Allan Hubbard,New Zealand businessman, died from a car accident he was 83.

Allan James Hubbard, was a businessman who lived in Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand and was the founder of South Canterbury Finance, New Zealand's largest locally owned finance company died from a car accident he was 83. In 2006, the New Zealand Listener described Hubbard as the most powerful businessman in the South Island.
Hubbard was listed on the New Zealand Listener Power List from 2005 through to 2007 and he was listed on the Primary Sector Power list at number four in 2009.
Hubbard had significant interests in dairy farming, irrigation systems, finance and helicopters. He was one of three directors of Dairy Holdings Limited, which in 2007 owned 57 dairy units, and 10 grazing blocks in the South Island. In the 2006-07 season Dairy Holdings Limited milked 44,000 cows on 16,120 hectares and produced 14.3 million kg of milksolids.
Hubbard died as the result of a car crash on 2 September 2011. In February 2012, the Oamaru police charged a 40-year-old man with careless driving causing death.

(23 March 1928 – 2 September 2011) 

Early life

Allan Hubbard was born in 1928 in Dunedin. His parents lived with five children in a three-bedroom Dunedin North cottage with no electric lighting. In the Depression, his father was unemployed plumber who had to plant pine seedlings on a work scheme. Hubbard's first job was on a Taieri Plains dairy farm. He then worked as a clerk for Trustees Executors while studying part-time for his School Certificate, University Entrance and an accountancy degree from the universities of Otago and Canterbury. In 1953, he and Jean Hubbard, who had been a fellow student at Otago, moved to Timaru where he did bookkeeping for the Craighead school while establishing the accounting firm Hubbard Churcher. In the mid-1950s he provided the backing for Doug Shears and Helicopters New Zealand Ltd. Also in the 1950s, Hubbard gained control of South Canterbury Finance, a small-time lender to local businesses and households. In 1962 Hubbard bought a dairy farm.^[8]

South Canterbury Finance

In 1926, South Canterbury Finance Ltd started as a small-time lender to local businesses and households in Timaru.^[9] Allan Hubbard bought South Canterbury Finance in either the 1950s^[8] or in 1960.^[10] Hubbard was considered the driving force behind the company's growth as it ultimately became the largest financial institution in the South Island of New Zealand. By the late 2000s, South Canterbury Finance had 35,000 investors and its assets were considered to be worth almost $NZ2 billion. South Canterbury Finance owned 13 companies including fruit packaging and warehousing company Scales Corporation, helicopter and tourism business Helicopters NZ, and a third shareholding in Dairy Holdings Limited, New Zealand's largest dairy farming group.^[9]
Despite its reputation as a South Island rural lender, South Canterbury Finance had made loans to property development throughout New Zealand, Australia and Fiji. At 30 June 2009, property loans were $414.2 million. Real estate lending represented 207 loans with an average net loan value of $1.15 million. Further, 37 per cent of lending was secured by a second or lower ranking mortgages. There were ten property loans greater than $10 million. For some lending, the interest was capitalised into the loan debt, so borrowers did not have to immediately fund interest payments.^[11]
On 31 August 2010, South Canterbury Finance asked its trustee to place it in receivership after negotiations over a recapitalisation deal failed.^[12] The Government immediately paid out investors $NZ1.6 billion under the Government's Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme. Alan Hubbard was reported blaming the Government and the other South Canterbury Finance directors for the receivership: as the directors had sidelined him and the Government had placed him in statutory management.^[2][9]
On 7 December 2011, the Serious Fraud Office laid 21 charges against five individuals in respect of South Canterbury Finance. The charges relate to a variety of allegedly fraudulent transactions which have a total estimated value of approximately $1.7 billion. This includes an estimated $1.58 billion from the Crown Retail Deposits Guarantee Scheme.^[13] The charges include entering the Crown Guarantee Scheme by deception, omitting to disclose a related party loan of $64.185m from SCF to Southbury Group and Woolpak Holdings, failing to disclose related party loans of $19.1m from SCF to Shark Wholesalers, and breaching the crown guarantee scheme by lending $39m to Quadrant Holding Limited.^[14] The five accused are; former South Canterbury Finance chief executive Lachie McLeod, former South Canterbury Finance directors Edward Oral Sullivan and Robert Alexander White (a lawyer with Raymond Sullivan McGlashan)^[15], former chief financial officer of South Canterbury Finance, Graeme Brown, and Timaru chartered accountant Terry Hutton, formerly of Hubbard and Churcher.^[16] The alleged offences include theft by a person in a special relationship, obtaining by deception, false statements by a promoter of a company and false accounting. All five defendants deny the charges. A date of Monday May 28 2012 was set for a post committal conference.^[17]

