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Portrait of Adam Curley

Adam Curley

Adam Curley is a writer and musician who grew up in rural and suburban Queensland and lives in Melbourne. His band Gold Class released its second album, Drum, in…
Portrait of Akec Makur Chuot

Akec Makur Chuot

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Akec Makur Chuot is a South Sudanese former AFLW player and Richmond FC VFLW player. She also works for AFL Victoria as a multicultural development officer as part of the…
Portrait of Alan Close

Alan Close

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Alan Close’s most recent book is Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love, a candid examination of his difficult relationship history.
Portrait of Alan Crabbe

Alan Crabbe

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Alan Crabbe is the co-founder and director of Pozible. He introduced crowdfunding to Australia and the Asia Pacific.
Portrait of Alex Creece

Alex Creece

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Alex Creece is a writer, poet, student, collage artist, and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. She also tinkers with other people’s poems as the Production Editor for Cordite Poetry…
Portrait of Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee

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Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at…
Portrait of Alexandra Collier

Alexandra Collier

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Alexandra Collier is a playwright who has worked in the US and Australia at Sydney Theatre Company, La Mama, Playwrights Horizons, New Group, Women’s Project, New Georges, the Lark and…
Portrait of Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, theatre writer, critic and editor who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She works in many genres and her books and poems have been published…
Portrait of Allan Clarke

Allan Clarke

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Allan Clarke is a Muruwuri man who grew up in the town of Bourke in western NSW. Currently, Allan is BuzzFeed Australia's national Indigenous affairs reporter. Previously, he has worked as the…
Portrait of Allison Chan

Allison Chan

Allison is an audio project manager and producer at the Guardian. She has produced multiple documentaries at ABC RN and her work at UTS Impact Studios won a gold…
Portrait of Allison Colpoys

Allison Colpoys

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Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Associate Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, …
Portrait of Amy Choi

Amy Choi

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Amy Choi was born in Melbourne in 1975. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Quadrant, the Age and the Australian, as well as anthologies including The Oxford…
Portrait of Andrea Carson

Andrea Carson

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Dr Andrea Carson is a lecturer in Media and Politics at the University of Melbourne. She is also an honorary fellow at the University’s Centre for Advancing Journalism. Her main…
Portrait of Andrew Charlton

Andrew Charlton

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Andrew Charlton was senior economic adviser to the Prime Minister from 2008 to 2010.
Portrait of Andrew Cox

Andrew Cox

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Andrew Cox is in a band called the Fauves.
Portrait of Andrew Croome

Andrew Croome

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Andrew Croome has worked as a computer programmer, creative writing tutor and copywriter, and is soon to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Melbourne.
Portrait of Andy Connor

Andy Connor

Andy Connor is an agender writer who plays drums in the Parking Lot Experiments, occasionally does standup comedy, and writes a dorkily earnest internet advice column in the character of…
Portrait of Angela Conquet

Angela Conquet

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Angela Conquet is artistic director of Dancehouse. Before moving to Australia in 2011, she worked for 11 years in Paris where she commissioned, presented and mentored over 100 dance artists.…
Portrait of Anna Cowan

Anna Cowan

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Anna Cowan has been writing since she was eight years old. She lives in Melbourne with her Scottish husband and their daughter. She is the author of Untamed. Her…
Portrait of Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb

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Annabel Crabb is one of Australia’s most popular political commentators, is the presenter of Kitchen Cabinet and wrote for The Drum. Annabel has worked extensively in newspapers, radio and television…
Portrait of Annaliese Constable

Annaliese Constable

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Annaliese Constable is a writer, performer and queer rights activist working across standup, queer performance and theatre. 
Portrait of Anson Cameron

Anson Cameron

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Anson Cameron has written five critically acclaimed novels. He lives in Melbourne where he writes a column for The Age newspaper.
Portrait of Anthony Carew

Anthony Carew

Anthony Carew is a writer, film critic, radio presenter, and music journalist from Melbourne. His publication credits include Rolling Stone and the Age. He has presented The International Pop Underground on…
Portrait of Antonio Castillo Rojas

Antonio Castillo Rojas

Dr Antonio Castillo Rojas is a Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University. He is a Latin American journalist and academic, and a founding editor of Global Media Journal…
Portrait of Anwen Crawford

Anwen Crawford

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Anwen Crawford is a writer and critic. She is the music critic for the Monthly and the current Copyright Agency New Writer in Residence at the University of Technology, Sydney…
Portrait of Archie Chew

Archie Chew

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Archie is a young director based in Australia. He makes stylised absurd comedies with heart. Archie works in close collaboration with his partner and producer Alicia Easaw-Mamutil and the pair…
Portrait of Barbara Creed

Barbara Creed

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Barbara Creed is Professor of Screen Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her areas of research cover feminist and psychoanalytic theory, the cinema…
Portrait of Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy

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Barrie Cassidy is host of the ABC's top rating Sunday morning political discussion program Insiders – now in its 14th year. Until recently he also hosted the sporting equivalent companion…
Portrait of Belinda Clark

Belinda Clark

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Belinda Clark played cricket for Australia from 1991 to 2005. She was the first player, male or female, to make a double century in a one-day international.  She was named Cricketer…
Portrait of Bernard Caleo

Bernard Caleo

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Bernard Caleo is a comic book communicator. He makes comics, publishes comics, teaches about comics and preaches about comics. He published the romance comics anthology Tango from 1997 to 2009…

Bill Condie

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Bill Condie is production editor at COSMOS, Australia’s number 1 science magazine in print, iPad and online.
Portrait of Bindi Cole

Bindi Cole

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Award-winning artist Bindi Cole was born in 1975 in Melbourne, Australia. She studied at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE and the University of Ballarat. Bindi is a resilient and ingenious…
Portrait of Blanche Clark

Blanche Clark

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Blanche Clark has been a journalist for 23 years.
Portrait of Bob Carr

Bob Carr

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Bob Carr is a former premier of New South Wales and a former senator, serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2012 to September 2013.
Portrait of Brenda L Croft

Brenda L Croft

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From the Gurindji/Mudpurra peoples from Kalkaringi/Daguragu communities in the Northern Territory, Brenda Croft is an artist, curator, writer and lecturer.
Portrait of Brendan Cowell

Brendan Cowell

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Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, playwright, director and author of the novel, How it Feels.
Portrait of Brian Castro

Brian Castro

Brian Castro is the author of the prize-winning Australian classic Shanghai Dancing, and recipient of the 2014 Patrick White Literary Award. His novels include The Garden Book and The Bath…

Brian Chase

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Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is probably best known as a member of the rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a band that has…
Portrait of Bridget Caldwell-Bright

