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Portrait of Adam Kerezsy

Adam Kerezsy

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Adam Kerezsy is a freshwater ecologist working with Bush Heritage Australia on the rivers and springs of inland Australia. His role with Bush Heritage Australia is focused on recovering populations…
Portrait of Aimee Knight

Aimee Knight

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Aimee is a writer and critic from Kaurna yerta / Adelaide. She's the small screens editor at the Big Issue and pop culture columnist at the Lifted Brow. Her work appears…
Portrait of Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler

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Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 38 years.
Portrait of Ambelin Kwaymullina

Ambelin Kwaymullina

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Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer, illustrator and law academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is author/illustrator of numerous picture books and…
Portrait of Amie Kaufman

Amie Kaufman

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Amie Kaufman is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of young adult fiction. Her series include The Illuminae Files, The Starbound Trilogy, Unearthed and Elementals: Ice Wolves. Her…
Portrait of Amita Kirpalani

Amita Kirpalani

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Amita Kirpalani is a writer and curator. She writes regularly about contemporary art, and her work has appeared in publications such as Art Monthly and Art + Australia. She…
Portrait of Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos

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Acclaimed writer/director Ana Kokkinos’ career spans film and TV.
Portrait of Andrew Knight

Andrew Knight

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Andrew Knight is considered the busiest man in film and television. He is currently writing series four of Rake, producing and writing a six-part series of Jack Irish and…
Portrait of Anna Kingston

Anna Kingston

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Anna Kingston is a dancer, performance artist and founder of Strange Beast Collective. They create performances that fuse elements of burlesque, caberaet, performance art and drag to explore themes of…
Portrait of Anna Krien

Anna Krien

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Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. Anna’s…
Portrait of Anne Kelso

Anne Kelso

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Anne Kelso is director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, based at the new Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne. She also…
Portrait of Anthony Kelly

Anthony Kelly

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Anthony Kelly has over 25 years of experience in human rights advocacy and strategic social justice campaigning. Prior to joining the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre in early 2011, he…
Portrait of Ariel Kleiman

Ariel Kleiman

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Award-winning Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman earned international attention and praise with a series of distinctive short films, including 2008's Young Love and 2010’s Deeper Than Yesterday, which received top prizes…
Portrait of Ashlee Kearney

Ashlee Kearney

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A proud Ngiyampaa, Wiradjuri and Ngemba woman from far west New South Wales, Ashlee was born and spent most of her life on Dharug country in Auburn, NSW.  She studied…
Portrait of Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of My Name Is Revenge and How to Be Australian. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Westerly, …
Portrait of Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal

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Balli Kaur Jaswal grew up in Singapore, Japan, Russia and the Philippines. She attended Hollins University and George Mason University in the United States, where she attended creative writing workshops…
Portrait of Bec Kavanagh

Bec Kavanagh

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Bec Kavanagh is a Melbourne-based writer and academic whose work examines the representation of women’s bodies in literature. She has appeared at the Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals and on Radio National’s…
Portrait of Ben Kiernan

Ben Kiernan

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Ben Kiernan is the A.Whitney Griswold Professor of History, chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). For more…
Portrait of Bernard Keane

Bernard Keane

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Bernard has been Crikey’s correspondent in Canberra since 2008; he writes on politics, media and economics.
Portrait of Betty King

Betty King

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Justice Betty King QC is Chairperson of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board and a former judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Her Honour joined the Victorian Bar in…
Portrait of Beverly Knight

Beverly Knight

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Beverly Knight is the Managing Director of Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne A recognised trail-blazer in Indigenous sport, Beverly was the first female director of an AFL club, serving as Director…
Portrait of Bob Katter

Bob Katter

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Bob Katter Jr was born 22 May 1945 in Cloncurry, Queensland. He has been the federal Member for Kennedy in Queensland since 1993, following a highly successful career in state…
Portrait of Brendan Kennedy

Brendan Kennedy

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Brendan Kennedy was born at Robinvale on Tati Tati Country and is a descendant of the Tati Tati, Wadi Wadi and Mutti Mutti tribal lands and language groups. Brendan is…

Cass Knowlton

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Cass Knowlton is the editor of Crikey!.
Portrait of Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy

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Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is…
Portrait of Chris Kenny

