Michael Bryce Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Design at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), the School of Design and Architecture at the University of Canberra and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. He retired from Minale Bryce in September 2008, following his wife's appointment as Governor-General of Australia. The day after her swearing-in, he announced he would be selling his design practice in order to avoid "any breath of conflict of interests". In 2010 Bryce became Patron of the Australian Institute of Architects. At university
Governors of the Australian states as Governor of Victoria in 2015. South Australia was also the first state to appoint a woman as governor, when Dame Roma Mitchell took office in 1991. With the appointment of Penelope Wensley in July 2008, Queensland has had three female governors, more than any other state. Queensland is also the only state to have had two female governors in succession (Wensley succeeded Quentin Bryce). South Australia has had two female governors, and New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia one each. The Northern Territory, the only mainland territory to have an administrator, has had one female administrator (Sally