Statutory management

On 20 June 2010, the New Zealand Government placed Allan Hubbard, his wife Jean Hubbard and his business Aorangi Securities and seven charitable trusts into statutory management, with Trevor Thornton and Richard Simpson of Grant Thornton appointed as statutory managers.^[18] This decision was based on recommendations from the Securities Commission of New Zealand after a complaint from an investor.^[19] Allan Hubbard established Aorangi Securities Limited in 1974. The directors are Allan and Margaret Hubbard and the share capital is owned by another Hubbard-owned company, Forresters Nominee Company Limited. Aorangi had operated as a finance company, having raised $98 million from 407 investors living in Otago and Canterbury and making loans of approximately $134 million to borrowers. The review of the Securities Commission concluded that many of the loans were inadequately documented, appeared to be unsecured and contrary to instructions from investors.^[20] The Serious Fraud Office (New Zealand) initiated an investigation for fraud.^[21]
The news was met with disbelief in his home town of Timaru and elsewhere in the South Island, where Hubbard is seen as a pillar of the community. There was widespread support for Allan Hubbard^[22][23] and a rally was held for him on 26 June 2010 in Timaru attended by thousands of people who protested against the investigation.^[24] In June 2010, supporters of Allan Hubbard started a campaign to clear his name.^[25]
In July 2010, the Statutory Managers reported that Allan Hubbard also controlled an additional business that they had not been aware of when appointed. This was Hubbard Funds Management, an investment management business estimated to be worth $70 million. It had inadequate accounting records consisting of a hand written cashbook and journals maintained by Mr Hubbard.^[26]
In September 2010, two further companies related to Hubbard Funds Management, Hubbard Churcher Trust Management Ltd and Forresters Nominee Company Ltd, were also placed under statutory management.^[27] On 11 May 2011, Allan and Jean Hubbard filed judicial review proceedings in the Timaru High Court to challenge the decision to place them into statutory management.^[28]
Two other assessments of the statutory management were also released in September 2011. On 6 September 2011, Kerry Grass released a report to the Government.^[29] Businessman Tur Borren also provided a report on the statutory management.^[30]
After an independent review of the statutory management organised by the Registrar of Companies, Jean Hubbard was released from statutory management on 11 November 2011.^[31]
In May 2012, Statutory managers Grant Thornton reported that investors in Hubbard Management Funds were owed $82 million, and the fund was valued at $44.8m. Grant Thornton asked the High Court to decide how to distribute the fund given the lack of a prospectus and gven that the 'largely fictional' investor statements had not been reconciled to investment assets for three years.^[32]

Serious Fraud Office investigation

On 20 June 2011, the Serious Fraud Office announced that it had laid fifty charges of alleged fraud under sections 220, 242 and 260 of the Crimes Act against Alan Hubbard in the Timaru District Court.^[33]
On 9 September 2011, the Timaru District Court made an order permanently staying the prosecutions in light of Mr Hubbard's death.^[34] On 6 September 2011, Kerry Grass Investigation Summary report was released ( it was presented to the NZ Government 9 days prior to Allan Hubbard's death).^[35]


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Shrinivas Khale, Indian composer, died he was 85.

Shrinivas Vinayak Khale, also known as Khale Kaka, was an Indian composer/music director from Maharashtra, India died he was 85.. He was one of the most respected artists in the Marathi music industry for over six decades. He was the recipient of Padma Bhushan award in 2010

(30 April 1926 – 2 September 2011)

