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Joy Seager
Joyce Debenham Seager MBE born Joyce Debenham Tearne known as Joy Seager (20 September 1899 – 7 September 1991) was a British-born physician, best known for being the only medical practitioner on Kangaroo Island, Australia from 1925. She wrote her biography and it became a TV mini-series. Life Seager was born in England's Black Country, in Edgbaston, West Midlands. She was the last of three children born to Maude Mary (born Lee) and her husband Theodore Stephen Tearne. The family emigrated to Australia in 1907. Her father taught music and in 1909 he became the head of the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction music department. She went to Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar and Sydney Girls' High School. Seager went on to graduate in medicine in 1924 from the University of Sydney. She was briefly employed in hospitals but at the beginning of 1925 she became the only doctor, dentist and pharmacist on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia. She married ...
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Edgbaston
Edgbaston () is a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies immediately south-west of Birmingham city centre, and was historically in Warwickshire. The Ward (electoral subdivision), wards of Edgbaston and North Edgbaston had a combined population of 42,295 at the 2021 census. Edgbaston is the location of Edgbaston Cricket Ground, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, England, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society, the oldest Tennis, lawn tennis club in the world. Etymology Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English language, Old English personal name + ''tun'' "farm". The personal name'' Ecgbald'' means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as ''Celboldistane'' in the Hundred (county division), Hundred of Hemlingford (hundred), Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old ...
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AACTA Award For Best Miniseries Or Telefeature
The AACTA Award for Best Miniseries or Telefeature, also known as AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Mini Series, is an award that has been handed out to producers annually since 1986 by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), since 2011 the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). History The award was originally presented by the AFI in two separate categories, for "Best Telefeature" and "Best Mini Series", but in 1990 both categories were merged to form Best Television Mini Series or Telefeature. By 2008 the award name was changed again, to AFI Award for Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series. From the inaugural AACTA awards in 2011 until 2020, the name was AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Mini Series, changing to AACTA Award for Best Miniseries or Telefeature in 2021. Best Mini Series Best Telefeature Best Miniseries or Telefeature (or Short Run Series) See also * Australian Film Institute The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded ...
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Sydney Medical School Alumni
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ...
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People From Edgbaston
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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1991 Deaths
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1899 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), pp. 153-157 ** In Samoa, followers of Mataafa, claimant to the rule of the island's subjects, burn the town of Upolu in an ambush of followers of other claimants, Malietoa Tanus and Tamasese, who are evacuated by the British warship HMS ''Porpoise''. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as Governor of New York at the age of 39. * January 3 – A treaty of alliance is signed between Russia and Afghanistan. * January 5 – **A fierce battle is fought between American troops and Filipino defenders at the town of Pililla on the island of Luzon. *The collision of a British steamer and a French steamer kills 12 people on the English Channel. * Jan ...
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AACTA Award For Best Lead Actress In A Television Drama
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in Television Drama is awarded annually by the Australian Film Institute as part of the awards in television for excellence in acting in television drama by an actress. The first Award was made in 1986. Prior to 1990, two awards existed and were called ''Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series'' and ''Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature''. The awards were merged in 1990 to become ''Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Telefeature or Mini Series'' which in 1991 was renamed ''Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama''. In 2000, the Awards were again awarded in two categories, called ''Best Performance by an Actress in a Telefeature or Mini Series'' and ''Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama''. In 2002, the Awards were again combined under the title ''Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama'' and two years later, in 2004, the Award was named ''Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Te ...
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Josephine Byrnes
Josephine Byrnes (born 1966) is an Australian actress best known for her work in television, including a lead role in '' Brides of Christ'' for which she won a Logie Award The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Television in Australia, Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The eve ....Catherine Kennan, "Nothing Major", ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 8 March 2003
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1991 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 33rd Australian Film Institute Awards (generally known as the AFI Awards) were held in October 1991. Presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, documentary, short film and television productions of 1991. ''Proof'' received the award for Best Feature Film and five other awards. Director Fred Schepisi received the Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement. The awards were not televised. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Feature film Non-feature film Television Additional awards References External links The Australian Film Institute , Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts official website {{Australian Film Institute Awards AACTA Awards ceremonies AACTA Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Th ...
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Shadows Of The Heart
''Shadows of the Heart'' is a two-part 1990 Australian television mini-series directed by Rod Hardy and starring Josephine Byrnes. The story was based on the life and biography of Dr Joy Seager who was the only doctor on Kangaroo Island in 1925. She published her biography as ''Kangeroo Island Doctor'' in 1980. Plot A female doctor, Kate Munro moves to (fictitious) Gannet Island off the South Australian coast in 1927. Conflict between traditional religious values and modern scientific medicine ensues as she forms a relationship with two men who are brothers, one a grazier and one a priest. Cast * Josephine Byrnes ... Dr. Kate Munro * Jerome Ehlers ... Father Michael Hanlon * Marcus Graham ... Vic Hanlon * Jason Donovan ... Alex Fargo * Robyn Nevin ... Mrs. Hanlon * Barry Otto ... Charles Munro * Harold Hopkins ... Willy Carter * Nadine Garner ... Lanty Fargo * Michael Caton ... Frank Barrett * Colleen Hewett ... Emily Fargo * Annie Byron ... Rose Flanagan * Lisa Hensley ... Jil ...
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