Chris Kenny

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Chris Kenny is Associate Editor National Affairs at The Australian newspaper and the host of Viewpoint on SkyNews. He has a weekly column in The Weekend Australian and in Adelaide’s…
Portrait of Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus

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Chris Kraus is a writer and cultural critic whose novels include Torpor, Aliens & Anorexia and Summer of Hate. Her first book, I Love Dick, is considered…
Portrait of Christina Kennedy

Christina Kennedy

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Christina Kennedy’s design and cultivation of a classical garden using native plants across her property on Horse Island was selected by the State Library of New South Wales to feature…
Portrait of Christine Kenneally

Christine Kenneally

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Christine Kenneally is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, Time, New Scientist, Scientific American…
Portrait of Christopher Kremmer

Christopher Kremmer

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Christopher Kremmer is the author of Inhaling the Mahatma, a memoir of the eight years in which he lived and worked in India.
Portrait of Claudia Karvan

Claudia Karvan

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Claudia Karvan is one of Australia’s most respected and acclaimed film and television actors. She was most recently seen on the ABC series Newton's Law.  She also appeared in the…
Portrait of Danny Katz

Danny Katz

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Danny Katz, Canadian-born, came to Australia at a young age. After failed careers as a musician, stand-up comedian and car washer, he finally turned to writing and became a newspaper…
Portrait of David Karoly

David Karoly

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David Karoly is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences.
Portrait of David Kilcullen

David Kilcullen

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David Kilcullen was a senior advisor to General David Petraeus in 2007 and 2008, when he helped to design and monitor the Iraq War troop 'surge'. He was then a…
Portrait of Debbie Kilroy

Debbie Kilroy

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Debbie Kilroy was imprisoned for drug trafficking in 1989 for six years. She was stabbed and witnessed the only murder inside an Australian women's prison, and lost almost everything: her…
Portrait of Deborah Kelly

Deborah Kelly

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Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies, cinemas and galleries.
Portrait of Dion Kagan

Dion Kagan

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Dion Kagan is a writer, editor and researcher. His writing has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, LitHub, Metro, Kill Your Darlings…
Portrait of Dyana Kass

Dyana Kass

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Novateur founder, Dyana Kass always knew she was destined to work in the music and pop-culture space and began her path as an indie label intern her freshman year in…
Portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin

Elena Kats-Chernin

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Elena Kats-Chernin studied music in Moscow, Sydney and Hanover, and was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She has created works across nearly every genre, from rags to operas and works for…
Portrait of Elise Klein

Elise Klein

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Elise Klein is a Lecturer of Development Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. She currently leads a research project examining Cashless Debit Card trial in the…
Portrait of Elizabeth Kuiper

Elizabeth Kuiper

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Elizabeth Kuiper grew up in Zimbabwe before immigrating to Perth with her mother. In 2016 she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in politics and philosophy. An…
Portrait of Elizabeth Kulas

Elizabeth Kulas

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Elizabeth Kulas is an audio host and reporter. In 2019, she created and hosted 7am, a daily news podcast from Schwartz Media. Before that, Elizabeth lived in New York…
Portrait of Ellen Koshland

Ellen Koshland

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Ellen Koshland is a Founding Donor of the Stella Prize and has been an active supporter of literature and education in Australia since her arrival from the USA in 1973.
Portrait of Elmo Keep

Elmo Keep

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Elmo Keep is a writer and broadcaster working across print, television and online.
Portrait of Emma King

Emma King

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Emma King, 22, is one of Collingwood Football Club's marquee players for the inaugural AFL Women's League season. Raised in Perth, she graduated from the University of Western Australia with…
Portrait of Emma Kowal

Emma Kowal

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Emma Kowal is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Alfred Deakin Research Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. After studying medicine and anthropology at university she moved from…
Portrait of Eric Knight

Eric Knight

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Eric Knight was born in 1983. A former Rhodes scholar, he has worked as an economics consultant to the OECD, the UN and the World Bank.
Portrait of Erin Kyan

Erin Kyan

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Erin Kyan is a disabled, queer and trans writer, performer, and podcast producer. He first moved into podcasting in 2017 with the Love and Luck podcast, a fiction podcast about…
Portrait of Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret

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Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the author of several short-story collections and graphic novels, and his books have so far been translated into 37 languages. Keret…
Portrait of Evelyn Krape

