Major General Alan Stretton (retired) AO CBE (born 1922) is a former senior Australian Army officer. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
He received the Australian of the Year award in 1975 for his work in the cleanup efforts at Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, and is a city of 109,419 people (2001 Australian Census), on Australias far north-western coastline. ... Cyclone Tracy devastated the Northern Territory city of Darwin, as can be seen from this National Archives of Australia aerial view of the city. ...
He is a former Deputy Director of the Joint Intelligence Organization and member of the National Intelligence Committee.
In August2004 he publicly criticised the Australian Government's policy of involvement with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, in an open letter in which he stated: Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first military act of the Iraq War, and was launched by the United States and the United Kingdom on March 20, 2003, with support from some other governments, making up what was described as the coalition of the willing. After approximately three weeks...
The alleged connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida is ludicrous.
Sir Bernard Thomas Heinze (born in Shepparton, Victoria on July 1, 1894, died June 10, 1982) was an Australian Professor of Music and conductor. ... The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960. ... Brass relief of Dunlop in uniform Sir Edward Weary Dunlop (July 12, 1907 - July 2, 1993) was born in Wangaratta, Victora, Australia. ...
The former is a case study in mindlessly opening an economy to the rapaciousness of global forces; the latter is, in Stretton's perhaps overly benign view, a more cautious and controlled transition from a command to a mixed economy.
The new economics that Stretton evokes in the book is free of that hoary old doctrine about individualistic humans rationally competing and therefore necessarily co-operating (Or, if they do, they collude) to generate wealth.
Alan Patience is Professor of Political Science at the VUT.
Alan's immediate heirs were his two daughters, and in 1315 it was ordered that Glen should be handed over to the younger of them, Maud, and her husband Robert de Holand.
In 1279 2 carucates in Stretton were held, as 1/7 knight's fee, from the heirs of Roger de Quency by Thomas de Hendi, under whom again the land was held by 3 under-tenants, ( Footnote 94) so that by the late 13th century Stretton was subinfeudated to a high degree.
In 1378 licence was granted to Robert de Stretton to alienate in mortmain lands and rents to the yearly value of £10 for the establishment of a chantry at Stretton where two clerks were to pray for the souls of Edward III and Edward, Prince of Wales.
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