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List Of Old Falconians
This is a list of notable Old Falconians, alumni of North Sydney Boys High School. The Old Falconians Union is the alumni body of the school. The name "Old Falconians" is derived from Falcon Street which is the address of the school. All pupils who once attended the school are considered a part of the union, even if they were only on the roll for a short amount of time. Politics * Mark Aarons political adviser to NSW Labor Premier, journalist, author and activistNSBHS HSC 1969 * John Armitage Deputy Speaker of the Australian Parliament, Federal Member for Mitchell (1961–63) and Chifley (1969–83) * Michael Baume MHR (Lib) (1975–1983), NSW Senator (1985–1996) * Professor Peter Baume NSW Senator (Lib) (1974–1991), Federal Health Minister (1982), Chancellor of Australian National University (1994–2005) * Sir Vernon Christie Speaker of Victorian Parliament (1967–73) * Peter Coleman NSW MLA (Lib) (1968–1978), Leader of the NSW Opposition (1977–1978), MHR (Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTAF
WTXF-TV (channel 29) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the Fox network. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on Market Street in Center City and a transmitter on the Roxborough tower farm. History Early years The station signed on the air on May 16, 1965, as independent station WIBF-TV. The station was founded by the Fox family, who held real estate interests in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown; William L. Fox was the station's principal shareholder, along with his brother Irwin C. Fox, their father Benjamin Fox, and business associate Dorothy Kotin. The Fox family, who had already been operating WIBF-FM (103.9, now WPHI-FM) since November 1960, was awarded a construction permit to build channel 29 in August 1962. Channel 29's original studio was co-located with WIBF-FM in the Fox family's Benson East apartment building on Old York Road in Jenkintow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister heads the executive branch of the Australian Government, federal government of Australia and is also accountable to Parliament of Australia, federal parliament under the principles of responsible government. The current prime minister is Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party, who became prime minister on 23 May 2022. Formally appointed by the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general, the role and duties of the prime minister are not described by the Constitution of Australia, Australian constitution but rather defined by Constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention deriving from the Westminster system. To become prime minister, a politician should be able to Confidence and supply, command the confidence of the House of Representatives (Australia), House of Representatives. As such, the prime minister is typically the leader o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Grove
Rupert Howard Grove (27 March 1906 – 8 August 1982) was an Australian solicitor and a prominent Methodist and Uniting Church layman. The Australian Dictionary of Biography states that, "in the progression towards the union of the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches in Australia, Grove made a decisive impact." Family and education Grove was born at Dulwich Hill, New South Wales to Aphra Marian (née McCoy) and Howard Thomas Grove, a Melbourne-born architect. He attended North Sydney Boys High School and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws in 1928. The following year he was admitted as a solicitor and was made a partner in the law firm McCoy, Grove & Atkinson. The firm was founded in 1887 by Grove's maternal uncle, state parliamentarian, Richard McCoy, and closed in 2014. Grove married Ina Margaret Hulme at the Methodist Church, Gordon, in 1935. Church affairs Active within his local churches for over forty years, Grove served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Austin Gowing
Eric Austin Gowing (11 March 1913 - 3 June 1981) was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Auckland. His episcopate spanned a long period during the second half of the 20th century. Born in Sydney, Australia, Gowing was educated at North Sydney Boys High School, North Sydney High School and the universities of Sydney University, Sydney and Oxford University, Oxford, before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at St Mary's Deane Stafford. After an Vicar, incumbency at St Peter's Norbiton, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1950 where he was Vicar of Merivale, Christchurch, Merivale and Archdeacon of Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, Christchurch before his appointment to the episcopal see of Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ... in 1960; he was consecrated a bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore (Australian Jurist)
Sir John Cochrane Moore AC (5 November 191530 August 1998) was an Australian jurist. In 1973 he became the presiding judge of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. Under the Australian system, this commission served as both an arbitrator in labour disputes and as a court for the enforcement of certain provisions of the Commonwealth's labour laws. He was knighted in 1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ... for "distinguished service to law", and appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1986. See also * Judiciary of Australia References Sources * 1915 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Australian judges Australian Presbyterians Australian Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of Australia People educated at North Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athol Moffitt
Athol Randolph Moffitt (1914-2007) was an eminent Australian jurist and was the author of several books. He is best known as the chair of the landmark 1973-74 Moffitt Royal Commission, which investigated organised crime in New South Wales. Biography Moffit was the son of NSW workers' compensation judge Herbert William Moffitt, and his older sister Gwen was also a practising solicitor. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and then studied law at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with first-class honours. He was admitted to the NSW bar in 1938. At the outset of World War II Moffitt joined the AIF as a private in the artillery, reaching the rank of captain. He was involved with the war crimes trials held at Labuan of the Japanese officers and soldiers who had taken part in the murders and brutality at the prisoner of war camp at Sandakan and the Sandakan death marches. As a result of these trials, eight Japanese, including Captain Hoshijima Susumi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted McWhinney
