Monday 7 November 2011

Danielle-6V

Caroline Chrisholm!
Caroline Chisholm was born in 1908 in England. She arrived in Australia in
1838 and make a home for women who had also came to live here. She helped people on ships come over to Australia. She arranged free trips
so families and convicts could start a new life.
she also belived that poor people should be able to get farms chep.
Caroline Chisholm's work has been remembered in so many great ways.
Her face has appeared on stamps and on a bank note for 5 years.

Sarah 6V

Jessie Street





Who Is She?
Jessie Mary Grey Street was born on the 18th April 1889. She was the eldest of three children. In 1896, Jessie began her formal education with a governess. In 1904-06 she attended Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire, England. She matriculated by private study and enrolled in arts at the University of Sydney. She also met her future husband.


Where did she come from?
Jessie was born and came from Ranchi, Bihar, India.

When did she immigrate?
In 1907 Jessie street immigrated to Sydney where she studied and enrolled in arts in the University of Sydney.

What circumstance did she immigrate under?
She immigrated to make her knowledge of education better.

How she immigrated.
Jessie Street came to Australia by boat.

How she impacted on Australia's history.
She joined the League of Nations Union and feminist organisations. She campaigned for Sheepskins for Russia in World War II, joined the Australian delegation to the conference that established the United Nations and successfully lobbied for a charter for women's rights. She campaigned for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights.


 

Alexia6v



Jessie Street



Who is she

Jessie Street 1889-1970.

Her full name is Jessie Mary Grey Street.
She was born on the 18th of april 1889 
   in Ranchi, Bihar, India, and was the eldest of three children.
She came to Australia in 1907 and went to college
and after that she graduated in 1911.

She came to Australia because she wanted to get better
education and become something
when she gets older.
When she went to college she also met her future husband.
She soon became capitain of the womens hockey team.

Jessie Street founded the University of Womens Sport Association.

When her and her husband got married they had two daughters and two sons.

In 1970 she died on the Second of July.

After she died The Jessie Street National Women's Library was also opened up in Sydney.

Liam - 6V

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich, England, in 1850 and came to Australia in 1883 in search of gold.
Lawrence Hargrave
 
In 1878 he was an assistant astronomical observer at Sydney Observatory, a job which he held until 1883, when he retired to devoted the remainder of his life to research work on problems connected with human flight.
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He had a normal life and spent his spare time inventing and discovering things. From all his studying he did something amazing. In 1894, he became the first man in Australia to fly — at Stanwell Park in New South Wales. He made four box kites and joined a seat to them. With the help of the wind, he was able to float 5 metres above the ground on the end of a length of wire.
 
He also invented a type of aeroplane engine with flapping wings. He did not want to make money from his inventions but he was happy to share it with everyone.

Ellie 6v

Caroline Chisholm







Caroline Chisholm was born in 1808 and died in 1877, she was a philanthropist she was born near Northampton in England.She was a  daughter of William Jones,he was a farmer. Reared in the tradition of Evangelical philanthropy, at 22 she agreed to marry Captain Archibald Chisholm of the East India.But on condition that her philanthropic work should continue.Chisholm was posted in 1832 to Madras where Caroline founded the Female School of Industry for the Daughters of European Soldiers.She came to Australia in September 1883 in Emerald isle and she settled in windor.She found positions for immigrant girls and sheltered many of them in her home. In January 1841 she approached Governor and Lady Gipps and the proprietors of the Sydney Herald with a plan for a girls' home.


Monday 31 October 2011

Ella 6K

Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand.In 1961 he went to Moorfeilds Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology. In 1960 Fred Hollows came to Australia by plane in 1960 to continue eye surgery.Early in the 1970s Hollows began visiting  New South Wales towns and stations and Aboriginal communities . He became especially concerned with the high number of Aborigines who had eye defects, in particular trachoma which causes blindness if not treated quickly. In 1971 he set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in suburban in Sydney, and was subsequently responsible for the establishment of medical services for Aboriginal throughout Australia. Hollows himself spent three years visiting Aboriginal communities to provide eye care and carry out a survey of eye defects. More than 460 Aboriginal communities were visited, and 62,000 Aboriginals were examined, leading to 27,000 being treated for trachoma and 1000 operations being carried out. Without Fred Hollows there would probably be no Eye Surgery Hospitals today.

Ella Van Dyck 6K

Monday 24 October 2011

Mason-6v

FRED HOLLOWS
 
 
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He had to travel to England to do this and won a prize as one of the top .
After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called 'trachoma',
 
Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trachoma. This saved many people from becoming blind. He also helped to train doctors for work in Africa and set up a program to cure another common eye disease called 'cataracts'.

His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award, made Australian of the Year, given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him.

Nic-6V

Dr Victor Chang




Victor Chang (Yam Him) was born in Shanghai of Australian-born Chinese parents. He came to Australia in 1953 to complete his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers College, Lewisham. Graduating from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1962, he became an intern and later a registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at St Vincent's Hospital.