Bridget Caldwell-Bright

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Bridget Caldwell-Bright is a Jingili Mudburra writer and editor based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance editor for Hardie Grant Books as well as commissioning editor for literary journal…
Portrait of Broede Carmody

Broede Carmody

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Broede Carmody is 19 and currently studying journalism at RMIT University. He is on the Voiceworks editorial committee and has had poetry published in a variety of literary journals.
Portrait of Camille Chen

Camille Chen

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Camille Chen’s debut feature film Little Sparrows is screening at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
Portrait of Carolina Cabezas

Carolina Cabezas

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Carolina is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research focuses on multilingualism and multilingual education in the early years, exploring how young children, educators…
Portrait of Cath Crowley

Cath Crowley

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Cath Crowley is a young adult author published in Australia and internationally. Her novels include Take Three Girls (co-written with Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell), Words in Deep Blue…
Portrait of Christine Craik

Christine Craik

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Christine Craik is a social worker, working mainly in health and crisis work with women and children dealing with family violence and/or child sexual abuse. She has worked for 12 years…
Portrait of Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark

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Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser…
Portrait of Christopher Cordner

Christopher Cordner

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Christopher Cordner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in philosophy, where his main area of interest is ethics, including its classical Greek…
Portrait of Chun Yin Rainbow Chan

Chun Yin Rainbow Chan

Chun Yin Rainbow Chan works across music, performance and installation. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Sydney, Rainbow is interested in mistranslations, diaspora and the effects of globalisation on…
Portrait of Claire Christian

Claire Christian

Claire Christian is a storyteller: a writer, theatre-maker and facilitator. She has had four plays published by Playlab, including Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, which debuted at La Boite in…
Portrait of Corrie Chen

Corrie Chen

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Corrie Chen is a highly sought-after, award-winning writer director whose work spans comedy and drama. She recently completed her miniseries that she directed for SBS, New Gold Mountain (Goalpost Pictures)…
Portrait of Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins

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Courtney Collins' debut novel is The Burial. Her second novel, The Walkman Mix, is a work in progress. An early draft of The Walkman Mix was shortlisted for…

Cristy Clark

Cristy Clark is an Australian writer whose interests include feminism, motherhood, politics, development, human rights and food.
Portrait of D.A. Calf

D.A. Calf

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D.A.Calf is a sound and installation artist, musician, composer and producer. He is one half of The Guerrilla Museum, an immersive theatre/live art company whose work Funeral features at Melbourne…
Portrait of Damian Callinan

Damian Callinan

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Damian Callinan is an award-winning standup comic, TV sketch show star, broadcaster, director, actor and writer.
Portrait of Damien Carrick

Damien Carrick

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Damien, a qualified lawyer, joined the ABC in 1996 as the producer of ABC Radio National’s Law Report and in 2001 became the presenter. In the past he has worked…
Portrait of Daniel Coghlan

Daniel Coghlan

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Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is a zoologist, author and teacher. Her book Killers in Eden was made into an award-winning documentary and Voyages to the South Seas won the 2007 Victorian Premier’s…
Portrait of David Caldicott

David Caldicott

David Caldicott is an emergency consultant at the emergency department of the Calvary Hospital in Canberra and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the Australian National University.
Portrait of David Carlin

David Carlin

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David Carlin is author of The Abyssinian Contortionist and co-directs the nonfictionLab as an associate professor at RMIT.
Portrait of David Cross

David Cross

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David Cross is an artist, curator and writer working across performance, installation and public art. His practice brings together performance art and object-based environments, focusing on relationships between pleasure, the…
Portrait of Deborah Cheetham

Deborah Cheetham

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Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and educator has been a leader in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List…
Portrait of Deborah Conway

Deborah Conway

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Deborah Conway is a singer/songwriter who shot to fame as the lead singer of Do Re Mi She is a significant and eloquent contributor to Australian music, singing songs that…
Portrait of Denise Chapman

Denise Chapman

Denise Chapman is a passionate digital media-creator, spoken word artist and non-fiction writer who lectures at Monash University. Denise uses oral stories, children’s literature, and interactive digital content to highlight…
Portrait of Derek Chan

Derek Chan

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Derek Chan is a Melbourne-based writer who holds a First-Class Honours in Literary Studies from Monash University. His poems have appeared in both domestic and international journals such as Meanjin…
Portrait of Des Cowley

Des Cowley

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Des Cowley is the Rare Printed Collections Manager at the State Library of Victoria, and has more than twenty years experience working with rare books.
Portrait of Dhonielle Clayton

Dhonielle Clayton

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Dhonielle is an author, a former librarian, COO of the non-profit We Need Diverse Books, and co-founder of Cake Literary, a creative kitchen whipping up decadent - and decidedly diverse…
Portrait of Didem Caia

Didem Caia

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Didem is a writer, speaker and facilitator, who grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne. She is a writer of plays, essays and fiction.
Portrait of Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Dipesh Chakrabarty is a social historian whose research has transformed understanding of nationalist and postcolonial historiographies, particularly in the context of modern South Asia.
Portrait of Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell

Duncan M. Campbell has taught (Chinese language, modern and classical; Chinese literature, modern and classical; and aspects of Chinese history and civilisation) at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of…
Portrait of Dylan Coleman

Dylan Coleman

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Dylan Coleman is a Kokatha (Gugada)-Greek woman who grew up in Thevenard on the far west coast of South Australia. She is the award-winning author of Mazin Grace, and…
Portrait of Eddie Cubillo

Eddie Cubillo

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Eddie Cubillo is an Aboriginal man with strong family links throughout the Northern Territory. His mother is of Larrakia/Wadjigan descent, and his father is Central Arrente. Eddie’s family has experienced…
Portrait of Eirian Chapman

Eirian Chapman

Eirian Chapman is an illustrator and graphic designer. She creates work for advertising, editorial, digital and retail campaigns.
Portrait of Elaine Canty

Elaine Canty

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Elaine Canty AM is a pioneer in the media, sport and the law.  She retired recently as the long serving Chairman of the Board of one of Australia’s most iconic institutions,…
Portrait of Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She won the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short-story competition, the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa…
Portrait of Elizabeth Chong

Elizabeth Chong

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Elizabeth Chong is a chef, teacher, author and presenter. Since she opened her first cooking school in 1961 she has introduced her family’s Chinese recipes to the Australian public.
Portrait of Emilie Collyer

Emilie Collyer

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Emilie Collyer writes plays, prose and poetry. Her writing has appeared in Cordite, Overland, the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and Aurealis, among others. Recent award…
Portrait of Emily Clements

Emily Clements

Emily Clements is a 27-year-old writer based in Melbourne. 
Portrait of Ennis Cehic

