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Queensland Greats
The Queensland Greats Awards recognise outstanding Queenslanders for their years of dedication and contribution to the development of the state and their role in strengthening and shaping the community in Queensland, Australia. The awards are presented as part of the Queensland Day celebrations. Each award is commemorated with a plaque on a wall in the Roma Street Parkland. History The awards commenced in 2001. An institution has been awarded annually since 2006. A posthumous award was added in 2015. Award recipients References {{Reflist, 30em Culture of Queensland Australian awards Lists of people from Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's List of country subdivisions by area, sixth-largest subnational entity; it List of countries and dependencies by area, is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its Tropical climate, tropical and Humid subtropical climate, sub-tropical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Fire And Emergency Services
The Queensland Fire Department (QFD) is the primary provider of fire services in Queensland, Australia. The QFD was established on the 1st of July, 2024, and has committed to a refocus on firefighting operations after the organisational change from QFES. The QFD’s headquarters are located at the Emergency Services Complex in Kedron, Brisbane. In 2021, personnel included 2,600 full-time (professional) firefighters and 2,000 on-call auxiliary firefighters, and approximately 27,000 Rural Fire Service volunteers. The Queensland Government minister responsible for QFD is the Minister for Fire, Disaster Recovery and Volunteers, currently the Honourable Ann Leahy. History On 1 November 2013, the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service merged with Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ) and the Corporate Services Division of the Department of Community Safety to become the QFES, encompassing Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, parts of the State Emergency Service, Emergency Management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathryn Mittelheuser
Cathryn Jean Mittelheuser (born 1932) is a retired Australian botanist. Early life Mittelheuser grew up with her older sister Margaret Mittelheuser on their parents' sugarcane farm near Bundaberg, Queensland. Graduating from Brisbane Girls Grammar School in 1949, Mittelheuser then studied at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, graduating with a Bachelor of Science and a University Medal in 1968. Following her graduation, Mittelheuser completed a PhD in Biological Sciences in 1971 before working in the university's botany department where she was a senior research fellow from 1971 until 1976 and acting lecturer in third year cell physiology in 1975 and 1976. From 1971 until 1976, Mittelheuser was a postdoctoral researcher after being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the CSIRO. Career Mittelheuser's work has been published in thirteen scientific books and journals, including a widely cited article about her discovery of a substance that assists plants retain wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mittelheuser
Margaret Helen Mittelheuser (1931—2013) was an Australian stockbroker. She was the first female stockbroker in Australia and one of the first female stockbrokers in the world. Margaret joined Ralph W. King and Yuill stockbrokers in July 1964. On Queensland Day in 2021, Mittelheuser was named jointly with her sister Cathryn Mittelheuser as one of Queensland Greats by the Queensland Government. Biography Margaret Mittelheuser was born on 25 July 1931 in Bundaberg, Queensland. Her family moved to Brisbane where she won a place at The University of Queensland when she was only 16, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1952 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1973. She commenced work at the Commonwealth Department of the Interior after graduation in 1952, before moving to Sydney where she joined the stockbroking firm of Ralph W. King and Yuill. She received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the university in 1996 for her contribution to stockbroking, education and the university. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixie Annat
Isobel Mary "Pixie" Annat (18 March 1930 – 24 September 2022) was an Australian hospital matron, administrator and office bearer of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (RANF). On Queensland Day in 2021, Annat was named as one of Queensland Greats by the Queensland Government. Early life Isobel Mary Annat was born in Palmwoods, Queensland on 18 March 1930, to James Whammond Annat and Madoline Annat (née Chambers). She attended Palmwoods State School and Nambour State High School in Nambour, Queensland. Pixie died on 24 September 2022 in Brisbane. Nursing career Annat commenced training as a nurse at Brisbane General Hospital in 1948. As a student nurse, she was active in the Student Nurses Unit (SNU) at the hospital and was president of the SNU from 1951 to 1952. In 1953 she completed her midwifery training at the Maroochy District Hospital in Nambour. In June 1954, Annat and her twin sister, Ellen Madoline, travelled by ship to London, where they lived and worked u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (1924 – 11 February 2015) was an Aboriginal Australian artist who at age 81 began painting in an abstract-like style she developed to represent her Country, on the south side of Bentinck Island in Queensland, Australia. She represented Australia in the 55th Venice Biennale of 2013, and her works are held in the permanent collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; the National Gallery of Australia; all of the Australian state galleries, and others. Early life Gabori was born 1924 at Mirdidingki on the south side of Bentinck Island, the largest island in the South Wellesley Group in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. As a young woman she lived a traditional lifestyle on Bentinck Island, largely uninfluenced by Europeans. She gathered food, including shellfish, from the complex system of stone fish traps her people had built in the shallows around the island. She