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Portrait of Aaron Gocs

Aaron Gocs

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Aaron Gocs is a stand-up comedian.
Portrait of A.C. Grayling

A.C. Grayling

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A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. Among his recent books are Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggle…
Portrait of Alia Gabres

Alia Gabres

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Alia Gabres is a Melbourne based creative producer, cultural broker and storyteller She has worked with diverse and creative communities in Melbourne in various roles such as Lead Creative Producer…
Portrait of Alice Gorman

Alice Gorman

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Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the field of space archaeology. Her research on space junk and lunar heritage has been featured in National Geographic, the …
Portrait of Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza is an organiser, writer and freedom dreamer from Oakland, California. She is Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance Garza’s activism is rooted in organising strategies…
Portrait of Alison Goodman

Alison Goodman

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Alison Goodman is the author of Eon and Eona, a New York Times-bestselling fantasy duology which has sold into 17 countries and been translated into ten languages.
Portrait of Alyx Gorman

Alyx Gorman

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Alyx Gorman attended her first demonstration in-utero; her parents, both avowed Marxists, met through the union movement. Alyx rebelled against her red nappy upbringing by becoming a lifestyle journalist. She has…
Portrait of Amanda Gome

Amanda Gome

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Amanda Gome is head of digital and social media at ANZ, where she is leading the bank’s content and social media strategy. She is also associate editor of BlueNotes…
Portrait of Amie Green

Amie Green

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Amie Green writes and draws queer, witchy and wormy things. She’s been published in Voiceworks, Concrete Queers, Farrago, Judy’s Punch and Wasteland Online. She currently edits…
Portrait of Amy Gray

Amy Gray

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Amy Gray is a freelance writer and author. She writes on politics, feminism and culture. Her work has appeared in the Age, the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald…
Portrait of Ana Maria Gomides

Ana Maria Gomides

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Ana Maria Gomides is a full time Beyoncé lover and cat mother. She moonlights as cunning sorceress, battling the evils of racism, sexism, homophobia and the stigma attached to mental…
Portrait of Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith

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Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first novel, Gracious Living, was…
Portrait of Andrew Grimes

Andrew Grimes

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Andrew Grimes was born in Bendigo in 1954 and is now working on a series of historical crime novels, the first of which is The Richmond Conspiracy (Text Publishing). He…
Portrait of Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer

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Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Andrew has taught at a number…
Portrait of Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

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Andy Griffiths is one of the most popular children’s authors in Australia. He has written over 30 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays. His books have been New…
Portrait of Ann Goldstein

Ann Goldstein

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Ann Goldstein is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize. She has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work as well as…
Portrait of Anna George

Anna George

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Anna George is a Melbourne-based writer. Initially trained as a lawyer, Anna has worked in the legal world as well as the film and television industries. What Came Before is…
Portrait of Anna Goldsworthy

Anna Goldsworthy

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Anna Goldsworthy is the author of the memoirs Welcome to Your New Life and Piano Lessons, and Quarterly Essay 50, On Women, Freedom and Misogyny. Her writing has…
Portrait of Anne Gracie

Anne Gracie

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Anne Gracie is a Melbourne-based author of historical romance fiction, whose work has been published in 18 languages.
Portrait of Barbara Gunnell

Barbara Gunnell

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Barbara Gunnell is a writer and editor based in London. From 1992 to 97 Barbara was assistant editor of the Independent on Sunday, comment editor of the Observer from…
Portrait of Bella Green

Bella Green

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Bella is a stand-up comedian, sketch writer and storyteller who likes finding the funny in dark places. Her debut stand-up show, Bella Green is Charging For It, was nominated for Best…
Portrait of Bill Gammage

Bill Gammage

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Bill Gammage AM is an Australian academic historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of Australian National University.
Portrait of Bill Garner

Bill Garner

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Bill Garner is a camper who is also a historian, playwright, and television writer. He is the author of Born in a Tent, a radical history of Australian camping.
Portrait of Billy Geary

Billy Geary

Billy is an ecologist and science communicator with a passion for Australia's native animals.
Portrait of Bob Graham

Bob Graham

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Bob Graham has written and illustrated many children’s picture books.
Portrait of Brendan Gullifer

