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2022 Australia Day Honours
The 2022 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2022 by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June. 1,040 people have been recognised in this honours list with 732 going to civilians and 47% of the list are women. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * Distinguished Professor James Langham Dale, – For eminent service to agricultural science, particularly through biological and biotechnological research and development, leadership, and to gene technology. * Dr Alan Simon Finkel, – For eminent service to science, to national energy innovation and research infra ... [...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] |
Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer was one of the judges on '' The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran until 2022 and is also a regular guest on ''MasterChef Australia''. Early life Maggie Beer was born in Sydney in January 1945, to Ronald Ackerman, whose German ancestry was from his paternal grandparents, and Doreen Carter, who had English ancestry from her maternal great-grandparents. Her father's ancestors were gold miners in Hill End in regional New South Wales. Beer believed they were Jewish, but this was refuted in an episode of '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', as it emerged that her ancestors had been Catholic for as long as there were records. She grew up with her family in Sydney's western suburbs. Beer's parents faced issues with bankruptcy as she was growing up and re-invented themselves as caterers. She stated this contributed to her strong work ethi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Barnard
Amanda Susan Barnard (born 31 December 1971) is an Australian theoretical physicist working in predicting the real world behavior of nanoparticles using analytical models and supercomputer simulations and applied machine learning. Barnard is a pioneer in the thermodynamic cartography of nanomaterials, creating nanoscale phase diagrams relevant to different environmental conditions, and relating these to structure/property maps. Her current research involves developing and applying statistical methods and machine/deep learning in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and materials and molecular informatics. In 2014 she became the first person in the southern hemisphere, and the first woman, to win the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, which she won for her work on diamond nanoparticles. Barnard is currently based in Australia as Professor of Computational Science in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. Biography In 2001, she graduated with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Tuckwell
Graham Tuckwell is an Australian businessman and philanthropist.Australian National University to receive $100 million donation from former student Australian Broadcasting Corporation; 12 July 2016 Background and early career Graham John Tuckwell was born inCanberra
Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ... . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Sims
Rodney Graham Sims (born 1950) is an Australian economist and former public servant. Sims served as chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia's competition regulator, from 1 August 2011 to 20 March 2022. Described as "the most feared man in Australian business" by the ''Australian Financial Review'', Sims was the longest serving ACCC chair in the agency's history. As chair of the ACCC, he was noted for having presided over scrutiny of "Big Tech" companies Google and Facebook. Early life and education Sims was born in Lorne, Victoria in 1950. His father, originally from Colac, ran a general store in Lorne, and died when Sims was 14. Sims' mother, originally from Birregurra, would then raise Sims and his three sisters. Sims received a scholarship to attend university, and graduated with first class honours degree in Commerce from the University of Melbourne. Sims later went on to receive a Master of Economics degree from the Australian Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Rinehart
Georgina Hope Rinehart (, born 9 February 1954) is an Australian heiress, billionaire mining magnate and businesswoman. She is the executive chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock. Rinehart was born in Perth, Western Australia, and spent her early years in the Pilbara region. She boarded at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls and then briefly studied at the University of Sydney, dropping out to work with her father at Hancock Prospecting. She was Lang Hancock's only child, and when he died in 1992 she succeeded him as executive chairwoman. Rinehart oversaw an expansion of the company over the following decade, and due to the iron ore boom of the early 2000s became a nominal billionaire in 2006. In the 2010s, Rinehart began to expand her holdings into areas outside the mining industry. She made sizeable investments in Ten Network Holdings and Fairfax Media (although she sold her i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Nyadbi
Lena Nyadbi (1936 – 7 July 2024) was an Australian contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from the Warmun Community in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her works include ''Dayiwul Lirlmim'', details of which were painted on the roof of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. The resulting installation can only be seen from the air, including the Eiffel Tower and Google Earth. Early life Lena Nyadbi, of the Gija people, Gija people, by her own estimate, was born circa 1936 at Warnmarnjulugun lagoon near Greenvale Station in the Kimberley (Western Australia), East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her father and mother died whilst she was at a young age, and she was raised by her older sister, Goody Barrett, on Lissadell Station. From a young age, Nyadbi served as an indentured labourer on cattle stations in the region. She learned milking of cows, cattle muster (livestock), mustering and how to ride horses which were not broken. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Lancaster
Geoffrey Lancaster (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky. He also studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy, and also completed a master's degree at the University of Tasmania. In 1984, he moved to Amsterdam to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1996 he was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London, following which he worked at the School of Music at the University of Western Australia. He was a professor of the ANU School of Music from 2000 until 2012. Now based in Perth, he is Professor of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Life and career Lancaster is an expert in historical performance practice of the works of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hartigan (media Executive)
John Hartigan (born 16 November 1947) is a former Australian journalist and media executive, who worked for News Limited for 41 years, ending his career there as CEO and chair in 2011. Career Hartigan started his career in newspapers at the age of 16 and worked for John Fairfax and Sons from 1964 to 1970. After joining News Limited in 1970 as a reporter on the ''Daily Mirror'' in 1970, he later worked for the ''Daily Telegraph'', both in Sydney. He then moved to London worked for ''The Sun'', and on to New York City to report for the ''New York Post''. Upon his return to Australia, Hartigan moved to Brisbane to take up editorship of the Queensland edition of the ''Sunday Herald Sun'', and became inaugural editor of ''The Daily Sun'' there. He was also director of News Limited subsidiary Queensland Sun Newspapers. In 1986 Hartigan took up editorship of ''The Daily Telegraph'', being promoted to Editor-in-Chief of both ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gruen (economist)
David William Gruen (born 31 August 1954) is an Australian statistician and mathematician. He is the current Australian Statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics serving since 11 December 2019. He previously served as Deputy Secretary, Economic and Australia's G20 Sherpa at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He previously held office as the executive director of the Macroeconomic group of Australian Treasury and was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1998 to 2002. Gruen was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Australia Day Honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Aus ... in 2023. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman, (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer. Early life Furness was born in Annandale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 18, Furness attended secretarial school to learn shorthand and typing after her mother advised her to have a back-up career if her acting ambitions didn't eventuate to anything. She then got a job as the assistant to John Sorell, the news director at Channel 9. Despite describing herself as "such a bog secretary", Furness has said she thoroughly enjoyed the urgency, the fast action and the high energy of the newsroom. After working in the newsroom for a year, Furness was asked to work on ''No Man's Land'', the station's daytime current affairs program which was produced exclusively by women and hosted by Mickie de Stoop. Furness started working on the show as a researcher before becoming an on-air reporter. After her work at Channel 9, Furness then travelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Fitzsimmons
Shane Alan Fitzsimmons (born 22 February 1969 in Sydney) was the Head of Resilience NSW and was previously the Commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service between September 2007 and April 2020. Career Fitzsimmons joined the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) as a volunteer member of Duffys Forest Brigade in 1985. After qualifying as a motor mechanic he became a salaried officer in the NSW RFS in 1994, taking on the role of Regional Planning Officer for the Central East Region. He became State Operations Officer in 1996 and two years later was named Assistant Commissioner, Operations. This role later became expanded and restyled as Assistant Commissioner, Regional Management and Strategic Development. In 2004, Fitzsimmons became the inaugural visiting fellow of the Australasian Fire Authorities Council to the Australian Institute of Police Management. He held this role for 12 months. After serving as Executive Director Operations and Regional Management, Fitzsimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
