Word: queenslanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While studying at the University of Queensland, Burrows experienced a "divine compulsion" to rejoin the Army. Her leadership skills were evident at age 19, when her father suffered an asthma attack during worship services and Burrows coolly preached an impromptu sermon. Equipped with degrees in history and English and a graduate degree in education, Burrows spent 17 years as an educator in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After leaving Africa in 1969, she served in England as an administrator and then was the territorial commander in Sri Lanka, Scotland and southern Australia...
...Queensland Museum archaeologists are planning an expedition this fall to the Pandora, an 18th century British navy frigate that lies 75 miles east of Australia's Cape York Peninsula. When Pandora sank in 1791, it is thought to have carried to the bottom four captured mutineers from H.M.S. Bounty shackled in irons. Since the wreck was discovered nine years ago, it has yielded some 800 well-preserved artifacts. But a shortage of funds cut off exploration two years ago. "If the funding continues," says Peter Gesner, the museum's assistant curator of maritime archaeology, "we can expect...
...five clergymen stood behind a wooden cross outside a power station in a Brisbane suburb two weeks ago singing We Shall Overcome. Within minutes, they were themselves overcome, spirited away by the police. Since March, similar scenes have been re-enacted almost daily in Queensland, Australia's northeastern state, where 231 people have been arrested in protests against harsh new labor legislation sponsored by the state's right-wing Premier Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, 74, who is called "Jackboots Joh" by detractors. Among other things, the laws require unions to give up to seven days' notice of their intention...
...Hawaii is Queensland, except that it is twelve hours closer to Hollywood...
...tough. In Thorn Birds the characters bellyache about the flies and heat all the time and talk about "being stuck out here in this hellish place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died of a heart attack during the shooting...