Ennis Cehic

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Ennis Cehic is a writer living and working between Melbourne and Sarajevo. His writing focuses on ideas of displacement, creativity, identity and existentialism His work, including essays, poetry, fiction and…
Portrait of Eva Cox

Eva Cox

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Eva Cox has been an academic, political adviser, public servant, and runs a small research and policy consultancy. A sociologist by trade, she promotes ideas widely and eclectically in books,…
Portrait of Fiona Chambers

Fiona Chambers

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Fiona Chambers is a lecturer at Marcus Oldham Agricultural College in Geelong. She holds a Diploma of Applied Science in agriculture, specialising in animal health, nutrition and genetics and is…
Portrait of Flora Chol

Flora Chol

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Flora Chol is a Melbourne-based South Sudanese writer and poet. She is the published author of Tomorrow's Dream, her debut poetic anthology. Flora’s writing is an unprovoked stream of…
Portrait of Frances Cannon

Frances Cannon

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Frances Cannon is a queer, multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Narrm. She works predominantly in drawing and painting in ink, gouache and watercolour. Frances is well-known for her simple yet nuanced…
Portrait of Frank Camorra

Frank Camorra

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Frank Camorra is an award-winning chef of Catalan origin who operates the MoVida restaurants and has appeared on television.
Portrait of Gabriella Coslovich

Gabriella Coslovich

Gabriella Coslovich is a Melbourne-based journalist with more than 20 years experience, including 15 years at The Age newspaper where she specialised in arts writing.
Portrait of Gabrielle Chan

Gabrielle Chan

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Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She began covering politics in the 1990s for The Australian at the NSW parliament and in the Canberra press…
Portrait of Gabrielle Coyne

Gabrielle Coyne

Gabrielle Coyne is CEO of Penguin Random House Asia Pacific Australia, and a former Wheeler Centre board member.
Portrait of George Calombaris

George Calombaris

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George Calombaris was voted one of the 'Top 40 chefs of Influence in the World' in 2004 by The Global Food and Wine Magazine, and he continues to live…
Portrait of Gerard Callinan

Gerard Callinan

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Gerard Callinan is a broadcaster with ABC Gippsland.
Portrait of Gillian Cosgriff

Gillian Cosgriff

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Gillian Cosgriff is a singer, songwriter, pianist and performer.
Portrait of Greg Combet

Greg Combet

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Greg Combet is well known for his roles as the leader of the ACTU and as a Labor government minister. Less well known is that he grew up on a…
Portrait of Hal Crawford

Hal Crawford

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Hal Crawford is MediaWorks’ Chief News Officer, having joined the organisation in July 2016.  In his role he manages Newshub, one of New Zealand’s largest news services.  Prior to…
Portrait of Helen Coonan

Helen Coonan

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Senator Helen Coonan was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing New South Wales from July 1996 to August 2011.
Portrait of Hidayet Ceylan

Hidayet Ceylan

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Hidayet Ceylan was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1964. He lived in Ankara after age five until migrating to Australia in 1997. He studied Mining Engineering in Turkey. Hidayet started…
Portrait of Hilary Charlesworth

Hilary Charlesworth

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Hilary Charlesworth was educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. She is, from 2016, a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School and Distinguished Professor and Director…
Portrait of Holly Childs

Holly Childs

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Holly Childs is a writer, editor (Crazy in Love magazine) and artist. She makes work around digital semiotics, transformations of language and culture, aberration, fashion. Her first novella No…
Portrait of Ian Collie

Ian Collie

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Ian Collie is one of Australia’s most experienced producers and the founder of Easy Tiger, having previously run the Scripted division of Essential Media which was awarded the Screen Producers…
Portrait of Ilse Crawford

Ilse Crawford

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Ilse Crawford creates modern and emotional brands, products, interiors, buildings and furniture.
Portrait of Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote

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Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author of 11 books, the creator of four short films, and has released three albums that combine storytelling with music. Ivan is a seasoned stage…
Portrait of Jack Charles

Jack Charles

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Jack Charles is an actor, musician, potter, Koori elder and national treasure After Bastardy, a biographical documentary about Jack, was released in 2008, he rediscovered family members, and is…
Portrait of Jack Colwell

Jack Colwell

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Jack Colwell is a classically-trained composer turned alternative pop musician based in Sydney.
Portrait of Jaclyn Crupi

Jaclyn Crupi

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Jaclyn Crupi is a bookseller, specialising in fiction, at Hill of Content Bookshop in Melbourne and a freelance book editor and project manager. She has written several children’s books ranging…
Portrait of James Cameron

James Cameron

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Panel Member: James Cameron is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market based policy responses to climate change.
Portrait of James Campbell

James Campbell

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James Campbell is the state politics editor at the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun newspapers in Melbourne. He has also written for the Age, the Times newspaper in…
Portrait of James Carter

James Carter

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James Carter is a powerhouse musician and one of the most admired saxophonists of his generation, garnering plaudits for his role in helping to propel jazz full tilt into the…
Portrait of James Colley

James Colley

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James Colley is a television comedy writer for Gruen, Bravest Warriors, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and Tomorrow Tonight among others.  His writing has been featured in the Guardian, Crikey…
Portrait of James Coquillat

James Coquillat

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James Coquillat is a writer and games developer from Melbourne. He has written for League of Geeks and is a contributor to Cracked.
Portrait of James Cristina

James Cristina

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James Cristina was born in Malta. His parents migrated to Australia in the late sixties and he grew up in Melbourne. He has taught English in Australia, Malta, England, the…
Portrait of Jane Campion

Jane Campion

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Jane Campion is known for films such as Sweetie, An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke, In The Cut, Bright Star…
Portrait of Jane Caro

Jane Caro

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Jane Caro is an author, novelist, speaker, broadcaster, columnist, advertising writer and media and social commentator. She has published seven books, including two novels about Elizabeth Tudor. Her memoir, Plain…
Portrait of Jane Clark

Jane Clark

Jane is Senior Research Curator at Mona. She joined Mona – Australia’s largest private museum – in 2007 during the initial planning phase, having been Curator of Major Special Exhibitions in both…
Portrait of Jane Clifton

Jane Clifton

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Jane Clifton is an actor, singer, author and genuine show-business all-rounder.
Portrait of Jason Clare

Jason Clare

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Jason Clare is the federal member for Blaxland, and shadow minister for communications. Before entering parliament he worked as a senior adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr and as an…
Portrait of Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas

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Javier Cercas is a Spanish novelist, short story writer and essayist.
Portrait of Jay Carmichael

Jay Carmichael

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Jay Carmichael is a writer and editor. His first novel, Ironbark, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016. His writing has been published…
Portrait of Jen Cloher

