The Australia Day Honours 2013 were announced on 26 January 2013 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO.
The Second Gillard Ministry was sworn in on 14 September 2010 by Governor-General Quentin Bryce, with Rudd accepting an offer from Gillard to become Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Butler was given a second chance to appeal in 2005, lodging a plea for pardon with Governor of Queensland Quentin Bryce.
In 1984, she was appointed Australia's first Sex Discrimination Commissioner by the Hawke Government, holding the position until 1988 when she was succeeded by Quentin Bryce.
While living in Belmont she attended the Camp Hill State School, and there first met her future husband, Michael Bryce.
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Greg Sheridan, in the national newspaper The Australian, suggested that the Governor-General risked "politicising and misusing the office".
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After spending some time in London, Bryce returned to Australia and accepted a part-time tutoring position at the T. C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in 1968, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to the faculty.
She was replaced in 1988 by Quentin Bryce, who became Australia's first female Governor-General in 2008.
Significantly in 2010-2011 (till the March 2011 state election) the city of Sydney was operating totally under female governance: from Lord Mayor (also State Member of Parliament for Sydney) Clover Moore, State Premier Kristina Keneally, State Governor Marie Bashir, Sydney Federal Member of Parliament Tanya Plibersek, Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard and Governor-General of Australia Quentin Bryce.
Quentin Tarantino | Quentin Blake | Quentin Crisp | San Quentin State Prison | Saint-Quentin, Aisne | Quentin Bryce | James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce | San Quentin | James Bryce | Bryce Harper | Saint-Quentin | Caroline Quentin | Bryce J. Stevens | Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines | Quentin Skinner | Quentin S. Crisp | Quentin Durward | Quentin Bell | Bryce Jordan Center | Bryce Courtenay | San Quentin, California | Saint-Quentin-au-Bosc | Quentin Willson | Quentin Richardson | Quentin Reynolds | Quentin Matsys | Quentin L. Kopp | Quentin Lee | Quentin Anderson | Bryce Molder |
Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith (born 1978) became Australia's most highly decorated current serving soldier when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia by Her Excellency, the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce on 23 January 2011 for most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril on 11 June 2010, during the Shah Wali Kot Offensive in Afghanistan.