Hale School
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Hale School is a selective, independent
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...

, Anglican
Anglican Church of Australia
The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...

 day
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...

 and boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a coastal suburb of Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

.

Founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School is the oldest private boys' school in Western Australia. The school was originally situated at the Cloisters
The Cloisters, Perth
The Cloisters is located at 200 St Georges Terrace, opposite its intersection with Mill Street, in Perth, Western Australia. It is a two-storey dark coloured brick building, which terminates the vista at the top of Mill Street and is a landmark in the rise of the street to the ridge of the...

 on St Georges Terrace in Perth, relocating in 1914 to West Perth
West Perth, Western Australia
West Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It is part of the inner mixed zone, and has predominantly office blocks which have displaced residential buildings. There is a high proportion of miners and consultants, and particularly medical specialists, compared to...

, and in 1961 to its current premises in Wembley Downs. The campus now consists of a junior school
Junior school
A junior school is a type of school which caters for children, often between the ages of 7 and 11.-Australia:In Australia, a junior school is usually a part of a private school that educates children between the ages of 5 and 12....

 for Years 1 to 6, a middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...

 for Years 7 & 8 and a senior school for Year 9 to 12. The school also consists of sporting grounds, and boarding facilities for regional and international students.

The school is a member of the Public Schools Association
Public Schools Association
Established in 1905 the Public Schools Association, or the PSA, is an association of seven independent boys schools in Perth, Western Australia. The schools compete against each other in athletic competition throughout the year...

 and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia
Junior School Heads Association of Australia
The Independent Primary School Heads of Australia formerly Junior School Heads Association of Australia , is an incorporated body representing the heads of independent primary schools in Australia....

.

Hale's sister school
Sister school
The term sister school has several meanings:*a definite financial commerce between two colleges or universities*two schools that have a strong historical connection...

 is St Mary's Anglican Girls' School
St Mary's Anglican Girls' School
St Mary's Anglican Girls' School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Karrinyup, a suburb north of Perth, Western Australia....

 located in Karrinyup, a nearby suburb.

In 2008, Hale School celebrated its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary.

History

An intrinsic part of Australia's colonial history, Hale School was responsible for educating many native-born sons of the Swan River Colony
Swan River Colony
The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling,...

's 'establishment' and prominent families (see Alumni, below). Modelled on England's prestigious public schools, it has sometimes been accused of being elitist. For example, in his biography of Sir John Forrest, Frank Crowley described the school's values throughout the 1870s as "a heady compound of social snobbery, laissez-faire capitalism, sentimental royalism, patriotic Anglicanism, benevolent imperialism and racial superiority." In contemporary social commentary, for example Professor Mark Peel's study of class and schooling in Australia, Hale School was identified as one of the most rigorous and selective schools for boys. In recent times equity concerns have been addressed by a scholarship program, including the first full boarding scholarships in Western Australia for indigenous students.

The school was initially known as "Bishop Hale's Collegiate School", and later as "The High School". It has since been renamed "Hale School" in honour of its founder, and reconstituted under the Hale School Act (1876) of the Parliament of Western Australia.

In 1885, the school entered a team into the West Australian Football Association
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...

 (WAFA) for its inaugural season, but were forced to withdraw two rounds into the season due to a lack of players.

Locations

Bishop Hale's Collegiate School was designed by Richard Roach Jewell
Richard Roach Jewell
Richard Roach Jewell was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth during the latter half of the nineteenth century....

 in 1858 and is situated on St Georges Terrace. The buildings eventually became known as The Cloisters
The Cloisters, Perth
The Cloisters is located at 200 St Georges Terrace, opposite its intersection with Mill Street, in Perth, Western Australia. It is a two-storey dark coloured brick building, which terminates the vista at the top of Mill Street and is a landmark in the rise of the street to the ridge of the...

. In 1914, the School moved to a more spacious site at Havelock Street, West Perth, opposite the Parliament of Western Australia. Finally, in 1961, the school relocated to its current 480 000 m² premises in Wembley Downs.