Brendan Gullifer

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After a working in journalism around Australia and overseas, Brendan was the Australian commercial representative for The Economist and the International Herald Tribune for 15 years.
Portrait of Bridget Griffen-Foley

Bridget Griffen-Foley

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Bridget Griffen-Foley is a Professor of Media and the Director of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University. A leading media historian, she is the author of several books…
Portrait of Bruce Gladwin

Bruce Gladwin

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Bruce Gladwin (born 1966) is an Australian artist and performance maker. He has been the Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre since 1999. The work Gladwin has created with…
Portrait of Bruce Guthrie

Bruce Guthrie

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Bruce Guthrie has been editor of The Sunday Age, The Age, Who Weekly, the Weekend Australian Magazine and Wish. His most recent appointment, in 2007, was…
Portrait of Carey Gillam

Carey Gillam

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Carey Gillam is a veteran journalist, researcher, and writer with more than 25 years’ experience in the news industry covering corporate America. She is currently Research Director for the nonprofit, U.S. Right…
Portrait of Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Caroline Guiela Nguyen has written and directed for the stage and screen. Her works manifest a passion for both fiction and the real, which she explores conjointly by bringing together…
Portrait of Carrillo Gantner

Carrillo Gantner

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Carrillo Gantner is President of the Melbourne Festival and chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund.
Portrait of Charmaine Papertalk Green

Charmaine Papertalk Green

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Charmaine Papertalk Green is from the Wajarri, Badimaya and Southern Yamaji peoples of Mid West Western Australia. She has lived and worked in rural Western Australia (Mid West and Pilbara)…
Portrait of Chris Graham

Chris Graham

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Chris Graham is the owner and editor of New Matilda. He was the Associate Producer on John Pilger’s latest epic, Utopia, and is the former managing editor and founder of…
Portrait of Christine Gordon

Christine Gordon

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Christine Gordon is the Programming Manager of Melbourne’s pre-eminent independent bookshop, Readings, and has been in that role for over a decade. She considers this the best job in Australia…
Portrait of Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman

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Claire G. Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew…
Portrait of Corinne Grant

Corinne Grant

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Corinne Grant is a comedian known for her appearances on TV including Good News Week, The Glasshouse and Air Ways.
Portrait of Damian Griffis

Damian Griffis

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Damian Griffis is a descendant of the Worimi people of the Manning Valley in NSW. He is a leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Portrait of Danielle Green

Danielle Green

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Danielle Green is a Victorian Labor politician. She has been the member for Yan Yean for 11 and a half years, and is the Shadow Minister for the Prevention of…
Portrait of Dave Graney

Dave Graney

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Dave Graney and drummer Clare Moore played with the Moodists from 1978 to 1986. They then played with the White Buffaloes/Coral Snakes from 1987 to 1997. Then the Royal Dave Graney…
Portrait of David Gianotten

David Gianotten

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David Gianotten joined OMA in 2008, launched OMA’s Hong Kong office in 2009, and became partner at OMA in 2010. David Gianotten leads OMA’s large portfolio in the Asia Pacific…
Portrait of David Gonski

David Gonski

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As a lawyer and corporate adviser, David Gonski has spent the last thirty-eight years advising and participating in business in Australia and in Asia. Gonski is Chairman of the ANZ Bank, Coca-Cola Amatil…
Portrait of David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil

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Discovered as a sixteen-year-old dancer living in the Maningrida Mission in 1969, David Gulpilil’s breakthrough performance in Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout remains one of the most iconic and compelling performances of all…
Portrait of Deborah Glass

Deborah Glass

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Deborah Glass OBE is the Victorian Ombudsman. Glass has previously worked as a commissioner with the Independent Police Complaints Commission of England and Wales (IPCC), and as the IPCC deputy chair. She holds a…
Portrait of Declan Greene

Declan Greene

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Declan Greene is a writer and theatre-maker based in Melbourne. His plays include A Black Joy and Moth, and have been produced at the Malthouse, Sydney Opera House, and…
Portrait of Dennis Glover

Dennis Glover

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Dennis Glover is an Australian writer and novelist. The son of factory workers, Dennis grew up in the working class Melbourne suburb of Doveton before studying at Monash University and…
Portrait of Derek Guille