helped to build and maintain the stone walls of the fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum Kurilpa is the state museum of Queensland, funded by the government, and dedicated to natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement. The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist museums located in North Ipswich in Ipswich, East Toowoomba in Toowoomba, and in Townsville City in Townsville. The museum is funded by the Queensland Government. History The Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical Society on 20 January 1862,''"A Time for a Museum — The History of the Queensland Museum — 1862 to 1986"'', — Patricia Mather, published by the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2001 (originally published as ''"Volume 24"'' of ''"The Memoirs of the Queensland Museum"'') one of the principal founders being Charles Coxen, and had several temporary homes in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The temporary homes included: The Old Windmill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Timms (conservationist)
Peter Timms is an Australian koala conservationist. He is best known for his scientific contributions relating to infectious disease threats to koalas such as chlamydia and koala retrovirus. After attending Wavell State High School, Timms studied at the University of Queensland where he graduated with a PhD in molecular microbiology in 1989. He has published over 240 papers, reviews and chapters in scientific journals such as ''Nature Genetics'', ''PNAS'', ''Scientific Reports'' and the ''Journal of Virology''. Timms was featured on a ''Catalyst'' episode in 2021, called "Are We Killing Our Koalas", hosted by Tim Flannery. Timms is currently a professor of microbiology at the University of the Sunshine Coast and the deputy director of the university's GeneCology Research Centre. Prior to joining the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2014, he was a professor at the Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracelyn Smallwood
Gracelyn Smallwood (born 1951) is a professor of nursing and midwifery at Central Queensland University. She is an Aboriginal Australian of Biri descent. Early life Smallwood was born in 1951 in Townsville, Queensland, of Biri descent. Nursing career Smallwood trained in general nursing, midwifery and psychiatric nursing at the Townsville Hospital. She was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Masters of Science in public health from James Cook University. In 2016, she was appointed Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University. Other roles Smallwood has been an advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1968. On 15 January 2020, it was announced that Smallwood would be one of the members of the National Co-design Group of the Indigenous voice to government. Honours Awards and honours include: *Queensland Aboriginal of the Year in 1986 * Henry Kempe Memorial Award at the International Society for Preve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Shepherd
Else Shepherd (born Else Egede Budtz-Olsen; 1944–2023), was a South African-Australian engineer and academic, the first woman to graduate with an electrical engineering degree in Queensland. Early life Shepherd was born in Durban, South Africa in 1944, the daughter of Professor Otto Budtz-Olsen and his wife Molly. The family emigrated to Australia in 1956 where her father was employed as a lecturer in physiology at the University of Queensland. Her mother became Principal of the Women’s College at the University of Queensland in 1963. Budtz-Olsen attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School where she excelled in maths and physics. Inspired by the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 she enrolled in engineering at the University of Queensland in 1962, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering in 1965. Budtz-Olsen married and she joined her husband in Mackay where she worked at the Sugar Research Institute. Else Shepherd worked as an operation research engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Pegg
Stuart Phillip Pegg (born 1932) was an Australian burns specialist. He is credited with developing and providing life saving treatment for critically ill burns patients. Career After graduating Brisbane Grammar School in 1950, Pegg studied at the University of Queensland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honours in 1956. Pegg commenced his medical career by interring at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1957 before serving as the medical superintendent at Julia Creek, Queensland, Julia Creek from 1958 to 1961. It was during his time at Julia Creek where he first became interested in the treatment of burns after encountering a severely-burnt house fire victim. Despite contacting some of the state's most senior specialists for advice, they couldn't offer Pegg any sufficient guidance. Although the patient died, the case prompted Pegg to advocate for better ways to treat burns. From 1962 to 1964, he worked as the surgical registrar at the Princess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usman Khawaja
Usman Tariq Khawaja (; born 18 December 1986) is an Australian international cricketer who represents the Australia national cricket team in Test cricket and Queensland cricket team, Queensland. Khawaja made his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales in 2008 and played his first international match for Australia in January 2011. He has also played county cricket in the United Kingdom and briefly played in both the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League Twenty20 tournaments. Khawaja was a member of the Australian team that won the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. He was the second-highest scoring batsman in the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship with 1,621 runs, the highest by an Australian batsman. In 2023, he won the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year, ICC Test Cricketer of the Year Award. Early and personal life Usman was born in Islamabad, Pakistan, to Tariq Khawaja and Fozia Tariq. His family emigrated to New So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
