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Portrait of Adam Bandt

Adam Bandt

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Adam Bandt is a Greens MP and the Federal Member for Melbourne. He was elected in 2010 when he made history by becoming the first Greens MP elected to the…
Portrait of Adam Briggs

Adam Briggs

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Adam Briggs, who performs as Briggs, is an Indigenous Australian rapper, record label owner, comedy writer, and actor. Briggs became well known as a solo rapper, signing with Golden Era Records in 2009, before co-founding the…
Portrait of Adam Browne

Adam Browne

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Adam Browne was born in 1963 and lives in Melbourne, Australia with his daughter, Harriet. His stories have been published widely. Pyrotechnicon: Being a True Account of Cyrano De Bergarac’s…
Portrait of Alan Boulton

Alan Boulton

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Justice Alan Boulton is a Senior Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission (FWC).
Portrait of Alan Brough

Alan Brough

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Alan Brough was born in New Zealand and is quite a bit older than he'd like to be. Alan has always loved books and, from an early age, wanted to…
Portrait of Alexander Bennetts

Alexander Bennetts

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Alexander Bennetts is a writer and editor, who studies Creative Writing at RMIT in Melbourne. His work has been published in The Lifted Brow, Stilts, Funny Ha Ha …
Portrait of Alice Bishop

Alice Bishop

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Alice Bishop grew up in Christmas Hills, a town ravaged by the Black Saturday bushfires. A Constant Hum, her much-anticipated debut, was commended by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award…
Portrait of Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel is the creator of the award-winning comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. She is also the author of the ground-breaking graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family…
Portrait of Alistair Baldwin

Alistair Baldwin

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Alistair Baldwin is a writer and comedian based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has written for ABC’s The Weekly, Hard Quiz and Get Krack!n (the latter of which he also stars…

Allan Browne

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Allan Browne is one of Australia’s most acclaimed jazz drummers and band leaders, having collaborated with many of the great names in jazz. In the 1960s he established the Red…
Portrait of Amber Beilharz

Amber Beilharz

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Amber Beilharz’s stories have been published in Hunger Mountain, antiTHESIS and Voiceworks, and shortlisted for the Judith Rodriguez Prize in 2010. She has also edited Verandah 25 and…
Portrait of Amie Batalibasi

Amie Batalibasi

Amie Batalibasi is an Australian Solomon Islander (Kosi/Feralimae) writer, director, producer and the 2017 Merata Mita Fellow through the Sundance Institute Native American and Indigenous Film Program. 
Portrait of Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

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Portrait of Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes

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Andrew Barnes is Director of the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). As well as managing Australia’s bilateral relationships with the…
Portrait of Andrew Boe

Andrew Boe

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Andrew Boe is a barrister with chambers in Sydney and Brisbane. He was involved in cases which attracted some public attention including R v Ivan Milat (serial killer); R v…
Portrait of Andrew Bovell

Andrew Bovell

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Andrew Bovell is one of Australia’s most talented and celebrated writers for the stage and screen, best known for his multi-award winning feature Lantana.
Portrait of Andrew Broad

Andrew Broad

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Panel Member: Andrew Broad is President of the Victorian Farmers Federation. He was the recipient of an Australia Day Award in recognition of community service.
Portrait of Andy Butler

Andy Butler

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Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. His writing on art and politics has been published widely, including in the Monthly, the Saturday Paper, Art + Australia…
Portrait of Ange Barry

Ange Barry

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Ange Barry is the Chief Executive Officer of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Ange joined Stephanie Alexander in August 2006 to manage the growth of the organisation and to…
Portrait of Angela Betzien

Angela Betzien

Angela Betzien is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter and the co-founder of Real TV. Her plays, including The Hanging, Egg, Helicopter, Mortido, The Dark Room and Hoods have premiered at major theatre…
Portrait of Angelita Biscotti

Angelita Biscotti

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Angelita Sofia Biscotti is a Spanish-Filipino-Australian fine-art model, photo artist and writer who used to publish work under the name Angela Serrano, and tweet as @angelita_serra. She was a 2017 Hot…
Portrait of Anita Barraud

Anita Barraud

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Anita Barraud is the producer of ABC RN’s Law Report, and has worked at the ABC for almost 30 years as a journalist, producer and presenter. Barraud has produced and presented Radio…
Portrait of Anna Barnes

Anna Barnes

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Anna Barnes is an award-winning playwright and author. Her book Girl! The Ultimate Guide To Being You (Penguin, 2012) was named one of the 2013 Eva Pownall Notable Books by…
Portrait of Anna Bass

Anna Bass

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Dancer Anna Bass joined Monica Bill Barnes and Company in 2003. She has performed Barnes’s work all over the US, and on stages ranging from public fountains and city parks…
Portrait of Anna Bligh

Anna Bligh

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In March 2009, Anna Bligh made history as the first woman to lead a party to victory in a State election in Australia. She is now the CEO of the…
Portrait of Anna Brown

Anna Brown

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Anna’s fingerprints are on nearly every major reform for LGBTI people in recent years with her work at the Human Rights Law Centre. Most recently, she played a critical role…
Portrait of Anna Brownfield

Anna Brownfield

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Award-winning feminist erotic filmmaker Anna Brownfield has gained extensive media attention for the originality of her work.
Portrait of Anna Burke

Anna Burke

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Anna Burke was the elected representative for the Victorian electoral division of Chisholm in the Australian Parliament from 1998 until 2016; she served as the Speaker of the House of…
Portrait of Anne Buist

Anne Buist

Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She has thirty years’ experience in perinatal psychiatry, and works with the legal system in cases…
Portrait of Anne Buist

Anne Buist

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Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and has over 25 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry. She works with Protective…
Portrait of Anthony Bubalo

Anthony Bubalo

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Anthony Bubalo is the Research Director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is also the Director of the West Asia Program covering the Middle East, Central and Southwest…
Portrait of Antoinette Braybrook

Antoinette Braybrook

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Antoinette Braybrook is the CEO of the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria), a position she has held since the service was established 14 years ago…
Portrait of Anton Blank