Derek Guille

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Derek Guille is broadcaster heard weeknights on ABC 774.
Portrait of Diana Greentree

Diana Greentree

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Diana began her working life in theatre, first as a classical dancer then later as an actress in theatre, film, radio and television. Her latest book is The Camros Bird…
Portrait of Dina Gerolymou

Dina Gerolymou

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Dina Gerolymou came to Australia from Greece in 1992 carrying a backpack full of poetry books and some music records. She studied journalism, history and education and been a broadcaster/journalist…
Portrait of Donald Grant

Donald Grant

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Leading forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant was the first State Director of Forensic Psychiatry in Queensland, and sat on the bench of the state's unique Mental Health Court for five years. His life's…
Portrait of Elena Gomez

Elena Gomez

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Elena Gomez is a poet and book editor living in Melbourne. She is the author of Body of Work and a number of chapbooks.
Portrait of Eli Glasman

Eli Glasman

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Eli Glasman is a Melbourne-based author. His debut novel, The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew (Sleepers Publishing), concerns a homosexual boy in the Melbourne orthodox Jewish community.
Portrait of Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

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Eliza Griswold is a poet, reporter and author of The Tenth Parallel.
Portrait of Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her latest novel is The Signature of All Things.
Portrait of Eloise Grills

Eloise Grills

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Eloise Grills is an award-winning visual essayist, a poet, educator and memoir editor for Scum Magazine. She was recently awarded the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Nonfiction for her Scum Magazine …
Portrait of Emily Gale

Emily Gale

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Emily Gale has been involved in the children's book industry for nearly 20 years and has worked as an editor, reviewer, talent finder and literary award judge. She spent several…
Portrait of Eric George

Eric George

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Eric George is a multiple Walkley Award-winning podcast producer and the Australian's Multimedia Editor. He produced the investigative documentaries Bowraville and Ballarat's Children and launched the newspaper's weekly business podcast, The…
Portrait of Eva Gabrielsson

Eva Gabrielsson

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Eva Gabrielsson is an architect and author in Sweden of books on a variety of subjects including concubinage and architecture.
Portrait of Fiona Gruber

Fiona Gruber

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Writer and broadcaster Fiona Gruber writes regularly on the arts for the Australian and reviews books, theatre and film for the Times Literary Supplement in the UK.
Portrait of Gautam Gupta

Gautam Gupta

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Gautam Gupta is secretary of the Federation of Indian Students of Australia and is a commentator on issues affecting the Indian community in Australia.
Portrait of Genevieve Grieves

Genevieve Grieves

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Genevieve Grieves is an Indigenous educator, curator, filmmaker, artist, oral historian, researcher and writer who has accumulated nearly 20 years experience in the arts and culture industries. She is Worimi…
Portrait of Geoff Gallop

Geoff Gallop

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After an academic career in Australia and Britain, Geoff Gallop was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 2006. He was a Minister in the Lawrence…
Portrait of Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the twentieth century.
Portrait of Ginger Gorman

Ginger Gorman

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Ginger Gorman is an award-winning social justice journalist based in Canberra, Australia In 2013, Ginger and her family suffered the effects of online hate first-hand, and it was this experience…
Portrait of Gyton Grantley

Gyton Grantley

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An AFI and Logie award winner, Gyton Grantley has appeared on the big and small screens of Australia. Known best for his work in the original Underbelly as the notorious gangster…
Portrait of Haben Girma

Haben Girma

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The first deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. She is a White House Champion of Change, and a Forbes 30…

Hannah Gadsby

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Hannah Gadsby is an award-winning Australian comedian who thinks quickly and moves slowly. She quickly rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new…
Portrait of Helen Garner

Helen Garner

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‘It is astonishing how much shit a woman will cop in the interests of civic and domestic order.’ Helen Garner is a legend. Our poet-laureate of the acute observation, the…
Portrait of Ian Gibson

Ian Gibson

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Panel member: Ian is Managing Director and co-founder of specialist investment manager Attunga Capital Pty Ltd.
Portrait of Ira Glass

Ira Glass

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Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life.  The show is heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners on more than…
Portrait of Irma Gold

Irma Gold

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Irma Gold is a writer and editor based in Canberra.
Portrait of James Gleick

