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2021 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 14 June 2021 by the Governor-General, David Hurley. The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * Frances Adamson – For eminent service to public administration through the advancement of Australia's diplomatic, trade and cultural interests, particularly with the People's Republic of China and the Indo-Pacific region, to innovative foreign policy development and high level program delivery, and as the 36th Governor appointed in South Australia. * The Most Reverend Dr Phillip John Aspinall – For eminent service to the Anglican Church of Australia, to the development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birthday Honours
The Birthday Honours, in some Commonwealth realms, mark the reigning monarch's official birthday in each realm by granting various individuals appointment into national or dynastic orders or the award of decorations and medals. The honours are presented by the monarch or a viceregal representative. The Birthday Honours are one of two annual honours lists, along with the New Year Honours. All royal honours are published in the relevant gazette. History Honours have been awarded with few exceptions on the sovereign's birthday since at least 1860, during the reign of Queen Victoria. There was no Birthday Honours list issued in 1876, which brought "a good deal of disappointment" and even rebuke for the Ministry of Defence. A lengthy article in the ''Broad Arrow'' newspaper forgave the Queen and criticised Gathorne Hardy for neglecting to award worthy soldiers with the Order of the Bath: "With the War Minister all general patronage of this description rests, and if Mr. Hardy has n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Boyd
Russell Stewart Boyd, , ACS, ASC, (born 21 April 1944) is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer who has made significant contributions to both Australian and international cinema. Born in Victoria, Australia, Boyd emerged as a key figure in the Australian New Wave of the 1970s, which revitalised the country's film industry. His breakthrough came with the visually stunning Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), which helped put Australian cinema on the world map. Boyd's work has been instrumental in shaping the visual aesthetic of Australian cinema. He has collaborated with numerous renowned Australian directors, including Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford and Gillian Armstrong. His cinematography in films like Gallipoli (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) showcased Australia's landscape and storytelling prowess to international audiences. Throughout his career, Boyd has received numerous accolades for his exceptional work. He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climate Change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global temperatures is Scientific consensus on climate change, driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, Deforestation and climate change, deforestation, and some Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, agricultural and Environmental impact of concrete, industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases greenhouse effect, absorb some of the heat that the Earth Thermal radiation, radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary gas driving global warming, Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, has increased in concentratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane McAdam
Jane Alexandra McAdam (born 1974) is an Australian legal scholar, and expert in climate change and refugees. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW, and is the inaugural Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2021 for “distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change”. Career McAdam is the centre director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW) and a Scientia Professor of Law. She holds or has held positions external to her current role, as a Senior Fellow at both The Brookings Institution, in the United States, and at the University of Oxford, as well as the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and Refugee Law Initiative, London. She works on issues surrounding the human rights and legal issues around asylum seekers and refugees from climate change and climate disasters, including flooding, rising sea levels, rising temperatures and bushfires ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ivany
Peter Alexander Ivany (born 1954) is an Australian entrepreneur. He currently runs Ivany Investment Group and is the former CEO of Hoyts (1988–1999). Biography Peter Ivany was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1954. As Chief Executive of Hoyts Cinemas (1988–1999), Ivany grew the company to a global business with over 2,000 theatres operating in 12 countries. In 1999, he sold the business to Kerry Packer's Consolidated Press group. Ivany is the Chairman of the Life Governors Advisory Council of the Jewish Communal Appeal (JCA), Chairman of the Sydney Swans Foundation, and Chairman of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) Foundation Trust, Peter is a board member of the Sydney Cricket Ground Heritage Trust, Sydney Swans Limited, NIDA, The Sydney Zoo, The Sydney Zoo Foundation and Allied Credit. He is also a member of The Advisory Council for the Sydney Film Festival and is an adjunct professor for the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology Sydney. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Hull
Kay Elizabeth Hull (born 3 February 1954) is a former Australian politician who served as a National Party member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2010, representing the Division of Riverina in New South Wales. Hull was born in Guyra, New South Wales, and was a small business owner and operator before entering politics. She was a councillor of the City of Wagga Wagga from 1991 to 1998. A small caricature of her is displayed on a Regional Express Saab 340 aircraft. On 6 April 2010, Kay Hull announced that she wouldn't be contesting the next Federal election, after 12 years serving the Riverina electorate. In April 2010, Charles Sturt University named the Kay Hull Veterinary Teaching Hospital in its South Campus in honour of Kay Hull. In May 2010, Regional Express Airlines named the Kay Hull Conference Room at the Australian Airline Pilot Academy in honour of Kay Hull. In March 2011, she was awarded the Freedom of the City by Wagga Wagga city council for her "te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Henderson (doctor)
