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2007 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The ''Queen's Birthday Honours 2007'' for Australia. Order of Australia Companion (AC) General Division Ref: Military Division Ref: Officer (AO) General Division Military Division Member (AM) General Division Military Division Medal (OAM) General Division Military Division Meritorious Service Public Service Medal (PSM) Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) Emergency Services Medal (ESM) Distinguished and Conspicuous Service Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) Commendation for Distinguished Service Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) Bar to the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC and Bar) Conspicuous Service Medal (CSM) Nursing Service Cross The Nursing Service Cross (NSC) is a conspicuous service decoration of the Australian honours and awards system, instituted by Letters patent, Letters Patent on 18 October 1989. The Nursing Service Cross is awarded to medics (Enrolled Nurse, e ... (NSC) References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Adler
Norman Ross Adler (born 13 December 1944) is an Australian business executive, was the managing director of Santos from 1986 to 2000.2000 Annual Report Santos pp 5,6,40,42,43,64,65 He also chaired the board of from 2001 to 2006. Education Adler went to the and graduated with |
Neil Mitchell (radio Announcer) (born 1951), Australian radio presenter
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Neil Mitchell may refer to: * Neil Mitchell (cricketer) (born 1936), South African cricketer * Neil Mitchell (musician) (born 1965), Scottish musician * Neil Mitchell (footballer) (born 1974), English former professional footballer * Neil Mitchell (radio presenter) Neil Mitchell AO (born 21 November 1951) is an Australian former newspaper and magazine journalist, radio presenter and television personality, best known for his long-stint on Melbourne AM talk-back station 3AW. Early career The son of a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general of Australia is the de jure commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Force. The Royal Australian Air Force is commanded by the Chief of Air Force (Australia), Chief of Air Force (CAF), who is subordinate to the Chief of the Defence Force (Australia), Chief of the Defence Force (CDF). The CAF is also directly responsible to the Minister for Defence (Australia), Minister for Defence, with the Department of Defence (Australia), Department of Defence administering the ADF and the Air Force. Formed in March 1921, as the Australian Air Force, through the separation of the Australian Air Corps from the Army in January 1920, which in turn amalgamated the separate aerial services of both the Army and Navy. It d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Evans (general)
Lieutenant general (Australia), Lieutenant General Mark Evans, (born 24 April 1953) is a retired senior officer in the Australian Army. He was Chief of Joint Operations (Australia), chief of joint operations from July 2008 until his retirement in May 2011. Early years Evans was born in Kluang, Malaya, on 24 April 1953 to William Eric and Valerie Doreen Evans, and was educated in the United Kingdom. Military career British Army He was a cadet in the Worcestershire Army Cadet Force (ACF), in Droitwich Troop, a detachment affiliated to the Queen's Own Hussars. He achieved the rare appointment of cadet under officer before leaving the ACF for the Regular Army. Evans spent five years in the British Army, which included officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and regimental duties with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in Berlin. During this time, he was involved in counter insurgency operations in Northern Ireland. He was commissioned as a sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cantwell (general)
Major General John Patrick Cantwell, (born 9 October 1956) is a retired senior Australian Army officer. Early life Cantwell was born in Ipswich, Queensland, on 9 October 1956 to Cecily Mary (née McInnerney) and Daniel Cantwell. He was one of eight children, five of whom went on to serve in the Australian Army. Growing up in Toowoomba, Cantwell was educated at Downlands College and St. Mary's College. Military career Cantwell was a member of the Australian Army Cadets prior to joining the Australian Army in 1974 as a regular soldier with the rank of private. He attended officer training at Officer Cadet School, Portsea in 1981, and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. As a major, Cantwell commanded A Squadron, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, a British tank squadron as an exchange officer with the British Army in Germany. As a result of that posting, he served in the Gulf War with the Coalition forces in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait (1990–1991). Cantwel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Wilkins (public Servant)