Campus

Hale School’s campus is a 48 hectare site located in Wembley Downs. The administration building, Memorial Hall (including the redfoot youth theatre), Tom Hoar Dining Hall, Stowe Drama Centre, Forrest Library, Chapel of St Mark, cafeteria, clothing store, IT department and Old Haleians' Boardroom are all located on the south west corner of the campus near the main entrance.

General classrooms ('A-block' & 'B-block'), science laboratories and classrooms ('S-block') and mathematics classrooms ('N-block', currently being refurbished, and soon to be commerce classrooms) are all located opposite the main sports oval - Craig Oval, which sits in the centre of the campus. .
The now defunct 'L-block' is also located in this area as it was the former location of the English department, until they moved to the new 'F-block'. The refurbishment of this building began in October 2009, to integrate it with the new Middle School being built nearby.
The new classroom building ('F-block') located in the new Teaching and Learning precinct houses the English, History and Languages departments

The Peter Wright Technology Building, which houses the Design and Technology Workshop as well as Computer and Design Suites sits adjacent to the Doug Poake Pool. Also adjacent to the swimming pool is the art complex, gymnasium and change-rooms.

The John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre is located on the western side of the campus facing Unwin Avenue. This building separates the Senior School from the Junior School which is located on the north west corner of the campus, along with the junior Boarding Residence - Brine House.
The senior Boarding House is located on the eastern side of the campus while the sports playing fields occupy the north east.

Forrest Library

The new Teaching and Learning precinct on the site of the old boarding houses near the south entrance to the campus was officially opened on 1 July 2009. The main feature of this project, a new Library Resource Centre includes a dedicated Year 12 study area and Gifted and Talented and Curriculum Support rooms facing a central courtyard. Beneath the library is a new clothing store, IT department and Old Haleians' Boardroom.

While the library was open for student use from the commencement of the 2009 school year, the official opening ceremony was not held until 1 July 2009, when it was officially opened by Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest also known by his nickname "Twiggy", is a Western Australian mining entrepreneur, former chief executive officer, non-executive chairman, and the major shareholder of Fortescue Metals Group...

 and unveiled as The Forrest Library. It honours members of the Forrest family, from Lord Forrest to Alexander Forrest, and on to Andrew Forrest himself, who had been educated at Hale.

Also included in this precinct is a new cafeteria with internal and external seating opposite the library and a new Teaching and Learning building. The classroom block ('F-block') consists of 17 teaching spaces for History, English and languages, as well as two language oral work rooms and new office space for teaching staff. Another important feature is a set-down and pick-up road that runs from a new 50-bay carpark adjacent to the chapel, along the front of the classroom block, past the Library undercroft, before rejoining the main drive.

In 2010 the Forrest Library won an Architecture Award for Public Architecture by the Australian Institute of Architects.

The John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre

The John Inverarity
John Inverarity
Robert John Inverarity is a former Test and first-class cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler in his playing career, Inverarity was also one of the enduring captains in the Australian Sheffield Shield during the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Cricket career:He played in...

 Music and Drama Centre comprises a large auditorium/theatre, backstage holding rooms, two main rehearsal studios, percussion and string studios, two large music teaching rooms and 19 music practice rooms. It was first opened for use in January 2001.

The centrepiece of the complex is the timber-lined recital auditorium which accommodates 353 patrons on stepped tiers with a flat performance area 17 m wide and 12 m deep. The auditorium design has been dictated by the requirements to have natural acoustics for music. This has been achieved through the use of a traditional ‘rectangular box’ design with a maximum ceiling height of 8 m. The auditorium can be tuned for different instruments and various music/drama performances to achieve desired acoustic qualities. This is accomplished by a system of moveable full-height wall reflectors, suspended ceiling reflectors and rotating wall panels with differing degrees of absorptive linings. The ceiling loft is mechanised with 27 variable speed automatic winch lines which give a great degree of flexibility for a range of shows.

