Rose Andrew was an Australian politician.
In the 1950s she was the President of the Canberra Branch of the Country Women's Association. [1]
She was elected as an independent to the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council in 1961 as part of Trevor Harrison's group. [2] [3] In 1962 she proposed the construction of a heated swimming pool. [4] She supported the established of self-government for the ACT. [5] She did not stand for re-election in 1964. [6]
David Gavin Dickson is an Australian freestyle swimmer who won three bronze medals in freestyle and medley relay events at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rome and Tokyo respectively.
The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Building, also known as the South Building, is located on the southern side of Civic Square, London Circuit, Civic in the Australian Capital Territory. The public entrance to the Assembly is accessible from Civic Square, on the eastern side adjacent to the Canberra Theatre Centre.
The Australian PGA Championship is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia. It is the home tournament of the Australian PGA. Since 2000 it has been held in the South East Queensland region. The tournament was part of the OneAsia Tour from 2009 to 2014, and it has been co-sanctioned with the European Tour from 2015 to 2019 and again in 2022.
The Victoria Golf Club is a golf club in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the Melbourne Sandbelt, and its course is consistently ranked amongst the best in Australia. It has hosted many events over the years including the Australian Open in 1961, 1981,2002 and 2022 and the Women's Australian Open in 1974, 1976 and 2014.
The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times.
"The Sweet Sad Story of Elmo and Me" is a 1965 Australian television film which aired on ABC as part of Wednesday Theatre. It aired on 28 July 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney.
Phillip Grenville Mann was an Australian actor, playwright, stage director and manager, and writer.
I, the Aboriginal is an Australian book and television film about the life of Aboriginal Australian Phillip Roberts.
Christopher Muir was an Australian director and producer, notable for his work in TV in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s he was head of ABC Television drama.
Phillip Waipuldanya Roberts OBE was a traditional doctor, activist and adviser to the Commonwealth Government of Australia on Aboriginal policies and programs.
The BP Super Show was an Australian television series of loosely scheduled TV specials often of the variety show genre, which aired from circa 1959 to circa 1970. The programs often featured international performers that were touring Australia. It originally aired on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne, with the production of episodes varying between the two stations, and it also aired on other stations across Australia. It aired on the Nine Network after the formation of that network. Given the varied nature of the episodes, critical reception varied, but was often very positive, with a 1961 episode with Ella Fitzgerald being called by The Age newspaper "one of the best shows of its type presented on Melbourne TV".
Jeffrey Winton Underhill was an Australian writer and journalist. He worked in advertising before turning to writing.
Carole Potter was an Australian actor best known for her work in the early days of Australian television. She was born in England and moved to Australia in 1957. Her TV debut was made when she was 15 in The Governess. She married director William Sterling with whom she often collaborated.
Michael Duffield was an English-born character actor who worked in Australia for many decades. He was nominated for the 1979 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in The Last of the Knucklemen, a role he was reprising from the original stage production.
The Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council was a peak co-ordination body of progress associations in the Australian Capital Territory. It also operated as a political party in the ACT in the period prior to self-government in 1989.
Nation was an Australian fortnightly periodical, published from 1958 to 1972, when it was merged with the Sunday Review to form the Nation Review.
Amirah Inglis was an Australian communist activist and writer.
Robyn-Lyn Walmsley is an Australian former politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the former Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly from 1979 to 1985.
The Shell Aria, originally Shell Open Aria, contest was an Australian vocal competition for young classical opera singers, held annually in Canberra from 1955 to 1986, named for and sponsored by, Shell Australia in conjunction with the Australian National Eisteddfod Society.