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Portrait of Amos Oz

Amos Oz

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Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into 30 languages. He has received several international awards, including the…
Portrait of Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan

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Andrew O'Hagan is one of the UK’s brightest new novelists.
Portrait of Barry Otto

Barry Otto

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Barry Otto has worked in the performing arts in Australia for more than 35 years.
Portrait of Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer

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Bastian Obermayer won a Pulitzer Prize for leading the worldwide investigation into the Panama Papers, which exposed a global web of off-shore tax havens linked to politicians, megabanks and drug…
Portrait of Ben Okri

Ben Okri

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Ben Okri has published nine novels, including The Age of Magic and the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His…
Portrait of Caroline Overington

Caroline Overington

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Caroline Overington is the associate editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly.
Portrait of Cece Ojany

Cece Ojany

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Cece Ojany joined PEN Melbourne in December 2012 as the organisation’s Writers-In-Prison Officer. Her poetry has featured in various festivals including the Dandenong Laneway Festival and Federation Square’s Light In…
Portrait of Claudia O'Doherty

Claudia O'Doherty

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Claudia O'Doherty is a comedian. Her first show was called Monster of the Deep 3D and her second show was called What is Soil Erosion?.
Portrait of Dave Oliver

Dave Oliver

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Dave Oliver is the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Portrait of Dave O'Neil

Dave O'Neil

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Dave O'Neil has been a fixture of Australian comedy for more than 20 years including appearances on Spicks and Specks and Randling.
Portrait of David Owen

David Owen

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Keynote Speaker: David Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. He is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently *Green Metropolis:…
Portrait of Debra Oswald

Debra Oswald

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Debra Oswald is a writer for stage, television and fiction. She is co-creator and head writer of the successful TV series Offspring, which recently finished its fifth season. Debra won the 2011…
Portrait of Eileen Ormsby

Eileen Ormsby

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After seven years as a corporate lawyer in Melbourne and London, Eileen Ormsbythrew it in to become a freelance journalist and writer, with regular investigative features for the Age focusing…
Portrait of Ellen O'Brien

Ellen O'Brien

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Ellen O’Brien is a writer, poet and legal researcher of Guringai descent. She lives and works on Gadigal and Wangal land, and is interested in discussions about the meaning of…
Portrait of Erin O'Donnell

Erin O'Donnell

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Dr Erin O’Donnell is a water law and policy specialist and is recognized internationally for her research into the ground-breaking new field of legal rights for rivers and the challenges…

Fiona O'Hehir

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Fiona O'Hehir is CEO of Greenbank Environmental. She has a technical background in electronics and power conversion for the solar industry and has been involved in the clean energy space…
Portrait of First Dog on the Moon

First Dog on the Moon

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First Dog on the Moon is the internationally renowned, Walkley Award-winning and also very humble cartoonist for the Guardian Australia. First Dog's latest collection, A Treasury of Cartoons, has just been…
Portrait of Gary Osmond

Gary Osmond

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Gary Osmond is senior lecturer in sport history in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland. His research interests include race and sport, with a focus…
Portrait of Gideon Obarzanek

Gideon Obarzanek

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Gideon Obarzanek is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. He was recently Artistic Associate with the Melbourne Festival and co-curator for XO State at the inaugural Asia Pacific Triennial…
Portrait of Harry O'Brien

Harry O'Brien

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Harry O'Brien is a much loved and lauded AFL premiership footballer. He plays for Collingwood.

Isabelle Oderberg

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Isabelle Oderberg heads up social media at Australian Red Cross and sits on the committee of The Melbourne Press Club.
Portrait of Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver

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Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parent’s pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight and has since worked with some of the world’s top chefs.
Portrait of Jan Owen

Jan Owen

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Jan Owen is the CEO of Foundation for Young Australians. Before joining FYA, Jan was Executive Director of Social Ventures Australia, which aims to increase the impact of the Australian social sector. Prior to…
Portrait of Jane Ormond

Jane Ormond

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Jane Ormond is a freelance writer and editor from Melbourne. Her fiction has been published by Cardigan Press, Sleepers and Going Down Swinging and performed on Radio National, and she…
Portrait of Jared Osborne

Jared Osborne

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Jared Osborne is a men’s work facilitator and embodiment therapist. He operates Elemental Wellbeing, a therapeutic business.
Portrait of Jess Ong

