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1978 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 6 June 1978 in Australia. The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate. Order of Australia The following appointments were made of the Order of Australia. Dame (AD) General Division * Alexandra Margaret Martin, Lady Hasluck – For pre-eminent achievement in the fields of literature and history and for extraordinary and meritorious public service to Australia. Companion (AC) General Division * Emeritus Professor William Macmahon Ball – For eminent and meritorious service to education and learning, particularly in the field of political science. * The Honou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Honours System
The Australian honours and awards system refers to all orders, decorations, and medals, as instituted by letters patent from the Monarch of Australia and countersigned by the Australian prime minister at the time, that have been progressively introduced since 14 February 1975. The Australian honours and awards system excludes all state and local government, and private, issued awards and medals (although a few can be recognised in the order of wearing, including the Order of St John). Honours and awards have been present in Australia since pre-federation, primarily from the Imperial honours and awards system. This Imperial system remained in place until its full phase out in 1994 (although the Monarch of Australia may still confer some of these honours to Australians in their personal capacity). Between 1975 and 1992, the Australian honours and awards system and the Imperial honours and awards system operated in parallel, although the last Imperial awards to be made were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Luchetti
Anthony Sylvester Luchetti, Order of Australia, AM (27 May 1904 – 11 July 1984) was a long serving Australian Australian House of Representatives, federal member of parliament. Born of Italy, Italian/Irish parentage in Lowther, New South Wales, Luchetti was educated in the Catholic school system before working in jobs as varied as miner and journalist. Involved in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from an early age, Luchetti was elected to the City of Lithgow, Lithgow City Council and served on the New South Wales ALP Executive from 1929 to 1931. Luchetti developed a close friendship with the local federal Member of Parliament, the future Prime Ministers of Australia, Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and served as Chifley's campaign manager for the electoral Division of Macquarie for two elections. However, following a split in the New South Wales Labor ranks led by New South Wales Premier of New South Wales, Premier Jack Lang (Australia), Jack Lang, Luchetti, a Lang supporter, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Wright
Sir Reginald Charles Wright (10 July 1905 – 10 March 1990) was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1950 to 1978. He held ministerial office in the Gorton and McMahon governments, although he was known for crossing the floor. Early life Wright was born in Central Castra, Tasmania in 1905. He was educated at Devonport High School and the University of Tasmania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. Career Wright was admitted to the bar in 1928 and lectured in law at the University of Tasmania. In 1941, he enlisted in the second Australian Imperial Force and was promoted to captain in 1943. Wright was elected as a Liberal member for the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Franklin in November 1946 and was the first State president of the Liberal Party in Tasmania. In November 1949, he resigned to enter federal politics. He was elected to the Senate at the 1949 el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Industry
The meat industry are the people and companies engaged in modern industrialized livestock agriculture for the production, packing, preservation and marketing of meat (in contrast to dairy products, wool, etc.). In economics, the meat industry is a fusion of primary (agriculture) and secondary (industry) activity and hard to characterize strictly in terms of either one alone. The greater part of the meat industry is the meat packing industry – the segment that handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. A great portion of the ever-growing meat branch in the food industry involves intensive animal farming in which livestock are kept almost entirely indoors or in restricted outdoor settings like pens. Many aspects of the raising of animals for meat have become industrialized, even many practices more associated with smaller family farms, e.g. gourmet foods such as foie gras. The producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kingsland
Sir Richard Kingsland, (19 October 1916 – 27 August 2012) was an Australian RAAF pilot known for being the youngest Australian group captain at age 29. He later became a senior public servant, heading the Departments of the Interior, Repatriation, and Veterans' Affairs. Biography Julius Allan Cohen was born in 1916. He later changed his name to Richard Kingsland, to avoid anti-semitism. Kingsland flew a Short Sunderland to Morocco in 1940 with two of Britain's senior WWII leaders, Duff Cooper and John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, who were attempting to make a diplomatic agreement with French leaders in North Africa. When negotiations failed, Kingsland evacuated the VIPs with pistol drawn. He then managed a difficult take off from a river estuary, while being harassed by a French police boat. For his invaluable service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in September 1940. Later in the war he served in the Pacific, flying the PBY Catalina to bomb a major Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Berlyn
Rear admiral (Australia), Rear Admiral Nigel Richard Benbow Berlyn Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (26 August 1934 – 17 February 2022) was a senior Royal Australian Navy officer who was general manager of the Garden Island, New South Wales, Garden Island Dockyard from 1984 to 1987. Naval career Born on 26 August 1934, he attended the Nautical College, Pangbourne. Berlyn then joined the Royal Navy in 1952. He spent 1964–65 on an exchange with the RAN, during which time he served as the Practical Training Co-ordinator at . At the end of his tenure in 1965, he transferred to the RAN and subsequently served as mechanical engineering officer on from 1966 to 1967. Between 1967 and 1970, Berlyn was senior project planner at Garden Island Dockyard before serving as a mechanical engineering officer aboard during 1971 and 1972. In 1973, he attended Joint Services Staff College (Australia), Joint Services Staff College before serving as programming and planning manager of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Toohey (politician)
