Sally anne atkinson biography of william hill
Sallyanne Atkinson, who was lord mayor of Brisbane from to after six years as an alderman, is a Queensland icon, right up there with.
Dr Sallyanne Atkinson AO is a company director, journalist, former diplomat and politician....
Sallyanne Atkinson
Australian politician (born 1942)
Sallyanne AtkinsonAO (born 23 July 1942, néeKerr) is an Australian former politician who served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia.
She is the only woman to have held the position. As of 2017, she was Chairman of the Museum of Brisbane,[1] President of the Council of The Women's College at the University of Queensland[2] and chair of the advisory board of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.[3]
Early life
Atkinson was born in Sydney.[4] She attended Bishop's College and the Royal Naval School in Colombo, Sri Lanka and completed her secondary education at St Hilda's School on Queensland's Gold Coast.[5] In 1960 she began an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, before becoming a journalist on the Brisbane Telegraph from 1960 to 1962, the Sydney Telegraph from 1962 to 1963, and the Courier Mail from 1963