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Portrait of Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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Adam Smith is an expert commentator and consultant specialising in partnership development and network building in and around schools. He is a Board Member of the Australian Council for Educational…
Portrait of Adam Suckling

Adam Suckling

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Adam joined the Copyright Agency as Chief Executive in August 2015 from News Corp, where he was the Director of Policy, Corporate Affairs & Community Relations Prior to that, he…
Portrait of Adrienne Stone

Adrienne Stone

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Adrienne Stone holds a Chair at Melbourne Law School, where she is also an ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for…
Portrait of Alan Saunders

Alan Saunders

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Alan Saunders is a broadcaster on ABC Radio National.
Portrait of Alexandra Schepisi

Alexandra Schepisi

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Alexandra Schepisi has worked in Australian film, TV and theatre since 1994, graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1997. Her film credits include The Boys Are Back…
Portrait of Alia Shawkat

Alia Shawkat

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Alia Shawkat is a highly sought after actress in both film and television. She most recently was seen starring in the second season of TBS’ breakout hit genre-bending mystery comedy…
Portrait of Alicia Sometimes

Alicia Sometimes

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Alicia Sometimes is an Australian writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian…
Portrait of Allery Sandy

Allery Sandy

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Senior Yindjibarndi woman Allery Sandy is an accomplished painter, educator, performer and community leader. She worked in early childhood education for over 25 years, first running playgroups for needy children,…
Portrait of Alli Sinclair

Alli Sinclair

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Alli Sinclair is a multi-award winning author who writes about romance, dance, and mystery. Her latest book is Luna Tango.
Portrait of Alom Shaha

Alom Shaha

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Alom Shaha was born in Bangladesh but grew up in London. A teacher, science writer, and film-maker, he has spent most of his professional life trying to share his passion…
Portrait of Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith

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Amanda Smith is the presenter of The Body Sphere on ABC Radio National. She trained as a ballet dancer and is a graduate of the dance school of the Victorian College…
Portrait of Aminatou Sow

Aminatou Sow

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‘When you talk about a lack of “insert minority” into “insert any industry”, what you’re also saying is that you’re not willing to support the people who are actually there.’…
Portrait of Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott

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Dr Andrew Scott is associate professor in politics and policy at Deakin University, Melbourne. He is the author of four books and numerous book chapters and articles on aspects of…
Portrait of Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton is a sociologist at Deakin University. His research interests include new religious movements, secularisation, youth religion and personal belief. He is author of Religion, Culture and Society and…
Portrait of Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland is a Queer PLHIV writer and performance-maker creating work between Boorloo, Western Australia and Singapore. He holds a BA (First Class) Hons in Acting from LASALLE College of…
Portrait of Angela Savage

Angela Savage

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Angela Savage is an award-winning Melbourne author.
Portrait of Angela Slatter

Angela Slatter

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Angela Slatter is the award-winning author of the collections The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and…
Portrait of Angela Smith

Angela Smith

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Angela Smith’s first poetry collection The Geometry of Flight (Pulse Publications) has been described by poet Bruce Dawe as ‘free verse at its finest’.
Portrait of Anita Sarkeesian

Anita Sarkeesian

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Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic, blogger and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video web series that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. In particular, her…
Portrait of Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi

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Anita Sethi is an award-winning British writer, journalist and broadcaster who has written for national and international newspapers and magazines.
Portrait of Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve is the author of many acclaimed works, including Eden Close, The Weight of Water, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever…
Portrait of Anna Skarbek

Anna Skarbek

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Anna Skarbek has been executive director of ClimateWorks Australia since its inception in 2009, leading the organisation’s work in analysing emissions reduction opportunities and partnering with business and government in…
Portrait of Anna Snoekstra

Anna Snoekstra

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Anna Snoekstra is Melbourne-based novelist, and the author of Only Daughter – her debut book, published by Harlequin MIRA and optioned for film by Universal Pictures After finishing university, Anna…
Portrait of Anna Solding

Anna Solding

Anna Solding is a writer, editor and publisher. She's the founder and managing director of MidnightSun Publishing, an Adelaide based publishing company. Her first book, The Hum of Concrete –…
Portrait of Anna Spargo-Ryan

Anna Spargo-Ryan

Anna Spargo-Ryan is a Melbourne writer and digital strategist.
Portrait of Annabel Smith

Annabel Smith

Portrait of Anne Spudvilas

Anne Spudvilas

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Anne Spudvilas is a multi award-winning illustrator of children’s books and an established portrait painter. Her work concentrates on portraying character and expression in people, both in commissioned portraits or…
Portrait of Anne Summers

Anne Summers

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Dr Anne Summers AO is a best-selling author, journalist and thought-leader with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United…
Portrait of Anne-Louise Sarks

Anne-Louise Sarks

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Anne-Louise Sarks is the resident director at Belvoir. She works professionally as an actor, director and dramaturg. 
Portrait of Ara Sarafian

Ara Sarafian

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Ara Sarafian is an Armenian-Australian writer who lives in Melbourne. He writes comedy-fiction, commentary and satire. He has been published in The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and The…
Portrait of Ariel Slamet Ries

Ariel Slamet Ries

Ariel Slamet Ries is a Naarm/Melbourne-born, Denmark-trained comic artist and illustrator. They studied animation for 4 years before throwing away the prestige and money to pursue comics. They’re passionate about…
Portrait of Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman

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Art Spiegelman is a highly acclaimed comic artist, writer and editor based in New York. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative MAUS – which…
Portrait of Asiel Adan Sanchez

Asiel Adan Sanchez

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Asiel Adan Sanchez is an organic, gluten-free, vegan, single origin, ethically sourced gender fluid. They may be found in late-night hospital shifts writing lines of poetry in between melancholic insulin…
Portrait of Audra Simpson

Audra Simpson

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Audra Simpson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014) and…
Portrait of Becky Sui Zhen

Becky Sui Zhen

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Throughout her discography and performances, experimental pop and performance artist Sui Zhen has zoomed in on the intersections between human life and technology – how to exist in the digital age, as…
Portrait of Bel Schenk

Bel Schenk

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Bel Schenk is the author of two poetry collections Urban Squeeze and Ambulances & Dreamers.
Portrait of Benson Saulo