Milestones

Khale Kaka's compositions include numerous song in five languages – Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Sanskrit. He recorded 141 poems and composed music for six Marathi films (Yanda Kartavya Ahe-1956, Bolki Bahauli-1961, Palsala Pane Teen-year not known, Jivhala-1968, Porki-1970, and Sobati-1971 ; A film Laxmi Pujan-1952 was never released). He also provided music to theatrical plays Paanigrahan, Vidushak and Devache paay during his stint in Akashwani, Mumbai.^[2]
Kaka worked with many artists in the industry, including Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale, Usha Mangeshkar, Suman Kalyanpur, Sulochana Chavan, Shobha Gurtu, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Veena Shahastrabuddhe, Devki Pandit, Madhurani, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Panditt Vasantrao Deshpande, Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar, Sadhana Sargam, Dr. Balamurali Krishnan, Talat Mahmood, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Bhupender Singh, Mahendra Kapoor, Suresh Wadkar, Arun Date and more. He had also worked with his daughters and other young artists for balgeete (songs for kids) in his stint.
Kaka was also the only musician to bring along two Bharat Ratna recipient singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi for a Hindi bhajan (devotional song) album Ram Shyam Gun Gaan.^[3] His last album "Nath Maza Mi Nathancha" was released in September 2009 which includes Abhangas and Bhaktigeetas by Saint Krishnadas.^[4]

Family

Khale's family origins are from a village called Parali in Kokan-Raigad zilla, Maharashtra, India. His father was Vinayak Kashinath Khale, and mother was Laxmi Vinayak Khale. His elder brother, Kashinath Khale, influenced his choice of a career in music.^[2]

Journey

His family moved to Baroda, where Khale began his music lessons with Kanchanlal, a Gujrati music teacher. He continued then with Pt. Bansilal Bharati, Gulam Rasool, Aftaab e Mousiqui Faiyaaz Khan Sahab, Ustad Atta Hussainkhan and then Pt. Madhusudan Joshi. It was from the latter two that he learned the Agra gharana gayaki.
He began his journey as a music director for All India Radio (AIR) in 1945. He went on his first Gujarati recording of Talat Mahmood in Gramaphone Company India Limited in 1950.
He had left home to pursue his career in music from Baroda. In 1970 Shrinivas Khale - Ek Sankalan by Mauj Publishers was released for completing 25 years as a successful music director. He was profiled in Who's Who London (1978), Voice of America (1988), Radio Sydney, Australia (2000). In 2009 Datta Marulkar wrote a book Antaryami Surr Gavasala about Khale.

Honors

• (2011) Hridayesh Arts by Shri. Sushil Kumar Shinde
• (2010) Shankaracharya, Sawan Kumar Tak (director), Governor of Maharashtra K. Shankarnarayanan at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai
• (2010) BK Bhagat Pratishthan members of Thane
• (2008) Mr. Kumar Ketkar, chief editor of Loksatta (marathi newspaper) and Hridayesh Arts
• (2006) Dainik Lokmat by Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh
• (2005) Ram Gabale (marathi film director)
• (2005) Hridayesh Arts by Bharat Ratna Gansamradni Lata Mangeshkar
• (2000) Atharva Pratishthan by Shiv Sena Pramukh Shri Balasaheb Thakrey
• (1995) Suvarna Tabakadi / Golden Disc by Shri Naushad Ali through Hridayesh Arts
• (1993) Shrimati Lata Mangeshkar Puraskar from Governor of Maharashtra P.C.Alexander at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai
• (1991) Swaryatri Samaj Gaurav by Guruprathistan Mumbai on Doordarshan

Awards

• (2010) Padma Bhushan Awards (2010–2019)^[5]
• (2010) Big Marathi Music Award for "Best Music Director"^[6][7]
• (2009) Sarva Shreshtha Puraskar
• (2008) Swarna Ratna Puraskar and Music Director Datta Davjekar Puraskar
• (2007) Sangeet Ratna Puraskar
• (2007) Worldspace honour for outstanding contribution to Marathi music as Composer
• (2006) Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar
• (2003) Dadasaheb Phalke Trust Award
• (2003) Samanvay Pratishthan Puraskar, Sudhir Phadke Puraskar, Bal Gandharva Puraskar
• (2000) Mahalaxmi Puraskar
• (1995) Golden Disc for completing 50 years in field of music
• (1993) Lata Mangeshkar Award
• (1970) Sur Sringar Puraskar

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Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, Malaysian television camera operator (Bernama), died from gun shot woundt he was39.

