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Geoffrey Charles McDonald is an Australian politician who has served as Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland since 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was elected to the mayoralty by councillors after retirement of his predecessor, Paul Antonio . [ 3 ]
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A native of Toowoomba, McDonald attended Toowoomba Grammar School and played his rugby for Past Grammars. He gained two caps for the Wallabies as a loose forward in the home 1938 Bledisloe Cup series against the All Blacks and was also on the 1939–40 tour of Britain that had to be abandoned two days after they arrived due to the war.
McDonald was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours. [6] In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, McDonald was named at centre in the Toowoomba and South West Team of the Century. [7] 2016 saw him inducted into Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. [8]
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Toowoomba became a town council on 31 March 1903. On 29 October 1904, Toowoomba was proclaimed a City. [5] The Toowoomba Region also encompassed four of Queensland's 74 divisions created under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 on 11 November 1879: Clifton, Highfields, Jondaryan and Rosalie. On 31 ...
On January 7, 2024, Numero Group posted on Twitter teasing new music for the band, featuring a short video of the members at the end of what they said was the "first Karate session in 20 years". [20] Numero would later mention that a "new Karate record [is] currently in the works". [ 21 ]
The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
Consisting mostly of covers, the album was recorded over a seven-day period in January 2014. The album's title comes from the line "you're in the arms of the angel", from the Sarah McLachlan song "Angel", which is one of the songs McDonald covered for the album. The lead single "Answerphone" was released on 16 March 2014, a day before the album ...