Benson Saulo

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Benson Saulo is a descendent of the Wemba Wemba and Gundjitmara Aboriginal nations of western Victoria and the New Ireland Provence of Papua New Guinea Saulo has served as the Australian Youth…
Portrait of Bernard Salt

Bernard Salt

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Bernard Salt is one of Australia’s leading social commentators. He heads The Demographics Group which provides specialist advice on demographic, consumer and social trends for business. Prior to that Bernard founded…
Portrait of Bill Shorten

Bill Shorten

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Bill Shorten is the Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Shadow Minister for Government Services, and was leader of the Australian Labor Party from 2013 to 2019.
Portrait of Bobuq Sayed

Bobuq Sayed

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Bobuq Sayed is a writer, multidisciplinary artist and community organiser of the Afghan diaspora. They coordinate an LGBTIQA+ mentoring program at Queerspace, they are the 2019 guest editor of Un…
Portrait of Brendan Sydes

Brendan Sydes

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Brendan Sydes has been a lawyer for 18 years after graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1995 with degrees in Law and Science. Brendan is CEO of Environmental Justice…
Portrait of Brian Shanahan

Brian Shanahan

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Brian Shanahan was elected to Melbourne City Council in 2004 and 2008. He has been chair of the Melbourne City Council Finance and Governance Committee and a member of the…
Portrait of Brian Stoddart

Brian Stoddart

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Brian Stoddart, emeritus professor at La Trobe University, where he served as vice-chancellor, is now an international consultant on higher education reform - work which took him to Syria immediately…
Portrait of Bruce Scates

Bruce Scates

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Professor Bruce Scates has lectured in history in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Portrait of Carly Stone

Carly Stone

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Carly Stone is a non-fiction writer using experimental forms to challenge distinctions: subject-object, body-environment, cockroach-god. Their essays have appeared in Voiceworks and the Lifted Brow's Experimental Non-fiction Prize longlist…
Portrait of Carol Schwarz

Carol Schwarz

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Carol Schwarz AM is a visionary leader who works with innovative people, organisations, systems, leaders and communities to achieve transformative outcomes.
Portrait of Cath Smith

Cath Smith

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Cath Smith is CEO of Victorian Council of Social Services.
Portrait of Chaman Sidhu

Chaman Sidhu

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Portrait of Charlie Sofo

Charlie Sofo

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Charlie Sofo is a visual artist based in Melbourne. In 2012, he exhibited in NEW12, curated by Jeff Kahn at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Volume One…
Portrait of Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the bestselling advice essay collection Tiny Beautiful Things, the novel Torch and…
Portrait of Chloe Shorten

Chloe Shorten

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Chloe Shorten is a public affairs specialist, and the author of Take Heart: A Story for Modern Stepfamilies Chloe has been committed to improving the lives of women, children…
Portrait of Chris Sarra

Chris Sarra

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Born in Queensland’s Bundaberg in 1967 as the youngest of ten children to an Italian father and an Aboriginal mother, Dr Chris Sarra is now the head of the Stronger…
Portrait of Chris Somerville

Chris Somerville

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Chris Somerville is the author of the short story collection We Are Not The Same Anymore. He is a former Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and his work has appeared…
Portrait of Chris Stedman

Chris Stedman

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Chris Stedman is the Interfaith and Community Service Fellow for the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, the emeritus managing director of State of Formation at the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue,…
Portrait of Christine Sun

Christine Sun

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Christine Sun is a Melbourne-based bilingual writer, translator, reader and independent scholar. She has won literary awards in Taiwan (where she was born and raised), worked as a journalist in…
Portrait of Claire Spencer

Claire Spencer

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Claire Spencer has been Arts Centre Melbourne’s Chief Executive Officer since November 2014.
Portrait of Craig Sherborne

Craig Sherborne

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Craig Sherborne is an acclaimed memoirist, novelist, poet and playwright, best known for Hoi Polloi, Muck and The Amateur Science of Love.
Portrait of Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey is an author and screenwriter from Fremantle, Western Australia His critically acclaimed debut novel, Rhubarb, was published in 2004. His bestselling second novel, Jasper Jones, was…
Portrait of Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld

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'Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they’re a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to…
Portrait of Cynthia P. Schneider

Cynthia P. Schneider

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Cynthia P. Schneider, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, teaches, publishes, and organises initiatives in the field of cultural diplomacy – with a focus on relations…
Portrait of Dahlia Scheindlin

Dahlia Scheindlin

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Dahlia Scheindlin is an international political and strategic consultant whose expertise is public opinion research; she recently completed a PhD at Tel Aviv University in comparative politics. Scheindlin is based…
Portrait of Damian Smith

Damian Smith

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Damian Smith is a curator and art critic with more than 20 years experience in the field of contemporary art. He is the director of Words For Art, an international…
Portrait of Dan Savage

Dan Savage

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Dan Savage is the author of the internationally syndicated advice column Savage Love, host of the popular podcast Savage Lovecast. He is also an essayist whose work has…
Portrait of Dan Silkstone

Dan Silkstone

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Dan Silkstone is the Weekend Editor for the Age. He has overall responsibility for the Saturday and Sunday newspapers as well as digital content on the weekends. He oversees…
Portrait of Dana Stevens

Dana Stevens

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Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Previously, she wrote the Slate television and pop-culture column Surfergirl for two years. She has also written for the New York Times…
Portrait of Daniel Schlusser

Daniel Schlusser

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Daniel is a director, dramaturg, actor and writer. With Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, he has created M+M (Theatre Works/Melbourne Festival), Menagerie (MTC Neon), Ophelia doesn’t live here anymore (Chamber Made Opera/Bell…
Portrait of Darlene Silva Soberano

Darlene Silva Soberano

Darlene Silva Soberano is a poet. Their work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review, among other places. They are currently a poetry…
Portrait of Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

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Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven. Interested in astronomy since childhood, she renewed and strengthened her…
Portrait of David Shields

David Shields

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David Shields is the author of 12 books, including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than 30 publications.
Portrait of David Simon

David Simon

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David Simon is a journalist, author, and television writer/producer best known as the creator and show runner of HBO series The Wire and Treme. He spent twelve years on…
Portrait of David Sornig

David Sornig

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David Sornig’s Blue Lake: finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp (Scribe, 2018) charts the loss of the wetlands on the western edge of central Melbourne and rise of…
Portrait of David Speers

