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Portrait of Abe Nouk

Abe Nouk

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Abraham ‘Abe’ Nouk is the founder and director at Creative Rebellion Youth.
Portrait of Adrienne Nicotra

Adrienne Nicotra

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Adrienne Nicotra, Senior lecturer in the Research School of Biology, ANU is one of the founding Editors of PROMETHEUSWiki, a new Wiki based site for PROtocols and METHods for Explanation…
Portrait of Alexandra Neill

Alexandra Neill

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Alexandra Neill is a writer and critic. Her work has been published in various places including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Junkee. She is also a…
Portrait of Amiel Nubaha

Amiel Nubaha

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Born and raised up in a refugee Camp following the Rwandan Genocide, Amiel Nubaha migrated to Australia in 2009 aged 14 through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Resettlement…
Portrait of Andrew Nette

Andrew Nette

Andrew Nette is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. His non-fiction has appeared in various print and online publications. He is co-editor of Beat Girls, Love Tribes and Real Cool Cats:…
Portrait of Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science website io9.com and a journalist with a decade’s experience in writing about science, culture and the future for such publications as …
Portrait of Areej Nur

Areej Nur

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Areej Nur is a radio producer, presenter and educator. She is also co-founder of the podcast network Broadwave. Most of Areej’s work seeks to support women of colour, particularly black women…
Portrait of Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi

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Azar Nafisi is currently the director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a…
Portrait of Bianca Nogrady

Bianca Nogrady

Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist, author and broadcaster. She is editor of the 2019 Best Australian Science Writing anthology, and one of a group of writers who have…
Portrait of Bjorn Nansen

Bjorn Nansen

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Bjorn Nansen is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is an Australian Research Council researcher fellow, a Digital Media Fellow in the Melbourne Networked Society…
Portrait of Brad Ness

Brad Ness

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A towering presence in Australian wheelchair basketball, Brad was the Australian flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Paralympics, and won a gold medal in Beijing, and…
Portrait of Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall

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Melbourne author Brenda Niall has combined her career as an academic in Monash University’s English Department with that of biographer and literary critic.
Portrait of Brendan Nelson

Brendan Nelson

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Dr Brendan Nelson became director of the Australian War Memorial in December 2012. Prior to this, he was the Australian ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the European Union and NATO (2009–12).…
Portrait of Bronwyn Naylor

Bronwyn Naylor

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Dr Bronwyn Naylor is an associate professor in the Law Faculty at Monash University, with degrees in Arts and Law from Monash University and a doctorate in Criminology from Cambridge…
Portrait of Christine Nixon

Christine Nixon

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Christine Nixon is a Deputy Chancellor of Monash University, Chair of Monash College Pty Ltd and Chair of Good Shepherd Microfinance. She was the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from…
Portrait of Clinton Nain

Clinton Nain

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Clinton Nain (G’ua G’ua and Meriam) is an artist. He was born in 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria and lives and works in Melbourne.
Portrait of Dave Noonan

Dave Noonan

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Dave Noonan is the National Secretary of Australia’s largest construction union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Construction and General Division.
Portrait of David Neiwert

David Neiwert

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David Neiwert is a veteran investigative journalist based in Seattle. He is the Pacific Northwest correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of several books, including…
Portrait of David Nichols

David Nichols

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David Nichols is a writer and cultural commentator who is senior lecturer in urban planning at the University of Melbourne.
Portrait of David Nolan

David Nolan

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David Nolan is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications. His work focuses on journalism studies and the changing role played by media in social and political relations. He recently led a…
Portrait of David Nolte

David Nolte

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David Nolte was is a former Melbourne City Councillor (1988-93) and Chair of City Finance (1991-93). He has owned and operated his own pharmacy in Carlton North for 35 years,…
Portrait of Emily Nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum

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Emily Nussbaum is the television critic for the New Yorker. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016. She's currently at work on an anthology and a book…
Portrait of Eve Nixon

Eve Nixon

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Eve just turned 13. She does drama, swimming, oboe and tries hard at the piano. Eve believes that people take the small things too seriously and the big things not…
Portrait of Fiona Nicoll

Fiona Nicoll

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Professor Fiona Nicoll is a founding member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and edited its inaugural issue in 2005. She has a track record of working with…
Portrait of Garth Nix

Garth Nix

Garth Nix was born in Melbourne. His books include the award-winning young adult fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen and Clariel; the dystopian novel Shade's Children; the…
Portrait of George Negus

George Negus

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George Negus has written, directed and presented Australian commercial and public television current affairs since 1975 – with a special passion for international affairs and Australia’s place in the world.
Portrait of Glynn Nicholas

Glynn Nicholas

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Glynn is a director, comedian, guitarist, scriptwriter, songwriter and mime teacher. He is currently Chairman of Big hART - an award-winning Australian organisation, working to reengage marginalised communities and individuals…
Portrait of Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal

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Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE is one of Australia’s most celebrated science and medical research leaders An eminent immunologist and biologist, Sir Gustav is a former director of Melbourne’s Walter…
Portrait of Helen Ngo