James Philip Toohey (11 July 1909 – 18 August 1992) was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at state schools before becoming a car worker. After serving as assistant secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Employees Union, he was secretary of the South Australian Labor Party 1947–1955, and a member of its Federal Executive 1948–1959. He also sat on West Torrens Council. In 1953, he was elected to the Australian Senate The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chap ... as a Labor Senator for South Australia. He held the seat until his retirement in 1970. Toohey died in 1992, aged 83. References 1909 births 1992 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for South Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Steel (arts Leader)
Anthony Steel is an English-born Australian arts administrator, known for being the first general manager of the Adelaide Festival in 1972. Early life and education Anthony Steel was born in England. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Career Steel started his career in the arts in the early 1960s as general manager of the London Mozart Players. He became assistant general secretary of the London Symphony Orchestra and then the first planning manager of the South Bank Concert Halls before moving to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1972 as the first general manager of the Adelaide Festival Centre and artistic director of the Adelaide Festivals of 1974, 1976 and 1978. He returned to Adelaide to direct two more festivals in 1984 and 1986, after a spell as general manager of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and another as director of the Singapore Arts Festival. In 1986 he was appointed interim co-director of Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide, along with Dutch choreogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Simpson (cricketer)
Robert Baddeley Simpson (born 3 February 1936), known as ''Bobby'' or ''Simmo'', is a former cricketer who played for New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia. He captained the Australian team from 1963/64 until 1967/68 and again in 1977–78. He later had a highly successful term as the coach of the national team. An outstanding fielder with the highest catch rate in Tests, Simpson was a top-level right-handed batsman and semi-regular leg spin bowler. After ten years in retirement, he returned to the spotlight at age 41 to captain Australia during the era of World Series Cricket. In 1986 he was appointed coach of the Australian team, a position he held until being replaced by Geoff Marsh in July 1996. Under Simpson's tutelage, the team went from a struggling team, losing a succession of Test series, to the strongest team in world cricket. Some of the team's greatest achievements in his time as coach were winning the 1987 World Cup, regaining The Ashes in England in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Rayner
Joan Ellen Rayner (8 December 1900 – 11 March 1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian theatre educator. She and her sister, Rhoda Elspeth (Betty) Rayner, founded the Australian Children's Theatre in 1948. Life Rayner was born in New Zealand, like her mother, Rhona Blanche (née Duckworth). She was born in Dunedin in 1900. Her father Frederick Richards Rayner was an artist who had been born in Wales. On 16 May 1907, her sister, Betty, was born and they would spend their lives mostly together. The family's finances varied and when there was sufficient money she and her sister received a private education. She went to England to study social work where she re-met her godmother Constance Smedley. Smedley had original ideas about theatre and had started the ''Greenleaf Theatre'' – she visualised a "A universal travelling theatre, directly in contact with the community". After Joan met Smedley she decided to study the theatre and acting instead. She returned home and she enthused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Oatey
Jack Oatey (29 August 1920 – 26 February 1994) was an Australian rules football player and coach. Playing career Oatey played 181 games for the Norwood Football Club between 1940 and 1952 and acted as playing-coach from 1945 to 1952. While on service for World War II in 1944, he played 5 games for the South Melbourne Football Club. Coaching career Following his retirement from playing in 1952, Oatey remained the coach of Norwood until 1956. In 1957, Oatey moved to West Adelaide where he coached until 1960, reaching the finals each year but never winning the premiership. He came closest in 1958, when down by 3 with 90 seconds to go, a set shot hit the post, allowing Port Adelaide to hold on for a 2 point win. Not involved in coaching at any team in 1961, Oatey saw the Bloods win the SANFL premiership, convincing him to return to the league. He went to Sturt, coaching there from 1962 to 1982, and leading the league team to seven SANFL Premierships (a record at the time) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Metcalfe
Edgar Metcalfe, (18 September 1933 – 13 September 2012) was an English-born actor, director and author, who widely contributed to theatre in Perth, Western Australia. Personal life Edgar Metcalfe was born in 1933 in Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Edgar's father died before he was born and his mother before he was one year old. His aunt and uncle adopted him and he went to live on a farm in Lancashire. When Metcalfe was 10, his adoptive parents moved to the seaside town of Blackpool, where he gained a scholarship to the Arnold House School, a local boys' grammar school. In 2010, Metcalfe returned to Blackpool, intending to retire there, but he soon returned to Perth, finding himself somewhat disillusioned with the differences between what he remembered and what he found.Stephen Bevis"Old stager gives name to new playhouse" ''The West Australian – Arts'', 22 March 2011 He died in Perth, WA, on 13 September 2012. Career Actor On leaving school, rather than go to drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
