Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World

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David Pilbrough

David Pilbrough is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Chemist and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.He studied physics, chemistry and math at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (A college of London University), reading mathematics, physics and chemistry. Now retired, David spent his working life in both Rhodesia and latterly, Australia, in the Quality Assurance field. In recent years he ran his own international consultancy in Quality Assurance.

Dr Douglas Sturkey

Dr Douglas Sturkey is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Canberra. His book The Limits of American Power: Prosecuting a Middle East Peace was published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK and USA, in June 2007. He was a member of the Australian foreign service from 1957. His last appointment (1987-90) was as principal adviser to the foreign minister on Australia’s relations with South East Asia. During this period he played a key role in Australia’s initiative that eventually brought peace to Cambodia. He has held several senior diplomatic appointments abroad, which include: Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and other countries of the Arabian Peninsula (1979-84), Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, NY (1974-77), and a Deputy High Commissioner in India (1970-72). In 1990 he was appointed Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia, serving two incumbent Governors-General before transferring to the University in 1998.

Ray Johnston

Ray Johnston , a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, is a life long amateur astronomer. He is a director of Star Dreaming, an educational outreach organization and co director of the Anglo Australian Astronomy Education Partnership which shares learning experiences between the UK and Australia. Since his retirement from law, Ray has taken a keen interest in archeoastronomy, investigating such diverse subjects as the Pyramids and Incan astronomy. He holds a particular interest in the rich sky stories of the Australian Aborigines which predate European astronomy by thousands of years. He is active in educational outreach in regional Queensland where he operates portable planetariums within the school system bringing state of the art educational facilities to outback schools. He has introduced the night sky to many thousands of people, as he also operates a public observatory at his home on a tropical island on the Great Barrier Reef.