Edward Watson "Ted" McWhinney, QC (May 19, 1924 – May 19, 2015) was a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra. Life and career Born in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, McWhinney, received his secondary education at North Sydney Boys High School, which he followed by study at the University of Sydney, becoming President of the Sydney University Liberal Club and Student Representative Council. McWhinney was a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University and an expert on the Canadian Constitution who was often called upon to advise the Canadian government. He reportedly advised successive Canadian prime ministers since John Diefenbaker, as well as several governors general. He held professorships at Yale, the Sorbonne, Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Kitto
Sir Frank Walters Kitto, (30 July 1903 – 15 February 1994), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Early life and education Kitto was born in Melbourne in 1903, but his family moved to Sydney, when his father, James Kitto, became the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs in New South Wales. There, he was educated at North Sydney Boys' High School. He later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours, while also winning a Pitt Cobbett Prize in the Faculty of Law. Career From 1921 to 1927, Kitto worked for the Solicitor-General of New South Wales, and after this time he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar, where he practised as a barrister. His specialities were equity and Australian constitutional law. From 1930 to 1933 he was a lecturer at the University of Sydney, teaching bankruptcy and probate law in the Sydney law school. In 1932, while still a junior counsel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Conti
Richard Alan Conti (1937-2016) was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from August 2000 until his retirement in August 2007. Early life and background Richard "Dick" Conti, QC was second of four children to Edwin Harold Davidson Conti, who worked in insurance, and Dorothy Elizabeth Conti (née Pritchard). He was born in 1937 and grew up on the North Shore during the war years. He attended North Sydney Boys High School, played cricket for Lindfield and Roseville and rugby for Gordon. When his father died in 1960, Conti became the breadwinner for his mother and much younger brothers. He studied at Sydney University Law School in the 1950s and did so part time for he was also working as an articled clerk at his uncle's firm Arthur Pritchard and Co. Richard married Betsy Conti ( Cahill) in 1962 and had four children whom they raised in Manly. Conti was greatly involved in his local and regional communities throughout his life. This included his interest in rugby league: h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Begg (politician)
Colin Elly Begg (31 January 1917 – 9 September 1984) was an Australian politician and judge. He was born in Sydney to electrical engineer Colin Erle Begg and Bertha Zadi. He first attended Sydney Grammar School. His final year of secondary education was at North Sydney Boys High School.NSBHS Pupil Number 3190 on School Roll He studied law at the University of Sydney, being admitted as a solicitor in 1940, and was first employed by John Corcoran and Company at 2 York Street Sydney. During World War II he served in the AIF, gaining the rank of lieutenant and being mentioned in despatches. On 17 November 1943 he married Ruth Lehmkull, with whom he had five children. He was called to the bar in 1946 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1958. In 1955 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Liberal Party. He resigned in 1964 to take up an appointment on the New South Wales Supreme Court. Begg died at Darling Point Darling Point is a harbourside east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Sibraa
Kerry Walter Sibraa (born 12 October 1937) is a former Australian Senator who represented the Labor Party for the state of New South Wales. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He served as a Senator for from 13 December 1975 to 30 June 1978, and then again from 9 August 1978 until 1 February 1994, and was President of the Senate from 17 February 1987 to 31 January 1994. During the 1970s Sibraa provided inside-information about Labor to the United States of America in what an historian has called "a discreet relationship". After leaving Parliament, Sibraa was the Australian High Commissioner to Zimbabwe from March 1994 until February 1998. On 26 January 1997 Sibraa was made an Officer of the Order of Australia "for service to the Parliament of Australia, to international relations and to the community." On 1 January 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal. Sibraa was a special counsel for the public relations Public relations (PR) is the practice of man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Roper
Thomas William Roper (born 6 March 1945) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Chatswood and attended North Sydney Boys High School before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University. From 1967 to 1968 he was National Aboriginal Affairs officer with the National Union of Australian University Students, moving to education vice-president from 1968 to 1970. in 1970 he became a tutor at La Trobe University's education school, before becoming an advisor for the federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in 1973. A member of the Labor Party, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1973 as the member for Brunswick West, moving to Brunswick in 1976. In 1976, Roper was appointed Shadow Minister for Health, assuming the ministerial role in 1982 and moving to the Transport portfolio in 1985 and to Planning, Environment, Aboriginal and Consumer Affairs in 1987. In 1990 he was appointed Treasurer A treasurer is the person responsible for runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