James Gleick

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James Gleick was born in New York and began his career in journalism, working as an editor and reporter for the New York Times. He covered science and technology…
Portrait of James Goodman

James Goodman

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James Goodman has been on the management committee of the aid-monitoring group AidWatch since 1999. He has campaigned and researched on global justice issues since the mid 1990s and is…
Portrait of Jan Goldsmith

Jan Goldsmith

Jan Goldsmith is co-host of 3CR's Published ... Or Not books programme.
Portrait of Jane Garrett

Jane Garrett

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Jane Garrett is the first female Emergency Services Minister in the history of Australia. She has responsibility of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade and Country Fire Authority – covering both metropolitan…
Portrait of Jane Gleeson-White

Jane Gleeson-White

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Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Classics (2005) and Australian Classics (2007). Her third book, Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how their…
Portrait of Jane Godwin

Jane Godwin

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Jane Godwin is an Australian children’s book publisher and the highly acclaimed author of over twenty books for young people, across all styles and ages. Her work is published internationally…
Portrait of Jane Gilmore

Jane Gilmore

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Jane Gilmore is a freelance journalist, with a strong focus on data journalism and male violence. She was the founding editor of The King’s Tribune, and now writes regularly for the…

Janette Gray

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Janette Gray is a Sister of Mercy and is a member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Australia National Formation Council.
Portrait of Jefa Greenaway

Jefa Greenaway

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Jefa Greenaway is a descendant of the Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples of northwest NSW. He is an architect, interior designer, academic, director of Greenaway Architects and Chair of Indigenous Architecture…
Portrait of Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell

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Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller…
Portrait of Jenna Guillaume

Jenna Guillaume

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Jenna Guillaume was editor-at-large for BuzzFeed Australia, where she wrote about very important things like pop culture, identity, feminism, social media and Chris Hemsworth's biceps.
Portrait of Jennifer Granger

Jennifer Granger

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Melbourne-based author Jennifer Granger is a transformational coach and author. Having worked as a corporate insider over a 20-year period, she taps into both her business acumen and spiritual awareness…
Portrait of Jenny Gray

Jenny Gray

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Jenny Gray is the chief executive officer of Zoos Victoria. She has a background in transportation, engineering and ethics, which provides a unique set of skills to tackle the challenges…
Portrait of Jill Gallagher

Jill Gallagher

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Jill Gallagher AO is a Gunditjmara woman from Western Victoria who has worked within, led and advocated for the Victorian Aboriginal community all her life.  Since 1998 this has been…
Portrait of Jill Garner

Jill Garner

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Jill Garner is an Associate Architect with the Victorian Government.
Portrait of J.M. Green

J.M. Green

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J. M. Green is the author of Good Money, the first crime-noir novel featuring social worker Stella Hardy. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an…
Portrait of Joanne Gray

Joanne Gray

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Joanne Gray is Leadership editor at Australian Financial Review and editor of the AFR's BOSS magazine. She is also the co-chair of Judges of the AFR Westpac 100 Women of…
Portrait of Jock Given

Jock Given

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Jock Given researches, writes and teaches about media and communications policy, business, law and history. He writes regularly for Inside Story and his radio documentaries 'Crawfords: Television for the People' and…
Portrait of John Garnaut

John Garnaut

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John Garnaut is China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, and also writes for Foreign Policy magazine. He joined Fairfax in 2002 as an economics journalist…
Portrait of John Gibbins

John Gibbins

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John Grant

John Grant’s musically diverse career includes original composition for TV and radio and for the D Generation’s album and radio show, arrangement for Channel 9’s IMT, and performance both…
Portrait of John Grimes

John Grimes

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John Grimes is the chief executive of the Australian Solar Council and the Energy Storage Council; both are not-for-profit organisations In his role as CEO of the Australian Solar Council,…
Portrait of Jon Gray

Jon Gray

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Jon Gray (AKA gray318) is one of the most celebrated book designers in the world. He has designed and illustrated book covers for publishers around the world. His work famously…
Portrait of Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green

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Jonathan Green has been a working journalist since the late 1970s. This makes him both very old and reasonably experienced. After an early degree-ending flirtation with public radio, the bulk…
Portrait of Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard

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Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. She is the first woman to…
Portrait of Kári Gíslason