Middle School

The construction of a new Middle School facility commenced in January 2009 and was completed in January 2010. The Middle School site is located adjacent to Unwin Avenue, between the John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre and the Memorial Hall. The building contains 16 classrooms for Year 7 and 8 students. The Year 8 Classrooms are on the ground floor and the Year 7 Classrooms are on the first floor. The main entrance, reception & administration offices for the Head of Middle School, Deputy Head, Head of Curriculum & Head of Pastoral Care are located on a separate intermediate level, which is at street level with Unwin Avenue. Other staff facilities are located on the ground floor. In addition, the facility incorporates one of the School's existing buildings ('L-block' classrooms) which were refurbished as music, drama and science classrooms for the Middle School. The ground level of this building was refurbished as a Middle School Science Classroom (and store room), with the upper level refitted to house a Drama classroom, Music classroom (with store room) & 4 music practice rooms.

The refurbishment of this building commenced in October 2009 but was not completed in time for the commencement of the school year in February 2010. The new building replaced the 'C-block' classrooms and Senior School Library that previously occupied the site and were demolished in December 2008.

Sporting facilities

Hale School campus includes various sporting facilities, including:
  • an eight lane 50 metre swimming pool
  • a gym
    Gym
    The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...

    nasium, with basketball, badminton, volleyball, squash and rock climbing facilities.
  • Weights Room
  • Rowing Ergo Room
  • 16 tennis courts: 12 plexipave, 4 grass
  • 4 football fields
  • 4 plexipave outdoor basketball courts
  • 5 cricket ovals with turf wickets
  • 32 cricket practice wickets: both synthetic and turf
  • 4 soccer fields
  • Cross country tracks
  • 2 rugby fields
  • Track and field
    Track and field
    Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

     facilities
  • Aquaturf surface hockey field with clubrooms
  • 3 additional grass hockey ovals
  • a rowing fleet housed at Cygnet Hall on the Swan River (off campus).


Hale School has hosted important teams over the years, including the English Rugby Team on occasions, namely for training during the 2003 Rugby World Cup. The school hosted the English Cricket Academy, including international cricketers Michael Vaughan
Michael Vaughan
Michael Paul Vaughan OBE is a retired cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England. A classically elegant right-handed batsman and occasional off-spinner, Vaughan was ranked one of the best batsmen in the world following the 2002/3 Ashes, in which he scored 633 runs, including three centuries...

, Owais Shah
Owais Shah
Owais Alam Shah is an English cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he played for Middlesex between 1996-2010, before joining Essex CCC in the winter of 2010. He has represented England in all forms of the games.Between 2001 and 2009, he played 71 ODIs and 17 Twenty20 Internationals...

, Stuart Broad
Stuart Broad
Stuart Christopher John Broad is a cricketer who plays Test and One Day International cricket for England and is currently the captain of their Twenty20 team...

, Rikki Clarke
Rikki Clarke
Rikki Clarke is an English cricketer, currently playing for Warwickshire. He was educated at Broadwater School and then Godalming College.-Surrey:...

 and Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis
Jonathan "Jon" Lewis is an English cricketer. He was brought up in Swindon where he went to Churchfields School and Swindon College. He played for Swindon CC and, in Minor Counties cricket, for Wiltshire County Cricket Club in 1993. He joined Northamptonshire in 1994 and played for its Second XI...

 for nets sessions and practice matches, as seen on the front page of The West Australian
The West Australian
The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...

on November 29, 2006.

Hale also employs a number of high-profile coaches to lead and assist with their co-curricular program including: Paul Peos (former West Coast Eagle) coaching 1st XVIII football, Bobby Despotoviski (former Perth Glory player) coaching 1st XI soccer and Giles White (current assistant coach, Hampshire County Cricket) coaching 1st XI cricket.

Academic programs

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Hale School has a comprehensive education program with major strengths in Literature and History, Science and Mathematics, Economics, Fine Arts, Sport and Information Technology.

Since 2000, Hale School has won five of the prestigious Beazley Medal
Beazley Medal
The Beazley Medal is an award made by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia to the year-twelve secondary student with the highest Curriculum Council award score. The award is the highest profile and most prestigious academic award for secondary students in Western Australia.The first medal...

s, awarded to the student obtaining the highest marks in the state administered tertiary entrance examinations. Anthony Phillips won the Beazley Medal in 2000, followed by Antony Moser in 2001, Dougal Maclaurin in 2003. Christopher Mofflin received the 2006 Beazley Medal, while Binu Jayawardena won the medal in 2008.

