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Deidre Palmer
Deidre Palmer is an Australian counsellor, theologian, and social worker who was the President of the Uniting Church in Australia from 8 July 2018 until 17 July 2021. She was the Moderator of the Uniting Church's Synod of South Australia from 2013 to 2016. Education Palmer has a Master of Religious Education from Duke University, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Religious Education and Theology from Boston College and a Master of Social Work from Flinders University.Deidre Palmer , Uniting Women 2016 website, accessed 16 July 2015 Palmer is on the academic faculty at the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology (Parkin-Wesley) in the |
Stuart McMillan (pastor)
Stuart McMillan (born 1955) was the national President of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) from July 2015 to July 2018. He was installed for a three-year term on 12 July 2015 at a service at Perth's Scotch College. Uniting Church in Australia In 1982, McMillan was interviewed for and appointed to a position as an accountant with the UCA's Northern Synod, based in Darwin, Northern Territory. He and his wife Ros moved from Epping, New South Wales, Epping in Sydney with their young family.Travelling North – Profiling the New President Uniting Church in Australia, UCA Assembly 2015 biography of Stuart McMillan, accessed 12 July 2015 McMillan has had many roles in the Northern Synod and associated organisations: accountant, operations manager, ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highgate, South Australia
Highgate is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is surrounded by Fullarton and Malvern. History European settlers arrived in the area in 1839 and surveyed. Part of section 251, Hundred of Adelaide, was purchased by William Ferguson, who named the 248 acres (100 hectares) ''Rosefield'' after his wife Rosina Ferguson. Some time before 1854 a section was purchased by George White (1813–1876), tailor of Hindley Street and owner of " White's Rooms", who lived there with his family. He established a large formal garden and developed as a vineyard. By 1875 his cellars had storage in wood, and in that year produced . White died in 1876, and his widow sold the property, which in September 1881 was laid out as Highgate-on-the-Hill by F.J. Botting (1819–1906), naming it after the English town in which he was born. In 1967 the suburb was renamed ''Highgate''. By 1900 most newspaper advertisements referred simply to "Highgate" and by 1920 references to "Highgate-on-the-Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synod Of Victoria And Tasmania
The Synod of Victoria and Tasmania is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering the states of Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Tasmania. It is one of six geographically-based Uniting Church in Australia#Synods, synods of the church. When the Uniting Church was created in 1977, the Synod of Victoria and Synod of Tasmania were independent, but subsequently merged on 22 June 2002. The leader of the synod is the ''moderator'' elected to the position for a period of three years. Rev David Fotheringham became Moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania on 30 June 2022. Presbyteries The Synod of Victoria and Tasmania comprises eight Uniting Church in Australia#Presbyteries, presbyteries (regional councils): *Presbytery of Gippsland *Presbytery of Loddon Mallee *Presbytery of North East Victoria *Presbytery of Port Phillip East *Presbytery of Port Phillip West *Presbytery of Tasmania *Presbytery of Western Victoria *Presbytery of Yarra Yarra When the Uniting Church in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Tabart
Jillian Claire Tabart (born 1941) is a former president of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia and medical practitioner. She served a three-year term as president of the assembly from July 1994 to July 1997, and was the first woman to be elected to the role. Tabart's father was a Methodist lay preacher. She was born in Melbourne and studied at Methodist Ladies' College, Kew and University of Melbourne. She married Ken in 1966 and the family moved to Tasmania in 1969, initially to Hobart Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ..., then to Launceston, following his work opportunities. She was elected Moderator of the Uniting Church Synod of Tasmania, serving in that role from 1983 to 1984. Tabart was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne
St Michael's Uniting Church is an Australian church located on Collins Street in central Melbourne, Victoria. Originally the Collins Street Independent Church, a Congregational Union of Australia church, St Michael's is now a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia. The church became known as a centre of liberal theology and political radicalism under its long-serving minister Francis Macnab from 1971 to 2016. In 2020, the church appointed the Reverend Margaret Mayman as its minister. History The first church on the site was built in 1839–41, one of the first churches in the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria). Following the appointment of the Rev. A. M. Henderson, that structure was demolished in 1863 to make way for the present building, completed in 1866. It was designed by architect Joseph Reed, who had also designed the Melbourne Town Hall, and later the Royal Exhibition Building. It is classified by the National Trust of Australia and listed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polity
A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political Institutionalisation, institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources. A polity can be any group of people organized for governance, such as the board of a corporation, the government of a country, or the government of a country subdivision. A polity may have various forms, such as a republic administered by an elected representative, the realm of a hereditary monarch, and others. The preeminent polities today are Westphalian sovereignty, Westphalian states and nation-states, commonly referred to as countries. Overview In geopolitics, a polity can manifest in different forms such as a State (polity), state, an empire, an international organization, a political organization or another identifiable, resource-manipulating organizational structure. A polity like a state does not need to be a Sovereignty, sovereign unit. The preeminent polities tod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a royal commission announced in November 2012 and established in 2013 by the Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 to inquire into and report upon responses by institutions to instances and allegations of child sexual abuse in Australia. The establishment of the commission followed revelations of child abusers being moved from place to place instead of their abuse and crimes being reported. There were also revelations that adults failed to try to stop further acts of child abuse. The commission examined the history of abuse in educational institutions, religious groups, sporting organisations, state institutions and youth organisations. The final report of the commission was made public on 15 December 2017. Background During the late 1990s and early 2000s, allegations were made of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia and in a number of other religious and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolamon College
Coolamon may refer to: * Coolamon (vessel) Coolamon is an anglicised version of the Wiradhuric languages, Wiradjuric word ''guliman'' used to describe an Australian Aboriginals, Australian Aboriginal carrying Packaging, vessel. It is a multi-purpose shallow vessel, or dishware, dish wit ... - an Indigenous Australian container * Coolamon, New South Wales - an Australian town * Coolamon Shire - an Australian local government area * Syzygium moorei - an Australian rainforest tree {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