The death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor is about the first journalist from Malaysia to be fatally injured while on a dangerous assignment abroad.^[1] The attack occurred on 2 September 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia, while Noramfaizul was reporting for Bernama TV on a humanitarian mission organized by the Islamic charity Kelab Putera 1Malaysia.^[2] He was killed by a high-caliber bullet fired by a sniper, while traveling in convoy back to its base at the airport.
Following the 2011 East Africa drought, various humanitarian organizations were mobilized and efforts were made in response to the famine in the Horn of Africa region. With an estimated population of 9.3 million people,^[6] the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that four million Somalis would require some type of humanitarian assistance.^[7] The relief efforts were complicated by a civil war in Somalia. The African Union created the African Union Mission in Somalia peacekeeping force to separate the transitional government forces of Somalia from the al-Shabaab insurgents. The mission became embroiled in the Somali Civil War and the Battle of Mogadishu, which had begun in August 2010.
In September 2011, Islamic charity Kelab Putera 1Malaysia, also known as Putera 1Malaysia Club, mobilized humanitarian efforts to support the people located in the coastal Benadir region. A refugee crisis occurred as Somalis fled seeking relief. Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, journalist and camera operator with Bernama, Malaysia's national news agency was assigned to report on these efforts and ensuing mêlée.

Noramfaizul Mohd Nor

Prior to joining Bernama TV, he worked for the National Film of Malaysia, and later Metrovision as a camera operator. While at National Film, he was assigned an aerial photography task and declined to do the job when other camera operators volunteered. The plane ended up crashing and killed the pilot and two cameramen. He then left Filem Negara for Metrovision.^[8]
Noramfaizul worked for Bernama as a camera operator since 2002.^[1] Bernama is the Malaysia's national news agency and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He worked for Bernama TV when it began as a separate service in 2008. Following his death, Noramfaizul is survived by his wife and two sons.^[9]

Incident

Location of attack in K-4 intersection

At the time of the incident, Noramfaizul was traveling with other journalists, back to their base at the airport. While stopped at the busy Kilometer Four intersection in the capital city of Mogadishu, Noramfaizul was fatally injured when he was shot by a high-caliber bullet, fired by an unknown sniper.^[10] Aji Saregar Mazlan, a camera operator for TV3 (Malaysia), was sitting to the left of Noramfaizul in the vehicle and was injured in the same incident.^[11] The team had been scheduled to travel home on the following weekend.^[10] It was initially reported, though unproven, that African Union troops were involved.^[10]
The Associated Press reported that the African Union Mission in Somalia was investigating whether its peacekeeping forces had shot at the vehicle that carried the two Malaysian television journalists.^[12] An eyewitness in the same vehicle with Noramfaizul and Aji wrote an article for Bernama that said he saw AMISOM vehicles pass them after hearing shots.^[13] The Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said the shot originated from neither the transitional government forces nor the Al-Shabaab insurgents.^[14] As a result, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on the African Union to investigate and to protect humanitarian missions.^[15]

Impact

Noramfaizul was the first Malaysian journalist to die in a conflict zone.^[1] As a result, he received a hero's burial in Malaysia. According to his colleague Khairulanuar Yahaya, Noramfaizul had covered three other humanitarian missions to Gaza, Pakistan and New Zealand for Bernama.^[16]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) lists Noramfaizul as the 35th journalist confirmed killed while reporting in Somalia since 1992, while it notes that two reporters during that period are still unconfirmed. According to the same source, the deadliest year in Somalia during that period was 2009 when nine journalists were killed.^[17]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released this statement about Noramfaizul's death: “He joins the long list of journalists killed in the course of their work in Somalia, Africa’s deadliest country for media personnel with 23 killed since 2007.” By RSF’s count, it includes the two journalists unconfirmed by CPJ.^[18]
In response to controversy in Malaysia over Noramfaizul’s death in a dangerous country, the Human Resources Ministry of Malaysia announced it would work with media to develop guidelines for media personnel who work in high risk areas. Noramfaizul's death was cause for controversy in Malaysia because people questioned whether the Putera 1Malaysia Club had adequately warned the 55 people in the mission, which included volunteers, doctors, air force personnel and media workers, about the dangers and whether journalists were being adequately protected while reporting in dangerous situations.^[19]
A spokesperson for the International Federation of Journalists said, "It is simply unacceptable for an employer to send a media worker to Somalia, which is known as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, without proper training and equipment." ^[20]

Reactions

Press response

UNESCO, which frequently comments on the dangers facing journalists worldwide, has not issued a public statement about the killing of Noramfaizul in Somalia.
Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, president of the Putera 1Malaysia Club, said, "His death will be recorded in the Bernama’s annals as a selfless and heroic sacrifice of a true professional not only in the course of his duty but also in the genuine pursuit of humanitarian value."^[21]
Datuk Yong Soo Heong, editor-in-chief at Bernama, said, "This is a huge loss for Bernama because he was a committed person and never neglected his duty. He had always shown a high level of professionalism in his work."^{[22][Full citation needed]}