David Speers

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David Speers has been Political Editor of Sky News Australia since 2000. He hosts PM Agenda each day from Parliament House in Canberra and The Nation each week from Sydney…
Portrait of David Stavanger

David Stavanger

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David Stavanger is an award-winning poet, performer, cultural producer, editor and lapsed psychologist. He is the author of The Special (UQP, 2014) and co-editor of the anthology Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand…
Portrait of David Stratton

David Stratton

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David Stratton is a former director of the Sydney Film Festival, former film critic for the international film industry magazine Variety, and is currently film critic for The Australian…
Portrait of David Stuckler

David Stuckler

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David Stuckler is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at University of Oxford and research fellow of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Chatham House. He…
Portrait of David Suzuki

David Suzuki

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Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history…
Portrait of Denise Scott

Denise Scott

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Denise Scott first started working as a professional actor and comedian nearly thirty years ago, but it has been in the last six years that she has been selling out…
Portrait of Diana Sweeney

Diana Sweeney

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Diana Sweeney is a university lecturer and model, whose acclaimed debut young adult novel The Minnow is out this winter.
Portrait of Don Scott

Don Scott

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Don Scott, as a duel premiership captain of the Hawthorn juggernaut of 60s and 70s was as tough and as rough as they come. As ruckman and enforcer he was…
Portrait of Dottie Schindlinger

Dottie Schindlinger

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Dottie Schindlinger is Vice President and the Governance Technology Evangelist for Diligent Corporation, the leading provider of secure corporate board communication and collaboration software used by over 400,000 directors and…
Portrait of Eddie Sharp

Eddie Sharp

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Eddie Sharp is a writer, comedian and the founder of Erotic Fan Fiction. He has a weekly comedy show on FBi Radio. He is performing his new hour of comedy…
Portrait of Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn

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Celebrated English novelist Edward St Aubyn has been compared to both Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde. St Aubyn is the author of seven novels.
Portrait of Efterpi Soropos

Efterpi Soropos

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Efterpi Soropos became passionate about creating space and artistic experiences for the dying and vulnerable after the personal experience of losing her mother to breast cancer in 1995.  
Portrait of Eko Supriyanto

Eko Supriyanto

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Founder and artistic director for EkosDance Company and Solo Dance Studio in Surakarta Indonesia, Eko Supriyanto’s performance career spans major works and tours throughout Indonesia, Europe, America and the Asia…
Portrait of Ella Skilbeck-Porter

Ella Skilbeck-Porter

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Ella Skilbeck-Porter is a poet and writer from Sydney. She is interested in the relationship between image and text, chance operations and translation. Her work has appeared in Rabbit, Cordite,…
Portrait of Ellena Savage

Ellena Savage

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Ellena Savage is an author and academic. Her work has been published widely in anthologies and literary journals including, recently, the Paris Review Daily, Sydney Review of Books…
Portrait of Emily Sexton

Emily Sexton

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Emily Sexton is a former Head of Programming for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas She was the recipient of a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2014.…
Portrait of Emma Sky

Emma Sky

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Emma Sky is Director of Yale World Fellows and a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute, where she teaches Middle East politics. She is the author of The Unraveling:…
Portrait of Emmett Stinson

Emmett Stinson

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Emmett Stinson is a lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne and president of SPUNC, Australia’s only advocacy group for small presses.
Portrait of Fay Stewart-Muir

Fay Stewart-Muir

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Fay Stewart-Muir is a Boon Wurrung elder of the Yalukut Weelum of the Boon Wurrung, Wamba Wamba and Wergiai clans Stewart-Muir has worked for the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages…
Portrait of Felicity Soper

Felicity Soper

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Felicity Soper has worked as an actor in theatre, film and television in Melbourne, Sydney and London's West End.
Portrait of Fiona Scott-Norman

Fiona Scott-Norman

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Fiona Scott-Norman is a writer, satirist, broadcaster and columnist who contributes to The Age, Australian, ABC radio 774 AM, and Big Issue.
Portrait of Fiona Spitzkowsky

Fiona Spitzkowsky

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Fiona Spitzkowsky is a writer, editor and theatre-maker.
Portrait of Fred Schepisi

Fred Schepisi

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Fred Schepisi (born in Melbourne, 1939) began his career in advertising in 1954. He joined Cinesound Films as Victorian Manager in 1964. Two years later, and in partnership, he renamed…
Portrait of Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and moved to the US with his family seven years later. He is the author of two previous novels: The Russian Debutante’s…
Portrait of Gary Singer

Gary Singer

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Previously deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne (2004–2008) with former Lord Mayor John So, Gary Singer is currently director and chief executive officer of Sotheby’s Australia.
Portrait of Gene Smith

Gene Smith

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Gene Smith is Program Manager at Melbourne Writers Festival, and is a literary programmer, producer, writer and voracious reader Prior to Melbourne Writers Festival, he worked at other major Australian…
Portrait of Geoff Shaw

Geoff Shaw

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Geoff Shaw was elected as the State Member for Frankston in November 2010.
Portrait of George Saunders

George Saunders

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George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize (for the…
Portrait of Georgia Symons

Georgia Symons

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Georgia Symons is a maker of theatre, games, and interactive experiences. Her recent work includes: TurboDetective 3000 (National Young Writers Festival, 2015); Follow Me (Melbourne Fringe: Uncommon Places, 2015) In…
Portrait of Georgie Stone

Georgie Stone

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Georgie Stone, 16, was the subject of the recent ABC TV Australian Story episode ‘About a Girl’ (2016) and the Four Corners report ‘Being Me’ (2014). Her landmark court case…
Portrait of Gheran-Yarraman Steel (Briggs)

Gheran-Yarraman Steel (Briggs)

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Gheran-Yarraman is currently undertaking his Juris Doctorate at Monash Law Chambers and has completed his MBA (Executive) at RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law, where he gained a passion…
Portrait of Ginny Stein

Ginny Stein

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Ginny Stein is a reporter/producer and camera operator. She has spent much of her career working as a foreign correspondent and filming her own stories.
Portrait of Giselle Stanborough

Giselle Stanborough

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Giselle Stanborough is an emerging intermedia artist whose practice often addresses online user generated media and the way in which such technologies encourage us to identify and perform notions of…
Portrait of Graeme Simsion

