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Portrait of Adam Elliot

Adam Elliot

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Adam Elliot is the director, animator and writer of Harvey Krumpet.
Portrait of Akua Ed Nignpense

Akua Ed Nignpense

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Akua Ed Nignpense was born and raised in Ghana. She's a nurse/midwife with over 30 years of experience working in hospitals and with various levels of communities. She later travelled…
Portrait of Ali Cobby Eckermann

Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Ali Cobby Eckermann is the first Aboriginal Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2014. Her verse novel Ruby Moonlight was published in…
Portrait of Alison Evans

Alison Evans

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Alison Evans is a nonbinary author from Melbourne, Australia, a regular speaker at festivals, schools and events, on writing, gender and sexuality. They are co-editor of Concrete Queers, a maker…
Portrait of Amy Espeseth

Amy Espeseth

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Amy Espeseth’s first novel, Sufficient Grace, was awarded the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2009 and was published by Scribe in September 2012. An extract…
Portrait of Andrew Elder

Andrew Elder

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Andrew Elder is a Year 12 student at Scotch College.
Portrait of Anita Elias

Anita Elias

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Dr Anita Elias is a medical practitioner with a background in general practice. She trained in individual, couple and family therapy and has specialised and has worked in sexual medicine and sexual…
Portrait of Anne Enright

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies…
Portrait of Anne Edmonds

Anne Edmonds

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Anne Edmonds is one of Australia's most exciting new stand up, character and banjo playing comedians. Since bursting onto the scene in 2010, she has brought her exquisitely incisive…
Portrait of Anton Enus

Anton Enus

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Anton Enus is an award winning broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience. His career spans television, radio and print coverage of international news and current affairs in…
Portrait of Astrid Edwards

Astrid Edwards

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Astrid Edwards is a blogger, writer, advocate and board member She blogs about chronic disease and living with MS under the pseudonym LadywithMS. Telling stories – and saying what needs to…
Portrait of Atlanta Eke

Atlanta Eke

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Atlanta Eke is an Australian artist, dancer and choreographer working internationally. She was a DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient 2010 in Vienna, and has received NextWave Kickstart 2011, Dancehouse Housemate residency…
Portrait of Ben Eltham

Ben Eltham

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Ben Eltham studied neuroscience, philosophy and cultural studies before editing the University of Queensland's Semper Floreat in 2000. He has worked as a freelance journalist and essayist since 2001 for a…
Portrait of Ben Elton

Ben Elton

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Ben Elton is one of Britain’s most provocative and entertaining writers. From celebrity to climate change, from World War I to the end of the world, his books give his…
Portrait of Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo

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Bestselling author Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other. It was also one of Barack Obama’s Top 19 Books of 2019. Her…
Portrait of Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis is the author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero, which was recently followed up by Imperial Bedrooms.
Portrait of Carolin Emcke

Carolin Emcke

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Carolin Emcke was born in 1967. She studied philosophy, politics and history in London, Frankfurt and at Harvard. From 1998 to 2013 she reported from war and crisis zones including…
Portrait of Cathy Eatock

Cathy Eatock

Cathy Eatock is a Kairi/Badjula woman, whose people come from central Queensland, Australia. Cathy has a solid history in community advocacy work extending over 25 years, including a central role…
Portrait of Charles Edel

Charles Edel

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Charles Edel is a senior fellow and visiting scholar at the United States Studies Centre Previously, he was Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College,…
Portrait of Dan Edwards

Dan Edwards

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Dan Edwards is a freelance writer, journalist and academic whose work has appeared in the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, RealTime, Crikey and New Matilda.
Portrait of Darryl Emmerson

Darryl Emmerson

Darryl Emmerson is an Australian writer, performer and playwright of I Write What I See: Christina Stead Speaks, among other works.
Portrait of David Eagleman

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, an internationally bestselling author, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain, an Emmy-nominated…
Portrait of David Epstein

David Epstein

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David Epstein is vice-president, corporate affairs and regulatory affairs for Singtel Optus. Educated at The ANU and Wharton (UPenn), David is an experienced corporate affairs executive with a background in…
Portrait of Debi Enker

Debi Enker

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Debi Enker has been writing about film and television for more than 20 years – long enough to have written reviews of Mad Max 3 and Far East for the…
Portrait of Denny Ellerman

Denny Ellerman

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Keynote Speaker: A leading energy economist, Denny Ellerman is recognised internationally as an authority on emissions trading and coal economics.
Portrait of Don Edgar

Don Edgar

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Don Edgar is one of Australia’s best-known authorities on social trends as they affect families, communities and the workplace. He was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies…
Portrait of Eamon Evans

Eamon Evans

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Eamon Evans is a former radio host and freelance writer who has written for ArtsHub, SBS, iLove, 64, Vibewire, Stanza, Lot’s Wife and the Australian Book…
Portrait of Elin-Maria Evangelista

Elin-Maria Evangelista

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Elin-Maria Evangelista is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship recipient, 2014. She holds a PhD in creative writing and has published on translation issues when writing in a second language.…
Portrait of Felicity Everett

