Officer of the Order of Australia in the context of "Wang Gungwu"

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ā­ Core Definition: Officer of the Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of then prime minister Gough Whitlam. Before the establishment of the order, Australians could receive British honours, which continued to be issued in parallel until 1992.

Appointments to the order are made by the governor-general, "with the approval of The Sovereign", according to recommendations made by the Council for the Order of Australia. Members of the government are not involved in the recommendation of appointments, other than for military and honorary awards.

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Wang Gungwu AO, CBE (simplified Chinese: ēŽ‹čµ“ę­¦; traditional Chinese: ēŽ‹č³”ę­¦; pinyin: WĆ”ng GēngwĒ”; born 1930), also written Wang Gung Wu, is a Chinese Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American tianxia. He is the recipient of many honours and awards, including the Singapore Literature Prize at age 91.

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Officer of the Order of Australia in the context of David Malet Armstrong

David Malet Armstrong AO FAHA (8 July 1926Ā ā€“ 13 May 2014), often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.

Keith Campbell said that Armstrong's contributions to metaphysics and epistemology "helped to shape philosophy's agenda and terms of debate", and that Armstrong's work "always concerned to elaborate and defend a philosophy which is ontically economical, synoptic, and compatibly continuous with established results in the natural sciences".

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Officer of the Order of Australia in the context of Alan Moorehead

Alan McCrae Moorehead, AO, OBE (22 July 1910 ā€“ 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.

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Officer of the Order of Australia in the context of Harry Jenkins

Henry Alfred "Harry" Jenkins, AO (born 18 August 1952) is an Australian former politician who served as the 26th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Scullin from 1986 until his resignation in 2013.

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Australian honours and awards system → Elizabeth II → Monarchy of Australia → Advice (constitutional law) → Gough Whitlam → Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom → Governor-General of Australia → Council for the Order of Australia →