Evelyn Krape

Evelyn Krape has over three decades of diverse acting experience in theatre, film and television, beginning as a stalwart at Carlton’s Pram Factory to TV appearance on Homicide.
Portrait of Fenella Kernebone

Fenella Kernebone

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Fenella Kernebone is the host of ABC TV’s new weekly half hour arts show, Art Nation.
Portrait of Fran Kelly

Fran Kelly

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'Let me remind any women of any generation still worried by the tag ... feminism is about equality, political equality, economic equality, cultural equality, personal equality, social equality. That’s it…
Portrait of Gail Kelly

Gail Kelly

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Gail Kelly holds a number of international roles: member of the Group of Thirty, the Global Board of Advisers to the US Council on Foreign Relations, member of the McKinsey…
Portrait of Georgia Kartas

Georgia Kartas

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Georgia Kartas/Saint Jorge is a writer and performer whose work focuses on the radical occult and quantum physics. In collaboration with Thabani Tshuma, they co-host Thin Red Lines, a quarterly…
Portrait of Gordon Koang

Gordon Koang

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Gordon Koang is a Nuer speaker and musician hailing from the Upper Nile region of what is now South Sudan. Accompanied by his cousin Paul Biel, Gordon performs a blend…
Portrait of Grant King

Grant King

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Grant King is managing director of Origin Energy with a depth of experience in the energy and gas sectors.
Portrait of Gretel Killeen

Gretel Killeen

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Gretel Killeen is a writer, performer, voice artist and journalist. She is currently completing her directorial feature film debut.
Portrait of Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent

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Hannah Kent's debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into twenty-three languages. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the…
Portrait of Helen Killmier

Helen Killmier

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Helen Killmier is a community psychologist with Interact Australia working in the fields of disability services, community aged care, recreation, respite, partnership development, community capacity building, social policy and strategic…
Portrait of Helen Kroger

Helen Kroger

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Senator Helen Kroger has been in Federal Parliament since 2008 following an extensive career in small business, corporate fundraising and Human Resource Management.
Portrait of Hiroki Kobayashi

Hiroki Kobayashi

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Hiroki is the Wheeler Centre's Special Projects Coordinator He has previously worked in a variety of roles for organisations including the Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers’ Festival, Melbourne International Film…
Portrait of Jacek Koman

Jacek Koman

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Polish-born actor Jacek Koman has appeared in features such as Children of Men, Defiance, Australia, Romulus, My Father but is best known for his rendition of Roxanne…
Portrait of Jack Kirne

Jack Kirne

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Jack Kirne is a writer and musician who enjoys singing to other people's pets. His short story, What Daisy Said, won the Judith Rodriguez Prize for 2016. He is also…

Jacqui Keleher

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Jacqui Keleher is a digital media professional who has worked in the advertising industry in the UK and Australia for more than 14 years. 
Portrait of Jamie Kilstein

Jamie Kilstein

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Jamie Kilstein is a comedian, writer, and radio host. He is a contributing writer for 23/6, Huffington Post and Timothy McSweeney’s.
Portrait of Jane-Frances Kelly

Jane-Frances Kelly

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Since moving to Australia in 2004, Jane-Frances Kelly has worked as a senior adviser to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Boston Consulting Group, the Vice-Chancellor at Melbourne…
Portrait of Jaś Kapela

Jaś Kapela

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Jaś Kapela is a Polish poet, novelist, columnist and blogger. His darkly comic work is proudly left-wing, and focuses on the conflict of an individual living in a hostile society.
Portrait of Jayashri Kulkarni

Jayashri Kulkarni

Jayashri Kulkarni is Professor of Psychiatry, the Alfred and Monash University in 2002. She directs a large psychiatric research group, the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc), with approximately 119…
Portrait of Jaye Kranz

Jaye Kranz

Jaye Kranz is a Melbourne-based writer, documentary radio producer and musician. 
Portrait of Jee Hyun Kim

Jee Hyun Kim

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Dr Jee Hyun Kim is a behavioral neuroscientist, whose work focuses on emotional learning and memory during childhood and adolescence. She is a Senior Research Fellow and head of the Developmental…
Portrait of Jeff Khan

Jeff Khan

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Jeff Khan is a curator and writer working across the visual arts, performance and dance. He is currently Artistic Director of Performance Space, Sydney, and has a particular interest in…
Portrait of Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney

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Jeff Kinney is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the hugely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. He's also a six-time Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award winner for…
Portrait of Jennifer Kanis

Jennifer Kanis

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Jennifer Kanis was elected to the seat of Melbourne in a by-election in July 2012. Before entering Parliament, Jennifer served as a councillor at the City of Melbourne from 2008…
Portrait of Jessica Knight

Jessica Knight

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Jessica Knight is a writer, performer and comedian based in Melbourne. She has appeared in The Emerging Writers Festival, Red Dirt Poetry Festival. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin and…
Portrait of John Kinsella

John Kinsella

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John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), Open Door (UWAP, 2018), Insomnia (WW Norton, 2020) and Supervivid Depastoralism (Vagabond, 2021). University…
Portrait of Jon Klassen

Jon Klassen

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Jon Klassen grew up in Niagara Falls, Canada, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back and …
Portrait of Jordi Kerr

Jordi Kerr

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Jordi Kerr is a writer, youth literature advocate, and support worker for queer young people. Their thoughts about books have appeared in such places as Archer, Books+Publishing, Kill Your Darlings, and Crikey…
Portrait of Julie Keys

Julie Keys

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Julie Keys lives in the Illawarra region on the NSW south coast. Her short stories have been published across a range of Australian journals. Julie has worked as a tutor…
Portrait of Julie Koh

Julie Koh

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Julie Koh was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents, and left a career in corporate law to pursue writing. She is the author of two short-story collections: Capital Misfits (Spineless…

Justin Kurzel

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Justin’s background as one of Australia’s best theatrical designers informs his strong visual storytelling as a director. Justin graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts directing course where he…
Portrait of Kaiser Kuo

Kaiser Kuo

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Kaiser Kuo is a Beijing-based writer, rock musician, and commentator on technology and politics.
Portrait of Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Kruszelnicki

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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. He is a qualified medical doctor, engineer, physicist and mathematician. This MasterGeek consistently appears on the…
Portrait of Kaz Kilmore-Barrymore

Kaz Kilmore-Barrymore

Kaz Kilmore lives in Melbourne with her husband Steve and teenage daughter Molly. Truth Untold is her first attempt at fiction Kaz is a part-time finance writer, suburban mum and…
Portrait of Kim Kane

Kim Kane

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Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth for '...a writer, a dancer or a poet'. Despite this auspicious beginning, she went on to practise law…
Portrait of Kirsten Krauth

Kirsten Krauth

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Kirsten Krauth is an author, arts journalist, podcaster and editor. She lives in Castlemaine in regional Victoria. Her latest novel Almost a Mirror was published in 2020 by Transit Lounge…
Portrait of Kon Karapanagiotidis

Kon Karapanagiotidis

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Kon Karapanagiotidis is the CEO and founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, the largest independent human rights organisation for refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. They assist thousands…
Portrait of Krissy Kneen

Krissy Kneen

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Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including An Uncertain Grace, which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize She has written and directed broadcast television…
Portrait of Kristina Keneally

Kristina Keneally

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The Hon Kristina Keneally MP is the Member for Heffron in the New South Wales Parliament. Kristina served as the 42nd Premier of New South Wales and the first woman…
Portrait of Kristina Kukolja

Kristina Kukolja

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Kristina Kukolja is a multi award-winning journalist with SBS World News, based in Melbourne. With fellow journalist Lindsey Arkley she is the co-author of Unwanted Australians, a special investigation…
Portrait of Kyle Kohinga

Kyle Kohinga

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Kyle Kohinga is a writer and student from Melbourne. His poetry has been published in a few journals, including Voiceworks. He is on the cusp of finishing his undergrad…
Portrait of Lally Katz

Lally Katz

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Lally Katz is an award-winning Melbourne based playwright. Her play Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd premiered at Malthouse Theatre and won the Louis Esson Prize for Drama at the 2009 Victorian…

Lawrence Krauss

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Professor Lawrence M Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe…
Portrait of Leah Kaminsky

Leah Kaminsky

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Leah Kaminsky, physician and award-winning writer, is Poetry & Fiction Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia. Her debut novel is The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize…
Portrait of Lee Kofman

