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Aarons, Eric

  • US DLC n 50039857
  • Person
  • 1919-2019

Eric John Aarons was born on 16 March 1919. He was a member of of the Communist Party of Australia. He travelled to Cuba in 1965 as part of a delegation from the Communist Party of Australia: the Australian Party's first delegation to anywhere in the Americas. He died on 18 January 2019 in Sydney.

Hall, Russell, 1947-

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1947-

Russell James Ogilvie Hall was born in 1947. He started studying architecture at the University of Queensland and completed his training in 1974 with the Queensland Institute of Technology. He briefly worked in James Birrell's Brisbane office. In 1976 he worked for the Papua New Guinea Housing Commission. Returning from Papua New Guinea in 1979, Russell practised architecture on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. He established the practice, Russell Hall Architects.

Flavelle Bros. & Roberts

  • AU QU
  • Corporate body
  • 1868-1891

From 1850 the business was known as Flavelle Brothers, run by John and Henry Flavelle. John Roberts joined the brothers in 1868 when the firm became know as Flavelle Bros & Roberts. In 1891 Robert Sankey became a partner the firm. From that time the firm was known as Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey.

Green, Herbert Bruce, 1915-1995

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1915-1995

Herbert Bruce Green was born on 9 June 1915 in Brisbane. He began working at the University of Queensland in March 1929 as a messenger. He went on to work as Officer-in-charge of records, assistant to the Chief Clerk, Officer-in-charge of Examinations and Student Records, and Assistant Registrar. He worked at the University of Queensland for over 50 years. His only time of absence occurred during the Second World War when he served with the RAAF and spent a number of years with the Small Ships Section of the Allied Transport Service. He married Nina Tatzenko on 3 October 1959. Green played a major part in organising the University's Jubilee Celebrations in 1960. Outside of work he was involved in community organisations. In 1970 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts 'Honoris Causa'. After almost 52 years of service to the University of Queensland, Bruce Green retired in late 1980. He died in 1995.

Garner, Grahame, 1928-2015

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1928-2015

Grahame Garner was photographer of the Lisner Ballet and the Queensland Ballet in its early years. Garner ran as an Independent candidate in the 1985 Division 4, Maroochy Shire Council elections in Queensland. He was also a lifelong campaigner for peace and socialism and a talented photographer who documented street protests and May Day processions in Brisbane during the 1960s and 70s. In 1969 he organised and photographed Brisbane's last tram ride.

Council for Aboriginal Development

  • AU QU
  • Corporate body
  • 1978-1981

The first meeting of the Council for Aboriginal Development was held in Alice Springs on 24 July 1978. The Council for Aboriginal Development was one of group of bodies recommended be established by the Committee of Inquiry into the Role of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee in 1976. One of the tasks of the Council was to consider whether the Commonwealth Electoral Act should be amended to provide for compulsory enrolment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The functions of the Council for Aboriginal Development were taken over by the Aboriginal Development Commission in 1981.

Radic, Thérèse, 1935-

  • AU NLA 36552891
  • Person
  • 1935-

Thérèse Radic is a musicologist, biographer and playwright who has been a lecturer, broadcaster, book reviewer, critic, documentary film script writer, course designer and music consultant for museums, galleries, celebratory events, film, television and the stage. With her husband Leonard Radic she wrote Some of My Best Friends Are Women, a compilation of songs and readings on the theme of Australian women.

Radic, Leonard, 1935-2018

  • AU NLA 36080543
  • Person
  • 1935-2018

Leonard Radic was born Melbourne and studied English at the University of Melbourne, where he also edited the student magazine Farrago. He was the theatre critic for The Age from 1974 to 1994. Radic wrote several plays. With his wife Thérèse Radic he wrote Some of My Best Friends Are Women, a compilation of songs and readings on the theme of Australian women. Radic also edited the two-volume collection Short Plays for the Australian Stage (1987) and wrote a critical account of Australian theatre, The State of Play. The Revolution in the Australian Theatre since the 1960s (1991).

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