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Portrait of Adam Laidlaw

Adam Laidlaw

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Adam is chief executive of WaterAid Australia. He has a wealth of Third Sector experience spanning 30 years. He specialises in international development, social justice, wildlife, conservation and environmental agencies.
Portrait of Adam Liaw

Adam Liaw

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Adam Liaw is a unique voice in Australian food. He is a food columnist for Fairfax and the Guardian, and the author of four hugely popular cookbooks on Asian cuisines…
Portrait of Alan Lauder

Alan Lauder

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Panel Member: Alan Lauder has spent 30 years operating a successful rural operation and increasing understanding of the carbon cycle in the grazing industry.
Portrait of Alex Landragin

Alex Landragin

Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer. His first novel, Crossings, is out now.
Portrait of Alison Lester

Alison Lester

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Alison Lester grew up on a farm by the sea, and first rode a horse as a baby in her father's arms. Her picture books mix imaginary worlds with everyday…
Portrait of Alison Lewis

Alison Lewis

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Alison Lewis is professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Portrait of Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey

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Amanda Lohrey is the author of several acclaimed novels, including the award-winning Camille’s Bread, as well as Vertigo, The Philosopher’s Doll and The Morality of Gentlemen.

Amelia Lester

Amelia Lester is the editor of Good Weekend, the Saturday magazine of the Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. She spent ten years at the New Yorker, most…
Portrait of Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann

Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann

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Lehmo can be heard every weekday morning on Melbourne’s radio airwaves on GOLD 104.3 FM’s Jo and Lehmo breakfast show The former accountant is seen every Friday night on The…

Anthony Lucas

Anthony Lucas’ short films have been in competition at Cannes, BAFTA®, Oscars®, Annecy and with his production company, 3D Films, he has animated and directed numerous TV commercials, children’s television…
Portrait of Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein

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Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based independent journalist, author and blogger. His first book, My Israel Question** (2006), was a bestseller and shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier’s…
Portrait of Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy

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‘I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged…
Portrait of Becky Lou

Becky Lou

Becky Lou has been performing self-devised work within Australia’s neo-burlesque scene since 2007. A resident performer at Melbourne venues Red Bennies and Burlesque Bar until their closures, she became one…
Portrait of Benjamin Law

Benjamin Law

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Benjamin Law writes books, TV screenplays, columns, essays and feature journalism. He’s the author of the memoir The Family Law (2010), the travel book Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East…
Portrait of Bert LaBonté

Bert LaBonté

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Bert is an Australian actor, recently Green Room-nominated for his body of work in theatre. He is known for a variety of shows across the country, including Lungs, I…
Portrait of Bob Linscott

Bob Linscott

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Bob Linscott is Assistant Director of the LGBT Aging Project based at the Fenway Institute, Boston, USA Bob is a member of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBT Aging, which is the…
Portrait of Bobo Lo

Bobo Lo

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Bobo Lo is an independent analyst and the former head of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House. His latest book, Russia and the New World Disorder, was…
Portrait of Bri Lee

Bri Lee

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Bri Lee is an author and freelance writer whose journalism has been published in the Monthly, the Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, Crikey, and elsewhere. Bri's first book, Eggshell Skull…
Portrait of Brodie Lancaster

Brodie Lancaster

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Brodie Lancaster is a Melbourne writer and critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Pitchfork, the Saturday Paper and New York magazine. Her first…
Portrait of Bronwyn Lovell

Bronwyn Lovell

Bronwyn Lovell is a Melbourne-based poet. Her poetry has appeared in national and international publications, including Best Australian Poems, Award Winning Australian Writing and the Global Poetry Anthology.
Portrait of Carmen Lawrence

Carmen Lawrence

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Carmen Lawrence is Winthrop Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia. She is a former Premier of Western Australia and federal government minister.
Portrait of Caro Llewellyn

Caro Llewellyn

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Portrait of Caroline Lee

Caroline Lee

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Caroline is a performer, writer and editor. Her novel, Stripped, was serialised in 2008-2010 in Meanjin. Most recently she has appeared in Bell Shakespeare’s production of Phèdre by…

Carolyne Lee

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Carolyne Lee is a senior lecturer and researcher in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. The author of three books, she has also written 18 academic articles and…
Portrait of Catharine Lumby