Lee Kofman

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Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist and former academic based in Melbourne. She is the author of three fiction books (published in Israel…
Portrait of Linda Kirkman

Linda Kirkman

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Sexuality educator and researcher Linda Kirkman has investigated sexuality, sexual health, and social change in relationships through teaching, academic research and life experiences. Through teaching and writing, she advocates for…
Portrait of Malcolm Knox

Malcolm Knox

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Malcolm Knox is the author of Summerland, A Private Man and Jamaica, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award last year and won the Colin Roderick Award…
Portrait of Maria Katsonis

Maria Katsonis

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Maria Katsonis is a writer, public policy wonk and vocal mental health advocate. Her memoir, The Good Greek Girl (2015) recounts her experience of mental illness and recovery, set against…
Portrait of Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer

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Mark Kramer is the co-founder and Managing Director of FSG, and co-author of the Harvard Business Review article 'Creating Shared Value' (2011). Mark has spoken and published extensively on topics…
Portrait of Marlene Kanga

Marlene Kanga

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Marlene Kanga is President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO), the peak body for engineering institutions internationally representing some 100 engineering institutions and approximately 30 million engineers She…
Portrait of Marta Kaczmarek

Marta Kaczmarek

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Actor, poet and performer Marta Kaczmarek awarded a Cavalier Cross by the Polish government for her efforts to spread Polish culture in Australia. She has appeared in Shine and Underbelly…
Portrait of Mary Kostakidis

Mary Kostakidis

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Mary Kostakidis is a journalist and for 20 years presented SBS World News. In 1980 she was a member of the management team that developed SBS television. Mary was…
Portrait of Mathew Kenneally

Mathew Kenneally

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Mathew Kenneally is a stand up and political satirist. He is the founder and producer of the monthly comedy room Political Asylum. He moonlights as a lawyer and political columnist…
Portrait of Matthew Kelly

Matthew Kelly

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Matthew Kelly is an actor and theatre maker who has won awards and critical acclaim for his work, including the one-on-one theatrical experience of Penny Machinations and a one man…
Portrait of Matthew Knott

Matthew Knott

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Matthew Knott is a political reporter in the Canberra press gallery for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. In 2015 he was awarded the Wallace Brown award for…
Portrait of Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy

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Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who lives in London. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch and Ms. Militancy, and has performed her…
Portrait of Meg Keneally

Meg Keneally

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Meg Keneally is the co-author, with father Tom Keneally, of the Monsarrat Series of historical crime novels.
Portrait of Melissa Kang

Melissa Kang

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Most people know Dr Melissa Kang as the longest-serving expert behind the iconic Dolly Doctor column, but she’s also a practising medical doctor for marginalised young people and has academic roles at the University of…
Portrait of Melissa Keil

Melissa Keil

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Melissa Keil is a writer and children’s editor. She has lived in Minnesota, London and the Middle East, and now resides in her hometown of Melbourne Her debut YA novel, …
Portrait of Michael Katakis

Michael Katakis

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Michael Katakis has authored a number of books, including Despatches, The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and, as editor, Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility and Excavating Voices: Listening to…
Portrait of Michael Keats

Michael Keats

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Michael Keats is a journalist with more than 50 years experience as a foreign correspondent and in editorial management. In his career, he reported from 88 of the 193 member…
Portrait of Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby

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Michael Kirby is one of Australia’s most admired public figures. When he retired from the High Court of Australia in February 2009, Kirby was Australia’s longest serving judge.
Portrait of Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami

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Born in Osaka prefecture in 1976, Mieko Kawakami began her career as a singer and songwriter before making her literary debut in 2006. Her first novella My Ego, My Teeth,…
Portrait of Misha Ketchell

Misha Ketchell

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Misha has been a journalist for more than 20 years. He joined the Conversation late in 2010 and was managing editor of the team that launched the website in March…
Portrait of Monica Karo

Monica Karo

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Monica Karo, a Gunai/Kurnai and Gunditjmara descendant is a Melbourne-based poet, actor and singer-songwriter. Having studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, she is continuously expanding…
Portrait of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York, and graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. He was the 2016-2017 Olive B…
Portrait of Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein

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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author most recently of the critically acclaimed bestseller, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, first published in September 2014…
Portrait of Nassim Khadem

