Jana Bohumila Wendt is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer.
City Walk is a paved outdoor pedestrian area in Civic, Canberra. It was formed by the closure to traffic of Alinga Street between East Row in the east and Binara Street in the south-west, and named City Walk in January 1975. Pedestrians can walk almost the whole way without having to cross any roads with cars on them, except for Akuna Street.
Bunda Street is a shared traffic zone in Canberra, Australia in the Civic shopping area of Civic. It passes between Northbourne Avenue and Glebe Park. A number of cafes and nightclubs are located on the side of the road, such as Gus's cafe in the Garema Centre. The road passes underneath the Canberra Centre, which bridges the road and ends the shared zone.
The Australian Institute of Architects is a professional body for architects in Australia. The post-nominals of FRAIA (Fellow) and RAIA continue to be used.
The Australian Masters was an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia held in Victoria, Australia from 1979 to 2015.
The Gold Coast Classic was a professional golf tournament played at Coolangatta & Tweed Heads Golf Club in northern New South Wales, Australia. It was held from 1978 to 1983. From 1979 to 1983 it was sponsored by Tooth and Co., a beer brewery, initially under their name but from 1982 under the name Resch's Pilsner.
The Vic Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1957 and is the Victoria state open championship for men. It is run by Golf Victoria and is a Golf Australia national ranking event.
The New South Wales Open is an annual golf tournament held in New South Wales, Australia. The event was founded in 1931 as the New South Wales Close Championship, being restricted to residents of New South Wales, becoming the New South Wales Open Championship in 1958 when it was opened up to players from outside New South Wales. Norman Von Nida won the event six times, while Jim Ferrier and Frank Phillips won it five times with Greg Norman winning it four times.
The Associated Southern Colleges (ASC) is an association of independent schools in the Australian Capital Territory and southern New South Wales, Australia that share common interests, ethics, and educational philosophy, and contest sporting events among themselves.
Possum Magic is a 1983 Children's picture book by Australian author Mem Fox, and illustrated by Julie Vivas. It concerns a young female possum, named Hush, who becomes invisible and has a number of adventures. In 2001, a film was made by the American company Weston Woods and narrated by the author.
Kooyonga Golf Club is a private golf club in Australia, located in South Australia at Lockleys, a suburb west of Adelaide. Members entry is off May Terrace, Brooklyn Park.
The Yarra Yarra Golf Club is a private golf club in Australia, located in Victoria at Bentleigh East, a suburb southeast of Melbourne. It is one of the eight Melbourne Sandbelt championship courses and is renowned for its par-3s.
The Agent-General for New South Wales is the representative of the State of New South Wales in the United Kingdom. The position is appointed by and the expenses and salaries paid by the state government to represent their commercial, legal, and diplomatic interests in Britain and to the British government and Whitehall.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Wagga Wagga on 6 December 1975. The election was triggered by the resignation of Wal Fife (Liberal) who had been pre-selected as the Liberal candidate for the next federal election for the division of Farrer. Fife subsequently won the election for Farrer on 13 December 1975.
The Lakes Open was a golf tournament played at The Lakes Golf Club in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 1934 and 1974. The inaugural event was organised in connection with the visit of a group of American professionals who had earlier played in the Lakes International Cup.
The South Coast Open was a professional golf tournament held between 1975 and 1978 at Catalina Country Club in Batemans Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The 1975 and March 1976 events had prize money of A$10,000 with later events having prize money of A$15,000.
The Asia Golf Circuit was the principal men's professional golf tour in Southeast Asia from the early 1960s through to the mid-late 1990s. The tour was founded in 1961 as the Far East Circuit. The first series of five tournaments was held in 1962 and consisted of the national open championships of the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, plus a final tournament held in Japan. The tour gradually grew over the subsequent years, eventually becoming a regular ten tournament circuit in 1974.
Barry Vivian is a New Zealand professional golfer. He won the inaugural Australian Masters in 1979 and represented New Zealand in the World Cup three times. He played on the European Senior Tour for a few years where he was twice runner-up.
Bob Tuohy is a former Australian professional golfer and current tournament director.
The 1956–57 Kangaroo tour was the ninth Kangaroo tour, in which the Australian national rugby league team travelled to Great Britain and France and played twenty-eight matches, including the Ashes series of three Test matches against Great Britain and three Test matches against the French. It followed the tour of 1952-53 and the next was staged in 1959-60.