Kári Gíslason

Kári Gíslason was born in Reykjavík in 1972. He moved to England at the age of ten, and then to Australia four years later. His first book, The Promise of…
Portrait of Karla Grant

Karla Grant

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Karla Grant is host and executive producer of SBS Television’s ‘Living Black’.
Portrait of Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville

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Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the…
Portrait of Katerina Gaita

Katerina Gaita

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Katerina Gaita is the founder and CEO of Climate for Change, a not-for-profit working to create the social climate in Australia for the action we need on climate change. Climate…
Portrait of Kelly Gardiner

Kelly Gardiner

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Kelly Gardiner writes historical fiction for readers of all ages. Her latest novel is 1917: Australia’s Great War, recently shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Young History Prize and the…
Portrait of Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood

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Kerry Greenwood is the author of the Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman series of crime novels, as well as a large number of plays and books in a variety of…
Portrait of Kerryn Goldsworthy

Kerryn Goldsworthy

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Kerryn Goldsworthy is a freelance writer and critic, and a former academic who lectured in literature at the University of Melbourne for 17 years A former editor of Australian Book…
Portrait of Kick Gurry

Kick Gurry

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Kick Gurry is an Australian born actor and has featured in such films as Speed Racer (alongside Susan Sarandon), The Thin Red Line and the Australian coming of age film …
Portrait of Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

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Kim Gordon has been writing and performing experimental rock music for more than three decades, in addition to her work as a visual artist, writer, and designer. In 1981, she…
Portrait of Kimba Griffith

Kimba Griffith

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Kimba Griffith is a jazz musician, celebrant and ‘deathwalker’ with a special interest in bringing death, dying and death care back to families and communities.  Her work encompasses living wakes…
Portrait of Kirsty Grant

Kirsty Grant

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Kirsty Grant has worked at the NGV in various capacities; as curator of Australian Prints and Drawings from 1994-2007 and since then as Senior Curator of Australian Art.
Portrait of Leah Garrett

Leah Garrett

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Leah Garrett is the Loti Smorgon Research Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at Monash University. She has published numerous books and articles on contemporary Jewish literature and culture…
Portrait of Leila Gurruwiwi

Leila Gurruwiwi

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Leila Gurruwiwi is a proud Yolngu woman originally from Galiwinku on Elcho Island in North East Arnhem land. Growing up most of her life in Bendigo, Victoria, Leila finished Year…
Portrait of Lemi Ghariokwu

Lemi Ghariokwu

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Lemi Ghariokwu, is a self-taught Nigerian visual artist, graphic designer, illustrator and songwriter. He is most renowned for many of his original cover art for Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti…
Portrait of Libbi Gorr

Libbi Gorr

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Libbi Gorr is a presenter and broadcaster working across print, radio and television. Libbi is currently a guest reporter for the ABC’s flagship current affairs program 7.30, and hosts…
Portrait of Libby Gleeson

Libby Gleeson

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Libby Gleeson AM is a popular, highly acclaimed writer who has published over 30 books for children and teenagers, including Eleanor, Elizabeth, I Am Susannah, and the …
Portrait of Lisa Gorton

Lisa Gorton

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Lisa Gorton’s first collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award and the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.
Portrait of Lou Garcia-Dolnik

Lou Garcia-Dolnik

Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a mixed-race Filipinx writer and editor working on unceded Gadigal land. A poetry editor for Voiceworks and alumnus of the Banff Centre's Emerging Writers Intensive, they have…
Portrait of Luba Grigorovitch

Luba Grigorovitch

In February this year, Luba Grigorovitch became the first woman and youngest ever state secretary of the 8000-member Rail, Tram and Bus Union. She was elected a Hobsons Bay councilor…
Portrait of Mac Gudgeon

Mac Gudgeon

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Mac Gudgeon is a freelance writer of film, television and theatre.
Portrait of Madeleine Griffeth

Madeleine Griffeth

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Madeleine Griffeth is an aspiring writer from Melbourne.
Portrait of Madeline Gleeson

Madeline Gleeson

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Madeline Gleeson is a lawyer and Research Associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She holds a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute…
Portrait of Madison Griffiths

Madison Griffiths

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Madison Griffiths is a writer, artist and poet whose work has been published in VICE, SBS, Overland, Daily Life, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Catapult and Going Down…
Portrait of Maggie Groff