Roger Wood Wilkins (January 29, 1932 – March 26, 2017) was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist who served as the 15th United States Assistant Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilkins was mentored by Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall early in his career. Throughout the 1960s, Wilkins campaigned for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Wilkins to be the administration's chief troubleshooter on urban racial issues; he later became assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration. Wilkins' uncle, Roy Wilkins, was the former executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1964 to 1977. Biography Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on January 29, 1932, and grew up in Michigan. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Trewin
Dennis John Trewin FASSA (born 14 August 1946) is an Australian former public servant, who was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007. Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a statistics cadet. Between 1992 and 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in Statistics New Zealand and a Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, when he was appointed as the Australian Statistician. Trewin was the driving force behind the ABS's pioneering 'Measures of Australia's Progress' (MAP), a new system of integrated national progress measurement, linking economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of progress, a project which gained wide respect among other national statistical offices and helped bring about the OECD's global project, 'Measuring the Progress of Societies'. He held other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission, a Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Talbot
Donald Malcolm Talbot (23 August 19333 November 2020) was an Australian Olympic swimming coach and sport administrator. He coached national teams for Canada, the United States and Australia. Early life Talbot was born on 23 August 1933 as the second of six children in the New South Wales township of Barnsley near Newcastle. His parents were both of English descent; his father, Arthur Talbot, was from a family of coal miners from Yorkshire, and started work on the mines in Newcastle when he arrived with his brothers and sisters in Australia in 1914. His mother, Elsie Francis Channel, emigrated from England to Australia in 1909. When Talbot was three his father had a mining accident that ended his career, and subsequently moved the family to the Sydney suburb of Bankstown. He began working in a garage adjoining the family home, and worked as a toolmaker in the Sydney CBD during World War II. Talbot's first contact with water involved a near-drowning accident at the age of four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Schultz
Beth Schultz (born 1936) is an Australian environmentalist. She has campaigned for the preservation of the Karri forests in the south-west of Western Australia since 1975. Early life and education Schultz was born in Roma, Queensland in 1936. She completed her education at boarding school, where she was head prefect. Her first degree was a BA in romance languages. She holds a further four degrees, including an LLB which she took "because she thought the environment movement needed a lawyer". Career Schultz began lobbying to protect Karri forests in the south-west of Western Australia in 1975 from woodchipping. At that time she was instrumental in the launch of the South West Forests Defence Foundation, while in the 1980s she worked to protect the Shannon National Park and in the 1990s was a significant contributor to the WA Forest Alliance. She served as president of the Conservation Council of Western Australia for three years. Schultz was interviewed in 1994 by Gregg Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Santow
The Honourable Justice Geza Francis Kim Santow AO (11 March 1941 – 10 April 2008) was an Australian Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal. Santow was the son of Geza Santow, a surgeon and obstetrician who immigrated to Australia from Hungary in the 1930s. Santow was educated at The Friends' School, Hobart and Sydney Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws and a Blue in rowing. From 1965 to 1993, he was a partner at Freehill Hollingdale & Page, where he recruited and mentored David Gonski. He served as a Judge on the Equity Division of the Supreme Court from 1993, and on the Court of Appeal since 2002. He was remembered for his contribution to the resolution of commercial disputation, such as the practical benefit consideration in his judgment in ''Musumeci v Winadell Pty Ltd'' (1994) 34 NSWLR 723, and his judgments on the prohibition of collateral benefits in takeover bids and the impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Roe
Jillian Isobel Roe, (10 November 1940 – 12 January 2017) was an Australian historian and academic, who wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. Early life and education Roe was born in 1940, at Tumby Bay, South Australia. Her grandparents had been early settlers of the western coast of South Australia. Her mother Edna Heath, a nurse, died before Roe was two years old, and she was raised on the Eyre Peninsula by her father John Roe, a farmer. At the age of 14, she attended Adelaide Girls' High School. Upon matriculating, she enrolled to study history at the University of Adelaide, and in 1963 moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, where she wrote her Master of Arts thesis on "intellectual life of the city of Melbourne between 1876 and 1886", under the supervision of Don Baker and Manning Clark. Career In 1967, Roe joined the newly founded Macquarie University as a lecturer in history. She remained at the university for 36 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