Victor Chang was not only an accomplished surgeon,he was also a respected humanitarian and skilled campaigner responsible for the development of  Australia's National Heart Transplant Program.

The Program has performed more than 1200 successful heart, heart-lung, and single lung transplants at St Vincent's hospital since 1984. He was one of Australian best heart surgen.

Christian-6V

Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was a eye doctor for aboriginals.                                                       
Fred Hollows (1929–1993)
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He traveled to England to do this and won a prize as one of the top student.
                                                                                                                                                                                                      After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called         trachoma which causes blindness most people in Australia had this.Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trachoma. This saved many people from becoming blind.
                                                                                                                                                                       His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award. Given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him.

Lachlan - 6V

William Hudson


William Hudson was born in New Zealand.He was born on August 4, 1841 in New Zealand and died in October 15, 1862. He came over in 1948 by boat.  It was very hard to get on a boat to Australia in 1841 because australia was not letting people into the country. Some people tried to swim to Australia but they were never seen again.

He became a cival engineer.His disappointed father said: "Bill, that is about all you are bloody good for."   Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority in 1949, the engineer and conservationist built 16 large dams, 145 kilometres of tunnels and seven power stations, transforming inland areas by diverting rivers he told migrant workers: "You aren't any longer Czechs or Germans, you are men of the Snowy." 

Sam-6V

Douglas Mawson
Douglas mawson was born in England. Douglas wasthe cpatain of the people that discovered and claimed our part of antartica.This helped us discover many animals and compounds.while at Antarctica he also the forst to ascend to on mount Erebus. Also was the first to reach the south magnetic pole. 

Douglas mawson came to australia in 1884 when he was 2 years old.His father was a poor cloth maker with a farming backround.Douglas was born in Yorkshire in 1882 and died in october 14,1958(aged 76 in bighton south Australia).
 
I personally think that Douglas mawson was an inspiring man becuase of what he did for us and the world. As well as exploring the Antarctic he was a Geologist.He also was the only sole survivor of the far eastern party(A gruop of men that explored most of the antarctic coast by dog sledge).

Grace- 6V


TAN LEE



Tan Lee was born in Vietnam 1978 and because of the wars in her country, her family escaped to Australia as refugees when she was four. She was so hard working that she entered university at the age of 16.  
Since then, she worked in Melbourne, Victoria. Her job is to help immigrants find jobs. She became the president of the group that do the same job. 
Also she tries to help with other problems Vietnamese and Australians might have. Tan has raised money for a number of poor people in Melbourne. Now she is helping business with other asian countries.
In 1998 she was named Young Australian Of The Year. Also, a television program has been made all about her life.
She is still working hard until this day.

Forrest-6v


 Fred Hollows
This is Fred Hollows
Fred Hollows (1929–1993)
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. then he came to Australia to become an eye Doctor he was one of the best an his family was from England in new Zealand he liked to stud chemistry he went back to Newzealnd After he returned to Australia, Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called 'trachoma', which causes blindness if it is not treated quickly. Many Aboriginal people suffer from this disease Fred Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trichina.many people from becoming blind from this disease but Fred hollows changed that by going around the world to help pepole that had trachea he was an inspiration to Australia and he made the Fred hollows foundation.to help people with very bad eye diseases he help many
Australians and other countries Fred believed in helping people to help themselves. He had no time for anyone who stood between him and his goals.

Lindsay 6V

Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich, England and migrated to Australia in 1883. He had a comfortable life, however he did not have very much money but he had enough to start inventing things.
In 1881 he was the first person in Australia to fly. He joined four box karts to a seat and with help from the wind he was able to fly about 5 metres above ground on the end of a wire. He also invented an aeroplane with flapping wings. He didnt want to make any money from his inventions and was happy to share his ideas with other people.
In 1915 Lawerence sadly died of blood poisoning. Lawerence's face is on the $20 note, there are places named after him and a memorial to him has been built at Stanwell Park.

Karla 6V

Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877)
Caroline Chisholm was born in
England. She came to Australia in 1838 and set up a home for other women who had come to live here and had started a new life. She worked to helped people on the ships to come over to Australia and start a new life. She also started a loan plan to bring poor children and families to Australia. She arranged free trips so that the families  who were transported to Australia could come to join them. She also believed
"poor people should be able to buy farms cheaply"
Caroline Chisholm's work has been remembered in lots of ways. Her face has appeared on stamps and on a bank note.

By: Karla Arnesen:)

Luca 6V


Fred Hollows





Fred Hollows was born 1929. Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin in New Zealand. He became a doctor and began to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He had to travel to England and to do this and won a prize as one of the top students. Fred Hollows moved to Australia in 1960. On his tour all around the world Fred gave thousands of people their eyesight back. In the 1970's he helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians. Fred was a inspirational person he got many people to volenteer in the program to help many Aboriginals.  

Tuesday 18 October 2011

JUN - 6E

Sir Douglas Mawson



Sir Douglas Mawson is famous for exploring Antarctica and he grew up and studied geology at the University of Sydney. He is on the $100 note. Sir Douglas Mawson came from Yorkshire, England in 1884 with his family when he was 2 years old. His parents moved to Australia to move to a different country by boat.

