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Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state underwent considerable economic development. His uncompromising conservatism, his political longevity, and his leadership of a government that, in its later years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, made him one of the best-known and most controversial political figures of 20th century Australia.
Bruce Victor Beaver was an Australian poet and novelist.
Hugh Duncan Lunn is an Australian journalist and author.
Sir John Grenfell Crawford was an economist and a key architect of Australia's post-war growth.
John Ribot is an Australian sports administrator and former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. Once a Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger or lock forward, Ribot was the 1980 NSWRFL season's equal top try-scorer. Also a member of the 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroo touring squad, he played club football in Brisbane for Fortitude Valley, Wests and Redcliffe, and in Sydney for Newtown, Wests and Manly-Warringah.
Gail Miller is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Laurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.
David Andrew Day is an Australian historian, academic and author.
James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. Peter Coleman considered that "no one else in Australian letters has so effectively exposed or ridiculed modernist verse, leftie politics and mindless liberalism".
Nation Review was an Australian Sunday newspaper, which ceased publication in 1981. It was launched in 1970 after independent publisher Gordon Barton bought out Tom Fitzgerald's Nation publication and merged it with his own Sunday Review journal.
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry and has been translated into French and other languages.
The 1990 Brisbane Broncos season was the third in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRL's 1990 Winfield Cup premiership and again improved on their previous year, finishing the regular season in second position before going on to come within one match of the grand final, but losing to eventual premiers, the Canberra Raiders.
Judith Catherine Rodriguez was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.
Alan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet.
Colin Anfield Hughes was a distinguished British-Australian academic specialising in electoral politics and government. He is currently Emeritus professor of political science at the University of Queensland, and was Chairman of the Queensland Constitutional Review Commission (1999-2000).
Paul Richard Wilson is a New Zealand-born Australian social scientist. He was convicted and jailed in 2016 for historical sex offences.
Gary Catalano was an Australian poet and art critic.
During the 1900s in Australia, fencing became more socially acceptable for women to participate in and subsequently female participation rates rose in places like Queensland.
John Darling, Jr. was a South Australian businessman and politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1896 to 1905, representing the electorates of East Torrens (1896-1902) and Torrens (1902-1905}. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1902 to 1904. After leaving politics, he was chairman of the board of directors of Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. from 1907 to 1914.
