Adelle Neary is Australia’s next consul-general in Chengdu, and replaces
Christopher Lim. Neary is a career officer with DFAT, and has previously served overseas in Vientiane and Jakarta. In Canberra she has undertaken work associated with the MH17 flight disaster as well as contributing to the work of the Foreign Policy White Paper Taskforce. She has also served as an adviser, international division, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Visitor economy expert panel
Former federal tourism minister
Martin Ferguson has been appointed to lead the new Reimagining the Visitor Economy Expert Panel over the next six months.
Kenton Mast
Jonathan McBride finished his fourth season as the ginner at Bogue Chitto Gin shortly before this photo was taken alongside his son Benjamin. Jonathan McBride has been named the 2021 Southern Cotton Ginners Association Ginner of the year.
The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 11:1 to “Cast your bread upon the waters for you will find it after many days.” Sometimes we find the bread comes back in some unexpected but rewarding ways.
Take Jonathan McBride, for example. Jonathan grew up in Webster County in east Mississippi. His father had a few cows when he was in high school, and he worked for Van Johnson, a Eupora, Miss., row crop farmer who had about 200 head of mama cows and 4,000 head of hogs.