Graeme Simsion

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Graeme Simsion is a Melbourne-based novelist and screenwriter. The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect have combined global sales approaching five million copies.
Portrait of Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan

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Greg Sheridan is the Australian’s foreign editor, and one of the most influential foreign affairs analysts in Australian journalism. After 35 years in the field, he is a veteran…
Portrait of Gretchen Shirm

Gretchen Shirm

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Gretchen Shirm is a Sydney lawyer and writer. Her collection of interwoven short stories Having Cried Wolf received the 2009 DJ O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship for Emergent Writers.
Portrait of Harry Saddler

Harry Saddler

Harry Saddler is a Melbourne-based writer. He was joint-winner of the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival/Blurb Inc 'Blog-to-Book Challenge' for his blog, Noticing Animals. He is currently writing a book…
Portrait of Helen Sullivan

Helen Sullivan

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Professor Helen Sullivan is Foundation Director of the Melbourne School of Government (MSoG) and a public policy scholar. Her research and teaching explores the changing nature of state-society relationships including…
Portrait of Helen Sykes

Helen Sykes

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Helen Sykes is the Director of Future Leaders, President of the Trust for Young Australians, Chair of The Australian Collaboration, Associate of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Member of the Future…
Portrait of Helen Szoke

Helen Szoke

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Helen Szoke commenced as Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia in January 2013. Prior to this appointment, Helen served as Australia’s Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner, following seven years as the Victorian…
Portrait of Henry Stone

Henry Stone

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With a mischievous wit and an original voice, Henry Stone is a writer and comedian, best known for his stand-up and membership of comedy collectives Skills in Time and Fancy…
Portrait of Holden Sheppard

Holden Sheppard

Holden Sheppard is an award-winning author born and bred in Geraldton, Western Australia. His debut novel Invisible Boys (Fremantle Press, 2019) won several accolades including the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. In…
Portrait of Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs

Imogen is the art director at Text Publishing, where she has worked as a book designer and production manager since 2011. In 2015 she was shortlisted for Young Designer of…
Portrait of Inga Simpson

Inga Simpson

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Inga Simpson began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing. In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development…
Portrait of Irving Saulwick

Irving Saulwick

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Irving Saulwick AM is one of the country’s leading social researchers. He published the prestigious Saulwick poll for the Fairfax organisation for 23 years (1971 to 1994).
Portrait of Ivy Shih

Ivy Shih

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Ivy Shih is a science writer based in Sydney. A former virus researcher, she now writes about all areas of science – from coconut-cracking megabats to giant viruses. Her work…
Portrait of Izzat Salah Abdulhadi

Izzat Salah Abdulhadi

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Izzat Salah Abdulhadi is the Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Portrait of James Saunders

James Saunders

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James Saunders is an actor who has appeared extensively on stage (Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare), on film (The Turning, Animal Kingdom…
Portrait of James Schloeffel

James Schloeffel

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James Schloeffel is a Melbourne-based writer and founder of the satirical website The Shovel. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, the Age and Sydney Morning Herald…
Portrait of Jan Senbergs

Jan Senbergs

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Jan Senbergs is an artist who lives in Melbourne and has held regular one-man exhibitions since the early 1960s.
Portrait of Jane Smith

Jane Smith

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Jane Smith is inaugural Director of M.A.D.E (Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka) which opens on 4 May 2013 in Ballarat.
Portrait of Jane Sullivan

Jane Sullivan

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Jane Sullivan came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for the Age as a reporter, feature writer and editor of various sections, including the books pages.
Portrait of Jasmine Seymour

Jasmine Seymour

Jasmine Seymour is a Darug woman and descendant of Maria Lock, who was the daughter of Yarramundi, the Boorooberongal elder who had met Governor Phillip on the banks of the…
Portrait of Jasmine Shirrefs

Jasmine Shirrefs

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 Jasmine Shirrefs (they/them) is a hospo worker, zine maker, writer and social work student on Boon Wurrung land. They are a hot desk fellow at the Wheeler Centre in 2019…
Portrait of Jason Steger

Jason Steger

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Jason Steger is literary editor of the Age and Sunday Age. He was a regular panelist on ABC TV's The Book Club.
Portrait of Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow

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Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor and broadcaster. His most recent book is No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson. He writes a fortnightly column for the Guardian…
Portrait of Jeffrey Shandler

Jeffrey Shandler

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Jeffrey Shandler is professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He currently serves as president of the Association for Jewish Studies and was recently elected a fellow of…
Portrait of Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

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Jennifer Saunders is a comedian, writer and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the Bafta Fellowship), an International Emmy, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or, two Writers' Guild…
Portrait of Jenny Sinclair

Jenny Sinclair

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Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne writer of stories both real and imagined.
Portrait of Jenny Smith

Jenny Smith

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Jenny Smith has had a long and distinguished career in the public sector and has well over 20 years of experience in leadership and management. She has worked in policy…
Portrait of Jeremy Sammut

Jeremy Sammut

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Jeremy Sammut is a commentator and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
Portrait of Jill Singer

Jill Singer

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Jill Singer is a journalist, broadcaster, author and lecturer.
Portrait of Jill Stark

Jill Stark

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Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist and author with a career spanning 18 years in both the UK and Australian media. She spent a decade on staff at the Age…
Portrait of Jock Serong

Jock Serong

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Jock Serong is a former lawyer turned surf journalist whose first work of fiction, crime novel Quota, won a 2015 Ned Kelly Award. Jock has written three similarly celebrated…
Portrait of Joe Swanberg

Joe Swanberg

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Joe Swanberg is an American independent filmmaker and actor. His films include Happy Christmas and Drinking Buddies.