Passengers

Tan Su Lin, a journalist for Astro Awani was sitting in front of Noramfaizul on the front, right-hand corner of the four-wheel-drive vehicle. She remembered this about her colleague, "I always (emphasis from original) teased him and called him ketua darjah (class monitor) as he had a way of keeping everyone in line. I didn't expect it to end this way."^[23]
Also sitting in the front seat in the middle between the driver (left) and Tan (right) was TV journalist Khairulanuar Yahaya. He has so far said that he cannot believe his fellow worker at Bernama TV was killed.
Melissa Ong, TV journalist from NTV7, sat in the same vehicle with Noramfaizul when he was shot. She was positioned in the back seat to the left of Aji (middle) and Noramfaizul (far right). Ong shared this about Noramfaizul, "Our last memory of him was the laughter we shared in the car before the short journey back to our hostel. I will always treasure that. I believe Abang Faizul would want us to continue our good work in Somalia and I would like to return to set up an IDP camp in his honour." ^[24] "Abang" is a respectful, affectionate term, which means "older brother."

Public

Noramfaizul was given a hero's burial at Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Muslim cemetery in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, which is outside of Kuala Lumpur.^[25] In Malaysia, a t-shirt was made as a memorial keepsake that read, "Noramfaizul anda wira kami," which is translated, "Noramfaizul, you are our hero" with "Bernama TV" above the pocket area of the shirt.

After incident

Malacca Governor, Mohd. Khalil Yaakob, during 73rd birthday investiture ceremony, conferred him the posthumous Gallantry Star of Malacca (BGP). His spouse, Norazrina Jaafar, received the posthumous award on behalf of her late husband.^[26]
She thank the Government of Malacca, Malaysia, for recognising him as a hero of Malacca. Her late husband is the first recipient of the BGP award since it was created in 1978.



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Jehangir Sabavala, Indian artist, died he was 89.

Jehangir Sabavala  was an Indian painter died he was 89..

(23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011)

Early life and education

Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala was born to an affluent Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.^[5][6] His mother belonged to the aristocratic Cowasjee Jehangir family. He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai's Sir J. J. School of Art in 1944. Thereafter he went to Europe and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, (1945-47), and in Academie Andre Lhote, Paris (1948-51), the Académie Julian (1953-54), and finally at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1957. 

Career

Sabavala did not allow archives of his 12 scrapbooks on materials from the early 1940s to the 2000 online.^[8] Arun Khopkar's film on Sabavala's life and art, Colours of Absence, won the National Award in 1994.^[9] In 2010, another film about his life was made, The Inheritance of Light: Jehangir Sabavala. His last solo exhibition, 'Ricorso', was held at the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2008.^[10]

Personal life

Jehangir was married to Shirin Dastur, whom he met at the London School of Economics.

Awards

• Padma Shri by the Government of India - 1977 ^[11]
• Lalit Kala Ratna, the Fellowship of Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, by the President of India - 2007

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Bernard William Smith, Australian art historian and critic, died he was 94.

Bernard William Smith was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic died he was 94..
 (3 October 1916 – 2 September 2011)

Smith was born in Balmain, Sydney to Charles Smith and Rose Anne Tierney on 3 October 1916. In 1941, he married his first wife, Kate Challis, who died in 1989. Smith married his second wife, Margaret Forster, in 1995.
Smith was educated at the University of Sydney. Between 1935 and 1944 he taught in the NSW Department of Education. After that he served as an education officer for the Art Gallery of NSW country art exhibitions programme from 1944. In 1948, he won a scholarship to study at the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, University of London. On his return to Australia in 1951, Smith returned to his position at the art gallery. In 1952, Smith was awarded a research scholarship at the newly established Australian National University, where he completed a PhD.
He was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department (1955–1963). In 1959, he convened a group of seven emerging figurative painters known as the Antipodeans, which organised its only exhibition in August 1959. Between 1963 and 1966, he worked as an art critic for The Age newspaper, Melbourne.
In 1967, the Smiths moved to Sydney, where Smith became the founding Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, a position he held until his retirement in 1977.
In 1977, the Smiths returned to Melbourne, and Smith became the president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, until 1980. Later, he was a professorial fellow in the department of Art History at the University of Melbourne.
Smith was a recipient, Chevalier, of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Books