Michael Henderson (born 1937) is a physician who has made contributions to motor vehicle safety. After moving from the United Kingdom to Australia, Henderson headed the new Traffic Accident Research Unit in the Department of Motor Transport in New South Wales. He wrote an early book on safety in motor racing and was involved in the design of a Pininfarina racing car built with the intent of increasing safety. Biography Henderson was born in 1937 in Woking, England and graduated from Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital. Henderson's career in safety began with his work in aviation research with the Royal Air Force. In 1968 he released a seminal book, ''Safety in Motor Racing''. Henderson's book was influenced by his race medical experience and his accumulation of racing statistics. In 1969, Henderson was part of a team of experts that worked with Pininfarina and ''Automobil Revue'' to design a safe racing car known as the Sigma Grand Prix. Tony Davis of Drive.com.au said that the Sigm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Guthrie
Vanessa Ann Guthrie (born 24 January 1961) is an Australian businesswoman, known for her work as a company director in the resources sector, including three years as chair of the Minerals Council of Australia. In 2017 she was appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. She was elected Chancellor of Curtin University in 2024. Career Guthrie was CEO and director of Toro Energy Ltd., head of sustainable development at Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals, and vice president of sustainable development at Woodside Energy before accepting a number of board roles. Guthrie joined the board of the Minerals Council of Australia in 2014 and became chair in 2016, completing her three-year term in June 2019. Helen Coonan replaced her as chair. Guthrie was appointed non-executive director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a five-year term commencing 23 February 2017; she resigned in March 2021. She has been a non-exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Grant (judge)
Michael Patrick Grant (born 24 January 1963) is an Australian judge, who has been the Chief Justice of the Northern Territory since 2016. Grant was born in Darwin in 1963, and educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from the University of Queensland. He practised as a solicitor from 1993, while also working as a lecturer in torts and taxation law at Northern Territory University. In 1997, Grant worked as director of litigation in the office of the Attorney-General of the Northern Territory. In 1999, he joined William Forster Chambers as a barrister, and was made Queen's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ... in 2006. From September 2007 to July 2016, Grant was Solicitor-General of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Glasziou
Paul Philip Glasziou (born 21 May 1954) is an Australian academic physician known for his research in evidence-based medicine. He is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University, where he is also Director of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine. He was the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford in England from 2003 to 2010. In July 2010, he received an NHMRC Australia Fellowship at Bond University. In March 2015, he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Monarch ... in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours. References External linksResearch profile* 1954 births Living people Officers of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Freckelton
Ian Freckelton is an Australian barrister, former judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru, international academic, and high-profile legal scholar and jurist. He is known for his extensive writing and speaking in more than 30 countries on issues related to health law, expert evidence, criminal law, tort law, therapeutic jurisprudence and research integrity. Freckelton is a member of the Victorian Bar Association, the Tasmanian Bar Association, and the Northern Territory Bar Association in Australia. Early life and qualifications Freckelton was born in Durban, South Africa, to Joan Lloyd and Brian Freckelton. He then lived with his family in Nairobi, Kenya, and Sydney, Australia, where he attended St Aloysius' College and then the University of Sydney, obtaining undergraduate degrees in arts (with Honours in English and Latin) and Law. Later he was awarded a Diploma of Therapeutic Massage from the Academy of Natural Healing (1982); a PhD in Expert Evidence by Griffith University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Fletcher
Sue Fletcher is an Australian scientist who is a professor and lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch University. She studies the field of molecular and cell biology and holds the position of chief scientific officer at PYC therapeutics. Currently her research is focused on inherited retinal disease, the central nervous system and neurodegeneration. Alongside Professor Steve Winton she developed novel treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including eteplirsen, which was the first of its kind to be approved by the FDA in 2016. In 2021 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to medical research, to neurological science, and to the treatment and support of those with Muscular Dystrophy". Career and research Fletcher completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Zimbabwe. She then moved to Perth, where she completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia, with he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
