimming trainer were targeted by Shkolnik, the director of the Tomsk swimming centre. Shkolnik was a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anka Makovec
Anka Makovec (3 August 1938 – 16 February 2017) was a Slovene-Australian artist and environmental activist. Biography Makovec was born on 3 August 1938 in Ročinj, Slovenia. She emigrated to Australia when she was 24. Makovec attended art classes and workshops in Tasmania and is best known for her watercolors. Environmental activism During her time in Tasmania, Makovec lived with the Aboriginal Australians. In the 1980s, she became an environment activist and joined the United Tasmania Group in their opposition to hydroelectric power plants in the jungle. She was a member of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society at a time when that group was opposing the proposed Franklin Dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia. She was assaulted on the Strahan wharf in 1983 by pro-dam activists around the time the dam construction was halted. Makovec was interviewed by Caroline Jones on her Radio National ABC Radio National, more commonly known as Radio National or simply RN, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Macken
James Joseph Macken (1927–2019) was an Australian lawyer, judge and human rights activist. Career MacKen was admitted as a barrister in July 1963, and worked in cases of employment law. on 2 June 1975 he was appointed a judge of the Industrial Commission of NSW and retired on 21 August 1989. Subsequent career After retiring as a judge, Macken continued to work as an academic and author, including lecturing in industrial relations at Sydney Law School. In September 2016, Macken offered to trade places with a refugee at one of the immigration detention camps operated in Nauru or Manus under Australia's Pacific Solution policy. Death Jim Macken died in his sleep on 19 September 2019. He is survived by his eleven children, two brothers and twenty-three grand children. Honours In June 2003 Macken was made a Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hardy (sailor)
Sir James Gilbert Hardy (20 November 1932 – 14 June 2023) was an Australian winemaker and businessman who was also noted for his yachting achievements. Early life and education 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 fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS (31 August 1916 – 16 January 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. With Richard Q. Twiss he developed the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect leading to the creation of intensity interferometers. Hanbury Brown was one of the main designers of the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer and received a number of honours and awards for his work. Early years Hanbury Brown was born in Aruvankadu, the Nilgiris, British India in 1916, the son of an army officer. At age 8 he was sent to England to attend Cottesmore preparatory school in Hove, where he was educated in primarily non-scientific subjects. In 1930, at age 14, Hanbury Brown went on to attend Tonbridge School in Kent for only two years before changing to Brighton Technical College. Though originally planning to become a classics sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a Australian Senate, senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament of Australia, Parliament to assume the office of prime minister. Gorton was born out of wedlock and had a turbulent childhood. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, after finishing his secondary education at Geelong Grammar School, and then returned to Australia to take over his father's property in northern Victoria (state), Victoria. Gorton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940, and was a fighter pilot in Malayan Campaign, Malaya and New Guinea Campaign, New Guinea during the Second World War. He suffered severe facial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Griffith
Jeremy Griffith (born 1945) is an Australian biologist and author. He first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger. He later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour. He founded the World Transformation Movement in 1983. Early life and career Griffith was raised on a sheep property in central New South Wales. He was educated at Tudor House School, in New South Wales, and the Geelong Grammar School in Victoria and completed the NSW schools Leaving Certificate with first class honours in biology. He subsequently began a science degree at the University of New England, in northern New South Wales. Finally, Griffith completed his Bachelor of Science in zoology at the University of Sydney in 1971. Search for the Tasmanian Tiger He first became known for his search for surviving Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, the last known sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Gawler
Ian James Gawler Order of Australia, OAM (born 25 February 1950) is an Australian author and a prominent advocate for the therapeutic application of mind-body medicine and meditation. Early life and career Gawler was born in 1950 to Alan Gawler, an engineer, and Billie Gawler (née Gray) in Melbourne, Australia. After graduation from the University of Melbourne, he worked as a vet in a mixed practice at Bacchus Marsh and Melton, Victoria, Melton, Victoria in 1973 with a special interest in horses and surgery. Illness, treatment and criticism In 1974 Gawler was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Resultant surgery involved amputation through the hip. Late in 1975, it was diagnosed that the bone cancer had metastasised and spread to lymph nodes inside his human pelvis, pelvis and mediastinum before spreading more widely on the surface of his human sternum, sternum and through his left human lung, lung. In December 1975, with the assistance of Australian psychiatrist Ainslie Meares, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
