List of University of Adelaide people
This is a list of notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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Chancellors of the University of Adelaide
Source: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/records/archives/former/
Chancellors
Appointed | Chancellor |
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1874 | Hanson, Sir RichardSir Richard Hanson |
1876 | Short, The Right Reverend AugustusThe Right Reverend Augustus Short DD |
1883 | Way, The Right Honourable Sir SamuelThe Right Honourable Sir Samuel Way Bart, PC, DCL, LLD |
1916 | Murray, The Honourable Sir GeorgeThe Honourable Sir George Murray KCMG, BA, LLM |
1942 | Mitchell, Professor Sir WilliamProfessor Sir William Mitchell KCMG, DSc, MA [1] |
1948 | Napier, The Honourable Sir MellisThe Honourable Sir Mellis Napier KCMG, LLD |
1961 | Ligertwood, The Honourable Sir GeorgeThe Honourable Sir George Ligertwood LLD, BA |
1966 | Wills, Sir KennethSir Kenneth Wills KBE, MC, KStJ, ED [2] |
1968 | Bray, The Honourable John JeffersonThe Honourable John Jefferson Bray AC, LLD, DUniv(Adel) |
1983 | Mitchell, The Honourable Dame RomaThe Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC, LLB, DUniv(Adel) |
1991 | Scammell, William FauldingWilliam Faulding Scammell AO, CBE, DUniv(Adel) |
1998 | Webb, Bruce PhillipBruce Phillip Webb AM, FTSE, MSc, FAusIMM, FIEAust, FAICD |
2000 | de Crespigny, Robert ChampionRobert Champion de Crespigny AC, DUniv(Adel), BCom(Melb), FCA, FTSE, FAICD, FAusIMM |
2004 | von Doussa, The Honourable JohnThe Honourable John von Doussa AO, QC |
2010 | Hill, The Honourable RobertThe Honourable Robert Hill AC |
2014 | Scarce, Rear Admiral the Honourable KevinRear Admiral the Honourable Kevin Scarce AC, CSC, RANR |
Vice-Chancellors
Appointed | Vice-Chancellor |
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1874 | Short, The Right Reverend AugustusThe Right Reverend Augustus Short DD |
1876 | Way, The Right Honourable Sir SamuelThe Right Honourable Sir Samuel Way Bart, PC, DCL, LLD |
1883 | Fletcher, The Reverend Professor WilliamThe Reverend Professor William Fletcher MA |
1887 | Farr, The Venerable GeorgeThe Venerable George Farr MA, LLD (Archdeacon of Mt Gambier and the West, Rector of St Luke's, Adelaide.) |
1893 | Hartley, John AndersonJohn Anderson Hartley BA, BSc |
1896 | Barlow, WilliamWilliam Barlow CMG, LLD |
1915 | Murray, The Honourable Sir GeorgeThe Honourable Sir George Murray KCMG, BA, LM |
1916 | Mitchell, Professor Sir WilliamProfessor Sir William Mitchell KCMG, MA [1] |
1942 | Parsons, The Honourable Sir HerbertThe Honourable Sir Herbert Parsons KBE, KC, LLB |
1945 | Stewart, Professor JohnProfessor John Stewart CMG, PPhil |
1948 | Rowe, AlbertAlbert Rowe CBE, BSc, LLD(Melb) |
1958 | Basten, Sir HenrySir Henry Basten CMG, MA, DLitt |
1967 | Badger, Professor Emeritus Sir GeoffreyProfessor Emeritus Sir Geoffrey Badger AO, Ktcr, PhD, DSc, DUniv(Adel), FRSC, FRACI, FTSE, FAA, FACE |
1977 | Stranks, Professor DonProfessor Don Stranks AO, MSc, PhD |
1987 | Marjoribanks, Professor KevinProfessor Kevin Marjoribanks BSc, DipEd(UNSW), BA(UNE), MEd(Harvard), PhD(Toronto), FASSA, FACE, FSS (Emeritus Professor 2005) |
1994 | Brown, Professor GavinProfessor Gavin Brown MA(StAnd.), PhD(N'cle,UK), FAA (Emeritus Professor 1996) |
1997 | O'Kane, Professor MaryProfessor Mary O'Kane BSc(Qld), PhD(ANU), FTSE (Emeritus Professor 2001) |
2001 | Blake, Professor CliffordProfessor Clifford Blake AO, PhD(Lond), BSc(Hons)(Syd), DUniv(Charles Sturt), PhD(aeg[3])(Adel), Hon. DEduc Admin (Syd) (Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt, 2001) |
2002 | McWha, Professor JamesProfessor James McWha AO, BSc, BAgr(Hons)(Belfast), PhD(Glasgow), PhD(aeg)(Adel), DSc(hc)(Massey) (Emeritus Professor 2012) |
2012 | Bebbington, Professor WarrenProfessor Warren Bebbington MA, MMus, MPhil, PhD, FMusA |
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- William Lawrence Bragg, BS 1908 [4]– physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his father (William Henry Bragg, a member of the faculty of the University of Adelaide) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