Jen Cloher

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Jen Cloher is one of Australia’s premiere songwriters.
Portrait of Jeremy Chambers

Jeremy Chambers

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Jeremy Chambers studied at the University of Melbourne, completing majors in Philosophy and English.
Portrait of Jeremy Clark

Jeremy Clark

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Jeremy Clark lives in Brunswick and studies Medicine at Melbourne University. 
Portrait of Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin

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Jessa Crispin is a non-fiction writer and editor with a strong interest in history, art, women's issues and psychogeography. She is the founder and editor of literary review publication Bookslut…
Portrait of Jessica Christiansen-Franks

Jessica Christiansen-Franks

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Jessica Christiansen-Franks is an urban designer and social entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to understanding the social dynamics of urbanisation. With experience across Australia, as well as the UK…
Portrait of Jessie Cole

Jessie Cole

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Jessie Cole’s work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Island Magazine and the Big Issue. This year sees the publication of her debut novel Darkness on…
Portrait of J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee

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J.M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
Portrait of Jo Case

Jo Case

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Jo Case is the Program Manager at Melbourne Writers Festival. Before this, she was the Wheeler Centre’s senior writer/editor. Her first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and…
Portrait of Jo Chandler

Jo Chandler

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Jo Chandler is an award-winning freelance Australian journalist, author and editor. She has filed news and features from assignments across sub-Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea, rural and remote Australia, Antarctica and…
Portrait of Jodi Crocker

Jodi Crocker

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After almost 20 years in public relations, Jodi founded Social Set Media in June 2017 after seven years at, arguably, the biggest show in town – Crown – where she…
Portrait of Joel Creasey

Joel Creasey

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Joel Creasey is one of Australia’s most-popular, acclaimed and charmingly controversial stand-up comedians. 
Portrait of John Carroll

John Carroll

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John Carroll is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and author of The Existential Jesus.

John Clarke

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John Clarke is a writer and performer, known for his brief collaboration with Bryan Daw on ABC television, for The Games, for various movies including Death in Brunswick,…
Portrait of John Coldrey

John Coldrey

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John Coldrey QC is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He is currently chairman of the council of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
Portrait of John Collee

John Collee

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John Collee’s published novels include Kingsley’s Touch, A Paper Mask and The Rig, all published by Penguin in the UK and USA. In the past decade, as an…
Portrait of Jon Campbell

Jon Campbell

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Jonathan Campbell lived in Beijing from 2000–2010, spending much of that time in the local rock scene as drummer, chronicler, booster, agent and more. Red Rock: The Long, Strange March…

Jon Casimir

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Jon Casimir is co-creator of The Gruen Transfer, which he writes and produces for Zapruder’s other films
Portrait of Jon Clements

Jon Clements

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Jon Clements is a founding director of Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB). JCB was established in Melbourne in 1998 and the practice currently employs approximately 40 architects and interior designers.
Portrait of Jonathan Cebon

Jonathan Cebon

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Jonathan Cebon is the Medical Director of the Cancer Services Unit at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre at Austin Health in Heidelberg, and Medical Director of the…
Portrait of Jorge Carrión

Jorge Carrión

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Jorge Carrión is a writer and literary critic. He studied at the University of Pompeu Fabra, where he now teaches literature and creative writing. His published works include essays, novellas…
Portrait of Joseph Camilleri

Joseph Camilleri

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Prof Joseph Anthony CAMILLERI is Professor of International Relations and founding Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University.
Portrait of Joseph Chetcuti

Joseph Chetcuti

Joseph Chetcuti is a practising barrister and solicitor in Victoria and a registered migration agent. Il­Ktieb Roża: Dnub, diżordni u delitt? (The Pink Book: A sin, disorder and…
Portrait of Joshua Cody

Joshua Cody

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Joshua Cody’s first book is [sic], a memoir about cancer, creativity and twentysomething life in New York City.
Portrait of Jub Clerc

Jub Clerc

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Jub is a Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman from the Beagle Bay and Broome regions of the Kimberley in WA. Graduating from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Jub spent many years…
Portrait of Judith Crispin

Judith Crispin

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Judith Nangala Crispin is a visual artist and poet, and a descendant of Bpangerang-Gunaikurnai people from the Murray River. Her work centres on lost history and dispossession, as well as…
Portrait of Julian Cribb

Julian Cribb

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Julian Cribb is an Australian author, journalist, editor and science communicator. He is founding editor of ScienceAlert.com.au, which has 5 million followers worldwide.
Portrait of Jung Chang

Jung Chang

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Jung Chang is the internationally-bestselling author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday); and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China…
Portrait of Justin Clemens

Justin Clemens

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Justin Clemens is a philosopher, translator, social critic, poet and academic. He has published three collections of poetry, The Mundiad (Black Inc, 2004), Villain (Hunter Publishers, 2009) and Me ‘n’…
Portrait of Justine Clark

Justine Clark

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Justine Clark has been editor of Architecture Australia, the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, since 2003 and has been involved with the magazine since 2000.
Portrait of Justine Clarke

Justine Clarke

Justine Clarke wasn’t quite born on stage, but over three extraordinary decades in song and screen, she’s easily made up for the few years she missed before she landed that…
Portrait of Kai Clancy

Kai Clancy

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Kai Clancy is 19 years old and was assigned female at birth. Kai is a Brotherboy (an Aboriginal transmasculine person); he comes from Wakka Wakka and Wulli Wulli nations. Kai…
Portrait of Kat Clarke

Kat Clarke

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Kat Clarke is a writer, artist and Indigenous consultant. Being a proud Wotjobaluk woman from the Wimmera, Kat gradually developed her craft by combining her skills and knowledge in community…
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Kate Cole-Adams

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Kate Cole-Adams is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. Her 2017 book Anaesthesia won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary…
Portrait of Katherine Collette

Katherine Collette

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Katherine Collette is a writer and sewage engineer living in Melbourne with her husband and two children. Her debut novel, The Helpline, is being published in Australia and New Zealand by…
Portrait of Kathy Charles

Kathy Charles

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Kathy Charles was born in Melbourne in 1978. She works in the film industry and travels regularly to Los Angeles. Hollywood Ending is her first novel.
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Kaz Cooke

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Kaz Cooke is a former reporter and cartoonist turned history detective. She is also the author of the bestselling books Up The Duff, Kidwrangling, Girl Stuff…
Portrait of Kelly Chandler

Kelly Chandler

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Kelly Chandler has been published in the Age, The Lifted Brow, Griffith Review, Big Issue, Slow Guide, Death Mook and New Zealand Herald. A former editor of Voiceworks…
Portrait of Ken Crispin