Joel Stern

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Well known as a catalytic figure in the Australian experimental music and film scenes (organiser of Audiopollen, OtherFilm, Glee Club), Joel Stern cut his chops in the concept-heavy nonsense atmosphere…
Portrait of John Safran

John Safran

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John Safran is an award-winning documentary-maker of provocative and hilarious takes on race, the media, religion and other issues John first hit TV screens in 1997 on Race Around the…
Portrait of John Sheedy

John Sheedy

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John Sheedy is a multi-award-winning director whose work has been staged extensively throughout Australia. He has led productions for Belvoir St Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Theatre Company…
Portrait of John Stone

John Stone

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John Stone is lecturer in transport planning at the University of Melbourne. His research has identified many opportunities for more effective and efficient public transport in Australian cities through better…
Portrait of Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two novels - Everything is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) - and a work of non-fiction, Eating Animals (2009).
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Jordy Silverstein

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Jordy is a historian and writer. She is the author of Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Berghahn Books, 2015), co-editor…
Portrait of Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz

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Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and…
Portrait of Judge John Smallwood

Judge John Smallwood

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John Smallwood was appointed as a Judge of the County Court in August 2001. He has presided predominantly in criminal matters and is currently the judge in charge of the…
Portrait of Judy Sharp

Judy Sharp

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Judy Sharp raised two boys as a single mother – Tim and his younger brother Sam. Sam is a former state swimmer who competed at the 2012 Olympic swimming trials, and…
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Julianne Schultz

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Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review. Professor Schultz is a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and sits on the editorial…
Portrait of Julie Shapiro

Julie Shapiro

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Julie Shapiro is the executive producer of Radiotopia from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, cutting-edge podcasts From 2014–15, Julie was the executive producer of ABC RN's Creative Audio Unit.…
Portrait of Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie

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Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the…
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Kanta Subbarao

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Professor Kanta Subbarao is a virologist and a physician and was appointed Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in 2016. Prior to her arrival…
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Kartikeya Sarabhai

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Keynote Speaker: Kartikeya Sarabhai is the Founding Director of the Centre for Environment Education, India.
Portrait of Kate Sulan

Kate Sulan

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Kate is the founding artistic director of Rawcus. She is a long-term collaborator with Back to Back Theatre, working with the company since 2000. Kate was the recipient of an…
Portrait of Katrina Sedgwick

Katrina Sedgwick

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Katrina Sedgwick is the director and CEO of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Previously, she has been the head of arts for ABC TV and ABC Arts…
Portrait of Kieran Stevenson

Kieran Stevenson

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Kieran Stevenson is a Melbourne writer and musician who graduated from one of RMIT’s writing programs and dropped out of another. He has a preoccupation with the unusual, with hopelessness…
Portrait of Kim Scott

Kim Scott

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Kim Scott is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist based in Fremantle, Western Australia Kim Scott grew up on the south coast of Western Australia. He is proud to be one…
Portrait of Kimberley Starr

Kimberley Starr

Kimberley Starr is an Australian novelist and teacher whose novels have won and been shortlisted for multiple literary awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Text Prize. She…
Portrait of Kirsty Sword Gusmao

Kirsty Sword Gusmao

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Kirsty has lived in Timor-Leste since October, 1999 and is the founder and chairwoman of the Alola Foundation which she established in 2001 to address the needs of Timorese women…
Portrait of Kylie Supski

Kylie Supski

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Kylie Supski is a Polish-Australian spoken word artist who performs live frequently all over Melbourne. In 2016, Kylie was a winner of the Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. Kylie’s inspiration comes from her…
Portrait of Larin Sullivan

Larin Sullivan

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Larin Sullivan is a film writer and director. Her 2013 documentary, Soul, explores death and metaphysics through sustainable burial garment design with artist and celebrant Pia Interlandi. Soul aired…
Portrait of Larry Stillman

Larry Stillman

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Larry Stillman has a PhD from Monash University in the sociology of technology. He is a member of the Executive of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, an organization which has…
Portrait of Laura Secor

Laura Secor

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Laura Secor is the author of Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times…
Portrait of Laura Stortenbeker

Laura Stortenbeker

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Laura Stortenbeker is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Overland, Meanjin, Chart Collective and Kill Your Darlings. In 2016 she was the recipient…
Portrait of Leah Swann

Leah Swann

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Leah Swann lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children. She is a former speech writer, public relations manager and journalist. Bearings is her first book.
Portrait of Lee Simon

Lee Simon

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Lee Simon was born in 1953. He is best known as a radio presenter, producer and programmer in a career which has now spanned over four decades. He is currently…
Portrait of Lefa Singleton Norton

Lefa Singleton Norton

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Lefa Singleton Norton is a writer and activist in the fields of feminism and disability. She has been a creative producer at Express Media, an award-winning producer of live performances,…
Portrait of Leigh Sales

Leigh Sales

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Leigh Sales is an award-winning journalist and author, who hosts TV current affairs program 7.30 on ABC1. From 2006 to 2008, she was the ABC's National Security Correspondent and from…
Portrait of Leigh Straw

Leigh Straw

Leigh Straw is an academic, historian and writer. Her previous book, The Worst Woman in Sydney, was a biography of Sydney underworld figure Kate Leigh. She is senior lecturer…
Portrait of Lenore Skenazy

Lenore Skenazy

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Lenore Skenazy is a syndicated journalist who has written for everyone from Reader’s Digest to Mad Magazine.
Portrait of Liberty Sanger

Liberty Sanger

Liberty Sanger is a principal and director of Maurice Blackburn. She is a Law Institute of Victoria accredited specialist in personal injury law and practises exclusively in the areas of…
Portrait of Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver’s books include New Republic, So Much For That, The Post-Birthday World, Double Fault, Game Control and international bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin…
Portrait of Liz Shield

Liz Shield

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Liz Shield is a queer, feminist, activist social worker and radio announcer on community station 3CR. She is a volunteer management collective member of Flat Out, a feminist organisation that…
Portrait of Liza-Mare Syron

Liza-Mare Syron

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Dr Liza-Mare Syron is an actor, director, producer, teacher and academic. She is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Moogahlin Performing Arts. Previous positions include Head of Theatre (Eora…
Portrait of Loane Skene

Loane Skene

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Professor Skene is a professor of law in the faculty of Law and an adjunct professor in the faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.…
Portrait of Lou Smith

Lou Smith

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Lou Smith is a poet, researcher and editor. 
Portrait of Louise Searle

Louise Searle

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Louise Searle is a Director at Humanitarian Advisory Group, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing research, training and advisory services on humanitarian issues.  Over the last decade, she has worked in conflict…
Portrait of Louise Swinn

Louise Swinn

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Louise Swinn is a writer, publisher, critic, literary event chair and the editor of Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion (Allen and Unwin, 2019). Her work appears regularly in…
Portrait of Lucy Sussex

Lucy Sussex

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Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand, and her writerly interests include science fiction, women’s writing, Australiana, crime fiction and horror. Her fiction has appeared widely, and been translated into…
Portrait of Luke Stegemann

