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Reginald Halse was the Bishop of Riverina from 1925-1943 and Archbishop of Brisbane from 1943-1962.

Outback Patrol is an evangelistic organisation founded by Les Nixon in 1961. They coordinate small teams of volunteers to travel by plane to outback communities and conduct evangelistic meetings with music, drama and puppet shows.

Les Nixon was a pilot, photographer and evangelist who founded Outback Patrol. He joined Open Air Campaigners in 1947 and played the accordion. In 1954 he attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1955 he married Martha Chastain and in 1959 they travelled across Australia with the Billy Graham Crusades. He founded Outback Patrol in 1961.

Ken Short AO was born in Kenya on July 6, 1927. He spent 3 years in the army, including two years as Commander Lieutenant with the Commonwealth Occupying Forces in Japan, from 1946-1948. He studied at Moore College from 1949-1951. He was ordained in 1952 and served in the parishes of Mosman and Pittwater before missionary service in what was then Tanganyika (later Tanzania). On his return, he served as General Secretary of CMS and then had as rector of Vaucluse from 1971-1975. He was consecrated as bishop in 1975 and served as Bishop of Wollongong until 1982, then Bishop of Parramatta from 1982-1989. He was concurrently Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 1979-1989, and Army Chaplain General from 1979-1981. In 1988 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. He retired in 1992.
References: https://www.smh.com.au/national/ken-short-obituary-trusted-bishop-and-family-man-with-a-gift-for-counsel-20141112-11kwz9.html https://sydneyanglicans.net/news/sydneys-elder-statesman-dies

The mission of the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association Limited is to foster the study of theology and religion by enhancing the development of theological and religious libraries and librarianship (https://www.anztla.org/about-anztla). It was formed in 1986, out of the Association for Theological and Religious Studies Libraries. It consists of a Board and regional chapters (NSW, Vic, QLD, SA, WA, NZ). Its main activities are an annual conference, scholarship schemes for librarians in the South Pacific, and the publication of the ANZTLA ejournal, the Australasian Religion Index and the Australian Union List of Theological Serials. It has also produced Standards and a Style Manual for theological libraries. It has close ties with ATLA (formerly the American Theological Library Association).