• Place, Taste and Tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788 Sydney: Ure Smith, 1945 (reprinted Melbourne: OUP, 1979)

• A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952 Sydney: The Gallery, 1953

• European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850: a study in the history of art and ideas Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1960 (reprinted 1985)

• Australian Painting Today: The John Murtagh Macrossan memorial lecture, 1961 St. Lucia, Qld: Queensland University Press, 1962

• Australian Painting, 1788-2000 Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1962 (updated 1971; updated 1991 with Terry Smith; & update 2001 with Christopher Heathcote)

• The Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney (with Kate Smith), Sydney: University Co-operative Bookshop Press, 1973 (reprinted 1985)

• Concerning Contemporary Art: the Power lectures, 1968-1973 (ed.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975

• Documents on Art and Taste in Australia: the colonial period, 1770-1914 (ed.) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975

• The Antipodean Manifesto: essays in art and history Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975

• Art as Information: reflections on the art from Captain Cook's voyages Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1979

• The Spectre of Truganini Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1980

• The Boy Adeodatus: the portrait of a lucky young bastard Ringwood, Vic.: Allen Lane, 1984 (reprinted 1985, 1994)

• The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages (with Rüdiger Joppien) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, three volumes, 1985–1987

• The Death of the Artist as Hero: essays in history and culture Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988

• The Art of the First Fleet and Other Early Australian Drawings (eds Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988

• Baudin in Australian Waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800-1804 (eds J. Bonnemains, E. Forsyth and B. Smith) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988

• Terra Australis: the furthest shore (eds W. Eisler and B. Smith) Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1988

• The Critic as Advocate: selected essays 1941-1988 Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 1989

• Imagining the Pacific in the Wake of the Cook Voyages Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992

• Noel Counihan: artist and revolutionary Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

• Poems 1938-1993 Carlton, Vic.: Meanjin, 1996

• Modernism's History: a study in twentieth-century art and ideas New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998

• A Pavane for Another Time Sydney: Macmillan, 2002

• The Formalesque Melbourne: Macmillian, 2007 (forthcoming)

Selected essays and articles

• 'European vision and the south pacific' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 8 (1950) 65-100

• 'Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Cook's second voyage' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 19 (1956) 117-152

• "Art Historical Studies in Australia with Comments on Research and Publication since 1974". Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 12 (1982–83): 44–73. Retrieved 2009-02-18.

• "Sir Joseph Burke, 1913-1992". Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 17 (1992): 46–49. Retrieved 2009-02-19.

• 'Modernism and post-modernism: neo-colonial viewpoint—concerning the sources of modernism and post-modernism in the visual arts' Thesis Eleven 38 (1994) 104-117

• 'Modernism, post-modernism and the formalesque', Editions 20 (1994) 9-11

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Liu Huang A-tao, Taiwanese activist, first comfort woman to sue Japan for compensation, died from a heart attack she was 90.

Liu Huang A-tao was a Taiwanese activist. She was one of thousands of women from Japanese occupied Taiwan who were forced into sexual slavery as comfort women by the Japanese military during World War II died from a heart attack she was 90.. Liu Huang became the first Taiwanese woman to sue the Japanese government for compensation and a public apology in 1999, a move which united her with eight other comfort women survivors.^[1][2] Her public campaign and push for compensation earned her the nickname, Grandma A-tao.^[1][2][3]

World War II captivity

Liu Huang, who was 19 years old at the time, entered into the Japanese nursing corps in 1942 during World War II.^[1][2] She was promised work as a nurse in the medical field for the Japanese forces, but instead was pressed into sexual slavery as a comfort woman for Japanese troops.^[1][3] Liu Huang was sent to Indonesia where she was immediately forced to work at a battlefield brothel as a comfort woman as soon as she departed the transport ship.^[3] She was seriously wounded during heavy fighting just three days after her arrival in Indonesia.^[1][2] Liu Huang had to have a hysterectomy owing to the extent of her injuries.^[1] She survived, but was forced to work as a comfort woman for the Japanese for the next three years despite her extensive wounds.^[2]

Post-War

Liu Huang returned to Taiwan in 1945 after the Surrender of Japan and the end of World War II.^[1] However, she kept experiences as a comfort woman a secret following the war.^[1] Liu Huang married a retired Taiwanese soldier and adopted a child with her husband.^[1] However, her experience as a comfort woman left a deep emotional scar.^[2]