Sir Douglas Mawson went to the university at Sydney at the age of 16 and graduated in engineering and science and got a job at the university of Adelaide lecturing in geology ( studying the origin and structure of rocks.) He later explored Antarctica, risking his life for Australia and led his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to chart the 2000 mile long coastline of Antarctica to the south of Australia and the south pole.

Sir Douglas Mawson was on the $100 note for exploring Antarctica with the snow range in the backround. It is now changed but he was a brave explorer that he was on it.

Sophie-6E

Fred Hollows


Fred Hollows was born on the 9th of April 1929. His parents were Joesph and Clarice Hollows.He was an eye doctor (opthalmologist) who helped many people across the world get their eye sight back.

Fred was born in Dunedin, New Zealend.



He immigrated to Australia in 1965.


Fred moved to Australia for work so he could help people that couldn't see there.

He flew by plane to Australia.
Fred Hollows made a great impact on Australia by helping so many less fortunet people with their eyesight, which many peolple can't do. Another great aceivement was that he won Australian of the year award in 1990. After his death the Fred Hollows fondation developed and it still running today.

Josh-6e

VICTOR CHANG


Victor Peter Chang was born in Shanghiai and he was a Chinese Australian.  After completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney.  He trained in England and the United states a surgeon before returning to Australia.

Louis 6E





                        Dr.Victor Chang
                                                                   (1936-1991)

Victor Peter Chang (Yam Him) was born in China in 1936, and came to Australia when he was fifteen years old to finish his secondary school by plane.
His mother died of cancer when he was just twelve years old. It was then he decided to become a doctor.
Early in his career, Victor Chang was inspired by Dr. Mark Shanahan, who was one of only three heart surgeons in Australia at the time.Today, with the support of many Australians and overseas supporters, The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute has been established in his honour.Victor died in a shooting in an attempt robbery aged 54.    



Monday 17 October 2011

Riana-6K

Tan Le

Tan Le was born in Vietnam on the 20th of may 1977 she lived in Vietnam for 3 years she came to Australia on a boat that measured 15 metres by 4 metres it was dark, misty and fearful there were 161 people on the boat, she came with her mother and sister the reason they left was because feared for their future her mother and because of the terrible war that was happening over their. Mai Ho was terrified of getting shot by pirates, finally when they reached land they had to spend 3 months in a refugee camp in Malaysia after the 3 months at the refugee camp they got on plane and came to Australia she was only 4 when she came here.


At the age of 16 (she got in at a younger age because she was so hard working)  she started studing a double degree in laws and commerence at the Monarsh University in a Melbourne she recieved a KPMG schoolar ship for academic achievment. About a year after she started realising that how hard it is for refugee communty to find work Tan Le started to devote herself to Australian Vietnamese resource centre at the age of 18 she had become the president of it and in those 3 years she helped bulid it up to what it is now. In 1998 she was appointed Australian Youth Embassador to Asia. In the same year she recived young Australian of the Year and now has a documentry of her she is even on Australia Most Successful women under 30.


 
 
In 2000 she cofounded a company with other young people from overseas she helped make a SASme into one of the leading wireless technology companys providers in Australia and operations in Europe and in Asia

sam 6k

Victor Peter Chang, AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991), was a Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he grew up in Hong Kong before moving to Australia. After completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney and working in St Vincent's Hospital, he trained in England and the United States as a surgeon before returning to Australia. In St Vincent's Hospital, he helped establish the National Cardiac Transplant Unit, the country's leading centre for heart and lung transplants. Chang's team had a high success rate in performing heart transplantations and he pioneered the development of an artificial heart valve.[1]    






victor chang
.Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong, before coming to Australia in 1953 and completing his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham.

He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Medical Science with first class honours in 1960, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1962, then worked for two years as an intern at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney before leaving for further training in England.

Chang apparently chose to study medicine because of his mother's death from breast cancer when he was 12 years old.
After becoming a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons and American College of Surgeons, he returned to St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney in 1972 to join the cardiothoracic team there, which already included top surgeons Dr. Harry Windsor (who had performed Australia's first heart transplant in 1968) and Dr. Mark Shanahan.

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Monday 10 October 2011

Ryan-6V

Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave was born in Greenwich,England and migrated to Australia in 1883.He Sailed on a boat to get to Australia.He sailed to get back with his dad who was getting a job in Australia.
Lawrence got to Australia because his dad had been living in Australia for a while and he was now seen as an Australian so Lawrence did the exact same thing as his father and became an Australian citizen.
He was the fist man in Australia to fly a plane.
Lawrence is on the $20 note.
To fly the first plane in Australia Lawrence made four box kites and attached a seat to them.When the wind blew he managed to float five metres above the ground.After he flew he started making engines for planes and he invented a flapping plane.He unfortunately died of blood-poisoning in 1915. There are places named after him and there is a memorial of him at Stanwell Park in New South Wales.Without Lawrence Hargrave Australia might not have as much of an understanding of aircrafts as we do.