Publications

Hale School most prominent publication is the school's official book, The Cygnet, which is released at the start of each year and includes about 250 pages of the previous year's major happenings, school photos and sports results. The school also publishes an alumni magazine, The Haleian, twice a year, usually around June and November.

Headmasters

Period Details
1858 – 1863 Canon George Hallett Sweeting
1864 Acting Headmaster – Mr. John Bussell
John Bussell
John Garrett Bussell was an early settler in Western Australia.John Garrett Bussell was born at Portsea, Hampshire in England on 16 August 1803. He was educated at Winchester College in England, but after the death of his father the family decided to emigrate to Western Australia...

1864 – 1869 Rev. FT Taylor
1869 – 1872 Rev. FA Hare
1872 – 1878 Col. EW Haynes
1878 – 1882 Rev. D Davies
1882 – 1888 T Beuttler
1888 – 1889 R Gee
1889 – 1914 FC Faulkner
1915 – 1928 MA Wilson
1929 – 1931 Philip Le Couteur
Philip Le Couteur
Philip Ridgeway Le Couteur was an Australian academic, philosopher and headmaster.-Early life:Le Couteur was born at Kyneton, Victoria, the only son of George, a pharmaceutical chemist, and his wife Fanny. Both parents were Methodist and Australian born...

1931 – 1946 MA Buntine
1940 – 1943 C Hadley (Acting)
1946 – 1960 VS Murphy
1960 – 1965 JR Prince
1966 L Drake (Acting)
1967 – 1988 KG Tregonning
1989 – 2002 John Inverarity
John Inverarity
Robert John Inverarity is a former Test and first-class cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler in his playing career, Inverarity was also one of the enduring captains in the Australian Sheffield Shield during the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Cricket career:He played in...

2003 – Present SG Meade

House system

There are currently 10 houses
House system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...

 in Hale Middle/Senior School. These include 8 day houses, and 2 boarding houses
  • Buntine - red (named after former headmaster Mr. MA Buntine)
  • Faulkner (boarding) - light green (named after former headmaster Mr. FC Faulkner)
  • Havelock - black and yellow striped
  • Haynes - yellow
  • Loton - navy blue and orange
  • Parry - navy blue (named after the Parry family who made a large donation to the school)
  • Riley - dark green
  • St Georges - red and white
  • Tregonning - maroon (named after former headmaster Dr. KG Tregonning)
  • Wilson (boarding) - blue (named after former headmaster Mr. MA Wilson)


Loton was changed from a boarding house to a day house in 2005, following the completion of the new boarding house. Prior to this Loton's colour was brown.
Year 8 (and some Year 7) boarders are housed in Brine House, which is located between the Junior School and the Music and Drama Centre, they are however also members of either Faulkner or Wilson houses.

There are also 4 houses in Hale Junior School.
  • Davy - Dark Green
  • Turnbull - Blue
  • Rosier - Yellow
  • Walker - Red

Hale School and the Australian Defence Force

Hale School has been important in the history of the Australian Defence Force. Former students have served in all conflicts since the Boer War
Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

 with many having distinguished military careers.

Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith
Ben Roberts-Smith
Benjamin "Ben" Roberts-Smith VC, MG is an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system....

, Hale Class of 1995, son of Major General Len Roberts-Smith
Len Roberts-Smith
Major General Leonard William Roberts-Smith RFD QC is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. He served in the Court of Appeals Division, and was first appointed on 6 November 2000...

, is currently Australia's most decorated soldier, having been awarded the Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry.

One hundred and twenty Old Halians have lost their lives in conflicts since the Boer War. A Memorial Grove at Wembley Downs
Wembley Downs, Western Australia
Wembley Downs is an inner northwestern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is about 10 km from the CBD and is located within the City of Stirling, although the Wembley Golf Course, from which the suburb takes its name, is located in the Town of Cambridge.Wembley Downs contains Hale School,...

 honours these men with 120 plaques and a sculpture with an 'eternal flame' theme. The great hall of the School has also been named Memorial Hall. The Hale School Museum contains important military and civilian records relating to the School and the state of Western Australia. A small Museum display is also located at the Old Hale School, now the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, on Havelock Street, West Perth
West Perth, Western Australia
West Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It is part of the inner mixed zone, and has predominantly office blocks which have displaced residential buildings. There is a high proportion of miners and consultants, and particularly medical specialists, compared to...