Nassim Khadem

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Nassim Khadem is an award-winning business journalist for the ABC. She has reported extensively on finance and tax, including on the Paradise Papers, for Fairfax Media and is the former…
Portrait of Neha Kale

Neha Kale

Neha Kale is a writer, editor, journalist and critic based in Sydney. 
Portrait of Nicole Kalms

Nicole Kalms

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‘Most cities are gender-blind and disregard women’s experiences. Engaging with the stories of women and girls is crucial for making cities safer.’ Nicole Kalms is an Associate Professor in the…
Portrait of Nina Kenwood

Nina Kenwood

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Nina Kenwood is a writer, who lives in Melbourne. She won the 2018 Text Prize for her debut young adult novel, It Sounded Better in My Head.
Portrait of Nixi Killick

Nixi Killick

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Nixi Killick is a stylist and recent fashion graduate from RMIT.
Portrait of Odette Kelada

Odette Kelada

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Odette Kelada is a Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of Culture and Communication. She has a PhD in literature researching the lives of Australian women writers.  Her writing…
Portrait of Patricia Karvelas

Patricia Karvelas

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Patricia Karvelas is a prominent Australian journalist, beginning her professional career at the ABC and SBS 20 years ago She currently presents Radio National’s flagship radio current affairs programme RN…
Portrait of Paul Keating

Paul Keating

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Paul Keating was prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996 Keating became prime minister in December 1991 and led the ALP to an historic fifth term of Government in…
Portrait of Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly

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Paul Kelly was born in Adelaide, one of nine children, in 1955. He wrote his first song in 1976 and has been making records since 1978, over thirty to date…
Portrait of Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly

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Paul Kelly is editor-at-large at The Australian and a former editor-in-chief of the News Limited national broadsheet from 1991 to 1996.
Portrait of Paul Komesaroff

Paul Komesaroff

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Professor Paul Komesaroff is a physician, medical researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine…
Portrait of Paula Keogh

Paula Keogh

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Paula Keogh has a PhD in creative writing from La Trobe University and received the 2015 Affirm Press Mentorship Award for the development of The Green Bell at Varuna, the…
Portrait of Peter Kennedy

Peter Kennedy

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Father Peter Kennedy is a former Catholic priest who was forced to stand down from his position as parish priest in the South Brisbane diocese of St Mary’s in 2009.
Portrait of Phil Kafcaloudes

Phil Kafcaloudes

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Phil Kafcaloudes is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who hosts an international breakfast show on the ABC’s Radio Australia network. He has been a radio and TV journalist, and has…
Portrait of Pichet Klunchun

Pichet Klunchun

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Pichet Klunchun bridges Thai Classical Dance language with contemporary sensibilities – while keeping the heart and wisdom of the tradition. He has earned domestic notoriety for his efforts in contemporising…
Portrait of Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner’s debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her follow-up novel, The Flamethrowers…
Portrait of Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval

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Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and editor.  She is an Honorary Fellow at the centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne.
Portrait of Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the…
Portrait of Ronni Kahn

Ronni Kahn

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Ronni Kahn is the CEO of OzHarvest, founded in 2004 when Kahn wanted to make a significant contribution to society. Stunned by the amount of food wasted by the hospitality industry…
Portrait of Sarah K

Sarah K

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Sarah K is a designer and design curator. She is one half of Blakebrough+King, who have produced a catalogue of unique products in their design practice since forming in 2006…
Portrait of Sarah Kanake

Sarah Kanake

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Sarah Kanake grew up in the rural beach town of Tin Can Bay with her parents, brother who has Down syndrome, two Aboriginal foster brothers and her best friend. Sarah’s…
Portrait of Sarah Kanowski

Sarah Kanowski

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Sarah co-presents Conversations on ABC Radio and podcast. She previously presented Books and Arts on ABC RN and joined the ABC as a producer with Late Night Live.
Portrait of Sarah Kendall

Sarah Kendall

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Since bursting onto the scene at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival, Sarah Kendall has performed at many of the world’s leading comedy festivals — including Montreal, Kilkenny, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Hong…
Portrait of Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein

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Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner which won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Award Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Australian Book Industry Award for…
Portrait of Satchmo Kennedy

Satchmo Kennedy

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Satchmo is nine years old. He loves theatre-making and football. Satchmo doesn’t like school because he finds it boring and there is not enough time there for daydreams.
Portrait of Shalini Kunahlan