Catharine Lumby

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Professor Catharine Lumby is the Director of Journalism and Media Research at University of NSW, and the author of The Porn Report.
Portrait of Celeste Liddle

Celeste Liddle

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Celeste Liddle is a proud Arrernte woman (traditional owner in Central Australia) who was born in Canberra and has been living in Melbourne since she was a teenager. She is…
Portrait of Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd

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Charles Lloyd’s influence dates back to the 1960s, when his groundbreaking early recordings established him as one of the first jazz musicians to sell more than one million records.
Portrait of Christian Lander

Christian Lander

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Thirty-year-old Christian Lander was born and raised in Toronto. After spending eight years in the ivory tower of academia (white people love graduate school), he moved to Los Angeles to…
Portrait of Craig Lapsley

Craig Lapsley

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Craig Lapsley is Victoria's inaugural Emergency Management Commissioner, in place since July 2014. The Emergency Management Commissioner has overall responsibility for coordination before, during and after major emergencies including management…
Portrait of Dagmar Leupold

Dagmar Leupold

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Dagmar Leupold is a German poet.
Portrait of Darren Levin

Darren Levin

Darren Levin is the managing editor of Junkee Media (formerly Sound Alliance), a new media company which reaches over 2 million young Australians every month. Junkee Media are the creators…
Portrait of Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt

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Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, Atlanta. She is best known for the libel lawsuit against her by David Irving –…
Portrait of Demi Lardner

Demi Lardner

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Demi has been doing stand-up since she was 16, and in a few short years has scored handfuls of awards – performing her unique brand of funny around the country…
Portrait of Denise Leith

Denise Leith

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Denise is the author of two non-fiction books, The Politics of Power and Bearing Witness. Her debut novel is, What Remains.
Portrait of Denise Love

Denise Love

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Denise Love began her professional life as a registered nurse before quickly discovering that it wasn’t just the medicine she offered people – but the kindness that supported healing, or…
Portrait of Donna Letchford

Donna Letchford

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Donna Letchford is a financial counsellor at Women’s Legal Service Victoria, working with women who are dealing with family violence and predominantly economic abuse. She became a financial counsellor in…
Portrait of Dosh Luckwell

Dosh Luckwell

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Dosh Luckwell is a theatre maker, performer and poet. Luckwell’s performance practice is a crossover of theatre, poetry, music, dance and installation that explores the themes of intimacy, sexuality, sex,…
Portrait of Dub Leffler

Dub Leffler

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Dub Leffler is a writer, illustrator, musician and mixed media artist. He has worked in many facets of the arts including film, television, muralism and art education.
Portrait of Dyani Lewis

Dyani Lewis

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Dyani Lewis is a freelance science journalist based in Melbourne. She has a PhD in plant genetics and has also worked in sexual health research. Her work has been published…
Portrait of Eleanor Limprecht

Eleanor Limprecht

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Eleanor Limprecht is a novelist, book reviewer, PhD student and mother-of-two. She grew up in the United States, Germany and Pakistan but has settled in Sydney. Her first novel, What…
Portrait of Emily Laidlaw

Emily Laidlaw

Emily Laidlaw is a writer and editor based in Melbourne. Her arts criticism has appeared in the Weekend Australian, Australian Book Review, the Big Issue, Metro, Readings Monthly…
Portrait of Eugenia Lim

Eugenia Lim

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Eugenia Lim is an artist and the founding editor-in-chief of Assemble Papers. She loves croissants, Copenhagen and collaboration.
Portrait of Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz

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In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators.  Her essays and interviews offer her acerbic…
Portrait of Francis Leach

Francis Leach

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Francis Leach is a broadcaster and journalist. He co-hosts the breakfast show with David Schwarz on 1116 SEN sports radio in Melbourne and is a regular panellist on ABC TV's The…
Portrait of Gary Lum

Gary Lum

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Dr Gary Lum is a Principal Medical Advisor in the Office of Health Protection. From 1996 to 2007 Gary was the Director of Pathology at the Royal Darwin Hospital and the…
Portrait of Genevieve Lacey

Genevieve Lacey

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Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso, serial collaborator and artistic director, with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international soloist. She creates large-scale collaborative works across radio…
Portrait of Geoff Lemon

Geoff Lemon

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Geoff Lemon is a political satirist, sportswriter, spoken word performer, and editor of lit anthology Going Down Swinging.
Portrait of Geoffrey London

