Where does james johnston live now
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Indigenous Australia
Jim Crow (c. 1825–c. 1884), guide, host, and symbolic figure, also known as Jimmy, was born in Queensland’s Darling Downs region in the 1820s. While some confusion exists over his identity, he was most likely a Jarowair man. He may have earned the name ‘Crow’ through his crow-like appearance or it may have been his moiety. The town of Crow’s Nest (Crows Nest), Queensland, established in 1878 on Jarowair land, was probably named after him. Though there are conflicting accounts, it is widely believed that Jim Crow’s distinctive home was central to the town’s origins. It was fashioned by him from the interior of an enormous tree stump. ‘Stump houses’ were built in several areas around Australia during the colonial era, particularly by people involved in timber-working.
Crow’s Nest originally had stands of very large rainforest trees and became a major timber-getting area. Jim Crow’s home lay along an important Aboriginal pathway that became a major colonial transport route between the upper Brisbane valley, Cressbrook, and the Bunya Mountains, and was the first
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Biography
Jim Chalmers is the Treasurer of Australia.
He has been the Member for Rankin in the House of Representatives since 2013, proudly representing the people and suburbs of southern Brisbane and Logan City where he was born, grew up and made a home with Laura, Leo, Annabel, and Jack.
He served as Shadow Treasurer from 2019 to 2022, and Shadow Minister for Finance from 2016 to 2019.
Prior to Jim’s election to Parliament, he was the Executive Director of the Chifley Research Centre and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer.
He has a PhD in political science and international relations from the Australian National University and a first class honours degree in public policy from Griffith University, and is a qualified company director.
Jim’s most recent book, Changing Jobs: the Fair Go in the New Machine Age, was co-authored with Mike Quigley and published in 2017. His earlier book about the Global Financial Crisis, Glory Daze, was released in 2013.
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Indigenous Australia
James (Jim) Morgan (c.1901-1968), Aboriginal singer and activist, was born about 1901 at Casino, New South Wales, son of Aboriginal parents Ralph Morgan, labourer, and his wife Alice, née Williams. Jim was educated at South Kyogle Public School. From the age of 13 he worked in the district as a farm hand before moving to Queensland cattle-stations. Although proud of his ancestry, Morgan accepted the need to have a good command of the English language 'in what was rapidly becoming an English-speaking world'. As a young man he enrolled in a correspondence course in English, and later earned a reputation as a writer and public speaker. Having overcome disadvantages in early life by diligence and determination, he was equally proud of his intellectual achievements (his favourite author was Charles Dickens and his favourite book, Pickwick Papers) and of his ability to 'compete with anyone doing ''hard work", such as splitting fencing posts'.
Morgan was living at Lismore when he married with Anglican rites 18-year-old Eileen Anderson on 21 June 1937 at Cabbage T
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