Anton Blank

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Anton Blank (Ngati Porou/Ngati Kahungunu) is a Maori editor and writer who lives in Auckland. He is interested in indigenous cultural identities, the politics of gender and sexuality – and…
Portrait of Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor

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Antony Beevor’s books include Crete (Runciman Prize) Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson, Wolfson and Hawthornden Prizes); Berlin; The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia); D-Day (RUSI Westminster Medal); The Second World War;…
Portrait of Aretha Brown

Aretha Brown

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In 2017, Aretha Brown delivered an impassioned speech at the Invasion Day Rally in Melbourne, fighting to make Indigenous history education mainstream. Her delivery and ideas led her to be…
Portrait of Arthur Bolkas

Arthur Bolkas

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Arthur Bolkas is a 2019 Next Chapter recipient. Raised on welfare in a Greek migrant family, Arthur was school captain and dux of his final year. However, in the fourth…
Portrait of Ashley Bush

Ashley Bush

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Professor Ashley Bush is a practising psychiatrist and an NHMRC Australia Fellow, and co-director of Biomarker Discovery for the Australian Imaging Biomarker and Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing. He holds an…
Portrait of Asma Barlas

Asma Barlas

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Asma Barlas is a distinguished scholar and an outspoken and esteemed public intellectual, recognised as such in Europe and the US. She has written and spoken eloquently against Western misreadings…
Portrait of Barbara Baikie

Barbara Baikie

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Barbara has over 20 years experience working at all levels of government across three jurisdictions, including at the senior executive level. This includes areas such as juvenile justice, disabilities, child…
Portrait of Bas Bottcher

Bas Bottcher

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Bas Böttcher is one of the best known slam and rap poets.
Portrait of Ben Barren

Ben Barren

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Ben Barren is founder of SocialDesk.com.au, which develops new types of performance social advertising and is an expert in tracking brands in social media. Ben has 20 years’ experience in…
Portrait of Ben Birchall

Ben Birchall

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Ben Birchall is a writer, broadcaster and creative director who has worked in radio, advertising and digital publishing. He hosted 3RRR FM’s Breakfasters from 2009-2012 and is currently the host…
Portrait of Ben Byrne

Ben Byrne

Dr Ben Byrne is a scholar dedicated to sonic art, media and culture. He is also a practicing experimental musician and curator. He currently teaches in Media and Communication at…
Portrait of Bernadette Brennan

Bernadette Brennan

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Bernadette Brennan is an academic and researcher in contemporary Australian writing, literature and ethics. She is the author of a number of publications, including a monograph on Brian Castro and…
Portrait of Beth Buchanan

Beth Buchanan

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Over the last 30 years Beth Buchanan has worked extensively as an actor in Television, Film and Theatre.
Portrait of Bill Birnbauer

Bill Birnbauer

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Bill Birnbauer is an award-winning journalist and journalism academic. He worked for more than three decades as a reporter and editor at the Age and Sunday Age before moving to…
Portrait of Bill Browder

Bill Browder

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Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice.  William Browder was the largest foreign…
Portrait of Bob Birrell

Bob Birrell

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Professor Bob Birrell is the director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University in Melbourne.
Portrait of Bob Brown

Bob Brown

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Bob Brown resigned as leader of the Greens in 2012 and from the Australian Senate in June 2012. Brown led the Australian Greens from the party's foundation in 1992 until April…
Portrait of Briony Barr

Briony Barr

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Briony Barr is a visual artist whose practice investigates individual and collaborative rule-based drawing. As an extension of her individual process-based methodology, she regularly collaborates with scientists, as well as…
Portrait of Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett

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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award…
Portrait of Bron Batten

Bron Batten

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Bron Batten is a Melbourne based theatre-maker and performer. She has worked with artists such as post, My Darling Patricia, The Sisters Grimm and Willoh S. Weiland and companies like…
Portrait of Cameron Baker

Cameron Baker

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Cameron Baker is a writer and illustrator. He writes and publishes a zine called MOTE, which he started when he was fifteen. It's now in its fourteenth issue.
Portrait of Candy Bowers

Candy Bowers

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Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, social-activist, comedian and producer. The co-artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of hip hop theatre that delves…
Portrait of Carmel Bird

Carmel Bird

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Carmel Bird is an Australian fiction writer who has written ten novels and six collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel is Child of the Twilight.
Portrait of Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum

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Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and presenter.  She has worked for the BBC, ABC, Time Life Books, Vogue magazine (UK and Australia), was the founding editor of Good Reading…
Portrait of Caroline Brothers

Caroline Brothers

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Caroline Brothers is a journalist and novelist.
Portrait of Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein

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Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer and actor who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Sleater-Kinney and later as a creator, writer and…
Portrait of Carsten Beyer

Carsten Beyer

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Carsten Beyer is a Berlin based radio host, producer and reporter.
Portrait of Casey Bennetto

Casey Bennetto

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Casey Bennetto is an award-winning writer, musician and radio broadcaster. He wrote the musical KEATING!, hosts the program Superfluity on Melbourne’s 3RRR, and has appeared in places as diverse…
Portrait of Casey Briggs

Casey Briggs

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Casey Briggs is a journalist with ABC News, covering far north Queensland for television, radio and online. He was an editor of the University of Adelaide’s student paper On Dit…
Portrait of Cath Bowtell

Cath Bowtell

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Cath Bowtell is the Labor candidate for Melbourne in the Federal Election.
Portrait of Charles Brass

Charles Brass

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Charles Brass is currently the chair of the Futures Foundation, a future-focused organisation which all Australians are welcome to join. Previously he spent over 15 years in Human Resources Management…
Portrait of Chloe Black

Chloe Black

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Chloe began her stand-up career in Adelaide (at the famed Rhino Room) over 18 years ago. She was a Raw Comedy National Finalist in 2001, although she may have performed…
Portrait of Chris Barrie

Chris Barrie

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Professor Admiral Chris Barrie is Honorary Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He retired in 2002 after 42 years in the…
Portrait of Chris Bonnor

Chris Bonnor

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Chris Bonnor AM is a retired secondary school principal and author.
Portrait of Chris Bowen