Helen Ngo

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Helen Ngo is Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University. She completed her PhD at Stony Brook University (USA), specialising in phenomenology, critical philosophy of race and feminist philosophy. Her research explores the phenomenological and existential…
Portrait of Imbi Neeme

Imbi Neeme

Imbi Neeme is a recovering blogger, impending novelist and compulsive short story writer. Her manuscript The Spill was awarded the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize. 
Portrait of Indira Naidoo

Indira Naidoo

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Indira Naidoo is one of Australia’s most popular broadcasters. During her 25-year award-winning journalistic career, Ms Naidoo has hosted and reported for some of the country’s most distinguished news and…
Portrait of Ishaan Nangia

Ishaan Nangia

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Ishaan Nangia is a partner in the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He specialises in infrastructure, transport, real estate, logistics and education, and has extensive experience in city…
Portrait of Jack Nicholls

Jack Nicholls

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Jack Nicholls is a speculative fiction writer and essayist, and three-time Aurealis Award nominee. It is possible that his career was influenced by twenty years of dinner-table lectures from his…

Jake Niall

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Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at the Age, specialising in AFL football.
Portrait of Jennifer Nguyen

Jennifer Nguyen

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Jennifer Nguyen's writing has appeared in Scum Mag, the Lifted Brow (online), Meanjin (online) and Lor Journal, among others. Her first book of poems is ‘When I die…
Portrait of Jenny Niven

Jenny Niven

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Jenny Niven was the Wheeler Centre’s Associate Director. She is currently Portfolio Manager for Literature, Publishing and Languages at Creative Scotland.
Portrait of John Nicholson

John Nicholson

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John Nicholson graduated in architecture from Melbourne University in 1973. He worked as an architect, graphic designer and illustrator before beginning to write and illustrate children’s books in 1990.
Portrait of Josh Nelson

Josh Nelson

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Josh Nelson is a freelance writer, academic, broadcaster and filmmaker. In addition to his teaching and writing on film, Josh co-hosts the Triple R (102.7FM) film criticism podcast Plato’s Cave…
Portrait of Kakushin Nishihara

Kakushin Nishihara

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Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kakushin Nishihara is a Tsuruta-style Satsuma biwa player and a collage artist. (The Satsuma biwa is a traditional Japanese lute.) She trained under the tutelage of…
Portrait of Karrina Nolan

Karrina Nolan

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Karrina Nolan is of mixed heritage from Yorta Yorta nation in Victoria. She’s worked as an organiser, strategist, campaigner, facilitator, lobbyist and hip-hop wrangler alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Portrait of Katie Noonan

Katie Noonan

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Katie Noonan’s technical mastery and pure voice makes her one of Australia’s most versatile and beloved vocalists.
Portrait of Linh Nguyễn

Linh Nguyễn

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Linh Thùy Nguyễn is a writer, editor and arts producer She is the Program Coordinator of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, an Online Editor for the Lifted Brow and the Deputy Editor…
Portrait of Lucy Neave

Lucy Neave

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Lucy Neave completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing in the US on a Fulbright scholarship, and has received a Varuna New Writers’ Fellowship and Australian Society of Authors…
Portrait of Mairi Nicholson

Mairi Nicholson

Mairi Nicholson is a musician and radio broadcaster. She currently presents Music Makers on ABC Classic FM.
Portrait of Mandy Nicholson

Mandy Nicholson

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Mandy is a member of the Wurundjeri-willam clan of Melbourne and surrounds and currently lives in the South Eastern Suburbs. Mandy is a recognised artist, qualified Archaeologist and leader of…
Portrait of Marcia Neave

Marcia Neave

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Justice Marcia Neave AO has been a justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria since 2006.
Portrait of Mary Norris

Mary Norris

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Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in the New Yorker copy…
Portrait of Michael Nolan

Michael Nolan

Michael Nolan is the production editor of the Saturday Paper and a founding member of the editorial team since its 2014 launch. He is the winner of the 2017 Walkley Award for…
Portrait of Mimmie Claudine Ngum Chi Watts

Mimmie Claudine Ngum Chi Watts

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Dr Chi Watts is commissioner of the Victorian Multicultural Commission, lecturer at the College of Health and Biomedicine, and leads the Bachelor of Health Science at Victoria University. Dr Watts…
Portrait of Nadia Niaz

Nadia Niaz

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Nadia Niaz is a writer and academic who is now mostly from Melbourne, and still a little bit from lots of other places. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and…
Portrait of Nithya Nagarajan

Nithya Nagarajan

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Nithya Nagarajan is a curator, dancer and interdisciplinary performance-maker. As Manager – Community and Participation for the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Nithya leads the artist residencies, creative exchanges…
Portrait of Nyadol Nyuon

Nyadol Nyuon

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Nyadol Nyuon is a commercial litigator with Arnold Bloch Leibler and a community advocate.   She was born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, and raised in Kakuma Refugee camp,…
Portrait of Patrice Naiambana