Luke Stegemann

Luke Stegemann is a writer, editor and Hispanist based in south-east Queensland. 
Portrait of Lynne Segal

Lynne Segal

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Lynne Segal is anniversary professor of psychology and gender studies in the department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, London.
Portrait of Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski

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Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best known and most loved performers. She began her career in university revues, then appeared in a number of sketch comedy shows before creating…
Portrait of Margaret Simons

Margaret Simons

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Margaret Simons is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. In 2015, she won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism. Her recent books include …
Portrait of Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider

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Maria Schneider ranks among America’s foremost composers. Her critically-acclaimed, multiple-award-winning work soars beyond standard categorisations such as jazz or classical and has in turn been described as ‘sumptuous, beautifully crafted…
Portrait of Mark Scott

Mark Scott

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Mark Scott is Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Under his leadership, the structure and operation of the ABC has been transformed and the ABC’s services and reach have…
Portrait of Mark Shackleton

Mark Shackleton

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Mark Shackleton is the Director of Oncology at Alfred Health, a Professor of Oncology at Monash University, a Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Research Fellow and Chair of the Australian and…
Portrait of Marlee Silva

Marlee Silva

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Marlee Silva is a 24-year-old Gamilaroi and Dunghutti writer, podcaster and co-founder of Tiddas 4 Tiddas, the social media-based movement dedicated to elevating stories of inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Portrait of Matt Smith

Matt Smith

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Matt Smith works as a writer, podcaster and freelance journalist. He hosts and produces the podcasts Emperors of Rome, When in Rome, Asia Rising and Biography. He…
Portrait of Maurial Spearim

Maurial Spearim

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Maurial Spearim is an Indigenous woman from the Gamilaraay nation on her father’s side, and the Kooma/Muruuwari nation on her mother’s. Maurial is interested in exploring theatre, song, and dance…
Portrait of Megan K. Stack

Megan K. Stack

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Megan K. Stack has reported on war, terrorism, and political Islam from 22 countries since 2001. She was most recently Moscow bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. She…

Melissa Sweet

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Melissa Sweet is a public health journalist, author and founder of the public health blog Croakey. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra (researching Indigenous health…
Portrait of Meredith Sussex

Meredith Sussex

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Ms Meredith Sussex AM is a non-executive board director and consultant who provides strategic advice to organisations on public policy, planning, management and governance. She is a non-executive director of…
Portrait of Mia Slater

Mia Slater

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Mia is a poet that currently lives in Brisbane. After completing her Arts degree at UQ (during which she received the 2015 Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Scholarship Award) and opting out…
Portrait of Michael Sala

Michael Sala

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Michael Sala is a Newcastle-based writer and the author of the novel The Last Thread.
Portrait of Michael Shanks

Michael Shanks

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Michael’s first ever foray into filmmaking took the grand prize at the 2008 Escapist Film Festival. In the fallout, he got a job with the company directing the largely forgotten…
Portrait of Michael Shmith

Michael Shmith

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Michael Shmith has worked in daily journalism for most of his professional life. He is a senior writer for The Age, Melbourne, and also the paper’s opera critic.
Portrait of Michael Shuman

Michael Shuman

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Michael H. Shuman is an American economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and a fellow at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Cutting Edge Capital, and Post-Carbon Institute. He has…
Portrait of Michelle Scott Tucker

Michelle Scott Tucker

Michelle Scott Tucker lives on a small farm in regional Victoria with her husband and children. Her first book, Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World is…
Portrait of Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith

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Dr Michelle Smith is an ARC postdoctoral fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, where she researches nineteenth-century girls’ literature and culture. She is…
Portrait of Michelle Sowey

Michelle Sowey

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Michelle Sowey directs The Philosophy Club, offering stimulating workshops that spark philosophical wonder and dialogue among curious children. After receiving first-class honours in philosophy from the University of NSW, Michelle…
Portrait of Mike Sandiford

Mike Sandiford

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Mike Sandiford is professor of geology and director of the Melbourne Energy Institute at the University of Melbourne. As director of the Energy Institute, he oversees the university energy research…
Portrait of Mike Shuttleworth

Mike Shuttleworth

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Mike Shuttleworth is a youth literature activist, organising events and writing about youth literature since 2002.
Portrait of Mike Stern

Mike Stern

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‘Mike Stern is one of the best electric guitarists of his generation.’ – International Herald Tribune Since his days with Blood, Sweat & Tears in the mid-70s, followed by stints…
Portrait of Mira Schlosberg

Mira Schlosberg

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Mira Schlosberg is an editor, writer and comics artist who makes work about queerness, spirituality and weird animals and is currently the editor of Voiceworks. They were a 2017 Wheeler…
Portrait of Miriam Sved

Miriam Sved

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Miriam Sved’s fiction has appeared in various places including Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories and the anthology Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth about Female Friendship…
Portrait of Nardi Simpson

Nardi Simpson

Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West New South Wales freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been…
Portrait of Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is a culture writer based in Melbourne. His writing has appeared in the Economist, the Washington Post and the Atlantic. He tweets @nathansmithr and maintains a website…
Portrait of Nicholas Smith

Nicholas Smith

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Nicholas Michael Smith, OBE is currently the artistic director and chief conductor of the Peking Sinfonietta and the International Festival Chorus, both based in Beijing, China. Both offer regular seasons…
Portrait of Nick Sweeting

Nick Sweeting

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Nick Sweeting is a theatre maker. Since starting a freelance career with a short spell at the Chicago International Theatre Festival, Nick has worked with a broad range of national…
Portrait of Niharika Senapati

Niharika Senapati

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Niharika Senapati is a freelance artist who works in a variety of contexts as a dancer, actor, sound designer and teacher. Since 2012, she has been performing and touring with…
Portrait of Niki Savva

Niki Savva

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Niki Savva is one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery. She was twice political correspondent on the Australian, and headed up the Canberra bureaus of…
Portrait of Nikki Shiels

Nikki Shiels

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Nikki Shiels made her Belvoir debut last year in Twelfth Night or What You Will. For Malthouse Theatre, she has appeared in Night on Bald Mountain, The Dragon…
Portrait of Nikki Stamp

Nikki Stamp

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Nikki holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours from the University of Western Australia and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, specialising…
Portrait of Nouria Salehi