- Howard Florey, MB and BS 1921 [5] –pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine,1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
- Robin Warren, MBBS 1961–pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
Business
- Shaun Bonett - Founder of the Precision Group
- John Langdon Bonython - Founding Chairman of Santos
- Dr Cheong Choong Kong - Former Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines, Chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
- Tim Cooper – Managing Director of Coopers Brewery
- Jane Francis – geologist, received the Polar Medal (2002)
- Simon Hackett – Founder of Internode (ISP)
- Tim Harcourt – Economist
- Edward Holden - Managing Director of General Motors-Holden
- Wayne Jackson - Former Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)
- Gillon McLachlan - Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)
- Thorburn Brailsford Robertson – pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
- John Spalvins - Managing Director of the Adelaide Steamship Company
- Neil Weste – microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
- Philip Wollen - Former General Manager at Citicorp and prominent philanthropsit
- Lim Siong Guan - Group President of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)
Military
- Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC CMG CBE - soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916.[6]
Politics
National leaders
- Ong Teng Cheong - 5th President of Singapore (1993–99)[7]
- Julia Gillard - 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2009–12) (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne[8]) – First female Prime Minister of Australia
- Joseph Pairin Kitingan - 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–94)
- Abdul Taib – 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981-2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014-)
- Tony Tan Keng Yam – 7th President of Singapore (2011-).;[9] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995-2005[10])
- Peter Ong Boon Kwee - Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,[11][12] the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,[13] and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore.[14]
South Australian premiers
- Lynn Arnold - Premier of South Australia 1992-1993
- John Bannon – Premier of South Australia 1982–1992
- Henry Barwell - Premier of South Australia 1920–1924
- Dean Brown - Premier of South Australia 1993–1996
- Don Dunstan – Premier of South Australia 1967–1968, and 1970–1979
- Rob Kerin - Premier of South Australia 2001-2002
- David Tonkin – Premier of South Australia 1979-1982
- Jay Weatherill - Premier of South Australia 2011–present
South Australian governors
- Mark Oliphant - physicist and governor 1971-1976
- Keith Seaman - Uniting Church minister and governor 1977-1982
- Roma Mitchell - Australia's first female judge and first female governor 1991-1996
- Eric Neal - business leader, governor 1996-2001
- Hieu Van Le - Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 2007-2014 and governor 2014-present
Legislators
- Benjamin Benny - former senator
- Gordon Bilney - former minister and member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Simon Birmingham - current senator
- Julie Bishop[8] – Australian Foreign Minister and former Deputy Leader of the Opposition
- Mark Bishop - Australian Senator
- Nick Bolkus – former minister and former senator
- Mark Butler - former Minister for the Environment
- Bill Denny - former Attorney-General of South Australia
- Peter Duncan - former Attorney-General of South Australia
- Don Farrell - former minister and former senator
- Pru Goward – former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Janine Haines - first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party
- Sarah Hanson-Young - current senator
- Robert Hill – former Australian Defence Minister and former Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
- Annette Hurley – former Australian Senator
- Linda Kirk – former senator
- Keith Laught - Former Australian Senator
- Raymond Lim - Minister for Transport and the second Minister for Foreign Affairs (Singapore)