Jess Ong

Having left her hometown of Darwin as soon as she finished school, Jess Ong studied and worked in Brisbane before moving to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She begrudgingly returned to Darwin four…
Portrait of Jim Obergefell

Jim Obergefell

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Jim Obergefell is a civil rights activist who embraced his newfound role after the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land on June 26, 2015. A former…
Portrait of Kate O’Donnell

Kate O’Donnell

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Kate O’Donnell is a writer, editor and bookseller specialising in children’s and young adult literature. Untidy Towns is her first novel.
Portrait of Kate O'Halloran

Kate O'Halloran

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Kate O'Halloran is a freelance sports journalist and host of AFLW radio show 'Kick Like a Girl' on RRR 102.7FM. She was formerly Deputy Sports Editor at the Guardian and…
Portrait of Kate O'Reilly

Kate O'Reilly

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Kate O'Reilly is the managing director of Optimiss Consulting and a passionate advocate for women in business and finance.
Portrait of Kelly O'Dwyer

Kelly O'Dwyer

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Kelly was elected in a by-election in December 2009 at the age of 32 to represent the seat of Higgins, her local electorate, following the retirement of former federal treasurer…
Portrait of Kelly O'Shanassy

Kelly O'Shanassy

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Kelly O’Shanassy is the Chief Executive Officer of Environment Victoria, one of Australia’s leading independent environment groups.
Portrait of Kendra Overall

Kendra Overall

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Portrait of Kerrin O’Sullivan

Kerrin O’Sullivan

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Kerrin O’Sullivan is an award-winning writer with a love of short fiction, creative non-fiction and faraway places. Her writings have appeared in various journals including Award Winning Australian Writing…
Portrait of Kerry O'Brien

Kerry O'Brien

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Kerry O'Brien is one of Australia's most respected journalists, with six Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley for outstanding leadership in journalism. In a career spanning more…
Portrait of Liam O'Keefe

Liam O'Keefe

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Liam O'Keefe has worked in sustainability as a consultant, educator, business owner, researcher and project manager. His company Creative Environment Enterprises developed two of Australia’s largest solar-powered systems (the Germinate…
Portrait of Lizzie O'Shea

Lizzie O'Shea

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Lizzie is a Melbourne lawyer specialising in public interest litigation. She has worked with indigent prisoners on death row in the Deep South of the US and at the United…
Portrait of Louise Omer

Louise Omer

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Louise Omer (formerly known as Lou Heinrich) is a writer and critic whose words have been published in the Weekend Australian, the Guardian, the Saturday Paper and the Lifted Brow. She…
Portrait of Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Lyndon Ormond-Parker

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Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker is an ARC Research Fellow in the Indigenous Studies Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne. Lyndon was born…
Portrait of Mary-Louise O'Callaghan

Mary-Louise O'Callaghan

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Mary-Louise O’Callaghan began her professional life as a cadet journalist on the Age newspaper in her hometown of Melbourne. From 1983-1985 she was the Guardian’s stringer in China before…
Portrait of Meriki Onus

Meriki Onus

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Meriki Onus is a Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman who grew in Gippsland. Meriki is currently doing policy and advocacy at Djirra. She also has significant experience in campaigning in community…
Portrait of Miles O'Neil

Miles O'Neil

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Portrait of Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes

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Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University, and an internationally renowned geologist, science historian, and author. She received…
Portrait of Nina Oyama

Nina Oyama

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Nina Oyama is a 25-year-old stand-up comedian and writer. She is the co-creator and star of ABC's The Angus Project. Based on the life of her friend Angus Thompson…
Portrait of Paddy O'Reilly

Paddy O'Reilly

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Paddy O’Reilly is a writer from Melbourne. Her work has been published and broadcast widely both here and internationally. Her latest novel, The Fine Colour of Rust, is published…
Portrait of Paul Oosting

Paul Oosting

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Paul Oosting is the National Director of GetUp, a one million strong member-driven organisation that has campaigned for progressive policy in Australia for over a decade Paul has been with…
Portrait of Pauline O'Brien

Pauline O'Brien

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Portrait of Phillip O'Carroll

Phillip O'Carroll

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Philip O'Carroll, with his wife Faye Berryman, founded an alternative primary school in 1976. Fitzroy Community School, still going strong, is now run by their former first pupil, their oldest…
Portrait of Radha O'Meara

