Judith Arundell Wright was born on 31 May 1915 at Sydney, New South Wales. She studied at the University of Sydney. Wright settled in Brisbane, Queensland, and worked as a statistician at the University of Queensland (UQ) from 1944 to 1948, where she helped Clem Christesen to edit Meanjin. She wrote the first of her poems while working at UQ. Wright met Jack McKinney during her time in Brisbane, and together they moved to Mount Tamborine. They had a daughter, Meredith, in 1950 and married in 1962. Jack died in 1966. Wright was one of Australia's foremost poets, and writers of short stories and children's book. She helped form the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and was a supporter of the Aboriginal land rights movement. She was a patron of many organisations, including the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, National Forests Action Council (Victoria), Campaign Against Nuclear Power (Queensland), Townsville Women's Shelter and Amnesty International (Victoria). In 1991 she was awarded the Queen's gold medal for poetry. Judith Wright died in Canberra on 26 June 2000.

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John P. Brown was a Senior Lecturer in Dentistry at the University of Queensland Dental School in Turbot Street, Brisbane. He was one of the medical professionals involved in the Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service.

The Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service began in Brisbane in 1972, working out of premise in Red Hill and under the direction of an elected council of representatives from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in Brisbane as well as members of the medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, audiology and social work professions. The formation of this medical centre was discussed at the Action Conference on Racism and Education held at the University of Queensland in January 1972. The name of the organisation was formally changed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS) in 2008.

Alexander Craig's poetry has been published in anthologies, and in Australian and international literary journals, such as Meanjin, Poetry, Southerly and Voices. --excerpted from AustLit

Uniting Church in Australia formed in 1977; comprises the former Methodist Church of Australasia, and part of the former Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia

William Cottrell-Dormer was born on 27 August 1901, in Rolle, Switzerland. His Primary Education was done in France and he completed his education in Australia, obtaining his B.ScAgr (1931) and M.ScAgr (1936) at University of Queensland. His manuscript collection includes a very detailed Curriculum Vitae describing in detail the projects he undertook as they relate to his career in Papua New Guinea and Tonga 1939 - 1944: Director of Agriculture, Tonga 1944 - 1945: Horticulturist, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock 1946 - 1951: Director of Agriculture, PNG 1951 - 1961: Principal Agricultural Officer (Extension) in Field, PNG. William Cottrell-Dormer died in 1986.

Select bibliography
Cottrell-Dormer, W. (1926). 'Notes and observations on the red streak associated with Queensland top rot disease', Queensland Agricultural Journal, May 1926, pp.406-414.
-- (1927). 'Report of the Fiji disease situation in Queensland', Queensland Agricultural Journal, Aug 1927, pp. 125-141.
-- (1932). 'Red-stripe disease of sugar-cane in Queensland', Bulletin, Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations Division of Pathology, no. 3, pp. 25-57.
-- (1939). 'The centrifuge in the plantation laboratory', Proceedings of the Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Annual Conference, pp. 129-135.
-- (1945). An electric pollinator for tomatoes. Bulletin, Queensland Division of Plant Industry, no. 24.
-- (1955). 'Some aspects of agricultural development in Papua and New Guinea', South Pacific, vol. 8 no. 4, pp.53-55.
-- (1961). 'Rural extension in Eastern Papua', The Papua and New Guinea Agricultural Journal, vol. 14 nos.2-3, pp. 92-112.