Activism

The experiences of survivors of the comfort women program were largely ignored for decades in post-war Asia.^[3] The issue finally emerged into the public sphere during the 1980s, when a group of survivors in neighboring South Korea filed several lawsuits against the Japanese government.^[3] Documents were uncovered in 1991 which forced the Japanese government to issue an apology and "remorse to all those, irrespective of place of origin, who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable psychological wounds" to Korean comfort women.^[3]
Liu Huang, who had remained largely silent about her own experiences for decades, was encouraged by the actions of the former South Korean comfort women. In 1995, Japan tried to quietly pay former comfort women compensation for war crimes committed against them through a program called the "Asian Women’s Fund."^[1] Most survivors refused the private offer. That same year, Liu Huang, who was inspired by the South Korean legal movement,^[1] began meeting other Taiwanese survivors through the Taipei Women's Foundation, an organization aimed at advocating the rights of former comfort women.^[2]
In 1999, Liu Huang became the first former Taiwanese comfort woman to file an international lawsuit against the Japanese government and publicly demand an apology for her forced imprisonment and sexual slavery during the war.^[2][3] Her lawsuit united her with eight fellow Taiwanese comfort women survivors.^[1] When asked about her experience, she replied, "It is not us, but the Japanese government that should feel ashamed," echoing the slogans of the South Korean women who had sued during the 1980s.^[3]
Each of Liu Huang's lawsuits were dismissed in the Japanese courts,^[3] beginning in 2002 with the loss of her first case.^[1] In an interview about the dismissals, Liu Huang told a journalist, "We are all cherished daughters in the eyes of our parents. Since the Japanese army robbed us of our virginity, it is not too much to demand an apology from such a government."^[3] The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation, which supported Liu Huang, changed tactics and collaborated with legal groups in Japan and South Korea to advocate for legislation in the Diet to address the comfort women's grievances.^[1] The proposal for compensation was introduced to parliament by the Democratic Party of Japan, which was the main opposition party at the time, but the legislation was defeated.^[1][4] Liu Huang's most recent lawsuit was filed in 2010 in Tokyo and the case is still pending, as of September 2011.^[3] Liu Huang died in 2011 having never received an apology from Japan during her lifetime.^[3]
Liu Huang A-tao, or Grandma A-tao, died from a heart attack on September 1, 2011, at the age of 90.^[3] Her death leaves just ten surviving Taiwanese comfort women, who are still waiting for an apology.^[1] Her funeral was held on September 10, 2011, in the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.^[4] The city of Taipei has announced plans to build a memorial to the women in Datong District, Taipei.^[4]


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Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, Bahraini opposition leader, founder of the PFLB and the NDA, died he was 67.

Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi  was a Bahraini politician and opposition leader Kamal Salibi, Lebanese historian,. Al-Nuaimi, who spent more than thirty years in self imposed exile from Bahrain, founded some of the country's most important political opposition groups.

(1943/1944 – September 1, 2011)

He was born in 1944 on Muharraq island to the Sunni Al Nuaim family that has close ties to the traditional ruling circles.^[2] In the 1960s he became increasingly politically active and joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. In 1966 he graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in mechanical engineering.^[2]
He founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain (PFLB), a resistance group, during the 1970s.^[1] The groups was inspired by the Arab Nationalist Movement which was sweeping though the Arab World at the time.^[1]
After a crackdown on the workers' movements at the power station where he was working in 1968, he left Bahrain to live in exile, spending 33 years in Damascus.^[2]
In 2001, al-Nuaimi returned to Bahrain from aboard and re-entered politics.^[1] He founded the National Democratic Action Society (NDA), Bahrain's largest leftist political party, with members of the former PFLB.^[1]
The NDA is also known as the Wa'ad party.^[1] Al-Nuaimi ran for a seat in the Council of Representatives of Bahrain during the 2006 parliamentary election, but lost to a pro-candidate candidate by a small margin.^[1]
Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi suffered from deteriorating health in the mid-2000s. He fell into a coma in April 2007.^[1] He was succeeded as head of the National Democratic Action Society by Ibrahim Sharif.^[1] Al-Nuaimi remained in a coma until his death on September 1, 2011, aged 67.^[1]
His successor as head of the National Democratic Action Society, Ibrahim Sharif, was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2011 following the 2011 Bahraini protests as part of a crackdown on opposition leaders.

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