Ken Crispin

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Dr Ken Crispin has written his book The Quest for Justice based on his experience as a barrister, QC and judge.
Portrait of Kenneth Chern

Kenneth Chern

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Kenneth Chern is Professor of Asian Policy at Swinburne University and Executive Director of the Swinburne Leadership Institute. A former diplomat, he served as US Consul General in Perth, Deputy…
Portrait of Keshia Contini

Keshia Contini

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Portrait of Kim Carr

Kim Carr

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Kim Carr has been a Labor Senator for Victoria for twenty years. He has been a member of the Australian Labor Party for nearly 40 years and a member of…
Portrait of Kirstie Clements

Kirstie Clements

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Kirstie Clements began working at Vogue in 1985, rising to editor in 1999, a position she held for 13 years. She also co-authored In Vogue: 50 Years of Australian Style…
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Kyung-won Chung

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Kyung-won Chung is the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s chief design officer and the deputy mayor of South Korea’s capital city.
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Lachlann Carter

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Lachlann Carter is co-founder of 100 Story Building, a centre for young writers in Footscray that has 99 floors below ground accessible via a secret trapdoor.
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Lane Crockett

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Lane Crockett is the Executive General Manager, Australia for Pacific Hydro - a leading diversified renewable energy company which operates in Australia, Chile and Brazil. Lane is responsible for leading…

Laura Carroll

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Laura Carroll researches and teaches English Literature at La Trobe University. Her academic work as a teacher, scholar, and critic focuses on two themes. One of them is Jane Austen,…
Portrait of Leah Chishugi

Leah Chishugi

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Leah Chishugi describes herself as a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Leah has documented her experiences in her recent book A Long Way from Paradise.
Portrait of Lee Carnie

Lee Carnie

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Lee Carnie is a senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre advocating for equality law reform and a national Charter of Human Rights, and the Director of Legal Advocacy…
Portrait of Lee Child

Lee Child

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Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels…
Portrait of Lee Lin Chin

Lee Lin Chin

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Lee Lin Chin is best known as presenter of SBS World News on Saturday and Sundays, but has found a new following thanks to a series of appearances on SBS…
Portrait of Leslie Cannold

Leslie Cannold

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Dr Leslie Cannold’s expertise is gender and inspirational leadership. Her public contributions in these areas have earned her awards for Australian Humanist of the Year and multiple notices as one…
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Li-Kim Chuah

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Li-Kim Chuah is screenwriter who has worked extensively in adult drama and children's TV for the past seven years. Her writing credits include: Offspring Series 5, Neighbours and The Saddle…
Portrait of Lily Chan

Lily Chan

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Lily Chan was born in Kyoto, raised in Narrogin and now resides in Melbourne. Her novel Toyo was the recipient of the 2010 Peter Blazey Fellowship for a manuscript-in-progress.
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Lindy Cameron

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Lindy Cameron is the author of the Bryn Gideon and Kit O'Malley series as well as true crime. Before plunging into the world of make-believe, Lindy worked as a journalist…
Portrait of Liz Conor

Liz Conor

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Associate Professor Liz Conor in an ARC Future Fellow in History at La Trobe University on the ‘Graphic Encounters : Prints of Indigenous Australians’ project. She is the author of Skin Deep: Settler…
Portrait of Lizzi Craig

Lizzi Craig

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Lizzi Craig is now retired, after working for over a decade with the Victorian AIDS Council as a Client Care and Support Officer at the Positive Living Centre. As part…
Portrait of Loni Cooper

Loni Cooper

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Loni Cooper is a journalist with more than ten years' experience in radio and television. She has spent the past three years working as a researcher on ABCTV's Media Watch and…
Portrait of Lorin Clarke

Lorin Clarke

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Lorin Clarke is a writer, director and broadcaster. She has written for stage, television, print and radio and is the television columnist for the Big Issue. Lorin co-presents the…
Portrait of Lucy Carpenter

Lucy Carpenter

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Lucy Carpenter is an aspiring writer with Albinism who is currently completing her Bachelor of Professional Communication and hopes to work in the media industry and continue advocating for disability…
Portrait of Lucy Clark

Lucy Clark

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Lucy Clark is a journalist and editor with 31 years’ experience in newspapers and magazines in Sydney, London and New York. She was most recently the editor of the news…
Portrait of Lucy Cuddihy

Lucy Cuddihy

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Lucy Cuddihy was appointed to the position of Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria in 2005 and has an Adjunct Professorial appointment with Deakin University, School…
Portrait of Luke Carman

Luke Carman

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Luke Carman is the author of An Elegant Young Man, which won the 2014 NSW Premier's New Writing Award and was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal…
Portrait of Lydia Cacho

Lydia Cacho

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Lydia Cacho is a journalist and author of more than 15 books translated into twelve languages. She has specialised in investigating child pornography, sex trafficking and violence against women and…
Portrait of Lyndal Curtis

Lyndal Curtis

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Lyndal Curtis is Chief Political Correspondent for ABC radio’s AM, The World Today and PM.
Portrait of Mara Coson

Mara Coson

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Mara Coson is a young writer from the Philippines. She has just completed her Masters in Creative Media (Creative Writing) at RMIT and is currently writing her first novella. She…
Portrait of Mardi Caught

Mardi Caught

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Formerly General Manager for Warner Music Frontline Marketing, Mardi Caught carries a weight of global and domestic experience. She recently launched a marketing services company called The Annex, which works…
Portrait of Maree Clarke

Maree Clarke

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Maree Clarke is a Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung woman who grew up in northwest Victoria, mainly in Mildura, on the banks of the Murray River. Maree has been a practicing…
Portrait of Maree Crabbe

Maree Crabbe

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Maree Crabbe coordinates the violence prevention project Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality. The project seeks to support young people and the broader community to critique the messages…
Portrait of Marita Cheng

Marita Cheng

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Marita Cheng founded Robogals Global in 2008 as a response to the traditionally low levels of participation by women in engineering and technology. In 2012, she was named Young Australian…
Portrait of Mark Carnegie

Mark Carnegie

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Mark Carnegie is Principal of M.H. Carnegie & Co. He was previously Head of LCW Private Equity, Lazard’s Australian private equity business. He has had a near twenty five year…
Portrait of Mark Colvin

Mark Colvin

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Mark Colvin is an Australian journalist, filmmaker and broadcaster. He has been the presenter of PM, one of the flagship Australian radio current affairs programs on the ABC Radio network…
Portrait of Marni Cordell

Marni Cordell

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Marni Cordell is the editor of Crikey. She is the former editor and owner of news website, New Matilda, and is a strong believer in independent media.
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Martyn Coutts