Patrice Naiambana

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Patrice Naiambana is an interdisciplinary performer-creator and works interculturally: from playing lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC, and Channel 4, to bringing Shakespeare to the elderly and long-term…
Portrait of Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness is the author of nine novels, including his New York Times bestselling The Rest of Us Just Live Here, the Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, …
Portrait of Peter Norden

Peter Norden

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Peter Norden is an adjunct professor at RMIT, and former Catholic chaplain at Pentridge. In 2009, Peter left the priesthood and the church. After decades of service, he no longer identified…
Portrait of Phil Nichol

Phil Nichol

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Phil Nichol is a truly unique performer. An acclaimed actor, award winning comedian, producer, presenter, writer and musician there is no end to his talent.
Portrait of Philip Nitschke

Philip Nitschke

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For more than a decade, Dr Philip Nitschke MBBS PhD has been the face of the voluntary euthanasia debate in Australia and around the world. He is the author of…
Portrait of Phuong Ngo

Phuong Ngo

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Phuong Ngo’s practice explores the individual and collected identity of the Vietnamese diaspora through the exploration of history, politics and culture. He completed an honours degree in fine art at…
Portrait of Pierz Newton-John

Pierz Newton-John

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Pierz Newton-John is a writer, web developer and former psychotherapist. He is also a founding faculty member of The School of Life Melbourne. His critically acclaimed short-story collection Fault Lines…
Portrait of PM Newton

PM Newton

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PM Newton is a former member of the New South Wales police and the author of an award-winning debut crime novel, The Old School.
Portrait of Poppy Nwosu

Poppy Nwosu

Poppy Nwosu is an Australian YA author. Her debut novel, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, is published by Wakefield Press Growing up in central North Queensland, Poppy enjoyed a thoroughly…
Portrait of Rick Nugent

Rick Nugent

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Rick commenced his appointment as Assistant Commissioner of Eastern Region in September 2015, and brings to this role extensive operational and corporate experience, as well as a strong focus on…
Portrait of Robynne Nelson

Robynne Nelson

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Robynne Nelson is a proud Aboriginal woman of Yorta Yorta, Waveroo and Dja Dja Wurrung heritage. She has undertaken a broad range of consultancy projects across Victoria and NSW over the…
Portrait of Sally Neighbour

Sally Neighbour

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Sally Neighbour is executive producer of Four Corners. She is a multiple award-winning journalist and author, best known for her work with Four Corners as well as her specialist…
Portrait of Shen Narayanasamy

Shen Narayanasamy

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Shen Narayanasamy is GetUp!'s Human Rights Campaign Director. She founded the No Business in Abuse project, targeting corporate involvement in offshore detention of asylum seekers, and led #LetThemStay, which prevented the…
Portrait of Sher Rill Ng

Sher Rill Ng

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Sher Rill Ng is a Melbourne-based illustrator. She graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Design and works as a web and mobile UX/UI designer. Sher Rill also took part…
Portrait of Sonia Nair

Sonia Nair

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Sonia Nair is Program Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival as well as a writer and critic whose literary criticism and social commentary have been published by the Wheeler Centre…
Portrait of Stephen Nicolazzo

Stephen Nicolazzo

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Stephen Nicolazzo is a Melbourne based theatre director, and the founder and Artistic Director of Little Ones Theatre, an independent company focused on queer theatre-making. He is a Green Room…
Portrait of Susan Neiman

Susan Neiman

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Susan Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. At the interface of eastern and western Europe, it is one of Europe’s most important centres…
Portrait of Sybil Nolan

Sybil Nolan

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Sybil Nolan a lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne. Her career includes stints as a newspaper journalist/editor and as a commissioning editor at Melbourne University Publishing.
Portrait of Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar

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Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, which inspired the Academy-Award-winning movie and was translated into 30 languages.

Tom Nicholson

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Tom Nicholson is a Melbourne-based artist and He is part of the upcoming Auckland Triennial, Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon.

Tom Noble

Tom Noble has been a journalist for more than 25 years, working mostly in newspapers. He is the author of the bestselling true crime books Untold Violence and Neddy,…
Portrait of Yasmin Newman

Yasmin Newman

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Australian-Filipino Yasmin Newman is a food and travel writer, editor, presenter and photographer. Her work has featured in Feast, MasterChef Magazine, delicious and Selector magazines. She also presents…
Portrait of Yasmin Nguyen

Yasmin Nguyen

Yasmin Nguyen is the Fashion Editor and co-founder of Vault New Art & Culture Magazine.
Portrait of Zahra Newman

Zahra Newman

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A 2008 graduate from the VCA, Zahra was most recently seen onstage in The Government Inspector (Malthouse/Belvoir). Prior to that she appeared in the Australian premiere of The Mountaintop (MTC), …
Portrait of Zoe Norton Lodge

Zoe Norton Lodge

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Zoe Norton Lodge is a writer/presenter on The Checkout (ABC1). In 2015 she published her first book, Almost Sincerely, a collection of 'autobiographicalish' short stories. Zoe is also the co-creator…