Geoffrey London

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Geoffrey London is the Victorian Government Architect and Professor of Architecture at The University of Western Australia
Portrait of Gerard Lee

Gerard Lee

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Gerard Lee is an Australian author, screenwriter and director. Gerard wrote, with Jane Campion, the award-winning Top of the Lake, and returns for Top of the Lake: China Girl…
Portrait of Greg Larsen

Greg Larsen

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Greg Larsen is an overweight man in his early thirties who requires glasses. He is a somewhat popular comedian and has appeared on Dirty Laundry Live on ABC2 as well…
Portrait of Hayley Lawson-Smith

Hayley Lawson-Smith

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Hayley holds a Masters of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts, and was the 2019 playwright in residence at the Historic Billilla Mansion, Brighton, during which…
Portrait of Heath Lees

Heath Lees

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Heath Lees is an academic, musicologist, broadcaster and the founder of the Wagner Society of New Zealand.
Portrait of Ian Lowe

Ian Lowe

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Professor Ian Lowe AO was president of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) from 2004 to 2014. He is emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University in Brisbane…
Portrait of Ingrid Laguna

Ingrid Laguna

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As a percussionist, singer and songwriter, Ingrid Laguna’s first novel Serenade for a Small Family touches on some of the subjects closest to her heart.
Portrait of Isabelle Li

Isabelle Li

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Isabelle Li grew up in China, has worked in Singapore and migrated to Australia in 1999. Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including The Best…
Portrait of Jacinta Le Plastrier

Jacinta Le Plastrier

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Jacinta Le Plastrier is a poet, editor, publisher and essayist, and lives in Melbourne. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of the national poetry body in Australia, Australian Poetry…
Portrait of Jack Latimore

Jack Latimore

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Jack Latimore is an Indigenous researcher with the Centre for Advancing Journalism. He is currently involved in the development of several projects aimed at improving the quality of Indigenous representation…
Portrait of Jacqui Lambie

Jacqui Lambie

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Jacqui Lambie was born on 26 February 1971 in Tasmania, and was raised in a public housing estate in Devonport. She served 10 years in the Australian Army before injury…
Portrait of Jade Lillie

Jade Lillie

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Jade Lillie is an experienced community cultural development practitioner, arts executive, educator and facilitator.
Portrait of James Ley

James Ley

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James Ley holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Western Sydney. He has been a professional literary critic for fifteen years.
Portrait of Jamie Marina Lau

Jamie Marina Lau

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Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island. With explorations focusing on language, Jamie's work meditates on a landscape exploring dis-location…
Portrait of Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane

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Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic from southwest New South Wales. After a longer teaching career, she completed a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation and…
Portrait of Jenny Lee

Jenny Lee

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Jenny Lee is a Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Gender Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne. She researches in the interdisciplinary fields of Fat Studies and Creative Writing (often producing…
Portrait of Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

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Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee.
Portrait of Jessie Lloyd

Jessie Lloyd

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An award winning musician, composer and creative entrepreneur, Jessie Lloyd is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman from the tropics of North Queensland. Jessie has experience in the areas…
Portrait of Joan London

Joan London

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The Good Parents, Joan London’s most recent novel, was published in April 2008 to acclaim. It has since reprinted three times, was the winner of the 2009 Christina Stead…
Portrait of Jody Letts

Jody Letts

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Jody Letts is a former defence force worker who found herself living out of a van in the Melbourne CBD while suffering from work-related injuries, illnesses and mental health issues…
Portrait of Johannes Lehmann

Johannes Lehmann

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Keynote Speaker: Johannes Lehmann is Associate Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Soil Fertility Management at Cornell University.
Portrait of John Leary

John Leary

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Actor, writer, and scooter and moustache-afficionado, when in Berlin, John likes to go dancing at Clärchens Balhaus. It’s the schnitzel and tinsel that does it.
Portrait of John Lee

John Lee

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Dr. John Lee is the Michael Hintze Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies, Sydney University. He is also a non-resident Senior Scholar at the…
Portrait of Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem is one of the US’s greatest contemporary writers, exploring a range of subjects across an array of forms. He has written nine novels including Motherless Brooklyn, which…
Portrait of Josh Ladgrove