Maggie Groff

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Maggie Groff is the author of two non-fiction books, Mothers Behaving Badly and Hoax Cuisine.
Portrait of Margaret Gardner

Margaret Gardner

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Professor Margaret Gardner was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of RMIT University in April 2005, having previously held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Queensland. She has extensive…
Portrait of Margi Gibb

Margi Gibb

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Margi Gibb was born in the Victorian high country. She is a singer, songwriter, visual artist, adventurer, survivor, writer and educator.
Portrait of Marina Go

Marina Go

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Marina Go is the outgoing CEO of Private Media, Australia’s leading independent digital publisher with a portfolio of premium websites that reach over 1 million monthly unique, influential viewers and…
Portrait of Mary Gearin

Mary Gearin

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Mary Gearin is the ABC’s National Sport Correspondent A former Europe Correspondent, based in the London bureau, Mary led the ABC's coverage of major breaking world news events, such as…
Portrait of Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

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Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian-American journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including bestsellers The Man Without a Face and Words Will Break Cement. Her work…
Portrait of Max Gillies

Max Gillies

Max Gillies is most recognized for his work over more than three decades impersonating Australia’s political leaders and public figures Max has created several shows to widespread acclaim including the…
Portrait of Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi

Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi

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Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi is a proud Black/Indigenous, Pasifika and West Asian writer. Their mob is from Murray (Mer) Island, from the Zagareb and Dauareb tribes. Meleika is also a literature and…
Portrait of Michael Gard

Michael Gard

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Michael Gard is associate professor of sport, health and physical education in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland. He teaches, researches and writes…
Portrait of Michael Gawenda

Michael Gawenda

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Michael Gawenda is a former editor in chief of The Age. He is a Walkley Award winning journalist, columnist and former foreign correspondent.
Portrait of Michael Green

Michael Green

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Michael Green is a journalist in Melbourne. He has written about environmental and social issues for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Nature, Nautilus, Smith Journal…
Portrait of Michael Grose

Michael Grose

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Michael Grose is a parenting and educational presenter. He is the author of eight books for parents, a former parenting columnist for both News Ltd and Fairfax newspapers; he is…
Portrait of Michele Gierck

Michele Gierck

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Michele Gierck is a writer, an inspiring speaker and an educator. Michele’s latest book, Fraying: Mum, Memory Loss, the Medical Maze and Me, published in February 2015, chronicles a mother’s…
Portrait of Michele Grossman

Michele Grossman

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Michele Grossman is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development at Victoria University.
Portrait of Michelle Grattan

Michelle Grattan

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Michelle Grattan AO is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded political journalists. She has been a member of the Canberra parliamentary press gallery for more than 40 years, during…
Portrait of Michelle Green

Michelle Green

Michelle Green has been chief executive of Independent Schools Victoria since 2002.
Portrait of Michelle Griffin

Michelle Griffin

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Michelle Griffin is currently News Director at the Age – and responsible for direction of news content across the publication. Michelle has been at the paper for 11 years in a…
Portrait of Michelle Guthrie

Michelle Guthrie

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Michelle Guthrie joined the ABC as Managing Director in May 2016. Her appointment comes at a pivotal time for the national broadcaster as it seeks to maintain its relevance and…
Portrait of Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser

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Creator of the iconic ‘I ♥ NY’, Milton Glaser is one of the most celebrated designers in the world and a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators.
Portrait of Mindy Gill

Mindy Gill

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Mindy Gill’s poems have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Hecate, Mascara Literary Review, Island Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing and elsewhere. She has won the Tom…
Portrait of Mish Grigor

Mish Grigor

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Mish Grigor is a performance maker, writer and curator based in Sydney. She is one third of the performance group POST, whose work has been seen around Australia. Their works…
Portrait of Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny

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Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He…
Portrait of Moreno Giovannoni

Moreno Giovannoni

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Moreno Giovannoni was born in San Ginese but grew up in a house on a hill, on a tobacco farm at Buffalo River in north-east Victoria. He is a freelance…
Portrait of Morris Gleitzman

Morris Gleitzman

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Morris Gleitzman is a bestselling Australian children’s author. His books explore serious and sometimes confronting subjects in humorous and unexpected ways. His titles include Two Weeks With The Queen, Grace,…
Portrait of Nadine Garner

