The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne,Australia,at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older,conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3:00 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation".
Michael Kenneth Moore was a New Zealand politician,union organiser,and author. In the Fourth Labour Government he served in several portfolios including minister of foreign affairs,and was the 34th prime minister of New Zealand for 59 days before the 1990 general election elected a new parliament. Following Labour's defeat in that election,Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election,after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.
David Russell Lange was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.
Sir Donald Charles McKinnon is a New Zealand politician who served as the 12th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and the minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.
Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 36th prime minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female prime minister of New Zealand,and the first woman to have led the National Party.
Anthony Boyd Williams Ryall is a former New Zealand politician. He represented the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament from 1990 to 2014. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as a cabinet minister,holding the posts of Minister of Health,Minister of State Services and Minister of State Owned Enterprises. He served previously in the Shipley Cabinet between 1997 and 1999. He announced in February 2014 that he was to retire from politics at that year's general election. He is chief executive of BestStart Educare,an early childhood education provider.
Wyatt Beetham Creech is a retired New Zealand politician. He served as the 14th deputy prime minister of New Zealand in Jenny Shipley's National Party government from August 1998 to December 1999.
Sir Kenneth James Keith is a New Zealand judge. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005,serving a nine-year term during the years 2006 through 2015.
Thomas Allen Monro Curnow was a New Zealand poet and journalist.
Sir Roger Leighton Hall is one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights,arguably best known for comedies that carry a vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos.
Clarence Edward Beeby,most commonly referred to as C.E. Beeby or simply Beeb,was a New Zealand educationalist and psychologist. He was influential in the development of the education system in New Zealand,first as a director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) from 1936,and then as Director of Education from 1940,initially under the First Labour Government. He also served as ambassador to France and on the UNESCO executive.
Richard John Mills is an Australian conductor and composer. He is currently the artistic director of Victorian Opera,and formerly artistic director of the West Australian Opera and artistic consultant with Orchestra Victoria. He was commissioned by the Victoria State Opera to write his opera Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1996) and by Opera Australia to write the opera Batavia (2001).
Cedric Russell Marshall,known as Russell Marshall,is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and diplomat.
Sir Stephen Gerard "Tipene" O'Regan is a New Zealand academic and company director.
June Daphne,Lady Blundell was the wife of Sir Denis Blundell,former Governor-General of New Zealand. She was known in her own right for her extensive community activism and welfare work.
Helen Elizabeth Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008,and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister,and the second woman to hold that office.
Marilyn Lee Lake,is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society,the political history of Australian women and Australian racism including the White Australia Policy and the movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights. She was awarded a personal chair in history at La Trobe University in 1994. She has been elected a Fellow,Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow,Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Right Reverend Manuhuia "Manu" Augustus Bennett was a New Zealand Anglican Bishop in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in Rotorua on 10 February 1916 into an ecclesiastical family:his father Frederick Augustus Bennett was the inaugural Bishop of Aotearoa. He identified with the Ngāti Whakaue,Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Rangitihi iwi. Educated at the University of Hawaiʻi and ordained in 1940,he was a Curate in the Diocese of Waiapu before becoming a Chaplain to the New Zealand Forces. When peace returned he was a Māori Missionary at Rangitīkei. Later he was Vicar of St Faith's Rotorua before being appointed Suffragan Bishop of Aotearoa in 1951. He was Bishop of Aotearoa from 1968 to 1981 and a member of the Waitangi Tribunal from 1986 to 1997. He died on 20 December 2001.
Simon Molesworth AO,KC is an Australian barrister,environmentalist and diplomat. With an experience extending over 35 years of community leadership and corporate governance,Molesworth has been a director of some 22 corporations and chairman or president of 14.
James Alexander StrongAO was an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