Josh Ladgrove

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Josh Ladgrove (aka Dr Professor Neal Portenza, aka Jesus Christ) is a Melbourne-based comedian and clown. He recently performed four separate shows in the Melbourne Fringe Festival and has toured…
Portrait of Josie Long

Josie Long

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Often described as a unique voice in comedy, Josie is one of the most respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at age 14 and went on to win…
Portrait of Judith Lucy

Judith Lucy

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Judith Lucy is one of Australia’s most popular comedians. A best-selling author, her work in radio, television and film and her sell-out national live tours have made her a household…
Portrait of Julia Leigh

Julia Leigh

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Julia Leigh is the author of two internationally acclaimed and widely translated novels, The Hunter (1999) and Disquiet (2008). Her film Sleeping Beauty was nominated for the Palme D'Or at…
Portrait of Karen Leng

Karen Leng

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Karen Leng is a radio broadcaster and TV producer.
Portrait of Karen Lyon

Karen Lyon

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For more than two decades, Karen Lyon has covered Melbourne and its sports-obsessed culture. She was a political reporter before crossing the boundary line to sport in 1999, and has…
Portrait of Karishma Luthria

Karishma Luthria

Karishma Luthria is a Sydney-based, Mumbai-born and raised community radio journalist and producer. She is a recent Media and Communications graduate, with a passion for audio storytelling that shares lived…
Portrait of Karl Lokko

Karl Lokko

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Karl Lokko is a 25-year-old former gang leader who has turned his life around and, drawing on the experiences and the extremes of his youth, is now a uniquely powerful…
Portrait of Kate Langbroek

Kate Langbroek

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Kate has become one of Australia’s most influential media personalities. Her career has spanned popular prime-time TV shows, top-rating breakfast radio, acting, as well as a host of writing credits.
Portrait of Kate Leslie

Kate Leslie

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Professor Kate Leslie AO FAHMS is a specialist anaesthetist and head of anaesthesia research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash…
Portrait of Kate Lundy

Kate Lundy

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Senator Kate Lundy is Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural affairs.
Portrait of Kate Lyons

Kate Lyons

Kate Lyons has had her short fiction and poetry published in a range of Australian literary journals. Her first novel, The Water Underneath, was shortlisted in the 1999 the Australian…
Portrait of Katherine Lynch

Katherine Lynch

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Portrait of Kathryn Ledson

Kathryn Ledson

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Kathryn Ledson spent about 25 years in the corporate arena, mostly as a senior personal assistant, and mostly in Melbourne. In 2006, she abandoned her corporate life and returned to…
Portrait of Kathy Lette

Kathy Lette

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Kathy Lette divides her time between being a full-time writer, demented mother and trying to find a shopping trolley that doesn’t have a clubbed wheel.
Portrait of Kim Lam

Kim Lam

Kim Lam is an illustrator and writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her works explore death, innocence and free will amidst the everyday and ordinary, through prose, comics and zines. Her publication…
Portrait of Kirsten Larsen

Kirsten Larsen

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Kirsten Larsen has been investigating the ins and outs of all things food for around eight years. From a background in state government sustainability, climate and food policy, Kirsten turned to…
Portrait of Klare Lanson

Klare Lanson

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Over the past 20 years, performance poet Klare Lanson has worked as a writer, visual arts curator, director, truck driver, editor and also pays bills by working in the IT…
Portrait of Krystin Low

Krystin Low

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Krystin is particularly interested in the short story form, meta-fiction and creative non-fiction, and themes relating to identity, family and place.
Portrait of Kylie Ladd

Kylie Ladd

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Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. Her latest novel is Mothers and Daughters. Her previous three novels are After The Fall, Last Summer, which was…
Portrait of Kylie Lindorff

Kylie Lindorff

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Kylie is Manager of Tobacco Control Policy at the Cancer Council Victoria in Australia. She has been working in tobacco control for 18 years, holding various positions within both government…
Portrait of Lawrence Leung

Lawrence Leung

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Lawrence is an award winning stand-up comedian, screenwriter and documentary-maker. He created the ABC1 comedy shows Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable and the AFI Award-nominated Choose Your Own Adventure and co-wrote and starred…
Portrait of Lesley Lamb

Lesley Lamb

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Lesley Lamb has been Principal of Glen Eira College in Caulfield since 2007, after six years as Principal of Gilmore Girls' College in Footscray.
Portrait of Lex Lasry