Nadine Garner

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One of Australia’s most respected actors, Nadine Garner’s career has spanned film, television and theatre for more than 25 years. Nadine is most recently known for her leading role in…
Portrait of Nayuka Gorrie

Nayuka Gorrie

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‘I fucking love black women. I come from a strong line of black women.’ Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri, and Yorta Yorta writer. Gorrie’s work explores black, queer…
Portrait of Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films.
Portrait of Nicki Greenberg

Nicki Greenberg

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Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old. They sold more than 380,000…
Portrait of Oren Gerassi

Oren Gerassi

Oren was the Wheeler Centre’s Technical Coordinator from 2011–2015.
Portrait of Pat Grant

Pat Grant

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Pat Grant is a cartoonist, writer and zinemaker.
Portrait of Paul Grabowsky

Paul Grabowsky

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Recognised as Australia’s pre-eminent jazz pianist, Paul Grabowsky is also a renowned composer, conductor and festival director.
Portrait of Peter Gahan

Peter Gahan

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As founder and director of the Centre for Workplace Leadership and Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne, it is safe to assume that Peter Gahan is passionate about…
Portrait of Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett

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Peter Garrett is a long-time advocate and campaigner on a range of local and global issues. A member of Midnight Oil, one of Australia’s most successful bands, he served as…
Portrait of Peter Goldsworthy

Peter Goldsworthy

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Peter Goldsworthy wrote the libretto for Richard Mills' multi-Helpmann award winning opera Batavia. His most recent songwriting collaboration was with composer Graeme Koehne, on The Ring-tone Cycle - a…
Portrait of Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon

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Peter Gordon is the president of the Western Bulldogs. He led the rescue of the Footscray Football Club in 1989 and served as president from 1989 to 1996. He was…
Portrait of Peter Greste

Peter Greste

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Peter Greste has worked as a foreign correspondent for the past 25 years After the 9/11 attacks, he briefly returned to Afghanistan as a part of the BBC’s award-winning coverage…
Portrait of Petro Georgiou

Petro Georgiou

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As a member of Federal Parliament, Petro Georgiou served on parliamentary committees including as Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Science and Innovation and Deputy Chair of the Joint Standing Committee…
Portrait of Philip Goad

Philip Goad

Professor Philip Goad is internationally known for his research and is an authority on modern Australian architecture.
Portrait of Pippa Grange

Pippa Grange

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Pippa Grange is the AFL Players Association’s former General Manager of Culture and Leadership.
Portrait of Raimond Gaita

Raimond Gaita

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Raimond Gaita has published widely to academic and non- academic audiences. In 2009, the University of Antwerp awarded Gaita the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa ‘for his exceptional contribution to…
Portrait of Rebecca Giblin

Rebecca Giblin

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Dr Rebecca Giblin is a law academic based at Monash University and an ARC Future Fellow. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia and Berkeley and spoken publicly about copyright…
Portrait of Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs

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Rebecca Giggs is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, Granta, the Atlantic, the New…
Portrait of Rhys Graham

Rhys Graham

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Rhys Graham is a Melbourne-based filmmaker and writer whose work traverses drama and documentary. His recent credits include co-directing the feature length documentaries Murundak - songs of freedom and Words…
Portrait of Richard Gill

Richard Gill

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Richard Gill is an internationally respected music educator and conductor. He has been artistic director of OzOpera, artistic director and chief conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the adviser…
Portrait of Robert Gott

Robert Gott

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Robert Gott is the author of 90 books of non-fiction and fiction. He is also the creator of the long-running newspaper cartoon, The Adventures of Naked Man, which he…
Portrait of Rona Glynn-McDonald

Rona Glynn-McDonald

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Rona is a proud Kaytetye woman and social changemaker who works with First Nations communities to create future systems in Australia that centre First Nations people, knowledge and cultures. She…
Portrait of Rory Green

Rory Green

Rory Green is a writer, coder and zinemaker living on unceded Gadigal land. Rory’s work has been published in Plumwood Mountain, the Lifted Brow and Rabbit, and as…
Portrait of Ross Garnaut