Shalini Kunahlan

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Shalini Kunahlan is Marketing Manager at Melbourne-based independent Text Publishing. She has worked in publishing for over a decade – her interests include digital marketing and bettering diversity outcomes within…
Portrait of Sheng Keyi

Sheng Keyi

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Sheng Keyi is a multi-award-winning author based in China.
Portrait of Sivan Kohn

Sivan Kohn

Sivan Kohn is a Clinical Pharmacologist with a Master of Public Health and over 15 years experience working in health and public health. In 2013, Sivan founded Buzz Biomedical, a company…
Portrait of Starlee Kine

Starlee Kine

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Starlee Kine is a public radio producer and writer. She is the creator and host of the podcast Mystery Show, produced by Gimlet Media. Her other work has been…
Portrait of Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe

Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe

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Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe is a Rwandan-British composer and multidisciplinary artist. Through her viewpoint as a synaesthetic ‘third-culture kid’, her research-based arts practice focusses on into the composition and archiving of culture within the framework of transcription through artistry…
Portrait of Stuart Kells

Stuart Kells

Stuart Kells is an author and book-trade historian. His 2015 book, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. An authority on rare books, he has…
Portrait of Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa

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Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa is a first generation Australian Sikh spoken word artist, workshop facilitator, actor, producer and activist. Within a short period, Sukhjit has gone from being a participant in…
Portrait of Tanja Kovac

Tanja Kovac

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Tanja Kovac is a writer, lawyer and director/national co-convenor of EMILY’s List Australia. She began her career as a lawyer at Slater & Gordon acting in a number of high-profile…
Portrait of Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

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Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg-directed, Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. His non-fiction includes the memoir Searching…
Portrait of Tierney Khan

Tierney Khan

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Tierney Khan has always been passionate about using words to express her opinions and to stand up for what she believes in. In 2020 she became the VCAA Plain English…
Portrait of Tiia Kelly

Tiia Kelly

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Tiia Kelly is a writer and editor from Melbourne. She is interested in the link between cultural consumption and identity, writing about the way different forms of media frame our…
Portrait of Tony Kevin

Tony Kevin

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Tony Kevin is the author of A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X (2004) and Reluctant Rescuers (2012), two books about Australia’s maritime border protection system. He published…
Portrait of Trent Kusters

Trent Kusters

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Game designer and writer Trent Kusters is the founder of game development collective League of Geeks, responsible for digital roleplaying strategy board game and international success story Armello. He…
Portrait of Valanga Khoza

Valanga Khoza

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Valanga Khoza left South Africa in 1976, exiled along with many other young people because of their struggle against apartheid or racism. The music and stories he has since created reflects the…
Portrait of Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly

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Vivienne Kelly has spent most of her working life as a university administrator, and is currently a freelance researcher based in Melbourne.
Portrait of Walter Kadiki

Walter Kadiki

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Walter Kadiki is a master of weaving signed poetry and visual vernacular into poetic performance. He is known for his profound and engaging signed poetry and storytelling that bridges cultures…
Portrait of Will Kostakis

Will Kostakis

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Will Kostakis has written everything from celebrity news stories that score cease and desist letters, to tweets for professional wrestlers. He’s best known for his award-winning YA novels, The Sidekicks…
Portrait of Wladimir Kaminer

Wladimir Kaminer

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Wladimir Kaminer is the author of Russian Disco.
Portrait of Yeena Kirkbright

Yeena Kirkbright

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Yeena is a Wiradjuri poet who grew up in Central West New South Wales and she now lives and works on Wangal, Darug and Gadigal lands. Her work has been…
Portrait of Yumiko Kadota

Yumiko Kadota

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Yumiko Kadota is a medical doctor in Sydney and debut author. Her memoir, Emotional Female, details the challenges women (of colour) face in the public health system, particularly in…
Portrait of Yun-Cheol Kim

Yun-Cheol Kim

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Dr Yun-Cheol Kim is a professor at School of Drama, Korean National University of the Arts. He is president of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Portrait of Zana Kobayashi

Zana Kobayashi

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Zana Kobayashi is a freelance creative manager in Newcastle. Her work encompasses event production, marketing and project management. From local grassroots organisations through to the state government level, Zana works with local institutions to…