Nouria Salehi

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Dr Nouria Salehi, OAM, is Senior Victorian of the Year 2012 and the executive director of the Afghan Australian Development Organisation. A passionate advocate for women’s rights and the provision…
Portrait of Nyah Seelig-Schattner

Nyah Seelig-Schattner

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Nyah feels most passionate about Art. She is angry about the environment and feels as though we are wrecking it and nobody seems to care.
Portrait of Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr

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Omar Sakr is an Arab Australian poet, born of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. His debut collection, These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His…
Portrait of Osamah Sami

Osamah Sami

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Osamah Sami is a failed cricketer and a struggling Muslim. As a writer, he has completed two feature films (Ali’s Wedding – a Muslim romantic comedy based on his book…
Portrait of Oscar Schwartz

Oscar Schwartz

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Oscar Schwartz is a writer from Melbourne, Australia. He is interested in the intersections between digital technology and literature. 
Portrait of Parmesh Shahani

Parmesh Shahani

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Parmesh Shahani, listed in 2012 as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by Financial Times, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab - an experimental…
Portrait of Paul Sheahan

Paul Sheahan

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Paul Sheahan, former Victorian Sheffield Shield and Australian Test Cricketer, has been a high profile educator since the mid 1970s.
Portrait of Paula Saunders

Paula Saunders

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Paula Saunders grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota. She danced as an apprentice with the Harkness Ballet in New York City under the direction of David Howard. She is…
Portrait of Paulie Stewart

Paulie Stewart

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Born and bred in the inner-Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, Paulie Stewart was the inaugural winner of the Essence of St Kilda essay prize – as well as an original…

Pauline Spencer

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Pauline Spencer was appointed as a Magistrate in 2006. She currently sits at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court, one of Victoria’s busiest mainstream courts.
Portrait of Peta Searle

Peta Searle

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Peta Searle is an Australian Rules football coach. The Port Melbourne assistant coach to Gary Ayers during the team’s 2012 VFL title defence, she was subsequently named head coach for…
Portrait of Peter Sherlock

Peter Sherlock

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Professor Peter Sherlock is the vice-chancellor of the University of Divinity. He is an historian of religious belief and practice in Europe and Australia, writes a column on religious issues…
Portrait of Peter Singer

Peter Singer

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Peter Singer is a philosopher and author of over 25 books on ethics. He is best known for Animal Liberation, widely credited with starting the animal rights movement.
Portrait of Peter Slifirski

Peter Slifirski

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Peter Slifirski is a director at Architectus Melbourne. His significant projects include Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne and he won a 2009 National Architecture Award for the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy.
Portrait of Peter Sutton

Peter Sutton

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Peter Sutton is an author, anthropologist and linguist, and an Affiliate Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, and the Division of Anthropology…
Portrait of Rafael S.W.

Rafael S.W.

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Rafael S.W. is a recent graduate of creative writing and one of the founding members of Dead Poets’ Fight Club. Currently working on some collections of stories and a few…
Portrait of Rajith Savanadasa

Rajith Savanadasa

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Rajith Savanadasa was born in Sri Lanka. He runs Open City Stories, a website documenting the lives of a group of asylum seekers in Melbourne. Rajith was shortlisted for the…
Portrait of Ranjana Srivastava

Ranjana Srivastava

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Dr Ranjana Srivastava is an oncologist, Fulbright scholar and award-winning author. She is a Walkley Award finalist for her columns on medicine and humanity in the Guardian Her honours…
Portrait of Rebecca Shaw

Rebecca Shaw

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Rebecca Shaw (aka brocklesnitch) is a writer and creator of the parody Twitter account @NoToFeminism, which was developed into an illustrated book. She was on the writing team at Tonightly…
Portrait of Rebecca Starford

Rebecca Starford

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Rebecca Starford is the associate publisher at Affirm Press and the co-founder and editor at Kill Your Darlings.
Portrait of Rob Stary

Rob Stary

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Rob Stary is a Melbourne criminal defence lawyer who runs his own firm in Footscray.
Portrait of Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz

Portrait of Roderick St. George

Roderick St. George

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Roderick St. George worked for nearly ten years in the Custodial Industry with the security firm G4S, known variously by other names. In 2013, G4S approached him regarding a management position…
Portrait of Rodger Shanahan

Rodger Shanahan

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Dr Rodger Shanahan is a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and part-time member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. A former army officer, he had extensive service…
Portrait of Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott

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Ronnie Scott writes essays and criticism for newspapers, websites and magazines. In 2007 he founded the Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He's a Lecturer in the Writing and…

Rosemary Sorensen

Rosemary Sorensen is a journalist, now working with the independent newspaper, the Bendigo Weekly.
Portrait of Rosie Scott

Rosie Scott

Rosie Scott is an internationally published, award-winning writer. She has published nine books, and is the recipient of many awards for her work with writers’ organisations and human rights.
Portrait of Sally Seltmann

Sally Seltmann

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Sally Seltmann is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released four solo albums and has toured internationally. Sally is the co-writer of the song '1234', performed by Feist, which…
Portrait of Samah Sabawi

Samah Sabawi

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Samah Sabawi is an award-winning playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed play Tales of a City by the Sea was selected for the 2016 Victorian Certificate of Education Drama Playlist, won…
Portrait of Sami Shah

Sami Shah

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Sami Shah is a multi-award winning writer, comedian, and broadcaster. He’s been profiled in the New York Times, ABC’s Australian Story, BBC Radio 4, NPR, and appeared on…
Portrait of Sara Saleh

Sara Saleh

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Sara Saleh is an award-winning Arab-Australian poet and long-time campaigner for refugee rights and racial justice who has worked with human rights organisations in Australia and across the Middle East…
Portrait of Sara Savage

Sara Savage

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Sara Savage is a writer, editor and broadcaster based in Melbourne, where she hosts the weekly radio show Parallel Lines on Triple R, covering arts, culture, design and science. She is…
Portrait of Sarah Sentilles

Sarah Sentilles

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A former theologian, Sarah Sentilles completed her undergraduate degree at Yale and both a Masters and a Doctorate at Harvard. She was a college professor for over a decade before…
Portrait of Scott Stephens

Scott Stephens

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Scott Stephens is the religion and ethics editor for ABC Online. He is the editor/translator of the selected writings of the philosopher Slavoj Zizek, and is currently working on books…
Portrait of Sean Strub