Ross Garnaut

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Ross Garnaut is a Professorial Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne. In 2008, he produced the Garnaut Climate Change Review for the Australian government. He is the…
Portrait of Ross Gittins

Ross Gittins

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Ross Gittins is the economics editor of Sydney Morning Herald and an economic columnist for the Age. He is a winner of the Citibank Pan Asia award for excellence in…
Portrait of Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay is the author of the novel An Untamed State, Bad Feminist: Essays and the story collection Ayiti. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best…
Portrait of Roza Germian

Roza Germian

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Roza Germian was born in the second year of the eight year-long Iran-Iraq war, in the city of Kirkuk under the Baathist rule. The majority of Kirkuk’s population were of…
Portrait of Sally Goldner

Sally Goldner

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Sally Goldner is an educator, speaker, MC and occasional performer. Her involvement in Victoria’s queer community has spanned more than twenty years. She has worked as executive director and treasurer…
Portrait of Sam George-Allen

Sam George-Allen

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Sam George-Allen is a writer and musician based in Tasmania. Her work has been published in the Lifted Brow, LitHub, Scum, Kill Your Darlings, Stilts…
Portrait of Sandy George

Sandy George

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Sandy George presents films on SBS One and is long-time correspondent for the London-based industry trade magazine Screen International and the online news feed www.screendaily.com.
Portrait of Sarah Goldman

Sarah Goldman

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Sarah Goldman has spent most of her life as a journalist. Initially working for newspapers in Sydney and London, she later transferred to television with the BBC. Back in Australia…
Portrait of Sarah Greentree

Sarah Greentree

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Portrait of Sean Gorman

Sean Gorman

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Sean Gorman is the author of two books: Brotherboys: The story of Jim and Phillip Krakouer (2005) and Legends: The AFL Indigenous Team of the Century (2011). Brotherboys was adapted…
Portrait of Shaun Gladwell

Shaun Gladwell

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Shaun Gladwell is an Australian-born, London-based artist who works in a number of mediums, including painting and photography, but he is best known for his video installations.
Portrait of Simon Griffiths

Simon Griffiths

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Simon Griffiths is an engineer and economist turned social entrepreneur. His latest venture is an ethical home products company. Its flagship product is Who Gives A Crap, an environmentally friendly…
Portrait of Simon Groth

Simon Groth

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Simon Groth’s stories can go anywhere, from tangled relationships and virtual writers to rock music and sleep disorders. His first two novels were shortlisted in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards…
Portrait of Sophie Tegan Gardiner

Sophie Tegan Gardiner

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Sophie Tegan Gardiner grew up inside a park in metropolitan Auckland. She moved to Melbourne in 2015 and is currently completing her honours year in creative writing at RMIT University…
Portrait of Stan Grant

Stan Grant

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Stan Grant is the Indigenous affairs editor for Guardian Australia. He is the winner of the 2015 Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs. Grant was previously the international…
Portrait of Stani Goma

Stani Goma

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Stani Goma is the presenter and producer of Flight 1067 to Africa on PBS FM every Sunday between 3pm–5pm. The programme features music from all over Africa, and takes the…
Portrait of Sue Giles

Sue Giles

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Sue Giles has been artistic director of children’s contemporary arts company Polyglot Theatre since 2000. With the company she has created participatory works ranging from large-scale play spaces to theatre…
Portrait of Sulari Gentill

Sulari Gentill

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Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of 13 books including the Rowland Sinclair series. Her book Crossing the Lines won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2018.
Portrait of Tanya Goldberg

Tanya Goldberg

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Tanya is co-artistic director of independent theatre company Ride On Theatre. She has directed for stage and screen.
Portrait of Ted Gott

Ted Gott

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Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. After studying at the University of Melbourne, the British Museum, Northwestern University and the Art Institute…
Portrait of Vanessa Giron

Vanessa Giron

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Vanessa Giron is a Latinx writer and editor from Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores identity, culture, and womanhood and has been published by Meanjin, Feminartsy and others. She is also a…
Portrait of Virginia Gay

Virginia Gay

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Virginia Gay is a performer for stage and television.
Portrait of Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, a biography of Emma Goldman, and three essay collections, two of which, The Men in My Life and …
Portrait of Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo

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One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists under 40, Xiaolu Guo is profound, incisive, funny and often disturbingly accurate.