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Pat Fennell

Pat Fennell is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pat Fennell rather than just read about it. In short: Patricia June Fennell (born 1933) is an Australian rural advocate. Throughout her career, Fennell held many roles with various organisations, particularly those pertaining to rural women's health.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Patricia June Fennell (born 1933) is an Australian rural advocate. Throughout her career, Fennell held many roles with various organisations, particularly those pertaining to rural women's health.

Career Fennell has served as a member of the Women's Council for Rural and Regional Women, as a board member of the North Queensland Rural Division of General Practice, and as a member of the National Health Council. She helped establish the Centre for Rural and Remote Health in Mount Isa and is also credited with helping establish a Diploma of Enrolled Nursing Program in Mount Isa. Fennell has also been active in the agricultural sector. She was the first woman to be elected onto the board of the Cattleman's Union of Australia. She later admitted this was a role she didn't particularly enjoy, stating in 2020: "I didn't stay with them very long, I went down for Melbourne for meetings but it was a different kind of committee then what I wanted to be on... There were a lot of very wealthy and great guys on it but they had a different perspective than where I was coming from, which was a big area and hard to run properties, lots of problems with distance and communications whereas in Melbourne, without being rude, they were fairly spoilt". Fennell also served as the president of the union's Mount Isa branch, a role she said she enjoyed more because of being able to better relate to the Queensland graziers who she described as "real people". She has also served as president of Mount Isa's Landcare group. Fennell is credited with establishing the live cattle trade with Indonesia and the Philippines.

Personal life Born in the South West Queensland town of Charleville in 1933 where she was raised, Fennell moved further north following the end of her first marriage. She had originally married another man when she was 18 but it quickly ended in divorce and she became a single mother aged in her early 20's. Fennell said the stigma attached to having a broken marriage affected her but was determined to get over it and "make a fresh start". She eloped and married her childhood friend Mark Fennell in a small ceremony in Blackall in 1959 after which they moved to a remote property called "Linda Downs" near the Northern Territory border. Over a period of 38 years, the couple bought and sold eleven properties before moving to Mount Isa when Fennell was aged 64 where for a time the couple owned the local Ray White Real Estate agency. Fennell and her husband celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in September 2014. Fennell's granddaughter Gillian Fennell is a South Australian cattle producer who has served as a director for the Cattle Council of Australia and as a representative of Livestock South Australia. In 2014, Fennell authored the book, What You Can Do with Twenty Quid. The Fennell's attempted to retire to the coast when they relocated to Bundaberg in 2016 but they returned to Mount Isa in early 2020 where they have stayed.

Awards For her service to rural communities and rural women's issues, Fennell was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001. In 2015, she was named as a Queensland Great. Fennell was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her service to women's health in rural and remote Queensland.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pat Fennell

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pat Fennell claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pat Fennell before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pat Fennell ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pat Fennell

In research: Pat Fennell appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pat Fennell in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pat Fennell is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1933 births, 20th-century Australian farmers, 20th-century Australian women farmers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pat Fennell outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pat Fennell in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Pat Fennell in simple terms?

Patricia June Fennell (born 1933) is an Australian rural advocate. Throughout her career, Fennell held many roles with various organisations, particularly those pertaining to rural women's health.

Why does Pat Fennell matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pat Fennell?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pat Fennell.