Ernestine Hill was born in 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She was educated at All Hallows School and Stott & Hoare's Business College, Brisbane. After working briefly in the public service she joined the staff of Smith's Weekly, Sydney, in 1919, as secretary to its literary editor J F Archibald. Hill subsequently became sub-editor of the paper and consolidated her career as a journalist during the 1930s when she travelled extensively across Australia writing articles for Associated Newspapers and other publications such as Walkabout. Her articles were widely read and sometimes controversial: her reporting of a gold strike in the Northern Territory in 1931 contributed to financial ruin for some and was branded irresponsible; another, a front page story for the Sunday Sun, 19 June 1932, marked the beginning of a long and sometimes turbulent association with Daisy Bates. Hill's major published works arose out of her travels during this period - The Great Australian Loneliness (1937), Water into Gold (1937), Flying Doctor Calling (1947), The Territory (1951) and Kabbarli, a personal memoir of Daisy Bates, published posthumously in 1973. Her only published novel was the immensely successful My Love Must Wait (1941), based on the life of Matthew Flinders Between 1940 and 1942. Hill was editor of the women's pages of the A.B.C. Weekly and from 1941 to 1944 she was a commissioner of the A.B.C. After her resignation from this position she resumed her travels, working constantly on ideas for future novels, plays, travel and historical books and radio and film scripts. Apart from The Territory (1951) and a few articles none of these were ever published. Hill was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship in 1959, which provided her with a small pension but the last years of her life were dominated by financial hardship and ill-health. She returned to Brisbane in 1970 and died there on 21 August 1972.

The project was funded by The University of Queensland Foundation Ltd, an independent operation. It was led by Dr Kay Saunders, Reader in the Department of History at the University of Queensland. A book entitled Australia's frontline ; remembering the 1939-1945 war was published as a result of the project.

Arthur Power Lyons was born on 30 December 1879. Colonial administrator and amateur anthropologist Arthur Power Lyons was born in Bundaberg in 1879. He became Assistant Resident Magistrate in Papua in 1906, and the Resident Magistrate in the Western Division of Papua and Warden of Gold and Mineral Fields in 1909. From 1930 to 1943, Lyons was Director of Public Works for Papua, and a member of the Papuan Executive and Legislative Council. He was also Chairman of the Building and Petroleum Advisory Boards in Papua during this period. He wrote a number of anthropological reports about the people of Western Papua. He died on 30 December 1961.

Mary Ann Haig was the second daughter of Captain Andrew Haig. She married Charles Tiffin on 1 January 1857 in Hobart. She died on 31 October 1923.

Not for profit environment organisation in Central Queensland. Objectives:
• To promote the natural environment and work towards ecological sustainability.
• To protect the ecological integrity, environmental values and biodiversity of CQ region.
• To prevent over-exploitation and destruction of our environment, natural resources and biota.
• To facilitate and encourage community engagement in environmental protection and conservation work.

The International Tropical Timber Council is the governing body of the International Tropical Timber Organization.

Garnet Walters Lyle was born on 7 October 1918 in Lowood, Queensland. He worked as a teacher before enlisting in the second A.I.F in 1940. Upon discharge from the army he worked as an educational officer for the Workers' Educational Association in Sydney from 1946 to 1948. His first book of verse, 18 Poems was published in late 1940 and his work appears in anthologies through most of the 1940s. He died in 1984.

Ian Scott McDowall was born on 5 June 1922. He was a public servant, member of the Communist Party, who served in New Guinea during World War Two. He died in an aircraft accident in the New Guinea on 18 September 1945.

The objectives of the University of Queensland Aboriginal Land Rights Support Group was to support the activities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in connection with the Land Act Amendment Act (1982) and the Commonwealth Games and to involve sections of the white community in the struggle for land rights. Group may only have been active from 1982 to mid 1980s.
Publicists - Lee Lacy.
Notes: Associated with the Black Protest Committee, the Combined Campuses' Land Rights Support Group and the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action.

Although its first official records of meetings date from October 1924, the University of Queensland Academic Staff Association was founded in 1923. The first constitution was a far simpler document than its many successors with the aim ‘to promote the interests of the University of Queensland and of members of the association’. Membership was open to all teaching staff appointed for not less than five years (but changed to three in 1931).

Initially it was referred to as either the Queensland University Staff Association or the University of Queensland Staff Association (1923-1975).

From 1975, it was called the University of Queensland Academic Staff Association. In 1976 it applied to register as an industrial union.

In 1990 it joined FAUSA (Federated Australian University Staff Association) to become the University of Queensland Academic Staff Association/Branch Committee of FAUSA. In 1993, FAUSA and four other tertiary education unions amalgamated to become NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union). After the formation of the NTEU, the role of the UQASA was primarily transferring union fees collected by the University to the NTEU UQ Branch with little discussion at meetings.