Lex Lasry

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The Hon. Lex Lasry is one of Australia’s most prominent barristers and jurists, and a longtime advocate of the abolition of the death penalty.
Portrait of Lian Low

Lian Low

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Lian Low writes across spoken word, fiction and creative non-fiction.  From 2009-2016, Lian was an editor and a board member of Peril Magazine. In 2015, Lian was a recipient of…
Portrait of Lisa Lang

Lisa Lang

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Lisa Lang’s novel, Utopian Man, was co-winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2009.
Portrait of Luka Lesson

Luka Lesson

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Luka Lesson is a writer whose work touches the realms of hip-hop and performance poetry. A winner of Slams, including the Australian Poetry Slam final & Melbourne Poetry Festival final,…
Portrait of Malcolm Long

Malcolm Long

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Malcolm Long, AM was a member of the Media Convergence Review in 2011-12. He has been executive director of the Australian Film Television & Radio School and chair of the…
Portrait of Marcia Langton

Marcia Langton

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Professor Marcia Langton AM holds the Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Portrait of Marilyn Lake

Marilyn Lake

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Marilyn Lake is a leading Australian historian with a national and international profile. She has been researching the impact of war on Australian society for 30 years, the subject of…
Portrait of Marion Lennox

Marion Lennox

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Marion Lennox is the author of more than 80 romance novels since 1990.
Portrait of Mark Latham

Mark Latham

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Mark Latham is an Australian writer and former politician. He was leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005.…
Portrait of Mary Leunig

Mary Leunig

Mary Leunig was born in Melbourne in 1950, and currently lives and works in regional Victoria. She began studying art at Prahran Institute of Technology and later Preston Institute of…
Portrait of Mary Lou Jelbart

Mary Lou Jelbart

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Mary Lou Jelbart is a former program-maker, theatre and arts reviewer for ABC Radio National. She is the founder and artistic director of fortyfivedownstairs, a not-for-profit gallery and theatre in…
Portrait of Matt Levinson

Matt Levinson

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Matt Levinson leads media and social media campaigns at GetUp!, was previously a senior adviser to Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, and communicated CSIRO’s climate adaptation and sustainable cities research.
Portrait of Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas

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Matthew Lucas is a comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer, best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals…
Portrait of Matt Lutton

Matt Lutton

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Matthew Lutton is Malthouse Theatre’s artistic director and co-CEO. He has most recently directed for Malthouse Theatre I am a miracle, Night at Bald Mountain, The Bloody Chamber, Dance of Death…
Portrait of Matthew Lutton

Matthew Lutton

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Matthew Lutton is a theatre and opera director based in Melbourne. He is currently an associate artist at the Malthouse Theatre, where he has directed Night on Bald Mountain, …
Portrait of Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko

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Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie writer whose work celebrates Aboriginal people and others living around the margins of the First World. Her latest novel, Too Much Lip, won the Miles…
Portrait of Meshel Laurie

Meshel Laurie

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Meshel Laurie is a stand-up comedian of some 20 years’ experience, a radio and television broadcaster and writer She is currently co-host of Matt & Meshel in the Morning on…
Portrait of Mia Love

Mia Love

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Mia Love served as the US Representative for Utah's 4th district from 2015-2019. She was the first black female Republican elected to Congress. At the start of the 2015 Congress…
Portrait of Mic Looby

Mic Looby

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Mic Looby is a Melbourne-based muser. He is also a writer and editor for The Age, a columnist for The Big Issue magazine and author of the satirical travel…
Portrait of Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig

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Michael Leunig has been drawing and writing for Australian newspapers since 1965. He was born in Melbourne and now lives on a farm in north-eastern Victoria. His work has been…
Portrait of Michele Lee

Michele Lee

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Michele Lee is an Asian-Australian playwright and theatre-maker working across stage, audio and live art. 
Portrait of Michelle Law

Michelle Law

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‘In terms of being an Asian-Australian writer, it can be difficult because often people expect that’s the only story you have to tell.’ Michelle Law is an actor and award-winning…
Portrait of Michelle Li

Michelle Li

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Michelle Li is a young Melbourne-based writer. She is a fiction editor at Voiceworks, creative subeditor at Lot’s Wife and editor of a medical student publication.
Portrait of Michelle Lovegrove