Martyn Coutts is an award-winning Australian interdisciplinary artist who is concerned with ideas of the live, the interactive and mediated body. He is an artistic associate at contemporary arts company…
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Mary Coloe

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Mary Coloe is a Sister of the Australian Presentation Society and is Associate Professor in Theology at the Australian Catholic University.
Portrait of Maryanne Confoy

Maryanne Confoy

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Maryanne Confoy is a Sister of Charity.
Portrait of Maryrose Casey

Maryrose Casey

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Maryrose Casey is an Associate Professor with the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She has published widely on Indigenous Australian theatre and performance. Her research focuses on the ways in which racism…
Portrait of Maryrose Cuskelly

Maryrose Cuskelly

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Maryrose Cuskelly is a freelance writer and editor.
Portrait of Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon

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Matthew Condon is an award-winning writer and journalist.
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Mel Campbell

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Mel Campbell is a freelance journalist and critic who co-hosts the fortnightly literature and culture podcast The Rereaders. She is a columnist on writing at Overland magazine, and a…
Portrait of Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng

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Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner from Melbourne. She is the author of Australia Day, which won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and Room…
Portrait of Melissa Cranenburgh

Melissa Cranenburgh

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Melissa Cranenburgh is a writer, broadcaster, editor and educator. She spent more than a decade in senior editing roles, including associate editor and acting editor of the Big Issue, and co-editor…
Portrait of Michael Carr-Gregg

Michael Carr-Gregg

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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg works as a nationally registered child and adolescent psychologist who is passionate about delivering evidence based psychology workshops and seminars that make a difference to the health…
Portrait of Michael Cathcart

Michael Cathcart

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Michael Cathcart presents the radio show, Books and Arts Daily for Radio National.
Portrait of Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was originally written for his master’s thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. Chabon’s second novel, Wonder…
Portrait of Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

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A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the Harry Bosch thriller series as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including the highly…
Portrait of Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York. He is the author of four novels, including A Home at the End of the World (1990), …
Portrait of Michael Currie

Michael Currie

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Dr Michael Currie PhD is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in Melbourne, where he works with adults, adolescents as well children and their families.
Portrait of Mikey Cahill

Mikey Cahill

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Mikey Cahill writes the Rock City column for News Ltd.
Portrait of Millie Cattlin

Millie Cattlin

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Millie Cattlin, Melbourne-based architect, is co-director of These Are The Projects We Do Together, a practice she runs with her partner, Joseph Norster.  The practice is committed to developing experimental…
Portrait of Molly Carlile

Molly Carlile

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Molly Carlile AM has worked in the palliative care sector as a specialist clinician, leader and senior manager for over thirty years. She has received multiple national and international awards…
Portrait of Morgan Carpenter

Morgan Carpenter

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Morgan Carpenter is the president of OII Australia, a national intersex-led Public Benevolent Institution. Morgan migrated permanently to Australia in 2005 and has been active with OII Australia since 2009.…
Portrait of Mridula Nath Chakraborty

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

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Mridula Nath Chakraborty is the Deputy Director of the Monash Asia Institute Her projects include Australia-India Literatures International Forum (Finalist at the Federal Government’s Australian Arts in Asia Awards 2013)…
Portrait of Nahji Chu

Nahji Chu

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Nga Chu, known to everyone as Nahji or Miss Chu and to those who get in her way, as ‘The Queen of Rice Paper Rolls’ is the founder and creative…
Portrait of Naomi Cass

Naomi Cass

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Naomi Cass is the director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography as well as a curator and writer who has worked in the fields of contemporary art, craft and design.
Portrait of Naomi Chainey

Naomi Chainey

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Naomi Chainey is a freelance writer and filmmaker with a focus on feminism and disability rights. She has a degree in media studies.
Portrait of Naomi Chazan

Naomi Chazan

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Naomi Chazan is a senior Israeli academic, an activist for peace and women’s rights, and a former member of the Knesset.
Portrait of Natasha Cica

Natasha Cica

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Natasha Cica is director of the Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society at the University of Tasmania, which advances the university’s community engagement and thought leadership agenda. In 2012 she…
Portrait of Neil Chenoweth

Neil Chenoweth

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Neil Chenoweth is a Walkey-winning senior investigative reporter for the Australian Financial Review and the author of three books investigating the finances of Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp. He was one…
Portrait of Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.
Portrait of Nick Cater

Nick Cater

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Nick Cater is a journalist, author and visiting fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies. He is a former editor of the Weekend Australian and held senior editorial roles at…
Portrait of Nick Coyle

Nick Coyle

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Nick Coyle is a writer and theatre-maker who lives in Sydney.
Portrait of Olivia Carter

Olivia Carter

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Olivia Carter is a Professor at the University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. She heads the Perception and Pharmacology Lab, where her research focuses on understanding how the brain’s natural chemicals…
Portrait of Paige Clark

Paige Clark

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Paige Clark is a Chinese/American/Australian fiction writer, researcher and teacher. Her first book of fiction, She Is Haunted, will be published in 2021 by Allen & Unwin.
Portrait of Pat Cunnane

Pat Cunnane

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Pat Cunnane was President Barack Obama’s Senior Writer and Deputy Director of Messaging at the White House where he worked for six years in many roles, responsible for writing statements…
Portrait of Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius

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‘You pay a price to be able to talk about your own country in the works in a really truthful and brutal way. A lot of people don’t want to…
Portrait of Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors

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Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organiser, freedom fighter, Fulbright scholar, public speaker, and NAACP History Maker from Los Angeles, California.
Portrait of Paul Callaghan

Paul Callaghan

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Paul Callaghan is a freelance writer, game developer, and co-director of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival.
Portrait of Paul Capsis

Paul Capsis

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Paul Capsis is a playwright, performer, actor and singer.
Portrait of Paul Carter

Paul Carter

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Paul Carter is a writer and artist. Recent books include Ground Truthing: Explorations in a Creative Region (2010), Meeting Place: the Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence (2013) and …
Portrait of Paul Chadwick

Paul Chadwick

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Paul Chadwick, journalist and lawyer, is the Australian on the board of Guardian Australia, was the ABC’s Director Editorial Policies 2007-12 and was Victoria’s first Privacy Commissioner 2001-06.
Portrait of Paul Cleary

Paul Cleary

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Paul Cleary the author of Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future. He is a senior writer with The Australian and a researcher at the Australian National…
Portrait of Paul Cox

Paul Cox

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Paul Cox is a film producer, writer and director. Born in Holland and settled in Australia, Paul is an auteur of international acclaim and one of Australia’s most prolific filmmakers…
Portrait of Paul D. Carter