Chris Bowen

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Chris Bowen was elected to federal parliament as Member for Prospect in 2004 and McMahon in 2010. He was appointed to the federal Labor Party’s frontbench as the Shadow Assistant…
Portrait of Christine Bryden

Christine Bryden

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For most of her adult life, Christine had a brilliant career as a biochemist, working in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK, for the CSIRO in Australia and then as…
Portrait of Christine Burrows

Christine Burrows

Christine Burrows is a Melbourne poet, originally from New Zealand. Her recent work, which has appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals, is often confronting, exploring diverse aspects…
Portrait of Christopher Bryant

Christopher Bryant

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Christopher Bryant is a Griffin Award nominated playwright (Home Invasion, 2015), performer, and NIDA graduate (Master of Fine Arts (Writing for Performance), 2014). He has worked with a…
Portrait of Clare Bartholomew

Clare Bartholomew

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Clare Bartholomew has been performing, writing and producing new work in Australia and overseas for 17 years. She teaches clown master classes, has been a clown doctor working in children’s…
Portrait of Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch

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Clare Bowditch is a singer, writer, and master storyteller, who first began performing in Melbourne pubs when she was 16. Seven albums later, Clare has toured the country a million…
Portrait of Clem Bastow

Clem Bastow

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Clem Bastow is an award-winning cultural critic and cake-baker. Her work appears in the Saturday Paper and Guardian, and she co-presents Superfluity on 3RRR. In 2017 she co-presented the…
Portrait of Colin Batrouney

Colin Batrouney

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Colin Batrouney is a Melbourne-based writer. His second novel, Creative Writing for Beginners, is published by Affirm Press in 2013. He has occasionally worked in professional theatre as both…
Portrait of Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett

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‘I’m not your mother, I’m not your bitch.’ Since her debut album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett has been celebrated as one…
Portrait of Dani Boi / Dani Weber

Dani Boi / Dani Weber

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Dani Boi is a genderfluid dragtivist. Dani began performing and speaking out on LGBTQIA+ rights while living in San Francisco, and since returning to Melbourne has performed at a variety…
Portrait of Daniel Bergner

Daniel Bergner

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Daniel Bergner is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Portrait of Daniel Bowen

Daniel Bowen

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Daniel Bowen is president of the Public Transport Users Association.
Portrait of Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning

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Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal journalist, radio broadcaster, sound artist and writer. Currently, he is produces and presents Awaye!, the Indigenous art and culture program on the ABC’s specialist journalism and…
Portrait of Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks is a writer and reviewer at Alpha Reader. You can tweet her: @danielle_binks.
Portrait of David Blood

David Blood

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Keynote Speaker: David Blood is Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a fund management business dedicated to long-term investment and integrated sustainability research.
Portrait of David Bridie

David Bridie

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Seven-time ARIA award-winning songwriter and composer David Bridie has enjoyed a distinguished career as one of Australia’s most innovative musicians.
Portrait of Davina Bell

Davina Bell

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Davina Bell is a writer from Western Australia. She is the author of the award-winning picture book The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, which won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award…
Portrait of Dawn Barker

Dawn Barker

Dawn Barker is the author of two novels: Fractured, which was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, and Let Her Go. Her non-fiction has appeared in Essential…
Portrait of Des Bishop

Des Bishop

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Des Bishop is currently touring Australia with his stand-up show and is a guest of this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Portrait of Dominic Brine

Dominic Brine

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Dominic Brine is a broadcaster who presents ABC Ballarat’s breakfast program.
Portrait of Duncan Ball

Duncan Ball

Duncan Ball is the author of many works of children's fiction, including the award-winning Selby and  Emily Eyefinger series, various picture books, five novels, a book of plays (This…
Portrait of Elida Brereton

Elida Brereton

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Elida Brereton is a teacher, school principal and educational consultant and leader. Brereton has spent 43 years as teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal in the Victorian government school system, with nearly…
Portrait of Eliza Baker

Eliza Baker

Eleven-year-old Eliza Baker is an emerging writer from East Malvern, Victoria.
Portrait of Eliza Berlage

Eliza Berlage

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Eliza Berlage is a research assistant and podcast producer for Michelle Grattan at the Conversation. She has worked for the Walkley Foundation, 2SER and 2GB. She thinks a lot about…
Portrait of Elizabeth Broderick

Elizabeth Broderick

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Elizabeth Broderick is the current Sex Discrimination Commissioner and leader of the Commission’s Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force. Broderick is Global Co-Chair of the Women’s Empowerment Principles…
Portrait of Emilie Zoey Baker

Emilie Zoey Baker

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Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning poet, teacher and spoken-word performer who has toured internationally. She was a fellow at the State Library of Victoria, coordinator of the Australian National…
Portrait of Emily Bell

Emily Bell

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Emily Bell is founding director of Columbia University’s highly respected Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and a leading authority on digital journalism. Before establishing the Center in 2010, Bell worked…
Portrait of Emily Bitto

Emily Bitto

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Emily Bitto has a Masters in Literature and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her debut novel, The Strays, was shortlisted for the 2013 Victorian…
Portrait of Ender Baskan

Ender Baskan

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Ender Baskan studies professional writing & editing at RMIT. He is the recipient of a 2014/15 Marten Bequest travelling scholarship for prose and a 2014 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
Portrait of Eric Beecher

Eric Beecher

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Portrait of Ezra Bix

Ezra Bix

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In the last two years Ezra has won regional heats and the Victorian state final of the Australian Poetry Slam and has come third and second in the national final…
Portrait of Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto

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'Millions of women suffer but they also struggle, they resist and fight. Pakistan is a harsh country, an unfair country, but it also produces women with extraordinary spirit.' Fatima Bhutto…
Portrait of Fee B-Squared

Fee B-Squared

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A chance encounter with 3RRRFM on a school bus in the 1980s started an enduring love affair with the ground-breaking community radio station that has made Fee B-Squared one of…
Portrait of Felix Briggs

Felix Briggs

Felix Briggs is a Melbourne based student and slam poet. He has been part of a poetry and Q+A panel in collaboration with the Stella Prize as well as competed…
Portrait of Finn Bradshaw