Sean Strub

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Sean Strub is a long-time activist and writer who has been HIV positive for more than 33 years. He is the founder of POZ Magazine, the leading independent global…
Portrait of Serpil Senelmis

Serpil Senelmis

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Serpil Senelmis is an Australian broadcaster with Turkish heritage. She is the co-director of Written & Recorded, a content agency.
Portrait of Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has used data from the internet – particularly Google searches – to get new insights into the human psyche. Seth has used Google searches to measure racism, self-induced abortion, depression, child abuse, hateful mobs, the…
Portrait of Shabnam Safa

Shabnam Safa

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Shabnam is the current Chair of the National Refugee-led Advisory and Advocacy Group (NRAAG), a refugee led entity that envisions to create spaces, platforms and strong voices led by former…
Portrait of Shirley Stott Despoja

Shirley Stott Despoja

Shirley Stott Despoja has worked as a journalist for more than 60 years. She worked in the 1950s at the Anglican, then covered general news at the Canberra Times. Later…
Portrait of Simon Schama

Simon Schama

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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes…
Portrait of Simon Stone

Simon Stone

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Simon Stone has established himself as one of the most acclaimed directors in the country. He has achieved critical and commercial success and was selected as one of Australia’s 10…
Portrait of Simran Sethi

Simran Sethi

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Named one of the planet’s top ten eco-heroes by the UK’s Independent, and lauded as an environmental messenger by Vanity Fair, Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator…
Portrait of Sinéad Stubbins

Sinéad Stubbins

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Sinéad Stubbins is a Melbourne-based writer. She has written for Junkee, the Guardian, frankie, Vulture and other places that let her take screenshots of actors making dumb…
Portrait of Sofija Stefanovic

Sofija Stefanovic

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Sofija Stefanovic is a MothStorySLAM winner and a founding faculty member of The School of Life in Melbourne. She hosts This Alien Nation and the popular literary salon Women of…
Portrait of Stephany Evans Steggall

Stephany Evans Steggall

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Stephany Evans Steggall has written biographies of Colin Thiele, Ivan Southall and Bruce Dawe, and she is the author of Status and Sugar, a history of the Australian Society…
Portrait of Stephen Sewell

Stephen Sewell

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Stephen Sewell has been responsible for some of the most provocative and electrifying Australian plays of the past twenty-five years.
Portrait of Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith

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Professor Stephen Smith has been a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Western Australia since 2014. Professor Smith was Federal Member for Perth for the Australian Labor…
Portrait of Sumudu Samarawickrama

Sumudu Samarawickrama

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Sumudu Samarawickrama is from Werribee. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Overland, Meanjin and the Lifted Brow. She co-produced Sidekicked 2017 Melbourne Fringe Category Award Winner…
Portrait of Susan Shepherd

Susan Shepherd

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With around 25 years experience working as a Dominatrix, Susan Shepherd is currently mid-way through a Degree in Literature as well as writing a book that is part memoir and part social commentary with…
Portrait of Susan Sheridan

Susan Sheridan

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Susan Sheridan is adjunct professor of English and women’s studies at Flinders University. She has published widely on women’s writing, feminist cultural studies, Australian cultural history and women’s studies.
Portrait of Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

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Sydney Smith is a past winner of The Age Short Story Competition, and her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Age, Griffith REVIEW, Island, Imago and…
Portrait of Terry Smyth

Terry Smyth

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Terry Smyth has worked for 22 years as a horticulturist and curator of the Southern Chinese Plant Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Portrait of Thomas Stranger

Thomas Stranger

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Thomas Stranger has worked in both the youth and outdoor recreation sector since completing his Bachelor of Social Science in 2002. He also holds Certificate III and IV in Youth Work…
Portrait of Tim Sharp

Tim Sharp

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Tim Sharp is 27 years old and has autism. At age 11, Tim invented Laser Beak Man – a character who allows Tim to show the world his great sense…
Portrait of Tim Soutphommasane

Tim Soutphommasane

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Tim Soutphommasane is a political theorist and human rights advocate. From 2013 to 2018 he was Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. His previous books include Reclaiming…
Portrait of Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

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Sir Tom Stoppard is one of British theatre’s most prolific exports: a giant of modern playwriting, and one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
Portrait of Tracey Spicer

Tracey Spicer

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Tracey Spicer is an iconoclast whose TEDx talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’ has been seen by nearly 1.5 million people. Tracey has anchored national news, current affairs and lifestyle programs…
Portrait of Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva is an the author of several books including Staying Alive and won the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize.
Portrait of Veena Sahajwalla

Veena Sahajwalla

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Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, ‘Eco Alchemist’, is one of the world's leading innovators in the field of sustainable materials use and an international award-winning scientist and engineer Sahajwalla is founding director…
Portrait of Veronica Sullivan

Veronica Sullivan

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Veronica is the Wheeler Centre’s Programming Manager She is the chair of the Custodial Committee of the Kat Muscat Fellowship. Previously, Veronica was co-host of Sisteria, a podcast about…
Portrait of Vincent Silk

Vincent Silk

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Vincent Silk is a Melbourne-based writer working in fiction and non-fiction. His work has been published in the UTS Writers’ Anthology, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Archer and Seizure…
Portrait of Wayne Swan

Wayne Swan

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Wayne Swan served as federal treasurer from 2007 to 2013 and deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2013. Wayne was named Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year in 2011. He…
Portrait of Wes Snelling

Wes Snelling

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Melbourne’s own award-winning Wes Snelling has a ‘beautiful voice, and a wicked sense of comic timing’ (the Age). He has been working within the arts industry for over a…
Portrait of Wilhelmina Stracke

Wilhelmina Stracke

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Wilhelmina Stracke is the Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council. She was previously an Associate Solicitor at Slater & Gordon before commencing as an organiser with the Australian…
Portrait of William Silvester

William Silvester

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Associate Professor William Silvester is The Director of the Respecting Patient Choices Program at the Austin Hospital. He is also an intensive care specialist and a medical consultant for DonateLife,…
Portrait of Yumi Stynes

Yumi Stynes

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Yumi Stynes is busy. She hosts the podcast Ladies, We Need to Talk, parents a shitload of kids and, you know, likes to waste time having fun. This year…
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