Paul D. Carter

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Paul D. Carter is a writer and teacher from Melbourne, and winner of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2012.
Portrait of Pauline Crameri

Pauline Crameri

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Pauline Crameri is the co-ordinator of Val’s LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care, part of GLHV, at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Val’s…

Perry Crosswhite

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Perry Crosswhite AM is the head of the Australian Commonwealth Games Association.
Portrait of Peter Carey

Peter Carey

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Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He claims his birthplace of Bacchus Marsh had a population of 4,000. This fact should probably be checked. He was educated at…
Portrait of Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke

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Peter Clarke is a Melbourne-based writer, webcaster, educator and moderator.
Portrait of Peter Combe

Peter Combe

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Peter Combe is a children's singer/songwriter. Having sold over one million CDs and DVDs througout his career – including seven Gold and two Platinum albums, and one Gold DVD –…

Peter Corrigan

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Peter Corrigan is the winner of the 2003 Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal and in 2008 received a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to…
Portrait of Peter Craven

Peter Craven

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Peter Craven is one of Australia’s best-known literary critics. He edited Scripsi with Michael Heyward and was the founding editor of the Black Inc. Best Of annuals (Essays, Stories, Poems)…
Portrait of Peter Cronau

Peter Cronau

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Peter Cronau is an investigative journalist, most recently as producer for ABC TV's investigative documentary program, Four Corners. Peter has reported for ABC Radio’s Background Briefing, including a…
Portrait of Philip Chubb

Philip Chubb

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Philip Chubb is head of Journalism at Monash University. In 2014, Philip published his third book, Power Failure, which is an evaluation of the successes and failures of climate…
Portrait of Queenie Chan

Queenie Chan

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Queenie Chan was born in 1980 in Hong Kong, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called The…
Portrait of Ra Chapman

Ra Chapman

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Ra is an actress, theatre maker and writer. She has recently been selected for the 2018 Cinespace/Film Victoria StoryLab Program, and was a member of the 2017 Besen Writers Group…
Portrait of Rebecca Coates

Rebecca Coates

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Rebecca Coates is an independent curator and writer, and associate curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. She lectures in Art History and Art Curatorship at the School of…
Portrait of Rebekah Clarkson

Rebekah Clarkson

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Rebekah Clarkson’s short stories have been published widely, most recently in Best Australian Stories, Australian Book Review, and Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding short stories by Australian women published…
Portrait of Reginald Chang

Reginald Chang

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Reginald Chang is an aspiring photographer and community leader. Reginald has previously worked for many community organisations which help to spark change in the lives of young people. As a…
Portrait of Richard Cornish

Richard Cornish

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Richard Cornish is an award-winning food writer who penned the much loved and irreverent Fairfax Media column Brain Food for more than seven years. He has co-authored the bestselling MoVida …
Portrait of Rick Chen

Rick Chen

Rick Chen, the director and co-founder of Pozible, graduated from University of Sydney with a Masters degree in digital media.
Portrait of Rico Craig

Rico Craig

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Rico Craig is a writer, educator and award-winning poet whose work melds the narrative, lyrical and cinematic. His poetry has been awarded prizes or shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize…
Portrait of Rob Carlton

Rob Carlton

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Rob Carlton, a Silver Logie winning actor, has been a professional actor since he was 14 years old. A recognised face in Australia for both comedy and drama, his credits…
Portrait of Robbie Coburn

Robbie Coburn

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Robbie Coburn lives in the small farming district of Woodstock in rural Victoria. His first full collection of poems, Rain Season, was published by Picaro Press in 2013.
Portrait of Robert Clark

Robert Clark

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Robert Clark is the member for Box Hill and is also the attorney-general, Minister for Finance and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Victorian government.
Portrait of Robert Connolly

Robert Connolly

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Robert Connolly is a multi-AFI award winning writer and director. He has written and directed three feature films The Bank, Three Dollars, Balibo and most recently, the Channel…
Portrait of Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwallader

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Robyn Cadwallader has published numerous prize-winning short stories, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis concerning attitudes to virginity and women in…
Portrait of Rodney Croome

Rodney Croome

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Rodney Croome is an advocate for gay human rights and author of Why vs Why: Gay Marriage.
Portrait of Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

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Roger Cohen has worked for The New York Times for 25 years as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor, and now columnist. Prior to that he worked for The Wall Street…
Portrait of Rukmini Callimachi

Rukmini Callimachi

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Rukmini Callimachi is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, covering Islamic extremism. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been awarded a number of other…
Portrait of Sam Cooney

Sam Cooney

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Sam Cooney runs the literary organisation TLB, which houses the independent book publishing press Brow Books and quarterly literary magazine The Lifted Brow, as well as running a website…
Portrait of Sandy Cull

Sandy Cull

Sandy has been designing books for more than 20 years. In 2004 and 2005, she won the Best Designed Book of the Year at the Book Design Awards. In 2011…
Portrait of Santilla Chingaipe

Santilla Chingaipe

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Santilla Chingaipe is a journalist and filmmaker whose work explores migration, cultural identities and politics. She is a regular contributor to the Saturday Paper, and serves as a member…
Portrait of Sean Condon

Sean Condon

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Sean Condon is the author of six books in a variety of genres. He has also written for many newspapers and magazines and co-wrote one episode of a sitcom for…
Portrait of Sharell Cook

Sharell Cook

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Sharell Cook is a travel writer and author. Her first book, Henna for the Broken-Hearted, has just been published by Pan Macmillan.
Portrait of Shaun Carney

Shaun Carney

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Shaun Carney is a journalist and memoirist.
Portrait of Shu-Ling Chua

Shu-Ling Chua

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Shu-Ling Chua is a Melbourne-based (formerly Canberra-based) essayist, critic and poet, whose work has appeared in Peril magazine, Lindsay, Meanjin, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop, among others. Her debut…
Portrait of Sian Campbell

Sian Campbell

Sian Campbell is a freelance writer, co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival and the editor-in-chief of Scum Mag. You can find her work in Kill Your Darlings, …
Portrait of Simon Castles

Simon Castles

Simon Castles is an editor at the Age and a former editor of the Big Issue. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Meanjin, Kill…
Portrait of Simon Cotter

Simon Cotter

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Simon Crerar

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Simon Crerar is BuzzFeed's Australia Editor and leads an editorial team dedicated to growing the social news and entertainment company's Australian audience with viral content by and for Australians. 
Portrait of S. Leo Chiang

S. Leo Chiang

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S. Leo Chiang is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in San Francisco and Taipei. His most recent film, Our Time Machine, won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2019 Tribeca…
Portrait of Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham

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Sophie Cunningham is the author of five books, the most recent of which is City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death & the Need for a Forest. She is a former…
Portrait of Soraya Chemaly