Finn Bradshaw

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Finn Bradshaw is Online Sport Editor at the Herald Sun.
Portrait of Frank Brennan

Frank Brennan

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Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest, professor of law at the Australian Catholic University, and adjunct professor at the College of Law and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at…
Portrait of Geetha Balakrishnan

Geetha Balakrishnan

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Geetha Balakrishnan is a fiction writer from Sydney, Australia, whose work explores issues of race, gender, exile, and loss in the legacy of colonialism. Her work is deeply influenced by her Sri…
Portrait of Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey

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Professor Geoffrey Blainey's first book was completed when he was in his early twenties. Since then he has written another thirty-five, including Triumph of the Nomads, The Rush That…
Portrait of Geoffrey Bloch

Geoffrey Bloch

Geoffrey Bloch is a barrister. He practises in the fields of commercial, property and contract law. He studied at Yeshiva in Israel, visits Israel regularly and maintains an interest in…
Portrait of Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

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Geoffrey Brahm Levey was the foundation director of the UNSW Program in Jewish Studies. He is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences. His current…
Portrait of Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

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Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydney's western suburbs.  In 1982 she won a scholarship to the journalism master's program at Columbia University in New…
Portrait of Graeme Base

Graeme Base

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Graeme Base is an international award-winning picture book creator and bestselling author.
Portrait of Greg Barns

Greg Barns

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Greg Barns is a barrister and writer. He practices in the areas of criminal law, administrative law and family law and is a member of the Tasmanian, Victorian and WA Bars. Greg…
Portrait of Greg Barton

Greg Barton

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Greg Barton is the Herb Feith Research Professor for the Study of Indonesia in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, based in the Politics program in the School of…
Portrait of Han Bennink

Han Bennink

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For almost five decades, Han Bennink has been recognised as one of the world’s most uniquely versatile and innovative drummers.
Portrait of Honey Brown

Honey Brown

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Honey Brown lives in country Victoria, Australia, with her husband and two children. She began writing in 2000 and is the author of six critically acclaimed novels. Her first novel …
Portrait of Hugh Bradlow

Hugh Bradlow

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Hugh S. Bradlow is Chief Technology Officer for Telstra and is responsible for investigating the future technologies that will impact Telstra’s business.
Portrait of Ian Brown

Ian Brown

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Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and father.
Portrait of Ingrid Baring

Ingrid Baring

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Ingrid Baring is a Melbourne writer, performer and poet. Currently she is working on her manuscript, White Safa – a memoir that investigates the legacy of her early childhood in…
Portrait of Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt

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Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician and author of the memoir Even Silence Has an End, was held hostage from 2002 to 2008 by FARC rebels.
Portrait of Ita Buttrose

Ita Buttrose

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Ita Buttrose became the first woman to ever edit a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia when she was appointed editor-in-chief of News Limited‘s Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She…
Portrait of Jaclyn Booton

Jaclyn Booton

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Jaclyn Booton is the Executive Director of the Stella Prize. She has over 15 years’ experience in the cultural sector, with a focus on the performing arts and literary events. She…
Portrait of James Boyce

James Boyce

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James Boyce is the author of 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, published in July by Black Inc., and of Van Diemen’s Land, which…
Portrait of James Bradley

James Bradley

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James Bradley is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus…
Portrait of James Brown

James Brown

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James Brown is the author of ANZAC’s Long Shadow: the cost of our national obsession.
Portrait of James Button

James Button

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James Button is a former journalist and speechwriter.
Portrait of Jane Burns

Jane Burns

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Associate Professor Jane Burns is the founder and CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, an organisation that unites young people with researchers, practitioners and innovators to explore…
Portrait of Janet Butler

Janet Butler

Dr Janet Butler is an Honorary Associate in the History Program at La Trobe University, in Melbourne, Australia.
Portrait of Janice Breen Burns

Janice Breen Burns

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Veteran journalist Janice Breen Burns is editor of Voxfrock, the fashion and pop culture blogzine she founded in 2013. For 19 years she was a renowned columnist, features writer,…
Portrait of Janine Burke

Janine Burke

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Janine Burke is an art historian, biographer, novelist and freelance curator.
Portrait of Jarni Blakkarly

Jarni Blakkarly

Jarni Blakkarly is a freelance journalist and radio producer currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He's worked in Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia across a range of local and international publications and networks…
Portrait of Jason Ball

Jason Ball

Jason Ball is a social entrepreneur and LGBTIQ advocate best known for his work tackling homophobia in the AFL. Jason's story was the inspiration behind the AFL's Pride Game between…
Portrait of Jason Bosland

Jason Bosland

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Jason Bosland is deputy director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches communications and intellectual property law. He holds degrees from the…
Portrait of Jax Jacki Brown

Jax Jacki Brown

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‘We must adopt an intersectional approach to understanding the experiences of the LGBTIQA+ community with disabilities. Intersectionality provides us with a political framework to understand how multiple forms of discrimination…
Portrait of Jay Bahadur

Jay Bahadur

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Jay Bahadur is a Canadian freelance journalist who has published articles in The Times, The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Globe and Mail.
Portrait of Jean Bachoura

Jean Bachoura

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Jean Bachoura is an inaugural recipient of the Wheeler Centre’s scheme for writers, The Next Chapter. His work is reflective of a life lived between cultures: born in Damascus, raised…
Portrait of Jeannine Baker

Jeannine Baker

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Jeannine Baker is a historian and documentary maker, and is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.
Portrait of Jennifer Byrne

Jennifer Byrne

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Jennifer Byrne is a senior journalist and broadcaster who has worked in all arms of the media: print, radio and television Having done her cadetship at the Age and worked…
Portrait of Jill Baker

Jill Baker

Jill Baker is the editor of the Sunday Herald Sun at Herald and Weekly Times. Jill has worked as a journalist at the Australian, the Age, and …
Portrait of Joan Beaumont

Joan Beaumont

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Professor Joan Beaumont is a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU).
Portrait of Joanne Brookfield

