• The Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia was an Australian trade union which existed between 1890 and 1976. It represented workers employed...
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  • Women's Post and Telegraph Association Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1902-1993) Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1976)...
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    coachmaker and established Dacey & Co. in Alexandria, Sydney. By 1901 he was helping to organise the Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia in Sydney...
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  • Woolstores in Geelong (category Use Australian English from August 2019)
    Australia, the Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia, the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia, and the Wool & Skin Stores Employees...
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    Theo Nicholls (category Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia)
    to 1917 and was secretary of several unions including the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation and the Wool and Basil Workers Federation. He was...
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    baseball player and coach (died 2001) 1940 – Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker 1941 – Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player...
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    following Acts were passed by the parliament of South Australia and, after federation in 1901, the Australian parliament. Design, construction, as well as...
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    William Willans, ran a successful wool-trading business in Huddersfield. Both families were middle-class, Congregationalist and politically radical. Dixon was...
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    Companion to Australian Federation, edited by Helen Irving, (Cambridge University Press, 1989) Hunt, Tristram. Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian...
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    Australian Economic History Review (2005) 45#3 pp 244–272 "New Zealand says no to federation with Australia". NZ History. Ministry for Culture and Heritage...
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  • 1959 New Year Honours (category 1959 in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
    Education Officer, Federation of Nigeria. Reginald Valentine O'Neill, Administrative Secretary, Works and Hydraulics Department, Trinidad. Basil Aristides Papadopoulos...
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  • recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement, meritorious service, or for both. At that time, Companion of the Order of Australia was the...
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  • Acting Chairman of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission. Major-General Roy Burston CB CBE DSO VD FRACP, (now Retired). Royal Australian Navy Surgeon...
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  • of Red Hat Jeff Wooller, accountant and educationalist Rebekah Yeoh, Malaysian businesswoman and philanthropist Sir Ian Johnston, Chief Constable of British...
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  • 1961 Birthday Honours (category 1961 in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
    Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland were announced on 2 June 1961. The recipients of honours...
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  • The 1997 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was...
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  • Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 8 June 1998 by the office of the Governor-General. The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16...
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  • 1972 New Year Honours (category 1972 in Australia)
    honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list. The recipients of honours are displayed here...
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  • 1960 New Year Honours (category 1960 in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
    in the State of Western Australia. Hugh Bryson Calwell Wallace, MD, Specialist Physician, Medical Service, Federation of Malaya. Basil Dudley Whitworth...
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    Calabria (redirect from History of Calabria)
    made of wool or silk, worn by women in ancient times on traditional costumes during the dance of tarantella, or as an ornamental decoration of the houses...
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  • Keynesian economics (category Schools of economic thought)
    1940s. Many workers and trades unions, as well as figures in the British Labour Party and Australian Labor Party, saw Keynesianism as a means of stopping...
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  • for Australia were announced on Monday 13 June 2005 by the Governor-General, Michael Jeffery. The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16...
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  • Church of Australia, to the development of ecumenical relationships and professional standards, and through commitment to social justice and welfare...
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  • 1968 Birthday Honours (category 1968 in Australia)
    Australian Air Force. Civil Division Colin Basil Peter Bell, of Kenmore, Queensland. For services to the wool industry. Bede Bertrand Callaghan, of Gordon...
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    and Stephen himself captured and taken to Bristol. By 1150, Lincoln was among the wealthiest towns in England, based economically on cloth and wool exported...
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  • 1956 New Year Honours (category 1956 in Australia)
    the wool industry in the Commonwealth of Australia. Frederick Beaumont Phillips, CBE, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New...
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  • The 1999 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was...
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  • 1957 New Year Honours (category 1957 in Australia)
    and political services to the Commonwealth of Australia. Thomas Garden Carter, MBE, MC, Chairman of the Australian Wool Bureau, and of the Australian...
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    Pontic Greek culture (category Culture of West Asia)
    The zipka includes dark trousers of local or imported English wool (zipka), a white shirt (kamis), a vest (yelek), and an overcoat (kontes). The outfit...
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  • 1961 New Year Honours (category 1961 in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
    Victoria; in recognition of her public and patriotic services. Civil Division William Archer Gunn, CMG, Chairman, Australian Wool Bureau. Sir George William...
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