Radha O'Meara

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Dr Radha O'Meara is a lecturer in screenwriting in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She has studied in Australia, the USA and Germany and…
Portrait of Rob Oakeshott

Rob Oakeshott

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Rob Oakeshott was the Independent member for Lyne in the House of Representatives from 2008-13. Prior to that, he had been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,…
Portrait of Robyn Oxley

Robyn Oxley

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Robyn Oxley is a Tharawal woman from South-West Sydney with family connections to Yorta Yorta along the Murray River, near Echuca in Victoria. Robyn is a Lecturer in Criminology for…
Portrait of Roslyn Oades

Roslyn Oades

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Roslyn Oades is a theatre-maker and performer. She has a long-standing interest in audio-driven performance projects, and is best known for her pioneering work in headphone-verbatim theatre.
Portrait of Ryan O'Neill

Ryan O'Neill

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Ryan O’Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart and Their Brilliant Careers. He was born in Glasgow in 1975 and has lived in Africa, Europe and…
Portrait of Sandy O'Sullivan

Sandy O'Sullivan

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Dr Sandy O’Sullivan is an Aboriginal (Wiradjuri) woman and Associate Professor in Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and is an ambassador for IndigenousX For 25 years…
Portrait of Sean O'Beirne

Sean O'Beirne

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Sean O'Beirne is a Melbourne bookseller and critic. His first book, a collection of short stories and satirical pieces, will be published by Black Inc. in early 2020.
Portrait of Simon Overland

Simon Overland

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Simon started his current position as secretary for the Department of Justice in Tasmanian in July 2012. He was chief commissioner of Victoria Police from March 2009 until mid-2011.
Portrait of Siobhan O'Sullivan

Siobhan O'Sullivan

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Dr. Siobhan O’Sullivan is a research fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She specialises in animal protection issues including the structure and…
Portrait of Sonia Orchard

Sonia Orchard

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Sonia Orchard is the author of a bestselling memoir Something More Wonderful and a novel The Virtuoso, which won the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction of 2009. She won…
Portrait of Stephen Orr

Stephen Orr

Stephen Orr is the author of several published works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel, Time’s Long Ruin, which drew on the infamous disappearance of the Beaumont children as inspiration, was…
Portrait of Steven O'Connor

Steven O'Connor

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Originally from Luton, England, he now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two teenage children and Sparks, his ever-attentive, ever-hungry Cavalier King Charles spaniel.
Portrait of Steven Oliver

Steven Oliver

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Steven Oliver is a descendant of the Kuku-Yalanji, Waanyi, Gangalidda, Woppaburra, Bundjalung and Biripi (in other words, biggest mob) peoples. He was born in Cloncurry in North West Queensland and…
Portrait of Stevie O'C

Stevie O'C

Stevie O’C is a writer, blogger and photographer with a penchant for pop-culture. 
Portrait of Sunni Overend

Sunni Overend

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Sunni Overend is a graphic design grad, and the daughter of the late, award-winning children's author Jenni Overend. She worked briefly in creative advertising before building an online fashion store…
Portrait of Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver

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Portrait of Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean

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Hailed a 'national treasure' by the Washington Post, Susan Orlean is the acclaimed, bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the…
Portrait of Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach

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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London and The Women's Therapy Centre in New York. Her books include Hunger Strike, What's…
Portrait of Thuy On

Thuy On

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Thuy On is books editor of the Big Issue and a Melbourne-based freelance critic, editor, copywriter and manuscript assessor.   
Portrait of Timothy O'Leary

Timothy O'Leary

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Timothy O'Leary is an educator and therapist in private practice. He originally trained as a social worker and has a Masters in couples and relationships counselling and a graduate diploma…
Portrait of Tom O'Byrne

Tom O'Byrne

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Tom O’Byrne is a Melbourne based writer who’s been published in various literary journals. He’s currently balancing his fiction with a corporate day job managing web content.
Portrait of Tony Ortega

Tony Ortega

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Tony Ortega is the executive editor of TheLipTV. From 2007 to 2012, he was editor in chief of The Village Voice, and he's been investigating and writing about…
Portrait of Wendy Orr

Wendy Orr

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Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born Australian writer who now lives on the Mornington Peninsula. Her books for children and adults have been published in 27 countries and won awards around…
Portrait of Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi

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Yotam Ottolenghi’s path to the world of cooking and baking has been anything but straightforward. Having completed a Masters degree in philosophy and literature while working on the news desk…