Soraya Chemaly

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Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. She is the Director of the Women’s Media…
Portrait of Spencer Crittenden

Spencer Crittenden

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Spencer Crittenden is a writer/producer from Moorpark, California. Growing up in the shade of Hollywood, Spencer Crittenden toiled in the back rooms of an Apple Store until a freak podcast…
Portrait of Spike Chiappalone

Spike Chiappalone

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Spike is currently a member of the CHP’s Peer Education Support Program. He is an ex long-term homeless person and began his role as a member of the Pesp team…
Portrait of Stella Charls

Stella Charls

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Stella is the Wheeler Centre's Programming Coordinator An emerging arts manager and event producer, Stella was previously the Marketing and Events Coordinator for Readings, and the Festival Manager for the…
Portrait of Stephanie Convery

Stephanie Convery

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Stephanie Convery is a Melbourne-based writer and the deputy editor of Overland magazine. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, ABC’s The Drum, the Big…
Portrait of Stephen Cummings

Stephen Cummings

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Stephen Cummings is a celebrated singer/songwriter and former lead singer of the Sports, who had the late 70s classic “Who Listens to the Radio?”.
Portrait of Steve Cannane

Steve Cannane

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Steve Cannane is a senior reporter and occasional presenter for Lateline.  He also shares hosting duties of The Drum.  Steve has worked as a reporter, producer and presenter for…
Portrait of Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll

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Stephen Carroll’s The Time We Have Taken won the Commonwealth Writers and Miles Franklin prizes, and his A World of Other People was named joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary…
Portrait of Susan Carland

Susan Carland

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Dr Susan Carland is an academic, author, and social commentator. She has a PhD from Monash University, and is a Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow and a Churchill…
Portrait of Susan Crennan

Susan Crennan

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Justice Susan Crennan was appointed to the High Court of Australia in November 2005. She had then served for almost two years as a judge on the Federal Court. Justice…
Portrait of Tania Cañas

Tania Cañas

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Tania is the Arts Director at RISE Refugee and a lecturer at the VCA in Art and Community Practice. She currently sits on the editorial board at the International Pedagogy…
Portrait of Tarang Chawla

Tarang Chawla

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In 2015, Tarang Chawla’s sister, Nikita, was just 23 when she was murdered by her partner while she slept. Because of the horrific nature of the attack, Nikita’s murder generated…
Portrait of Tasneem Chopra

Tasneem Chopra

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A cross-cultural consultant, Tasneem addresses leadership, cultural competence and intersectionality across private and public spheres. For her efforts she was recently appointed the inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia…
Portrait of Taylah Cole

Taylah Cole

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Taylah Cole is an Indigenous textile designer and artist, with a BA in Textile Design. In her practise she focuses lots of different subject matters in her art and design…
Portrait of Teju Cole

Teju Cole

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Teju Cole is a critic, novelist, photographer, and the author of four books: Every Day is for the Thief (novella), Open City (novel), Known and Strange Things (essays) and Blind…
Portrait of Thomas Caldwell

Thomas Caldwell

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Thomas Caldwell is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker who specializes in film criticism and educational writing on film.
Portrait of Tim Christodoulou

Tim Christodoulou

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Tim Christodoulou is a 19-year-old Melbourne-based LGBT activist and the partnerships manager of Minus18, Australia’s national organisation for LGBT youth.
Portrait of Tim Cope

Tim Cope

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Tim Cope, F.R.G.S., is an award winning adventurer, author, and filmmaker with a special interest in the traditional cultures of Central Asia and Russia. He has studied as a wilderness…
Portrait of Tim Coronel

Tim Coronel

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Tim Coronel has been involved in the book industry for over 20 years. After studying professional writing and editing at RMIT, in 2002 he took on what was meant to…
Portrait of Tim Costello

Tim Costello

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Tim Costello is one of Australia’s most sought after voices on issues of social justice, leadership and ethics. Since 2004, Tim has been CEO of World Vision – Australia’s largest…
Portrait of Tim Crowe

Tim Crowe

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Tim is a career nutrition research scientist and educator, dietitian, and regular media and social media communicator.
Portrait of TJ Clark

TJ Clark

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Professor Timothy Clark is one of the world’s most respected art historians, while TJ Clark is a poet published in the London Review of Books, among others. In a…
Portrait of Tom Cho

Tom Cho

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Tom Cho’s stories have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in Australia and internationally.
Portrait of Tony Clifton

Tony Clifton

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Tony Clifton spent 40 years working as a foreign correspondent, covering conflicts around the world for publications like Newsweek and the London Sunday Times.
Portrait of Tony Coady

Tony Coady

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C.A.J. (Tony) Coady is Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, where he was formerly Boyce Gibson…
Portrait of Travis Cotton

Travis Cotton

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Travis Cotton’s first play, The Fifth at Randwick, won Naked Theatre Company’s Top Shorts competition. It has gone on to play in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne – as did…
Portrait of Vicki Couzens

Vicki Couzens

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Vicki Couzens is a Gunditjmara woman from the Western Districts of Victoria. Vicki acknowledges her Ancestors and Elders who guide her work She has worked in Aboriginal community affairs for…
Portrait of Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra

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Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi, but travelled to the United States as an undergraduate student where he studied at Pomona College (in Claremont, near Los Angeles) and later…
Portrait of W. Chew Chan

W. Chew Chan

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Chew “chewie” Chan is an experienced comic book and storyboard artist who has worked on a number of projects: from comic books (Iron Man, Buckaroo Banzai and Cthulhu Tales) to…
Portrait of W.H. Chong

W.H. Chong

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W.H. Chong is a book designer and design director at Text Publishing. A founding member of ABDA (Australian Book Designers Association), he also writes on visual art for Daily Review and on…
Portrait of Zac Collins-Widders

Zac Collins-Widders

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Zac Collins-Widders is a proud queer Aboriginal person and has been living in Melbourne for four years. Public servant by day, drag queen by night, they describe their drag aesthetic…
Portrait of Zena Cumpston

Zena Cumpston

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Zena is a Barkandji woman currently working as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her work centres around Aboriginal perspectives of biodiversity and she recently released a free…
Portrait of Zhi Yi Cham

Zhi Yi Cham

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Zhi Yi Cham is a Malaysian woman currently based on Ngunnawal-Ngambri country, which now exists as the esoteric wormhole known as Canberra. She is a believer of deep joy mediocrity…
Portrait of Zoë Coombs Marr

Zoë Coombs Marr

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Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer, writer, artist and comedian. She grew up in Grafton, where she and her best friend staged a musical instead of going to schoolies week…