QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

SAGSE Queensland – exchanging students for over 40 years

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“Servus!” – Greetings: Wolfgang at your service

Mephisto’s amphibious recovery – dedicated QM team effort Lyrical Leichhardt (IV) – “The dreaming wanderers of the wilderness”

Multicultural Affairs Queensland

Part 6 Economic growth

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Imkerei Kriege – beekeeping wars

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Metallurgical interests in the far north – Queensland’s mining industry Fred Zaack’s family business – injecting innovation in engineering Benfers rule the roost – counting chickens on Mount Cotton

The men who moved mountains: Thiess Brothers Russ Hinze – Queensland’s “Colossus of Roads”

Sir Sydney Schubert – grand visions become great projects Erik Finger – Main Roads Commissioner and Honorary Consul Sir Leo Hielscher ac – a lifetime’s service to Queensland Hochtief: standing behind Australia – underwater and overhead

Griffith University profiles

Thiess today

Walter Sommer oam – war refugee turned master builder

Thiess profile

Brisbane BMW and Westside BMW milestones Martin Albrecht ac – a pillar of best-practice leadership GABA – 30 years doing business in Queensland

Liebherr profile

Part 7 An energetic future

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Riding the Crest – “What you put in, you get out”

FEATURE: QUT changing lives

Research collaboration to improve human health Ultrasound and health services research Sharing expertise to improve cancer research Science, engineering, academic and industry links Australian Aerospace – leading supplier of helicopters Queensland International Fellowships Siemens: Technology for a sustainable future

The lure of Wolfram

FEATURE: UQ – global reputation, longstanding links

Two-way exchange visits Growing solar bio-fuels UQ Alumnus in Germany Unlocking brain disorders

SCRAMSPACE! – the next frontier

Professor Paul Colditz

The German underground – Brisbane being bored

Life Sciences Queensland

Trade and tourism – aktuelle Daten Dancing with an angel – DB Schenker

Deutsches Auswanderer Haus – Emigration Museum, Bremerhaven

The ‘Hamburg Season’ – QPAC In conversation – Detlef Sulzer

About the GACCQ

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