- Jane Lomax-Smith - former Lord Mayor of Adelaide and South Australian Minister for Education
- Alexander McLachlan - former senator and Postmaster-General
- Christopher Pyne – Minister for Education and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Margaret Reid - first female president of the Australian Senate
- Lockwood Smith – former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Andrew Southcott – member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Shane Stone - former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and federal president of the Liberal Party
- Natasha Stott Despoja – former Australian Senator and Leader of the Australian Democrats
- Amanda Vanstone – former minister, former senator and former Ambassador to Italy
- David Vigor – former Australian Senator
- Ian Wilson - former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
- Penny Wong [8]– member of the Australian Senate, first Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
- Nick Xenophon - member of the Australian Senate
Other
- David Combe - former President of the Australian Labor Party
- Lynton Crosby – campaign strategist and Liberal Party official
- Peter Malinauskas - Australian trade union leader
- John Menadue - former Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Australian Ambassador to Japan
- Martin Parkinson - Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
- Lim Soo Hoon - first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore
Judiciary and the law
- Richard Blackburn - Former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
- Catherine Branson - Former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- John Bray - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
- James Crawford - Legal academic and Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
- John Doyle - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- John Finnis - Legal scholar and philosopher
- Elliott Johnston - Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme court of South Australia
- Len King - South Australian Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Chris Kourakis - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Bruce Lander - South Australia’s first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
- George Ligertwood - Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Brian Martin - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
- Robin Millhouse – Lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
- Roma Mitchell - Lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia (and first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth)(1965)
- George Murray - Chief Justice of South Australia
- Mellis Napier - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Geoffrey Reed - Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the first Director-General of ASIO
- Margaret White - First female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Diplomats
- Frances Adamson - Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (2011-)
- Brett Aldam - High Commissioner to Tonga (2012-)
- Jeremy Bruer - High Commissioner to Vanuatu (2012-); Australian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar (2005–09)
- Walter Crocker - Diplomat and writer
- Maurice de Rohan – South Australian Agent General in London (1998-2006)
- Andrea Faulkner - Australian Ambassador to Israel (2010-2013)
- Tim George - Australian Ambassador to Mexico (2012-); High Commissioner to Pakistan (2009-2012), Special Coordinator for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (2006-2009), Ambassador to Israel (2003-2006); Ambassador to Spain (2000-2003).
- Robyn Mudie - High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (2012-)
- Sim Cheok Lim – Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan[15]
- Michael Smith - Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (2007-); Australian Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism (2002-2006); Ambassador to Egypt and Sudan (1995–98), Minister (Political) in the Australian Embassy in the United States (1993–95), Ambassador to Algeria and Tunisia (1989–91).