Joanne Brookfield

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Journalist, writer, comedian, producer, publicist; in one way or another Joanne Brookfield has spent her entire career moving within the world of comedy, so it makes complete sense that her…
Portrait of Joel Bowden

Joel Bowden

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Joel Bowden played for the Richmond Tigers and has been president of the AFL Players Association.
Portrait of Joey Black

Joey Black

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Joey started writing stories around the same time she stopped playing with her beanie kids. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and History from the University of…
Portrait of Joey Bui

Joey Bui

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Joey Bui is a Vietnamese Australian writer. She graduated from NYU Abu Dhabi, where she completed her first collection of short stories, Lucky Ticket, based on interviews with Vietnamese…
Portrait of John Birmingham

John Birmingham

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John Birmingham is the author of the cult classic He Died With a Felafel in His Hand and most recently the thriller, Without Warning.
Portrait of John Brumby

John Brumby

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The Hon John Brumby is former Premier of Victoria (2007–2010). He served for more than ten years as Treasurer and then Premier of Victoria, six years as leader of the…
Portrait of John Byron

John Byron

John Byron grew up in Sydney and studied medicine there before switching to the humanities, in the interest of the public’s safety. He earned degrees in English from the Universities…
Portrait of Johnny Baker

Johnny Baker

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Johnny Baker is a Melbourne-based businessman who has held a number of leadership positions in the Melbourne Jewish community. A graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he is a…
Portrait of Jon Barnett

Jon Barnett

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Panel Member: Dr. Jon Barnett is a political geographer and Australian Research Council Fellow at Melbourne University.
Portrait of Jon Bauer

Jon Bauer

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Jon Bauer is originally from Surrey, England, but has been a permanent resident in Australia under a Distinguished Talent visa since 2009.
Portrait of Jordan Bass

Jordan Bass

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Jordan Bass is the managing editor of McSweeney’s Publishing, where he’s helped to edit and design dozens of books, both fiction and non-fiction, since 2004.
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Josh Bornstein

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Josh has been the head of the National Employment and Industrial Relations group at Maurice Blackburn lawyers since 1997. In that capacity he has represented a large number of unions…
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J.R. Brennan

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J.R. Brennan is a performer, creative producer/director and composer. He has worked in Australia, Brazil, USA, UK, Germany and Poland, producing original works in theatre, music and contemporary performance In recent…
Portrait of Judith Brett

Judith Brett

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Judith Brett is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. A former editor of Meanjin and columnist for the Age, she won the National Biography Award in 2018 for The…
Portrait of Julia Baird

Julia Baird

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Julia Baird is an author, broadcaster and journalist. She has recently returned from the United States, where she worked as a columnist and deputy editor of Newsweek.
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Julian Burnside

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Julian Burnside AO QC is an Australian barrister who specialises in commercial litigation and is also deeply involved in human rights work, in particular in relation to refugees.

Karen Burns

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Dr Karen Burns lectures in the Department of Architecture at Monash University (Caulfield).
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Kate Belle

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Kate Belle is an author of challenging love stories. The Yearning and Being Jade (Simon & Schuster) received rave reviews Her short story, 'Cool Change', won the 2011 Southern Cross…
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Kate Ben-Tovim

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Kate Ben-Tovim has been a creative producer for Oz Fest India, Arts Centre Melbourne, London Cultural Olympiad and more. In 2014 she was named a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow and…
Portrait of Kate Blackwood

Kate Blackwood

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Katerina Bryant

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Katerina Bryant is a writer, editor and law student based in Adelaide. She writes mostly nonfiction, with an emphasis on women and pop culture. She is currently a fortnightly columnist…
Portrait of Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo

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Katherine Boo, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has spent the last 20 years reporting from within poor communities, considering how societies distribute opportunity and how individuals get…
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Katherine Brabon

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Katherine Brabon was born in Melbourne in 1987 and grew up in Woodend, Victoria. The Memory Artist is her first novel.
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Katy Barfield

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Katy led SecondBite as CEO from 2006 to 2012. Together with founders Ian and Simone Carson, Katy led SecondBite through a period of intense growth and expansion on an unprecedented…
Portrait of Kelly Briggs

Kelly Briggs

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Kelly Briggs writes about First Australian issues from an intersectional feminist viewpoint. Kelly is a supporter of First Peoples Self Determination and has been published in the Guardian, New…
Portrait of Kevin Brophy

Kevin Brophy

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Kevin Brophy has had fourteen books of poetry, fiction and critical and personal essays published. His latest book is This is what Gives Us Time (Gloria SMH), a collection of…
Portrait of Kim Barker

Kim Barker

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Kim Barker grew up in Montana, Wyoming, and Oregon, and graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism. She worked at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, for four years,…

Kim Bullimore

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Kim Bullimore is a long-time socialist, political activist and anti-racism campaigner.
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Kyla Brettle

Kyla Brettle is a radio feature maker and academic. Her audio work, produced for ABC Radio National, has won awards at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and New York…
Portrait of Kylie Bracknell

Kylie Bracknell

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Kylie Bracknell (formerly Kylie Farmer) [Kaarljilba Kaardn] is an Aboriginal Australian actor, writer, TV presenter and theatre director from the south west of Western Australia – the Nyungar nation. 
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Larissa Behrendt

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Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO is a Eualayai/Gamillaroi woman the Director of Research and Academic Programs at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She…
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Latika Bourke

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Latika Bourke is well known as a keen user of social media in her work as a political journalist in Canberra. She has previously reported for 2UE Radio, the ABC…
Portrait of Laura Bates

Laura Bates

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Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 10,000 women’s daily experiences of gender inequality.
Portrait of Lauren Bialkower

Lauren Bialkower

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Layne Beachley

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Layne Beachley is widely regarded as the most successful female surfer in history. The only surfer, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles (1998-2003), Layne then went onto…
Portrait of Libby Butler

Libby Butler

Libby Butler is a television writer/script producer, born and based in Melbourne. 
Portrait of Lilly Brown

Lilly Brown

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Lilly Brown belongs to the Gumbaynggirr people of the mid-north east coast of eastern Australia, and has strong familial and cultural connections to England and Scotland. Lilly has a Bachelor…
Portrait of Lily Brett