.

Notable alumni

A leaver of Hale School is called an Old Haleian.

Premiers
  • Rt. Hon. Sir John Forrest
    John Forrest
    Sir John Forrest GCMG was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament....

    , first Premier of Western Australia
    Premier of Western Australia
    The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions...

     and a Cabinet Minister in Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    's first Federal Government, sometimes referred to by courtesy as Baron Forrest of Bunbury
  • George Leake
    George Leake
    George Leake CMG QC was Premier of Western Australia from 27 May 1901 to 21 November 1901, and again from 23 December 1901 until his death on 24 June 1902.-Early life:...

     CMG QC, Premier of Western Australia, and at other times Attorney-General, Crown Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia
  • Sir Walter Hartwell James
    Walter James
    Sir Walter Hartwell James KCMG KC was the fifth Premier of Western Australia and an ardent supporter of the federation movement....

     KCMG KC, Premier of Western Australia, and at other times Attorney-General for Western Australia, Agent-General for Western Australia in London
  • Sir Duncan Ross McLarty
    Ross McLarty
    Sir Duncan Ross McLarty KBE MM was the 17th Premier of Western Australia.-Early life:McLarty was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, the youngest of seven children of Edward McLarty, a farmer and grazier and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, and his wife Mary Jane, née Campbell...

    , Premier of Western Australia
  • Sir Charles Court AK KCMG OBE, Premier of Western Australia
  • Peter Dowding
    Peter Dowding
    Peter McCallum Dowding SC was the 24th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 after an internal party dispute....

     SC, Premier of Western Australia (also attended Caulfield Grammar School
    Caulfield Grammar School
    Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...

     and The Scots College
    The Scots College
    For other schools with a similar name see Scots College.The Scots College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Bellevue Hill, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    )
  • Richard Court
    Richard Court
    Richard Fairfax Court AC , was a Western Australian politician, representing the seat of Nedlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1982 to 2001. He served as Premier of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001.Court was born into an old political...

    , Premier of Western Australia


Decorated Military Servicemen
  • Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith VC
    VC
    VC may refer to:* Vehicle code, a motor vehicle traffic legal system* Vanadium carbide, an inorganic compound* Vancouver Canucks, a NHL hockey team* Vanier College* Vassar College...

     MG
    Mg
    MG, M.G., M-G and variants may refer to:Business* MG Cars , a British automobile manufacturer, now part of SAIC* Champion Air , an American charter airline with IATA code MGEducation...

    , a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia
    Victoria Cross for Australia
    The Victoria Cross for Australia is the highest award in the Australian Honours System, superseding the Victoria Cross for issue to Australians...

    , the highest award in the Australian honours system
    Australian Honours System
    -History:The Commonwealth of Australia, until 1975, used the Imperial or British honours system. Only a handful of peerages were created for Australians, some in recognition of public services rendered in Britain rather than Australia. Some hereditary peers and baronets whose titles derive from...



Flag Officers
  • Air Marshal Sir Colin Hannah
    Colin Hannah
    Air Marshal Sir Colin Thomas Hannah KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force and a Governor of Queensland. Born in Western Australia, he was a member of the Militia before joining the RAAF in 1935. After graduating as a pilot, Hannah served in Nos. 22 and...

     KCMG KCVO KBE CB, Royal Australian Air Force Chief of the Air Staff, Governor of Queensland
  • Air Marshal Sir Valston Hancock
    Valston Hancock
    Air Marshal Sir Valston Eldridge Hancock, KBE, CB, DFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force . He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1961 to 1965. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Hancock transferred to the RAAF in 1929 and qualified as a pilot...

     KBE CB DFC, Royal Australian Air Force Chief of the Air Staff
  • Air Commodore Geoffrey Michael AO AFC, Royal Australian Air Force

Governors
  • Sir Stephen Parker
    Stephen Parker
    Stephen Parker may refer to:From Western Australia*Stephen Parker , early settler of Western Australia*Stephen Stanley Parker J.P., M.L.C., son of Stephen Parker...

    , Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia


Judicial Officers
  • Sir Stephen Henry Parker
    Stephen Henry Parker
    Sir Stephen Henry Parker KCMG was a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia from 1906 to 1914.-Early life:...

    , Chief Justice of Western Australia
  • Septimus Burt
    Septimus Burt
    The Hon Septimus Burt KC was a Western Australian lawyer, politician and grazier, the son of Sir Archibald Burt.He was born on 25 October 1847 at St Kitts in the West Indies, and educated at a private school at Melksham, Wiltshire, England...

     QC, Attorney General, 1st Agent General (Acting) of Western Australia, prominent landholder of 4000000 acres (1,618,744 ha) on the Gascoyne and Ashburton Rivers
  • George Leake CMG QC, at different times, Attorney-General, Crown Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia
  • Sir Walter Hartwell James KCMG KC, Attorney General of Western Australia
  • Thomas Davy KC, Rhodes Scholar, Attorney-General of Western Australia
  • Justice Robert Nicholson AO, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
  • Peter Panegyres AM, Crown Solicitor for Western Australia
  • Christian Porter
    Christian Porter
    Charles Christian Porter is a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Bateman and is Treasurer and Attorney-General in the Liberal-National government. He entered Parliament after winning the seat of Murdoch in a by-election in 2008 following...

    , current Attorney General of Western Australia
  • Judge Stephen Scott, Judge of the District Court of Western Australia


Diplomatic Officers
  • Sir Ransley Victor Garland, Former Australian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    , Former Australian Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs
  • Sir Edward Wittenoom
    Edward Wittenoom
    Sir Edward Charles Wittenoom KCMG was an Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.- Early life :...

    , French Consul General for Western Australia, President of the Western Australian Legislative Counsel.
  • Sir Walter Hartwell James KCMG KC, Agent-General for Western Australia in London
  • William Hassell AM, Agent General for Western Australia in London, Counsel General for Germany in Western Australia
  • David Irvine
    David Irvine (diplomat)
    David Taylor Irvine AO is an Australian diplomat, and since March 2009 has been the current Director-General of Security...

     AO, Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1996–1999) and Australian Ambassador to China and concurrently Ambassador to Mongolia and North Korea (2000–2003)


Civil Servants
  • David Irvine
    David Irvine (diplomat)
    David Taylor Irvine AO is an Australian diplomat, and since March 2009 has been the current Director-General of Security...

     AO, Director General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
    Australian Secret Intelligence Service
    The Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the Australian government intelligence agency responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, undertaking counter-intelligence activities and cooperation with other intelligence agencies overseas...

     and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
    Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
    The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is Australia's national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically-motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and...

  • Tony Nutt, Director of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, past Chief of Staff to Prime Minister John Howard


Regional Leaders
  • His Royal Highness The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

     of the Malaysian state of Selangor
    Selangor
    Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...



Business Leaders
  • Andrew Forrest
    Andrew Forrest
    Andrew Forrest also known by his nickname "Twiggy", is a Western Australian mining entrepreneur, former chief executive officer, non-executive chairman, and the major shareholder of Fortescue Metals Group...

    , billionaire mining magnate, great-grandson of David Forrest (brother of Sir John Forrest), reportedly the wealthiest living Australian
  • Langley Hancock
    Lang Hancock
    Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics...

    , businessman, discover of the Pilbara iron ore deposits, founder of the separatist WA First Party
  • Sir Anthony Langlois Lefroy, businessman, Chairman of the Board, Western Australian Newspapers Ltd
  • Sir Edward Lefroy, businessman, Chairman of the Dominion League
  • Sir Roderick Proctor, businessman, prominent financier
  • Brian Thorley Loton AC, chairman of the board of BHP Billiton
    BHP Billiton
    BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...

     (then BHP).
  • Richard Goyder, CEO of Wesfarmers
    Wesfarmers
    Wesfarmers Limited is one of Australia’s largest public companies and one of Australia's largest retailers. Its headquarters are in Perth, Western Australia....