Michelle Lovegrove

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Michelle is a Ngarrindjeri Latvian woman born in Port Augusta, South Australia and brought up in the Illawarra region of the state of New South Wales. She has worked in…
Portrait of Miriam Lyons

Miriam Lyons

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Miriam Lyons is a Renewable Energy Campaigner with GetUp! She is also an Australian policy analyst, writer and commentator, and the co-author, with Ian McAuley, of Governomics, published by…
Portrait of Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky

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'Sometimes they’ll say, "I went through this, but it’s nothing like what you went through." But I tell them that, if I drown in 60ft of water and you drown…
Portrait of Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui

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Nakkiah Lui is a writer/actor and Gamillaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman. She is a co-writer and star of ABC's Black Comedy. She has been an artist in residence at Griffin…
Portrait of Nam Le

Nam Le

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Nam Le’s first book, The Boat, was translated into fifteen languages and received over a dozen major awards in Australia, America and Europe including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dylan Thomas…
Portrait of Natalie Lewis

Natalie Lewis

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Natalie Lewis is a descendant of the Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) Nation and is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) Her…
Portrait of Neika Lehman

Neika Lehman

Neika Lehman is a Narrm-based writer and educator descended from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north-east Tasmania. She is the 2018 co-editor of un Magazine with Maddee Clark.
Portrait of Nellie Le Beau

Nellie Le Beau

Nellie Le Beau's writing appears and is forthcoming in Cordite Poetry Review, the Suburban Review, foam:e, Verity La, Westerly, Stilts, and elsewhere. Her poetry won the…
Portrait of Nic Low

Nic Low

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Nic Low is an author and artist of Ngai Tahu and European descent. Born in Christchurch, he now divides his time between Melbourne and a bush retreat near Castlemaine. Arms…
Portrait of Nick Levey

Nick Levey

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Nick had his first story published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 6.
Portrait of Nicole Lee

Nicole Lee

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Nicole Lee is Director at 360Edge, a specialist drug and alcohol consultancy, and Professor at the National Drug Research Institute. She is an Australian leader in alcohol and drug clinical policy. …
Portrait of Nicole Lee

Nicole Lee

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‘We can’t get away from the fact that women with disabilities are vulnerable. Society is slowly changing, but as much as people hate hearing it women are already on the…
Portrait of Raelee Lancaster

Raelee Lancaster

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Raelee Lancaster is a writer, collaborator and creative industries professional based in Meanjin (Brisbane). She is the co-director of the National Young Writers Festival (NYWF). 
Portrait of Rebecca Levingston

Rebecca Levingston

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Rebecca Levingston is presenter of the Drive program on 612 ABC Brisbane.
Portrait of Rebecca Lim

Rebecca Lim

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Rebecca Lim is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia, with a background in commercial law. Rebecca is the author of sixteen books for children and young adult readers…
Portrait of Regan Lethbridge

Regan Lethbridge

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Regan Lethbridge started his music business career managing his own band. Now he’s at the helm of Lemon Tree Music, Lemon Tree Records and Lonely Lands Agency, three companies that…
Portrait of Reni Louise-Permadi

Reni Louise-Permadi

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Reni Louise-Permadi is an Australian-Indonesian feminist, activist and creative. She has been part of the Fitzroy High School Feminist Collective since 2016. In 2019, Reni was involved in planning, running…
Portrait of Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage

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Versatile in every form of theatre craft, Robert Lepage is equally talented as a director, playwright, actor and film director. His creative and original approach to theatre has won him…
Portrait of Romy Ladowsky

Romy Ladowsky

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Portrait of Sam Lane

Sam Lane

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An award winning journalist for the Age newspaper who specialises in AFL, Olympic and cycling, Samantha Lane joined Channel Seven’s AFL broadcast team in 2013 The move followed her ten…
Portrait of Sarah L'Estrange

Sarah L'Estrange

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Sarah L’Estrange is a producer on Books and Arts Daily, ABC Radio National.
Portrait of Scott Limbrick

Scott Limbrick

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Scott is a writer and comedian based in Melbourne. He has written and presented for Comedy Central UK and has had filmed projects featured by Funny or Die, Cinefest Oz…
Portrait of Scott Ludlam

