Sir Leo Hielscher AC, Brisbane State High School 1941
Pre-eminent public servant, past Head of Queensland Treasury, Head of Queensland Investment Corporation, and Queensland Industry Development Corporation (Australia).
The Hon Warwick Raymond Parer, Nudgee College, 1950-1953
The Hon Warwick Raymond Parer was an Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Queensland. Parer became a member of the Senate in 1985, and from March 1996 to October 1998 was Minister for Resources and Energy in John Howard's government.
Hon. William Hayden AC, Brisbane State High School, 1949
William graduated from BSHS in 1949. He had a successful career in parliament from 1961 to 1988, the peak of which was in 1989 when he took up the role of Governor General of Australia.
Sir Llewellyn Roy Edwards AC, Ipswich Grammar School, 1948-51
Qualified as an electrician before entering the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland and after graduation became a doctor in Ipswich. In 1972 he turned to politics and was elected State Member for Ipswich, later serving as Queensland Health Minister, Deputy Premier and Treasurer.
Lloyd McDermott, Anglican Church Grammar School, 1954-57
Lloyd McDermott is an inspirational athlete, barrister and philanthropist and Australia’s first Indigenous athlete to play for the national rugby union team, the Wallabies.
Terrence Anthony "Terry" White, Nudgee College, 1951-1954
An Australian pharmacist, businessman, and former politician. White achieved notoriety when, as Queensland state leader of the Liberal Party he terminated the longstanding coalition agreement between the Liberal Party and the National Party of Joh Bjelke-Petersen.