     Pty Ltd.
  • Alexander Forrest
    Alexander Forrest
    Alexander Forrest CMG, was an explorer and surveyor of Western Australia, as well as a politician.-Early life:Forrest was born at Picton, near Bunbury in Western Australia, the son of William and Margaret Forrest...

    , landowner, one of the developers of Peppermint Grove, explorer
  • Jeff Chatfield, chairman of Skywest Airlines Ltd.


Medical Officers
  • Dr Denis Dalmain Keall, Chairman of the Medical Board of Western Australia


Authors and Artists
  • Robert Drewe
    Robert Drewe
    Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...

    , author of The Savage Crows, Our Sunshine, 'The Drowner" and The Shark Net, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Walkley Award for journalism. Past Literary Editor of the Australian
    The Australian
    The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

     newspaper.
  • Leon Pericles, prominent Australian painter.
  • Robert Juniper
    Robert Juniper
    Robert Litchfield Juniper AM is a Western Australian artist who has also been an illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker.-Early life:He was born in the wheat-belt town of Merredin, Western Australia....

    , prominent Australian painter.
  • Christian De Vietri, prominent Australian artist.
  • Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lincoln
    Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln
    Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln was an Australian engineer. In 1989, on the death of the last Duke of Newcastle, a very distant patrilineal cousin, he inherited the ancient Earldom of Lincoln.-Life:...

    , author of Memoirs of an Embryo Earl


Media Identies
  • Basil Zempilas
    Basil Zempilas
    Basil Zempilas is a sports presenter and commentator on radio and television in Perth, Western Australia. He currently appears on Seven News, and radio stations 1116 SEN and 92.9. Zempilas has commentated on the Olympics and several other major sporting events.-Early life:As a child Zempilas...

    , Weekday Sports Presenter, Seven News
    Seven News
    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...

     Perth.


Sportsmen
  • Todd Pearson
    Todd Pearson
    Todd Pearson is an Australian swimming champion, who was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He started swimming on the advice of a doctor treating his asthma. Pearson was vice captain of Hale School in 1994 where he spent time in Faulkner House And St George House.He is no stranger to the...

    , sportsman and Olympics gold-medallist (in swimming) Sydney and Athens
  • Mark Hickman
    Mark Hickman
    Mark Christopher Hickman OAM is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia. He was a part of the team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....

     OAM, Hockey, Member of the Kookaburras Australian Gold Medal team Athens Olympics 2004
  • Chaswick Green, Captain of the Australian Athletics Team, London Olympics 1948
  • Nicholas Porzig, rowing, silver-medallist, Australian Olympic VIII, Sydney 2000
  • Rolland Tasker, sailing, silver-medallist Rome Olympics
  • Percy Oliver
    Percy Oliver
    Percival "Percy" Cole Oliver was an Australian backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.Oliver was born in Nedlands, Western Australia and attended Hale School...

    , swimming, competed at Berlin Olympics
  • Berry Durston, rowing, Australian Olympic VIII, Rome
  • John Ledder, rowing, Australian Olympic VIII, Rome
  • Deane Pieters
    Deane Pieters
    Deane Anthony Pieters is a former freestyle swimmer who competed for Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....

    , swimming, Olympics, Barcelona 1992
  • Geoff Marsh
    Geoff Marsh
    Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman...

    , Past Vice-Captain and Coach of the Australian national cricket team
  • Brett Jones
    Brett Jones
    Brett David Jones is a former Australian rules footballer in the AFL, who played for the West Coast Eagles.-Cricket career:...

    , AFL, West Coast Eagles
    West Coast Eagles
    The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

    ;
  • Chad Jones
    Chad Jones
    Chad Jones is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League...

    , AFL, West Coast Eagles
    West Coast Eagles
    The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

    , Kangaroos
    KangaROOS
    KangaROOS are an American brand of sneaker originally produced from 1979 through the 1980s, with a later revival that continues in present. They were notable for having a small zippered pocket on the side of the shoe, large enough for a small amount of loose change, keys, or more recently,...

