Jeremiah Joseph Stable was born on 14 May 1883 at Gawler, South Australia. He was educated in Switzerland and Cambridge. In 1912 he took a position as lecturer in English, French and German at the University of Queensland. He undertook intelligence duties on the district censor's staff in World War One. Appointed in 1922 to the McCaughey chair (later Darnell chair) of English language and literature at the University of Queensland. In 1923 he encourage FW Robinson to teach Australian literature, a first for any Australian university. His achievements included: president of the Queensland Authors' and Artists' Association, President of the English and Modern Languages Association of Queensland, co-founder of the Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society, one of the first trustees of the re-constituted Queensland National Art Gallery, a foundation member of the Queensland Historical Society, contributed articles of literary criticism to the Brisbane Courier, served in World War Two, member of the University of Queensland Senate, and on his retirement in 1952 became the university's second professor emeritus. He died on 24 December 1953.

Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning novelist of Goorie and European heritage. She lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. She was born and grew up in Brisbane. After working as a barmaid, delivery driver and karate instructor, Melissa received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University, graduating in 1990. A versatile and prolific author, she has published young adult novels, contemporary literary fiction, and non-fiction. Among her awards for writing are the Dobbie Prize, the Prize for Indigenous Writing (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards), and the Queensland Literary Award (Fiction Book Award). She has been shortlisted and longlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin, the Aurealis Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. She won the 2019 Miles Franklin for Too much lip, published by University of Queensland Press. —excerpted from AustLit

Meta Frances Hurley was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 3 June 1917. In 1947 she married James Francis Truscott. Meta Truscott was an Australian diarist and historian. She wrote a daily diary and created scrapbooks of relating to her experiences as a resident of Ashgrove in Brisbane. She died on 17 November 2014.

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Menninger Foundation.

The New South Wales branch of the Melbourne Women's Liberation Movement, based in Glebe, Sydney. Members included Sue Bellamy and Diane Graham.

Born in Sydney in 1937.

Founded in Sydney in 1976 as a pilot theatre-in-education company, Freewheels came to Newcastle later that year. The company was committed to producing high quality programmes for a broad cross-section of the community, with the principle activity of the company being touring to schools. -- Excerpted from AusStage.

Thomas Meredith Parnell was born in 1925, the the son of Thomas Parnell (1881-1948) and Hermiene Parnell (nee Ulrich, 1885-1956). His parents were among the first lecturers at the newly established University of Queensland, his father in Physics and his mother in Modern Languages. His mother was the first woman to hold the position of a lecturer at UQ. Thomas Meredith Parnell studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. On 20 May 1950 he married Elspa Haylock. In 1952 Parnell joined the staff of UQ. He was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1974. Thomas Meredith Parnell died on 24 May 2012.

Greg Kratzmann, born on 23 February 1949, was an academic and editor with a particular interest in the poetry and correspondence of Gwen Harwood. He was born in Toowoomba and educated at the University of Queensland, ANU and the University of Edinburgh. He edited a number of volumes relating to Gwen Harwood including A steady storm of correspondence: selected letters of Gwen Harwood 1943-1995, and, with Alison Hoddinott, Gwen Harwood: Collected poems 1943-1995. He died on 12 April 2021.

Harold Trevor Clifford, commonly known as Trevor Clifford, was a botanist and taxonomist born on 18 April 1927. He taught botany at the University of Queensland for 34 years and was made Emeritus Professor when he retired in 1992. He went on to become a Research Associate attached to the Geology section of the Queensland Museum. He died on 4 May 2019.