Lily Brett

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Lily Brett was born in Germany to survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and migrated to Australia with her parents in 1948. She is an internationally acclaimed essayist, poet and…
Portrait of Linda Burney

Linda Burney

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Linda Burney was elected Member for Canterbury in 2003, representing the ALP. Linda is the first Aboriginal Australian to be elected to the NSW Parliament and is a proud member…
Portrait of Lindy Burns

Lindy Burns

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Lindy Burns is one of Australia’s senior radio broadcasters. After nearly 27 years with the ABC, no major event or issue during that time – whether political, sporting, musical or…
Portrait of Luke Ball

Luke Ball

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Luke Ball has the rare distinction of being both a St Kilda Football Club captain and a Collingwood Premiership player. Indeed he is one of the only players in AFL…
Portrait of Luke Beesley

Luke Beesley

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Luke Beesley is an artist, musician and poet. His latest poetry collection, Jam Sticky Vision, has just been published by Giramondo. His previous books are New Works on Paper, Balance…
Portrait of Luke Buckmaster

Luke Buckmaster

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Luke Buckmaster began writing about cinema and TV in 1997. Back then Tamagotchis were all the rage, Scottish scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly and the word “Google” sounded like…
Portrait of Madeline Bailey

Madeline Bailey

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Madeline Bailey is a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Melbourne, where she studies anthropology and creative writing. She grew up in Tasmania and won the Future Leaders Writing…
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Maggie Beer

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Maggie Beer’s career spans farming, food production, as well as television presenting and food writing. Her appearance on the hit ABC TV programme The Cook & The Chef cemented her…
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Mandy Beaumont

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Mandy Beaumont teaches Creative Writing at Griffith University. She also works as a Union Official. Most recently Mandy was a finalist in the Newcastle Short Story Award and the Overland…
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Mandy Brett

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Mandy Brett is a senior editor with Text Publishing, where she has worked since 2002.
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Marian Blythe

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Marian Blythe is director of Australia's premier independent comic art festival, Homecooked, and is publicity manager at Black Inc. books She wrote, produced, and performed in the sellout storytelling show …
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Mark Baker

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Mark Baker is director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and an associate professor at Monash University.
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Mark Baker

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Mark Baker is a former Senior Editor of the Age, Editor of the Canberra Times and Managing Editor (National) of Fairfax Media. After three years as President of the…
Portrait of Mark Brandi

Mark Brandi

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Mark Brandi's bestselling novel, Wimmera, won the coveted British Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, and was named Best Debut at the 2018 Australian Indie Book Awards. It was also…
Portrait of Mary Barry

Mary Barry

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Mary Barry was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Heart Foundation in January 2014. Prior to this, Barry was the inaugural CEO of VAHEC, a peak body representing the interests…
Portrait of Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler is a Darwin-based playwright whose play, Broken, won the 2016 Victorian Prize for Literature, the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama and the 2014 NT…
Portrait of Matt Blackwood

Matt Blackwood

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Matt Blackwood is an award-winning writer and artist who has received commissions for his Locative Literature projects. He is fascinated with stories experienced and linked to the places where these…
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Max Barry

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Max Barry is the author of the novels Syrup (an LA Times Best Book of the Year), Jennifer Government (a New York Times Notable Book), and Company (a New York…
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Maxine Beneba Clarke

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Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, the Age, Meanjin, the…
Portrait of Meaghan Bell

Meaghan Bell

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Meaghan has featured at many poetry reading events around Melbourne as well as working with the journals Going Down Swinging and Visible Ink. She was a part of the…
Portrait of Melinda Buttle

Melinda Buttle

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Mel Buttle is a comedian and writer. She has a weekly column in the Courier Mail and has written for ABC’s Ronny Chieng International Student, the Drum, ABC3’s You’re Skitting…
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Meredith Burgmann

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Meredith Burgmann became radicalised at Sydney University in the sixties, when her ASIO file began. She was an academic at Macquarie University for 18 years, becoming president of the Academics…
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Michael Bayliss

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Michael Bayliss is the Stable Population Party’s candidate for the Federal seat of Melbourne.
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Michael Bielinski

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Panel Member: Michael Bielinski is Executive Manager for Strategic Marketing and Emergent Technologies for Siemens Ltd’s Pacific Cluster.
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Michael Bowen

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Michael Bowen is a National Health and Medical Research Council Doherty Biomedical Fellow and Senior Lecturer based at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre Dr Bowen’s expertise is…
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Michael Buxton

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Professor Michael Buxton joined RMIT in 1998 after 12 years in senior management with Victorian Government Planning and Environment agencies, and with the Victorian Environment Protection Authority.
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Michael Bachelard

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Michael Bachelard has been a journalist for 25 years and is the recently returned Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media – the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald Before his…
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Millie Baylis

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Millie Baylis is a writer, editor and arts worker, living on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. She is the current program coordinator for the Emerging Writers’ Festival. In 2019 she…
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Mirko Bonné

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Mirko Bonné is author of Nie mehr Nacht (No more Night), nominated for the German Book Award.
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Monica Bill Barnes

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Monica Bill Barnes is a New York City-based choreographer and performer. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Barnes moved to New York in 1995 after receiving her B.A. in Philosophy…
Portrait of Muriel Bamblett

Muriel Bamblett

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Professor Muriel Bamblett is a proud Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja woman and one of Australia’s leading experts on Aboriginal child welfare. She has been Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal…
Portrait of Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery was born in Morocco in 1969. She is the author of two previous novels, Gourmet Rhapsody and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which sold over six million copies…
Portrait of Myke Bartlett

Myke Bartlett

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Myke Bartlett is a freelance journalist, emerging novelist and veteran podcaster.
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Nicholas Brien

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Nicholas Brien is an Australian actor based in Melbourne. He has spent the majority of his spare time travelling and working around the world.
Portrait of Nick Bryant

Nick Bryant

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As the correspondent for the BBC to Australia for over six years, Nick bore witness to some pivotal moments in recent Australian history.
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Paige Burton