Felicity Everett

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Felicity Everett began her career as a writer as an author of children’s books. Working as a children’s books editor in London for years and authoring 18 children’s books, it…
Portrait of Gabriel Evans

Gabriel Evans

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Gabriel Evans is a children's book illustrator – and occasional author – of over 18 books He has illustrated for publishers including Walker Books Australia, Five Mile Press and Koala…
Portrait of Gareth Evans

Gareth Evans

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Gareth Evans is a writer, academic, lawyer and former cabinet minister He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments for thirteen years, as Attorney General, Minister for…
Portrait of Gerard Elson

Gerard Elson

Gerard Elson is a freelance writer. He is interviews editor at Kill Your Darlings, and works as a bookseller.
Portrait of Glory Edim

Glory Edim

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Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online book club-turned-literary festival that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to increase…
Portrait of Harriet Edquist

Harriet Edquist

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Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.
Portrait of Hazel Edwards

Hazel Edwards

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Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, Hazel Edwards writes across media, for adults and children. She is currently writing her autobiography In 2013, she…
Portrait of Heather Ewart

Heather Ewart

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Heather Ewart is National Affairs Correspondent for 7.30 on ABCTV, specialising in coverage of federal issues.
Portrait of Helen Elliott

Helen Elliott

Helen Elliott is a literary journalist. 
Portrait of Jacinta Ermacora

Jacinta Ermacora

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Jacinta Ermacora is a councillor with Warrnambool City Council.
Portrait of Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides’ first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993) was translated into 15 languages and made into a major motion picture. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel …
Portrait of Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories…
Portrait of Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Jenny Erpenbeck is the bestselling author of The Old Child & The Book of Words, Visitation and The End of Days, which won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction…
Portrait of Jim Everett

Jim Everett

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Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta. A plangermairreenner man, Turbuna-Meenamatta, Tasmania. Jim worked for 15 years as a fisherman, merchant seaman, at the Australian Regular Army, in Aboriginal organisations and the…
Portrait of John Edwards

John Edwards

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John Edwards is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute, an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University, and a member of the Board…
Portrait of Jose Eveline

Jose Eveline

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Portrait of Josh Earl

Josh Earl

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Josh Earl is a comedian with a very weird family. His latest show for children is called My Family is Weider Than Your Family. And believe us, he's not…
Portrait of Joumanah El Matrah

Joumanah El Matrah

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Joumanah El Matrah is the CEO of the Australian Muslim Women's Centre for Human Rights (AMWCHR) and a PhD student at Swinburne University – her Doctorate is on counter terrorism…
Portrait of Julia Eccleshare

Julia Eccleshare

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Julia Eccleshare is the children’s books editor at the Guardian and a freelance writer and critic. In addition to numerous anthologies, her books include A Guide to the Harry Potter…
Portrait of Juliana Engberg

Juliana Engberg

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Juliana Engberg is artistic director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. She is a professorial fellow at Monash University and adjunct professor at RMIT University, and was the…
Portrait of Julie Eckersley

Julie Eckersley

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Julie is a creative producer with over 20 years experience in the industry. She originally trained as an actress and has worked nationally and internationally on stage and screen, winning…
Portrait of Kassem Eid

Kassem Eid

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Kassem Eid is a Palestinian–Syrian rebel and human rights activist. In 2014 he went on a speaking tour across the United States and testified before the United Nations Security Council…
Portrait of Krystal Evans

Krystal Evans

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Dr Krystal Evans is a medical research scientist whose work focuses on the development of a new malaria vaccine.
Portrait of Kutcha Edwards

Kutcha Edwards

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As one of Australia’s most respected and renowned Indigenous singer/songwriters and proud Mutti Mutti man, Kutcha’s music and community work has earned him iconic status amongst both Indigenous and non-Indigenous…
Portrait of Laila El-Haddad

Laila El-Haddad

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Laila El-Haddad is an award-winning Palestinian writer, social activist and public speaker who frequently lectures on the situation in Gaza, the intersection of food and politics, and contemporary Islam She…
Portrait of Laura Elvery

Laura Elvery

Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. She recently won the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Her debut short story collection, Trick of the Light, is out now with…
Portrait of Laura Jean

Laura Jean

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Sydney songwriter Laura Jean is revered for the striking beauty of her music and the strength of her piercing, intimate lyrics. She has twice been shortlisted for the Aus- tralian…
Portrait of Liz Ellis

Liz Ellis

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Liz Ellis is one of the most respected names in netball, with a remarkable 18-year elite career including two Commonwealth Gold Medals, three World Championships, four National League titles, four…
Portrait of Margaret Easterbrook

Margaret Easterbrook

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Margaret Easterbrook is editor of the Saturday Age, a position she has held for three years. In her 25 years at the Age, she has held numerous editing…
Portrait of Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans

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Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic turned Tasmanian smallholder. He fattens pigs, milks a cow, tends a garden and writes about food from his office atop his…
Portrait of Megan Evans