  • Matthew Leuenberger
    Matthew leuenberger
    Matthew "Matt" Leuenberger is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

    , AFL, Brisbane Lions
    Brisbane Lions
    The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...

    , Pick #4 in 2006 National Draft
  • Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst is a former professional Australian rules football who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club....

    , Australian Football League
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

    , Fremantle
    Fremantle, Western Australia
    Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

    , Collingwood
    Collingwood Football Club
    The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

    ;Anzac Day Medalist 2008
  • Mitchell Morton, AFL, West Coast Eagles
    West Coast Eagles
    The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

    , Richmond Tigers;
  • Jason Norrish
    Jason Norrish
    Jason Norrish is an Australian rules footballer. Norrish plays as a defensive midfielder and began his football career at the Claremont Tigers.-Early career:...

    , AFL, Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

    , Fremantle
    Fremantle, Western Australia
    Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

    ;
  • Jarryd Morton
    Jarryd Morton
    Jarryd Morton is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, currently with the Hawthorn Football Club.Morton plays across the half-back flanks and wears the number 19 guernsey. His two brothers also play in the AFL...

    , AFL, Hawthorn
    Hawthorn Football Club
    The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

    , Taken in the 2006 National Draft
  • Kasey Green
    Kasey Green
    Kasey Green is an Australian rules footballer formerly in the Australian Football League, now the current captain of East Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League ....

    , AFLWest Coast Eagles
    West Coast Eagles
    The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

    , Kangaroos
    KangaROOS
    KangaROOS are an American brand of sneaker originally produced from 1979 through the 1980s, with a later revival that continues in present. They were notable for having a small zippered pocket on the side of the shoe, large enough for a small amount of loose change, keys, or more recently,...

  • Cale Morton
    Cale Morton
    Cale Morton is an Australian rules football player, recruited at pick 4 in the 2007 AFL Draft by the Melbourne Football Club....

    , AFL, Larke Medal Winner in U18s, Taken in the 2007 National Draft by Melbourne Demons at #4
  • Theo Doropoulos
    Theo Doropoulos
    Theo Paul Doropoulos in Subiaco, Western Australia is a cricketer currently listed with South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers...

    , Cricket, Western Warriors
    Western Warriors
    The Western Australia cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team representing the state of Western Australia...

    , rookie listed 06/07 season, promoted to main list for 07/08 season.
  • Marcus Stoinis
    Marcus Stoinis
    Marcus Stoinis is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Western Warriors. He is an opening batsman who bats right-handed and is an occasional right-arm medium bowler....

    , Cricket, Western Warriors
    Western Warriors
    The Western Australia cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team representing the state of Western Australia...

    , rookie listed 07/08, 08/09 seasons.
  • Samuel Pike
    Samuel Pike
    -Life:Pike was born about 1717 at "Ramsey, Wiltshire" , which may mean Ramsbury, Wiltshire but more probably Romsey, Hampshire . He was educated for the independent ministry, receiving his general training from John Eames of the Fund academy, and his theology from John Hubbard at Stepney academy....

    , Hockey, Perth Thundersticks
  • Michael Gardiner
    Michael Gardiner
    Michael S. Gardiner is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He played for the West Coast Eagles from 1997–2006 and the St Kilda Football Club from 2007–2011.- Early life :...

    , AFL, West Coast Eagles
    West Coast Eagles
    The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

    , St. Kilda, 2009 Grand Final


Federal Parliamentarians
  • Senator Brian Greig
    Brian Greig
    Brian Andrew Greig OAM , Australian politician, was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1999 to 2005, representing the state of Western Australia....

    , Australian Senator, former Leader of the Australian Democrats
  • Senator Edward Bertram Johnston Western Australian MLA
    Western Australian Legislative Assembly
    The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

     and Australian Senator
    Australian Senate
    The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...



Lord Mayors
  • Peter Nattrass
    Peter Nattrass
    Peter Christopher Roland Nattrass is a Perth businessman and politician who was the Lord Mayor of the Perth City Council from 1995 to 2007 having succeeded Reg Withers. He was elected to the council in 1977. He was re-elected Lord Mayor in 1999 and again in 2003...

    , former Lord Mayor of the City of Perth 1995-2007

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