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Paige is an NGO messaging and campaigning consultant. She was the 2017 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, conducting the largest ever consultation of Australian young people. She previously served…
Portrait of Paola Balla

Paola Balla

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Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman of Italian and Chinese heritage. She is an artist, curator, speaker, educator and cultural producer – having developed Footscray Community Arts Centre’s…
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Parbin-Ata Carolyn Briggs

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Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. A descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the…
Portrait of Patrick Brammall

Patrick Brammall

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Patrick Brammall has an extensive list of television credits including Rush, The Librarians, All Saints, East West 101, Canal Road, Home and Away, At Home with Julia, The Alice,…
Portrait of Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty

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Paul Beatty is the author of three novels – Slumberland, Tuff and The White Boy Shuffle – and two books of poetry: Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker,…
Portrait of Peter Barry

Peter Barry

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Peter Barry is an itinerant mongrel. He won the 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel I Hate Martin Amis et al.
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Peter Bartlett

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Peter Bartlett is partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers. He is one of Australia’s leading media and communications law experts. Peter’s areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, breach of confidentiality, defamation/libel,…
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Peter Beinart

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Peter Beinart is associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is also a contributor to the Atlantic and National Journal, a…
Portrait of Peter Biggs

Peter Biggs

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Peter Biggs CNZM is Chief Executive of Assignment Group He was formerly the Chief Executive of Clemenger BBDO/Melbourne, one of the top five agencies in the world (The GUNN…
Portrait of Peter Brotzmann

Peter Brotzmann

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Peter Brötzmann has exemplified European improvised music for over 40 years and participated in countless historic collaborations with a who’s who of fellow seminal artists including Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor,…
Portrait of Philip Brophy

Philip Brophy

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Philip Brophy is a respected academic, filmmaker, writer and musician. He writes for Frieze, The Wire, Film Comment, and Real Time.
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Prue Bentley

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Prue Bentley is the chief of staff for ABC Ballarat and Southwest Victoria, overseeing the development of broadcast and digital content for two regional Victorian bureaus As a broadcaster and reporter…
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Queenie Bon Bon

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Queenie Bon Bon is a London-born, Melbourne based sex worker, writer and fantasy maker. Her work focuses on labour and the body. Welcome to the Mystic Hole is her third…
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Rachael Brown

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Rachael Brown is a broadcast journalist. In 2002, after graduating from RMIT, she began her career with the ABC, where she has held several postings, including Europe correspondent from 2010…
Portrait of Rachel Berger

Rachel Berger

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Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s favourite stand-up comedians, working variously as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and…
Portrait of Rachel Bin Salleh

Rachel Bin Salleh

Rachel Bin Salleh is the publisher at Magabala Books in Broome. She is a Nimanburr, Yawuru and Bunuba woman.
Portrait of Rachel Buchanan

Rachel Buchanan

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Rachel Buchanan (Te Ati Awa, Taranaki) is the author of The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget, a history-memoir published by Huia, a Maori-owned New Zealand publisher.
Portrait of Raphael Brous

Raphael Brous

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Raphael’s debut novel I Am Max Lamm will be published in June 2011 by UQP.
Portrait of Raylene Brown

Raylene Brown

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Raylene is a beekeeper’s daughter who has worked in agricultural research and extension across three states and a variety of agricultural industries. More recently she has been employed in Landcare…
Portrait of Rebecca Barnard

Rebecca Barnard

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Rebecca Barnard is one of Australia’s most respected singer/songwriters who led the band Rebecca’s Empire.
Portrait of Rebecca Batties

Rebecca Batties

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Rebecca Butterworth

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Rebecca Butterworth is a freelance journalist and writer from Melbourne. She has written for the Age, the Sunday Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Issue…
Portrait of ReVerse Butcher

ReVerse Butcher

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ReVerse Butcher is a multi-disciplinary artist with focuses in making performance poetry, unique artist’s books, collages, visual art, and music. She will use any medium necessary to engage and subvert…
Portrait of Rhianna Boyle

Rhianna Boyle

Rhianna Boyle has written about nature and science in The Lifted Brow, The Big Issue and Best Australian Science Writing 2013. She is a research assistant in the School…
Portrait of Richard Bell

Richard Bell

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A past member of the Campfire group, Richard Bell is a founding member of Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW. He is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Portrait of Richard Bourke

Richard Bourke

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Richard Bourke is a lawyer and Director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, an advocacy and representation body based in New Orleans. The state of Louisiana has not executed anyone in five…
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Richard Broinowski

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Richard Broinowski served as third secretary in the Australian Embassy, Tokyo in the 1960s, and was later executive director of the Japan Secretariat, a research group in the Department of…
Portrait of Robert Bowker

Robert Bowker

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Dr Robert Bowker is a specialist on Middle East and Islamic issues and an Adjunct Professor at Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies until December 2012 (ANU).
Portrait of Robyn Butler

Robyn Butler

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Robyn Butler is an actor, writer and producer, who did all three of those things in the television shows Stories from the Golf (SBS), The Librarians (ABC1) and Very Small…
Portrait of Rosie Batty

Rosie Batty

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Family violence campaigner Rosie Batty is the 2015 Australian of the Year and the Pride of Australia’s National Courage Medal recipient. Batty rose above her personal tragedy and the loss…
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Rudi Bremer

Rudi Bremer has been a radio broadcaster since 2012. Having honed her skills at community radio, Rudi initially joined the ABC as a master control technician before returning to her…
Portrait of Russell Basser

Russell Basser

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Dr Russell Basser has been the Senior Vice President of Research and Development since the formation of Seqirus in 2015. Seqirus is one of the largest influenza vaccine companies in the…
Portrait of Russell Blackford

Russell Blackford

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Dr Russell Blackford is a philosopher, literary critic, editor, and author. His many books include 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (co-edited with Udo Schuklenk), Freedom of Religion…
Portrait of Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman

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Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics. The Dutch edition of Utopia for Realists became a national bestseller and sparked…
Portrait of Ruth Barson

Ruth Barson

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Ruth Barson has worked to advance the human rights of people enmeshed in the criminal justice system for over a decade. She leads the Human Rights Law Centre’s work advocating for…
Portrait of Sallie Butler