Megan Evans

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Megan Evans is a visual artist working as a professional artist for 30 years, doing everything from large-scale murals in the early 80s to my own exhibitions.
Portrait of Mona Eltahawy

Mona Eltahawy

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‘The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.’ No voice coming out of the Arab Spring was as urgent and…
Portrait of Monikka Eliah

Monikka Eliah

Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian-Australian writer. She has presented work at the NSW Writers Centre, Studio Stories, Wollongong Writers Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, National Young Writers' Festival, Playwriting Australia Festival…
Portrait of Nick Earls

Nick Earls

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Nick Earls writes long, short and medium-sized fiction, including thirteen novels and numerous shorter works, as well as works for children. His most recent novel, Analogue Men, was published…
Portrait of Nick Evershed

Nick Evershed

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Nick is the data and interactives editor for the Guardian Australia. He's a former scientist, and now focusses on data-driven investigations, visualisation, analysis and interactive multimedia.
Portrait of Patricia Edgar

Patricia Edgar

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Patricia Edgar is a sociologist, educator, film and television producer, writer, researcher, and policy analyst. Through a career spanning four decades she has been at the forefront of media for…
Portrait of Quinn Eades

Quinn Eades

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Quinn Eades is a researcher, writer, and poet whose work lies at the nexus of feminist and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy. Eades is published nationally and…
Portrait of Rachel Elliot-Jones

Rachel Elliot-Jones

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Rachel Elliot-Jones is the editor of Assemble Papers, an online and biannual print journal about small footprint living Rachel is an experienced writer, editor and producer, who has worked…
Portrait of Rafael Epstein

Rafael Epstein

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Rafael Epstein is a journalist who has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Timor, Indonesia, Europe and the Middle East.
Portrait of Rakhal Ebeli

Rakhal Ebeli

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An award-winning journalist and presenter, Rakhal Ebeli founded global journalism agency Newsmodo in 2012. With a unique ‘global newsroom’ solution, the platform and Australian-based team provide an end-to-end publishing solution, leveraging a network…
Portrait of Rayya Elias

Rayya Elias

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Rayya Elias is a Syrian-born author, filmmaker and musician. Her first book, Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower…
Portrait of Rhiannon Evans

Rhiannon Evans

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At La Trobe University, Dr Rhiannon Evans teaches Ancient Mediterranean Studies – in particular, the literature and culture of Ancient Rome and its empire, as well as the Latin language…
Portrait of Richard Evans

Richard Evans

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Richard Evans of REĂ Consulting is an experienced practitioner in arts, culture, events and place making. Currently REĂ is engaged by the Barangaroo Delivery Authority to oversee events, public art…
Portrait of Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley

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Robyn Eckersley is Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Portrait of Rodney Eggleston

Rodney Eggleston

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Rodney Eggleston is an architect and founding director of March Studio. Eggleston trained and taught at RMIT University, followed by a short but informative two-year stint working for Rem Koolhaas…
Portrait of Scott Edgar

Scott Edgar

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Scott Edgar has been peddling comedy music on radio, television and stage for twenty years with his compadres in Melbourne group Tripod.  Tripod are deep in preparation for the premiere of their…
Portrait of Shara Evans

Shara Evans

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Shara Evans is a technology futurist, regarded as a leading expert on emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, robots, cyber security, digital privacy and the future of health, humanity and work. Shara focusses…
Portrait of Stephan Elliott

Stephan Elliott

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Entering the film industry aged 17, Stephan became a director at age 26 with the Cannes 1993 entrant Frauds, starring Phil Collins and Hugo Weaving. He has since directed…
Portrait of Suzannah Espie

Suzannah Espie

Suzannah Espie is a Melbourne-based singer songwriter. She began performing with her alt-country pop band, GIT, in 1997. With a voice marrying country, soul, blues and pop, she has performed on…
Portrait of Tania El Khoury

Tania El Khoury

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Tania El Khoury lives and works between London and Beirut. She creates immersive installations and challenging performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her work has toured around…
Portrait of Tess Evans

Tess Evans

Tess Evans is the author of Book of Lost Threads.
Portrait of Tess Evans

Tess Evans

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Book of Lost Threads is Tess Evans' first novel. She previously worked in the TAFE system.
Portrait of Thordis Elva

Thordis Elva

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Thordis Elva is known to Icelanders as a writer, journalist, public speaker and Woman of the Year 2015. Nine of her plays have been professionally produced, and her book about…
Portrait of Tom Elliott

Tom Elliott

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Tom Elliott is the host of 3AW's Drive program. He is also a director of Melbourne-based wealth management firm Beulah Capital. Tom writes a weekly opinion column for Melbourne’s Herald Sun…
Portrait of Tony Ellwood

Tony Ellwood

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Tony Ellwood is the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, and was the initiator behind the concept of the current exhibition Melbourne Now.
Portrait of Vahideh Eisaei

Vahideh Eisaei

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Vahideh Eisaei grew up in an artistic family with a love for the arts, music and poetry. She completed her musical training in Tehran, and subsequently achieved a Master of…