- Deborah Stokes - Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (2013-); Australian Ambassador to Austria (2006–10)
Literature
- Georgia Blain – author
- James Bradley – author
- John Jefferson Bray – poet and jurist
- Nancy Cato - author
- David Chalmers – philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Garry Disher - author
- Geoffrey Dutton – author and historian
- Anna Goldsworthy - writer and classical pianist
- Kerryn Goldsworthy - writer and critic
- Peter Goldsworthy - author
- Max Harris – Angry Penguins poet and publisher
- Rex Ingamells - poet and founder of the Jindyworobak Movement
- Joe Penhall - playwright
- Darren Porter – author, poet, social commentator
- Margaret Somerville – ethicist
- Colin Thiele – writer
- Russel Ward - historian and author of The Australian Legend
- Sean Williams – science fiction author
Science and mathematics
- Herbert Basedow - anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer andmedical practitioner
- Warren Bonython - conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer
- Keith Briggs – mathematician
- Henry Brose - physicist
- Helen Caldicott – physician and anti-nuclear advocate
- Herbert Condon – ornithologist
- Henry Fry - physician and anthropologist
- Norman Jolly - Forrester
- Rodney Jory – physicist
- Nagendra Kumar Singh – National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
- Aubrey Lewis – first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
- Brian Morris – molecular biologist
- Keith Nugent – physicist, Federation Fellow (2001)
- Mark Oliphant – nuclear physicist
- Ian Plimer – professor and global warming critic
- Hugh Possingham – mathematical ecologist, Rhodes scholar and Federation Fellow (2006)
- Roy Robinson - Forester
- Reg Sprigg - geologist and conservationist (Arkaroola); discovered Ediacara biota
- Andy Thomas – astronaut
- Cecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologist
Medicine
- Basil Hetzel – authority on iodine deficiency
- Helen Mayo – pioneer in women's and children's health
- Henry Simpson Newland - surgeon
Music
- Julian Cochran – composer
- Graham Jenkin – poet, composer and historian
- Graham Koehne – composer
- Stephen Whittington – composer, pianist and writer on music
Performing and visual arts
- Robyn Archer - performer and director
- John Dowie - painter and sculptor
- Francis Greenslade – comedian
- Robert Hannaford - realist artist
- Dichen Lachman – actress (portrayed Sierra on Dollhouse)
- Lionel Logue - Australian speech and language therapist and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI
- Gary McCaffrie - comedy writer and producer
- Shaun Micallef – comedian and writer
Media and journalism
- Keith Conlon - television and radio presenter
- Annabel Crabb – political writer and commentator
- Hamish McLachlan – television sports commentator for the Seven Network
- David Penberthy – editor-in-chief of the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph
- Anne Summers - prominent feminist writer and editor
Sports
- Max Basheer - Football administrator
- Collier Cudmore - Olympic rower and gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics
- Leonidas Bott - Australian cricketer
- Matthew Cowdrey - Australian swimmer and Australia's most successful Paralympian
- Hannah Davis - Olympic medal winning sprint canoer
- Moya Dodd - Australian soccer official and player
- Annette Edmondson - Olynmpic Cyclist and bronze medal winner at 2012 Summer Olympics
- Jaime Fernandez - Three time Olympic rower in the Men's Eight (1992, 1996 and 2000), winning a silver medal in 2000
- David Fitzsimons – Australian middle distance runner
- Amber Halliday - Three time World Champion in the Women's Lightweight Double Scull (2002,'03, '07) and in the Lightweight Quad Scull (2001)
- Juliet Haslam - Olympic hockey player and wwinner of gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics
- Marguerite Houston - Olympic rower
- James McRae - Australian world-champion and Olympic medal winning rower
- Chris Morgan - World Champion in the Quadruple Scull in 2011 [16] and Coxed Pair in 2010,[17] 4th place in the Quadruple Scull at the Athens Olympics
- Darren Ng - Professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers
- Kate Slatter - Olympic rower winning Gold at Atlanta '96 and a Silver at Sydney 2000
- Tim Willoughby - Rowed twice in the Olympic Men's Eight (1980 and 1984), winning Bronze in '84
Notable staff
Nobel laureates
- Sir William Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
- J. M. Coetzee – acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003), retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English.
Law
- Leo Blair – the father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair – was a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child.
- Daniel Patrick O'Connell - international law professor
- John Salmond - professor of law and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
Science
Geologists
- William Noel Benson – geologist
- Martin Glaessner - geologist and palaeontologist
- Cecil Madigan – geologist
- Sir Douglas Mawson – Antarctic explorer and geologist
- Ian Plimer – Geologist and noted global warming critic
- Ralph Tate – botanist and geologist
Mathematicians
- Keith Briggs – mathematician, was formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
- Gavin Brown – mathematician
- Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
- Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
- George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
- Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
- Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician
Physicists
- Derek Abbott – physicist and engineer, pioneered the first terahertz (T-ray) program in Australia and led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox.