Sallie Butler

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Sam Bramham

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Sam Bramham entered Paralympic competition with a splash when he broke the 100m butterfly world record at the 2004 Athens Paralympic, his first games, at the age of 16. Since…
Portrait of Sara Bice

Sara Bice

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Sara Bice is a social scientist and director of research translation for the Melbourne School of Government. She’s spent much of her career working with communities, corporations and government affected…
Portrait of Sarah Bailey

Sarah Bailey

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Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has two young children and is currently the Managing Partner of advertising agency VMLY&R in Melbourne…
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Sarah Blasko

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Sarah Blasko is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer who has released five studio albums and won numerous accolades, including two ARIA Awards and a J Award. Her most recent album, Eternal Return (2015)…
Portrait of Scout Boxall

Scout Boxall

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Scout Boxall is a queer, nonbinary performer living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). After bursting onto the comedy scene in 2018, they made it to the National Finals of the…
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Simon Bradshaw

Dr Simon Bradshaw is Oxfam Australia’s Climate Change specialist. His main areas of focus include climate change adaptation in the Pacific, international climate negotiations, financing climate resilient development, and the…
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Sophie Bibrowska

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Sophie Bibrowska lectured in French literature at Monash, Melbourne and La Trobe Universities before returning to study to be a psychologist at the age of fifty. She worked with long-term…
Portrait of Sophie Black

Sophie Black

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Sophie Black is head of publishing at the Wheeler Centre where she has worked on projects such as the national to writers scheme The Next Chapter, the multi-award-winning podcast, The…
Portrait of Sophie Brous

Sophie Brous

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Sophie Brous is the Program Director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
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Steph Bowe

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Steph Bowe wrote her first novel, Girl Saves Boy, at 14.
Portrait of Steve Bastoni

Steve Bastoni

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One of Australia’s most accomplished actors, Steve' string of film and television credits include the Golden Globe nominated On The Beach. He became a household name as ‘Angel’ in …
Portrait of Steve Bracks

Steve Bracks

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Steve Bracks was Premier of Victoria for almost eight years, winning successive elections with large majorities. As Premier, Steve started rebuilding Victoria’s services and infrastructure while maintaining strong budgets and…
Portrait of Susan Bradley Smith

Susan Bradley Smith

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Susan Bradley Smith is an award-winning writer and bibliotherapist, and Honorary Research Associate in English at La Trobe University.
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Tegan Bennett Daylight

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Tegan Bennett Daylight is a critic, teacher and fiction writer. She is the author of several books for children and teenagers, including the novels Bombora, What Falls Away and…
Portrait of Terri Butler

Terri Butler

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Terri Butler has been the Federal Labor Member for Griffith, in Queensland, since February 2014. Prior to being elected as the member for Griffith in 2014, Terri was a lawyer and…
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Thea Baumann

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Thea Baumann is an Australian creative technologist based in Melbourne and Shanghai. She is CEO/co-founder of Metaverse Makeovers (MM).
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Theo Bleckmann

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Grammy nominated, genre-bending vocalist and composer Theo Bleckmann has been a steady force in the music scene in New York for over 15 years.
Portrait of Timmah Ball

Timmah Ball

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Timmah Ball is an emerging writer, urban researcher and cultural producer of Ballardong Noongar descent. She has written for Meanjin, Westerly, Right Now and Etchings Indigenous. She is…
Portrait of Tom Ballard

Tom Ballard

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Tom Ballard is a comedian, writer, broadcaster, actor, philanthropist and philanderer In 2009 he became the youngest person ever to win the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer Award.…
Portrait of Tom Bamforth

Tom Bamforth

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Tom Bamforth is an author and aid worker. He has worked Pakistan, Sudan, Philippines and the Pacific in emergency relief and longer term disaster risk eduction programs. His writing has…
Portrait of Tony Birch

Tony Birch

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Tony Birch is the author of Ghost River, which won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin…
Portrait of Tony Brown

Tony Brown

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Tony is a curator and member of the Trawlwoolway people.
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Tristan Bancks

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Tristan Bancks is a children’s and teen author with a background in acting and filmmaking. His books include Two Wolves – a crime mystery novel for middle-graders, Mac Slater Coolhunter…
Portrait of Troy Bramston

Troy Bramston

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Troy Bramston is a writer and columnist with The Australian and a contributor to Sky News. He is a former speechwriter for Kevin Rudd and author of The Dismissal (2015…
Portrait of Uptown Brown

Uptown Brown

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‘Uptown’ Brown is a man who has worn many hats in his colourful life – inventor, musician, aviator and adventurer, to name but a few.
Portrait of Van Badham

Van Badham

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Van Badham is a Melbourne-based writer, theatremaker, critic, activist, occasional broadcaster and one of Australia’s most controversial public intellectuals. She is currently employed as a political columnist and culture critic…
Portrait of Vanessa Born

Vanessa Born

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Vanessa Born is the Media Projects Manager at Domestic Violence Victoria, the peak body for Victorian family violence services. Since 2010, Vanessa has led a suite of projects that focus…
Portrait of Verity Burgmann

Verity Burgmann

Verity Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She has been involved in protest movements for four decades and is the author of…
Portrait of Wendy Bacon

Wendy Bacon

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Wendy Bacon is a journalist and activist who is particularly interested in stories which are of public interest – but fail to get a fair run in the media.
Portrait of Will Beattie

Will Beattie

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Will is a 12 year-old comic collector with big plans for a graphic novel business. He believes that Heath Ledger was the best Joker and that playing Minecraft has brought…
Portrait of William Boyd

William Boyd

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William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, Restless, Waiting for Sunrise, and Solo…
Portrait of Zakia Baig

Zakia Baig

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Zakia Baig arrived Australia in 2006 as an overseas student, and one among the thousands of Hazaras who left their homes to escape persecution in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A mother…
Portrait of Zvi Belling

Zvi Belling

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Zvi Belling is the founder, director and bass player for the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Melbourne's premier Afrobeat ambassadors. He also works as a composer and arranger for South African…