Born in Scheveningen, the Netherlands in 1948, Cornelis Vleeskens was an Australian poet, writing in both English and Dutch. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in English at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. He has travelled widely in South-East Asia, Hong Kong and Japan and has worked mainly as a psychiatric and geriatric nurse. He began writing in English, made some attempts to write in Dutch between 1979 and 1984 and then began writing predominantly in Dutch in 1987. His work has been read on Radio 5UV in the late 1970s, Radio 4ZZZ in 1976, Radio 2SER in 1981, Radio 3CR from 1982, Radio 3RRR in 1985 and 1989, Radio 3RPP in 1989, Radio 3ZZZ since 1989 and Radio 2EA in 1990. He has read on many occasions, including at Sydney University; the University of Queensland and Kedron College of Advanced Education; the Warana Festival; Cafe L'Absurd (Balmain); Exiles Bookshop (Darlinghurst); Cornstalk Bookshop (Glebe); Monsalvat Poetry Festival; La Mama Poetica; Rochester Castle Hotel (Melbourne); Fringe Festivals (Melbourne); Club Foote (Adelaide) and on the 1990 MAD (Melbourne Adelaide Darwin) Poets Tour on the Ghan Train in 1990. The University of Queensland Press has published a number of monographs of selected poems by Vleeskens, including The Day the River and Orange Blizzard.

Daughter of Edward Crofts.

The Queensland Section of the Fellowship of Australian Writers had its genesis in the Queensland Authors and Artists' Association (QAAA), formed in Brisbane in 1921. Founding members included A.H. Davis (aka Steele Rudd), poet Constance Gittins and Dr Francis Cumbrae Stewart, later appointed Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. In 1928 Davis, Mary Gilmore, John le Gay Brereton and others met in Sydney to form a national body that would foster and promote Australian writing. The new group was launched as the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the QAAA became its Queensland branch, formally adopting the title Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section, in November 1958. Over the years the FAW(Q) attracted both established and aspiring writers and played a significant role in literary events such as the Warana Writers' Festival. It worked fraternally with other local organisations, most notably the Realist Writers' Group and the Brisbane Writers' Group which amalgamated with it in 1970. An affiliated writers' fellowship was formed in Redcliffe in February 1964.

Elizabeth Blewett was born as Elsie Melville Blewett in Northcote, Victoria. Known as 'Bill' to her family, she was educated at Ivanhoe Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. She pursued a career as teacher, served as a headmistress for thirteen years and was a co-principal of "Merry Days", a correspondence school for kindergarten and sub-primary school children which she ran with her sister Rowena. In 1951 she moved to London with her sister, the writer and literary agent, Dorothy Blewett before returning to Australia at the end of 1959. In 1978 she wrote a book called Care & Breeding of Australian Finches.

Born in Brisbane on 29 June 1896, educated at All Hallows Convent, trained as kindergarten teacher and nurse. Wrote children's stories and poems. Wrote and published poetry for adults. Died 19 February 1972.

Colin Free was a Sydney-born screenwriter and playwright, winning awards for his work on television dramas such asA Country Practice and Rush.

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia Queensland Branch (BWIU) (195?- ). Registered as the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers and Plasters of Australasia, Queensland.
Objectives - To uphold the right of combination of labor, and to improve, protect and foster the best interests of the members and to assist them to obtain their rights under industrial and social legislation; to regulate the conditions under which all members may be employed; to join with other organizations with similar objectives, to establish a fund to support trade unionists; to organize the education of the members; to publish a journal and to further any schemes to establish labor research bureaux or union newspapers or radio stations; to establish various benefits for members; to render legal and other assistance to members for the recovery of wages or compensation for injuries, to protect the interests of the trade in all its Branches, and to assist other trades by any legal method.
Publicists - See The Building Worker and the Official Trades Union Directory (Trades and Labor Council of Queensland).
Notes: Carpenters formed a union in Queensland as early as 1861, eventually forming the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australasia, Queensland Branch. Amalgamations led to changes of name in 1974 to Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners and Bricklayers of Australasia, Queensland Branch and in 1982 to the present name. The union is known not by its registered name but as the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, Queensland Branch The B.W.I.U. is part of the Queensland Building Trades Group which includes the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union, the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Laborers' Federation and the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union.

Friends of the Earth (FOE) (1973- ).
Objectives - To conserve, restore and rationally utilize the ecosphere; to stimulate a movement towards an ecologically stable and self-managed society; to preserve the natural environment in Australia; to promote public awareness of environmental issues in Australia.

Teacher; awarded O.B.E. in 1937 for services to Australian literature.