Two more Pearl Beach associates are Honoured

Graeme Hughes AM

Graeme Hughes AM

Associate Professor Graeme Jackson Hughes of Pearl Beach has been appointed an AM for significant service to medicine in the field of fertility.  He has been clinical director of IVF Australia (Virtus Health) since 2002 and while he is now semi-retired, he still misses delivering babies.  The Graeme Hughes Birthing Room at the Royal Hospital for Women Randwick was named in his honour.

Born in in Sydney, he studied medicine at the University of NSW and decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology.  He worked for six years in Scotland before returning to Australia for a lectureship back at UNSW and the position of visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wales Private Hospital.  He ran the Ovulation Induction Clinic and then pioneered an IVF clinic with colleagues which became IVF Australia.

Anthony David Buckley AO

Anthony David Buckley AO

Anthony David Buckley AM of Point Clare was appointed an AO for distinguished service to the cinematic arts as a producer, director and editor, and to film preservation.  At 88 years of age, he has a long and impressive list of achievements which have been recognised over the years with a multitude of prizes and awards, including the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1977.

His contribution to the growth of Australian filmmaking includes working on films such as Caddie, Bliss, Oyster Farmer (set on the Hawkesbury River), The Irishman, Jessica and The Killing of Angel Street and television series including The Harp in the South, Celluloid Heroes and Man on the Rim, to name just a few.  Buckley has been heavily involved with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and other significant organisations involved with the preservation of films.

Anthony is know to Pearl beach due to his association with the Cinema Club, where he showed two of his films to our Cinema Club (as the Producer) The Oyster Farmer and Caddy.