- Rod Crewther – physicist, was a PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
- Bert Green was a PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born and Green is the "G" in "BBGKY."
- Tanya Monro – physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
- Albert Percival Rowe – Vice-Chancellor, physicist and previously Radar pioneer in Britain
- Anthony William Thomas - Elder professor of physics and South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014
- Kenneth G. McCracken - physicist and former director of CSIRO
- Sir Kerr Grant - Elder professor of physics from 1911 to 1948
Medicine
- Edward Charles Stirling - physiologist and politician
- Sir Joseph Cooke Verco – physician and conchologist
Humanities
- Neal Blewett - academic, politician and diplomat
- Tristram Cary – composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
- Brian Castro – novelist
- Robert Champion de Crespigny – industrialist
- Alexander Downer - Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Graeme Hugo – demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
- Ken Inglis - journalist and historian
- Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
- Jill Jones - poet
- Gavan McCormack – orientalist
- Sir Leslie Melville – inaugural Professor of Economics at age 27; later Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Sir William Mitchell – philosopher
- Sir Archibald Grenfell Price - historian and politician
- George Rudé – Marxist historian
- J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
- J. I. M. Stewart - novelist
- Randolph Stow - novelist
- Hugh Stretton - Historian and sociologist
- Andrew Taylor – poet
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist
Other
- Barry Brook – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
- Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
- Tim Flannery – paleontologist, Australian of the Year
- Fay Gale – Adelaide's First Honours Geography graduate, first woman President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, President, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000, Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia 1990-1997
- Elizabeth Grant - architect and anthropologist
- Geoff Harcourt - economist
- Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist
- Peter Sutton – anthropologist
- Mark Tester – botanist and Federation Fellow (2004)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 V. A. Edgeloe (1986). "Mitchell, Sir William (1861–1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ David Palmer (2002). "Wills, Sir Kenneth Agnew (1896–1977)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
- ↑ ad eundum gradum
- ↑ "Lawrence Bragg - Biography". The Nobel Foundation. 1915.
- ↑ "Sir Howard Florey - Biography". The Nobel Foundation. 1945.
- ↑ Blackburn, R.A (1979). "Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892 - 1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 7 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 307–308. Retrieved 2008-01-23.. Blackburn also attended Pulteney Grammar School.
- ↑ http://www.istana.gov.sg/content/istana/thepresident/formerpresidents/otc.html Istana Singapore - Former Presidents - Mr Ong Teng Cheong
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Australia's new PM pays tribute to her 'great education'". The University of Adelaide. 2010-06-24.
- ↑ http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1149594/1/.html Channel News Asia : PE: Dr Tony Tan elected Singapore's 7th President
- ↑ http://www.nus.edu.sg/president/past_presidents/tonytan.php National University of Singapore : Past Presidents and Vice Chancellors - Dr Tony TAN Keng Yam
- ↑ "Civil Service head Peter Ong says policy makers must be close to the ground". The Straits Times. 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014.
- ↑ "New Chairman for the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)". Singapore Government. 30 August 2010.
- ↑ "MOF: Organisational Structure". Ministry of Finance, Singapore Government. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014.
- ↑ "Prime Minister's Office: Senior Management & Their Personal Assistants". Singapore Government. 2014. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013.
- ↑ Countries/ Regions >Central Asia, (Singapore) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, app.mfa.gov.sg
Ong Soh Chin, Non-resident envoys keep Singapore plugged in globally, 26 June 2007, Straits Times
SMS Zainul Abidin Rasheed visits the Republic of Uzbekistan, 24 April 2010, Press release, (Singapore) Ministry of Foreign Affairs
etc. - ↑ http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/australia-claims-record-medal-haul-at-world-rowing-championships-after-gold-in-mens-quad-sculls/story-e6frf56c-1226129074368
- ↑ http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/gold-medal-row-for-australian-coxed-pair-at-world-championships/story-e6frep5o-1225948760026