National Press Club (Australia)

The National Press Club is an association of primarily news journalists, but also includes academics, business people and members of the public service, and is based in Canberra, Australia. It was founded in the 1960s as the National Press Luncheon Club by a few journalists with the backing of the Canberra Press Gallery. It was renamed the National Press Club in 1968, and established official new premises in 1976. Since its inception the Club's reputation has steadily grown, attracting respected political figures, scientists, diplomats and sporting figures to its weekly luncheons. Its guests included prime ministers and other political leaders of both Australia and other countries, including Gough Whitlam, Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi.

In its current form, the National Press Club address is a weekly formal speech of approximately one hour, which includes time for questions from members of the press. The long serving president the former journalist Ken Randall introduces the speaker and moderates the questions. The addresses are broadcast on the ABC Network at 12:30 pm.

Press club

A press club is an organization for journalists and others professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news. A press club whose membership is defined by the press of a given country may be known as a National Press Club of that country. Examples include:

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National Press Club (Pakistan)

The National Press Club of Islamabad, Pakistan, is a supreme representative body of journalists based in Rawalpindi and the federal capital Islamabad. It has an elected governing body represented by Afzal Butt as president and Asim Rana as Secretary. The other Office bearers include: Waheed Shiekh, Vice President; Aslam Dogar, Vice President; Nasir Chishti, Vice President; Dastar Shah, Joint Secretary; Khuram Butt, Joint Secretary; Javed Baloch, Joint Secretary.

Farooq Faisal Khan is the president and Shehryar Khan is general secretary of National Press Club. Farooq Faisal Khan is one of the founders of National Press Club. He is Editor of a national Urdu newspaper Daily Nai Baat. Shahryar Khan is a well known journalist working with Express News media Group.

Present body was elected in 2011 and the same body in the presidency of Farooq Faisal Khan was elected again in 2012.

References

In the National Press Club election 2013-14, Mr. Shahryar Khan, Mr. Tariq Ch and Mr. Waqar Satt of Journalist Panel elected as President, Secretary General and Treasurer respectively. www.expresstribune.com, Daily Naibaat

National Press Club (New Zealand)

The New Zealand National Press Club, founded in 1974, is a press club based in Wellington. It has hosted many speakers including Kurt Waldheim, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Chaim Herzog, and Ed Asner. Robert Reich has featured on their podium, as did James Reston. The Dalai Lama has appeared twice. So has Jeffrey Archer.

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The club is well financed and often brings in its own speakers, mostly from the British sphere. These have included journalists Malcolm Muggeridge, Bernard Levin, and Clare Hollingworth.

Among its Lifetime Achievement Award holders are Peter Arnett and Connie Lawn, the US syndicated radio journalist who has had a long association with the country. New Zealand born war correspondent and ITV news journalist Sir Geoffrey Cox is also on the plaque.

Alistair Cooke was a speaker, and so was Sir Peter Ustinov and Glenda Jackson.

The club does not always have things its own way, and when it invited the US Ambassador of the day onto its podium, the former Senator Carol Moseley Braun insisted that the organization validate its right to describe itself as a National Press Club.

Australia

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Australia (/ɒˈstreɪliə/, /ə-/, colloquially /-jə/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.

For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages grouped into roughly 250 language groups. After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated in the eastern states and on the coast.

Australia (The Kinks song)

"Australia" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks, appearing on their 1969 album, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). It was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.

Lyrics and Music

In the song, the character Derek (who is featured in the story line of Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)) attempts to convince his father, Arthur, of the great opportunities available in Australia, where there's "no drug addiction" and you can "surf like they do in the U.S.A." Derek's advertisement is compared to John Smith, who campaigned for America in a similar manner, by author Thomas Kitts.

The song also features a jam sequence lasting for approximately half the song, which is atypical for The Kinks. In the Australian single edit, this section is removed by editing an earlier section of the song into another section during a drum beat, which is then followed by a fade-out.

Release

"Australia" was only released in most countries on the Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) album, where it was the closing track on side one. However, in Australia, a dramatically cut down version of the song was released as a single, with another Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) track, "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina", on the B-side. However, the single was commercially unsuccessful.

Australia, Cuba

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Australia is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Jagüey Grande, Matanzas Province. It has an estimated population of 8,850.

History

The village, founded in 1862, is in a sugar growing area and "dominated by the old, out-of-service sugar factory's chimney, with "Australia" written prominently down its length." The village is named after the factory, the Central Australia, which like others in the area were named after continents.

The village was the first sugar town in Cuba to stop using slave labour, and served as Fidel Castro's base of operations during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

Geography

Located 2 km south of Jagüey Grande, Australia lies next to Zapata Swamp (Ciénaga de Zapata). It is served by the A1 motorway (linking Havana to Santa Clara) at the exit of Jagüey.

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