# Quentin Bryce
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Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th Governor-General of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the 24th Governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008.Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Bryce was raised in Ilfracombe, with her family subsequently living in a number of country towns around Australia. She attended the University of Queensland, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, becoming one of the first women accepted to the Queensland Bar.
Betty Churcher Memorial Oration: Dame Quentin Bryce
Painter, teacher, art critic, television host, author and gallery director, Betty Churcher AO (1931-2015) was part of the lifeblood of the visual arts in Australia. While her father believed ‘education spoiled a girl’, Churcher fought to complete her studies, further her education in London, and to…
S14E10 Juliet Rieden: "Quentin Bryce always has an attitude of 'why not?' that leads..."
Dame Quentin Bryce is a trailblazer, feminist, reformer, and Australia’s first female Governor-General. Our guest Juliet Rieden, the author of Quentin Bryce: The Authorised Biography, unpacks not just Quentin’s career achievements, but the values and practices that define her intentions and made he…
Best Biographies
In a first for Life Sentences, host Caroline Baum welcomes a panel of four Australian biographers to discuss the biographies they have read and enjoyed recently.
-Ryan Butta chooses Anthony Sharwood’s hybrid travelogue biography of Polish freedom fighter Tadeusz Kosciusko and also mentions Didion …
Why We Must Say and Do Something – A Conversation with Bob Atkinson AO APM
Why We Must Say and Do Something – A Conversation with Bob Atkinson AO APM*
In this episode of The Voice of Survivors, host Nicci Heath is joined by Bob Atkinson AO APM, former Queensland Police Commissioner and Patron of Broken to Brilliant.
With a career spanning 44 years in the Queensland Poli…
Australian Shorts Episode 02 Mirandi Riwoe
Episode 2 of Australian Shorts features Mirandi Riwoe. Mirandi’s short stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories.
Her collection of short stories and novellas, titled The Burnished Sun won the 2022 UQP Quentin Br…
The Very Model of a Modern Governor General
Authorised biographies, especially of those in high office, tend to suffer from being overly respectful if not downright deferential. But in the case of Juliet Rieden’s authorised biography of Quentin Bryce, the first female Governor General of Australia, authorisation means co-operation without ed…
Our First Female Governor-General: Dame Quentin Bryce, and her Biographer Juliet Rieden
Dame Quentin Bryce has lived a life of firsts; she was our first female Governor-General, the first women accepted to the Queensland Bar, and the first woman to be appointed to the faculty at T. C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, to name a few. And we're lucky enough to have t…
Australian Fashion Week returns to Sydney harbour
Australian Fashion Week returns for 2026 with a new venue at Circular Quay, showcasing more than 200 designers to international buyers. The opening night features an iconic runway show by Sydney label Carla Zampatti, attended by politicians including Gladys Berejiklian and Dame Quentin Bryce, along…
Interview with Juliet Rieden at Words on the Waves 2026
At Words on the Waves 2026, Ed and Amanda spoke to journalist and royal correspondent, Juliet Rieden, about her biography of Australia’s first female Attorney General, Dame Quentin Bryce.
Juliet shared what it was like to wrangle Dame Quentin’s extensive personal archive, along with insights into h…
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