Scott Ludlam

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Scott Ludlam, an Australian Greens Senator from Western Australia, is the Greens spokesman on such issues as communications, housing, mining and nuclear power.
Portrait of Shannan Lim

Shannan Lim

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Shannan Lim is a writer and clown based on Kulin country. He has lectured in film and digital media at the University of Western Australia, and taught physical theatre to…
Portrait of Sharon Lewin

Sharon Lewin

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Leading infectious diseases expert, Professor Sharon Lewin, is the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute, as well as a Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne and a National…
Portrait of Shirley Le

Shirley Le

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Shirley Le is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Western Sydney and is a part of the Sweatshop Writers Collective. Her short stories and essays have been published on SBS Online…
Portrait of Simon Leys

Simon Leys

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Simon Leys’ books include The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays, The Death of Napoleon, Other People’s Thoughts and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. Leys’ writing…
Portrait of Simon Longstaff

Simon Longstaff

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Dr Simon Longstaff is Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre and chairs the Intelligence Squared debates in Sydney and Melbourne.
Portrait of Sofie Laguna

Sofie Laguna

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Sofie Laguna was born in Sydney and moved to a farm in the country when she was 12. Beginning her career as an actor, she turned to writing in her…
Portrait of Sophie Lampel

Sophie Lampel

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Sophie Lampel trained at The University of Ballarat (Performing Arts) and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre London. She works as an actor, theatre producer and pilates instructor…
Portrait of Stephanie Laurens

Stephanie Laurens

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Author of more than 42 romance titles, Stephanie Laurens has hit the New York Times bestseller list with her last 23 books.
Portrait of Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert

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Steve Lambert was a Senior Fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology from 2006-2010, developed and led workshops for Creative Capital Foundation, co-directs the Center for Artistic…
Portrait of Stuart Littlemore

Stuart Littlemore

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Stuart Littlemore is a barrister, author, documentarian and former presenter of ABC TV’s ‘Media Watch’.
Portrait of Tess Lawley

Tess Lawley

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Tess Lawley is a passionate and vocal advocate for sharing the stories and opinions of marginalised voices in our community. Tess is the General Manager of youth community media organisation…
Portrait of The Listies

The Listies

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Writing and performing comedy for kids and their adults (kidults), the Listies are Melbourne-based duo Rich Higgins and Matt Kelly. Originally meeting each other during a production of Roald Dahl's The Twits…
Portrait of Tim Lane

Tim Lane

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Tim Lane has been broadcasting and writing about sport for more than 40 years. He spent three decades with the ABC covering football and international cricket, and worked at five…
Portrait of Tim Lindsey

Tim Lindsey

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Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is also chair of…
Portrait of Tim Lo Surdo

Tim Lo Surdo

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Tim is the Founder and National Director of Democracy in Colour – a national racial and economic justice organisation led by people of colour. Tim is deeply passionate about people-powered…
Portrait of Timothy Lynch

Timothy Lynch

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Timothy J. Lynch is the Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor in American Politics at the University of Melbourne His books include Turf…
Portrait of Tom Lee

Tom Lee

Tom Lee is a writer known for his interest in landscape, technology and the senses. He grew up on a farm near Orange in central-west NSW, and lectures in the…
Portrait of Vicki Laveau-Harvie

Vicki Laveau-Harvie

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Vicki Laveau-Harvie is passionate about writing, education and communication. Her memoir, The Erratics, won the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize and the 2019 Stella Prize. 

Virginia Lovett

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Virginia Lovett is general manager of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Portrait of wāni Le Frère

wāni Le Frère

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wāni is a proud descendant of the Bashi peoples of Walungu, as well as the current Incarnation of the Afronaut. He spends his times teleporting through Universes and time-scapes navigating between…
Portrait of Wendy Lasica

Wendy Lasica

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Wendy Lasica trained and worked as a dancer and choreographer. She also holds a Masters degree in Urban Planning, and has established a niche planning practice working at the intersection…

Yaron Lifschitz

Director Yaron Lifschitz is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, University of Queensland and National Institute of Dramatic Arts. Since graduating, Yaron has directed more than 60…
Portrait of Zane Lovitt

Zane Lovitt

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Zane Lovitt was a documentary filmmaker before turning his hand to crime fiction. His stories have appeared in Scribe’s New Australian Stories 2 and in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine…