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Portrait of Aadhya Wijegoonawardena

Aadhya Wijegoonawardena

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Aadhya Wijegoonawardena is an emerging Artist in the Dance, Music Theatre and TV/Film Industries. She most recently appeared in ABC and Netflix’s new television series Why Are You Like This…
Portrait of Adrian Wootton

Adrian Wootton

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Adrian Wootton is chief executive of Film London, director of crime and mystery festival Crime Scene, and a program advisor to the London Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
Portrait of Alex Wodak

Alex Wodak

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Dr Alex Wodak was the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at Sydney’s St. Vincent’s Hospital from 1982 to 2012. He’s currently President of the Australian Drug Law Reform…
Portrait of Alexandra Wake

Alexandra Wake

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Alexandra Wake is a lecturer at RMIT University with almost 30 years experience as a journalist. She has worked in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.
Portrait of Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright

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Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the renowned author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book. Her most…
Portrait of Alice Waters

Alice Waters

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Alice Waters is an American chef, author, food advocate and proprietor of Chez Panisse. She is vice president of Slow Food International, a nonprofit organization that promotes and celebrates local…
Portrait of Alice Whitmore

Alice Whitmore

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Alice Whitmore is a Melbourne-based student, writer and translator. Shortlisted for the 2012 Monash Prize, her writing has been published by Voiceworks, Penguin Specials and Egg Poetry. Her…
Portrait of Alice Workman

Alice Workman

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Alice Workman is the political reporter for BuzzFeed News, based in the Press Gallery at Parliament House.  She’s the Friday political commentator on RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly, and…
Portrait of Alison Whittaker

Alison Whittaker

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Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi multitasker. Between 2017–2018, she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Law School, where she was named the Dean’s Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law…
Portrait of Alison Whyte

Alison Whyte

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Alison Whyte is a multi-award winning Australian actor of stage and screen. 
Portrait of Alison Wong

Alison Wong

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Alison Wong is a New Zealander based in Geelong. Her novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted…
Portrait of Alla Wolf-Tasker

Alla Wolf-Tasker

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Alla Wolf-Tasker is the executive chef and co-proprietor of Daylesford dining stalwart Lake House. In 2007, she was named a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to…
Portrait of Allen Williams

Allen Williams

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Mr Williams was appointed Managing Director, Australian Publishing Media in April 2013. He has extensive media management experience in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining Fairfax Media New Zealand as…
Portrait of Andrew Wear

Andrew Wear

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Andrew Wear is a senior Australian public servant. He has degrees in politics, law, economics and public policy, and is a graduate of the Senior Executive Program at Harvard Kennedy…
Portrait of Andrew Weldon

Andrew Weldon

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Andrew Weldon draws political and gag cartoons, and has written and illustrated childrens’ books.
Portrait of Andrew Wilkins

Andrew Wilkins

Since 2005, Andrew Wilkins has been a frequent traveler to Papua New Guinea. He publishes an annual business and investment guide to the country, and the online business news service, businessadvantagepng.com…
Portrait of Angharad Wynne-Jones

Angharad Wynne-Jones

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Angharad Wynne-Jones is creative producer at Arts House, City of Melbourne, a contemporary performance centre in Melbourne. She is also director of TippingPoint Australia, developing international and local projects with…
Portrait of Anna Walker

Anna Walker

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Anna is a Melbourne-based illustrator and storyteller. Over recent years Anna has a created a range of award-winning picture books.
Portrait of Apryl Watson

Apryl Watson

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Apryl Watson is a proud Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman. She is the daughter of Tanya Day – a proud Yorta Yorta grandmother who died in custody…
Portrait of Arika Waulu

Arika Waulu

Arika Waulu is a koolyn language holder of the Djap Wurrung, Peek Wurrung, Dhauwurd Wurrung of so called western districts, Victoria.  Arika has been a community activator for the past…
Portrait of Ash Witt

Ash Witt

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Ashleigh Witt works as a doctor in Melbourne's public hospital system. She is passionate about end of life care, including conversations about dying and ageing. She plans to specialise in…
Portrait of Ashleigh Wilson

Ashleigh Wilson

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Ashleigh Wilson has been a journalist for almost two decades. He began his career at the Australian in Sydney before spending several years in Brisbane, covering everything from state politics…
Portrait of Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman

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Ayelet Waldman is the author of the forthcoming Love and Treasure (Knopf, April 2014), Red Hook Road and The New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes,…
Portrait of Beth Wilson

Beth Wilson

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Beth Wilson became Victoria’s Health Services Commissioner in 1997. She is a lawyer by training and has worked mainly in administrative law. Beth has had a long-standing interest in medico/legal…
Portrait of Beverley Walley

Beverley Walley

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Beverley Walley is a Noongar Ballardong woman from the South West of Perth in Western Australia. She also has connections to the Mirrawong Gaderong people in the East Kimberley of…
Portrait of Beverley Wang

Beverley Wang

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Beverley Wang is a journalist, broadcaster and creator of the ABC podcast It’s Not A Race, which has been hailed as a ground-breaking series opening up conversations on race…
Portrait of Brenda Walker

Brenda Walker

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Brenda Walker is a novelist and Professor of English at the University of Western Australia.
Portrait of Briony Wright

Briony Wright

Briony Wright is the Australian editor of iconic British fashion and culture bible i-D, which launched its online presence around the globe in 2014. Previously, she spent eight years…
Portrait of Bruce Wolpe

Bruce Wolpe

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Bruce Wolpe served as a Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia from 2012-13, and is Chief of Staff to the former prime minister. He was liaison for Prime Minister Gillard…
Portrait of Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson

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Cal Wilson came across the Tasman in 2003 and has gone on to become one of our most popular comedians, a perennial favourite on television shows such as Have You Been…
Portrait of Cameron Woodhead

Cameron Woodhead

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Cameron Woodhead is a senior theatre critic for the Age and is a prolific reviewer of performing arts in Australia.
Portrait of Caroline Wilson

Caroline Wilson

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Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for the Age since 1999.
Portrait of Cassie Workman

Cassie Workman

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Cassie Workman is probably the most experienced newcomer to comedy in the country, owing to the fact that she previously performed under another name. She has recently returned to the…
Portrait of Chalise van Wyngaardt

Chalise van Wyngaardt

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Chalise van Wyngaardt is a South-African born poet, writer, editor, facilitator, theatre-maker and performer, insistent on staying a child who believes in dragons and love. Having performed around Melbourne since…
Portrait of Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood

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Described as one of Australia’s most original and provocative writers, Charlotte Wood is the author of six novels and two books of non-fiction. Her most recent novel is The Weekend…
Portrait of Chloe Wilson

Chloe Wilson

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Chloe Wilson is a writer based in Melbourne. Her most recent collection of poems, Not Fox Nor Axe (Hunter Contemporary Australian Poets), was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize at the…
Portrait of Chris Womersley

Chris Womersley

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Chris Womersley’s short fiction has appeared in Granta, Best Australian Stories (2006, 2010 and 2011), Griffith Review, Wet Ink and Meanjin. His first novel The Low Road…
Portrait of Christian White

Christian White

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Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter whose projects include feature film Relic. The Nowhere Child is his first book and one of Australia’s bestselling debut novels ever…
Portrait of Christie Whelan Browne

Christie Whelan Browne

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Christie Whelan Browne is a stage and television actress. Most recently she has been seen in Muriel's Wedding the Musical as Tanya Degano (Sydney Theatre Award Nomination). Christie is currently performing…
Portrait of Cindy Waddingham

Cindy Waddingham

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Cindy Waddingham is an actor who has appeared in television series including Lowdown, Wilfred, Rush and Blue Heelers. She enjoys playing music, tennis, old-fashioned dancing and riding…
Portrait of Clare Wright

Clare Wright

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‘I am a feminist therefore I commit feminist acts. I’m not going to undermine the political importance of what I do.’ La Trobe University historian Professor Clare Wright has worked…
Portrait of Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

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Colson Whitehead is the New York Times bestselling author of The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the…

Corey Wakeling

Corey Wakeling is an Australian poet based in the Kansai region of Japan. 
Portrait of Corey White

Corey White

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Corey White has been a stand-up comic since 2008. His material centres on the big issues - race, religion, politics, drugs, sex and death - and runs the gamut from…
Portrait of Danielle Whitfield

Danielle Whitfield

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Danielle Whitfield is a writer and curator in the Fashion and Textiles Department at the National Gallery of Victoria. She has also published widely on the history of Australian fashion…
Portrait of David Walliams

David Walliams

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David Walliams is an award-winning and internationally successful children’s author. His books (which include Awful Auntie, Demon Dentist and Gangsta Granny) have sold millions of copies worldwide, been…
Portrait of David Walsh

David Walsh

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David Walsh is a mathematician, gambler and gallery owner from Hobart.

David Wenham

David Wenham has received critical acclaim for his diverse performances in film, theatre and television.
Portrait of David Woods

David Woods

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David Woods is a writer and performer – and one half of the performance outfit Ridiculusmus. He has a D Phil on the subject of comedy from the University…
Portrait of Dianna Wells

Dianna Wells

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Dianna Wells is a Melbourne based photographic artist and has also been the owner and director of a graphic design company for more than twenty years. She has exhibited two…
Portrait of Dominique Wilson

Dominique Wilson

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Dominique Wilson was born in Algiers to French parents. She grew up in a country torn by civil war, until she and her family fled to Australia. She is the…
Portrait of Don Watson

Don Watson

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Don Watson is an author, essayist and speechwriter. He is the author of the Quarterly Essay 'Enemy Within: American politics in the time of Trump', and the multi-award-winning American Journeys…
Portrait of Donna Wheatley

Donna Wheatley

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Donna Wheatley is a Commander with Fire Rescue Victoria. After 15 years' service on trucks she was one of the first two women to achieve this rank in Victoria in…
Portrait of Doug Wallen

Doug Wallen

Doug Wallen is music editor of the Big Issue. He also writes for Rolling Stone, FasterLouder and Australian Book Review, among others.
Portrait of Earlonne Woods

Earlonne Woods

Earlonne Woods was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. In 1997, he was sentenced to 31-years-to-life in prison. While incarcerated, he received his GED, attended Coastline Community College…
Portrait of Ellen Whinnett

Ellen Whinnett

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Ellen Whinnett is National Political Editor for the Herald Sun. Prior to this she was deputy editor of Sunday Herald Sun. She co-authored the book A Premier’s State…
Portrait of Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson is professor of Classical Studies and graduate chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2017, W.W. Norton & Company published her translation of the Odyssey…
Portrait of Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson is editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia. Emily joined the Guardian 14 years ago and has worked as health editor, science section editor, features editor, news section editor and…
Portrait of Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner

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Erica Wagner has worked with books for most of her life, first as a bookseller, then as an editor and publisher.
Portrait of Evan Watts

Evan Watts

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After graduating from the Victorian College of Arts drama school in the early 90’s Evan made his way in the Melbourne independent theatre scene with his plays being performed by…
Portrait of Evan Williams

Evan Williams

Evan Williams is a Sydney-based writer whose writing has appeared in the New Yorker's Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Monthly. He writes…
Portrait of Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld

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Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and the UK. She is part owner of Review, a small independent bookshop in London. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small…

Felicity Ward

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Multi-award winning Felicity Ward is one of Australia’s most exciting comic performers. Since her stand-up comedy debut in 2008, she has rapidly gained an international reputation for her live comedy.
Portrait of Fiona Williams

Fiona Williams

Until mid-2015, Fiona worked in reception at the Wheeler Centre. A practicing visual artist, she is currently completing her MFA at Monash University. She has a lot of reading to do.
Portrait of Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright

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Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and…
Portrait of Gabrielle Wang

Gabrielle Wang

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Gabrielle Wang is an author and illustrator born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her maternal great grandfather came to Victoria during the Gold Rush and her father from Shanghai. Her…
Portrait of Geordie Williamson

Geordie Williamson

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Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian and winner of the 2011 Pascall Prize for criticism.
Portrait of George Williams

George Williams

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George Williams AO is one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers and public commentators. He is a professor of law at the University of New South Wales and has written and edited…
Portrait of Geraldine Wooller

Geraldine Wooller

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Trio is Geraldine Wooller's fourth novel. Her second novel, The Seamstress, was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, the Western Australian Premier’s Award and long listed for The International Dublin…
Portrait of Gerard Whateley

Gerard Whateley

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Gerard Whateley is a broadcaster with ABC Radio Sport fronting the AFL and horse-racing coverage. He is an award-winning journalist who has worked at the Herald Sun and Channel Ten.
Portrait of Gerard Windsor

Gerard Windsor

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Gerard Windsor has published nine books of fiction, memoir and essays, the last novel being I Have Kissed Your Lips.
Portrait of Graham Wilson

Graham Wilson

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Graham Wilson served 26 years in the Australian Army, followed by 14 years in the Department of Defence. Retired since 2011, he is now a full time historian, researcher and…
Portrait of Hayley West

Hayley West

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Artist and death literacy advocate Hayley West is located in Castlemaine, Central Victoria. Hayley co-hosts Death Cafes in her community and has recently been appointed to the board of the…
Portrait of Helen Withycombe

Helen Withycombe

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Helen Withycombe is the Wheeler Centre's Head of Programming. Before this, she was Programming Manager. Prior to joining the Wheeler Centre team, Helen had worked in the publishing industry for…
Portrait of Henry Wagons

Henry Wagons

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Singer/songwriter Henry Wagons was recently named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Influential People. Rolling Stone compared his sound to ‘the lovechild of Nick Cave and Johnny Cash’.
Portrait of Hugh White

Hugh White

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Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
Portrait of Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

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Irvine Welsh is the author of nine works of fiction. Trainspotting has been published in 29 countries and sold over one million copies in the UK. His most recent works…
Portrait of Jacinda Woodhead

Jacinda Woodhead

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Jacinda Woodhead is Overland’s deputy editor.
Portrait of Jacqueline Williams

Jacqueline Williams

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Portrait of Jamire Williams

Jamire Williams

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From the abstract mind of world-renowned drummer Jamire Williams, ERIMAJ is a progressive new band stirring up the scene. Their first break onto the stage was in 2010 with their…
Portrait of Jana Wendt

Jana Wendt

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Jana Wendt is an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster. She was the youngest ever, and first female, reporter on 60 Minutes and was a long-time host of A Current Affair…
Portrait of Jane Watkins

Jane Watkins

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Portrait of Jason Whittaker

Jason Whittaker

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Jason Whittaker is a journalist and has been the editor of Crikey, the pioneering independent news and current affairs website, since May.
Portrait of Jay Winter

Jay Winter

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Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of history at Yale University. He came to Yale from the Cambridge where he took his doctorate, and taught history from 1979 to…
Portrait of Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including The Passion, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body, a book of short stories, The World and…
Portrait of Jenna Wortham

Jenna Wortham

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Jenna Wortham is an award-winning technology reporter and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine. She is the co-host (along with Wesley Morris) of the New York Times…
Portrait of Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong

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Jennifer Wong is a comedian and writer from Sydney. With her love of language and wordplay, she's written for Good News Week, presented Bookish on ABC iview, and performed…
Portrait of Jessica Walton

Jessica Walton

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Jessica Walton is a picture book author, teacher, parent, daughter of a trans parent and proud queer disabled woman. She wrote Introducing Teddy: a story about being yourself to help…
Portrait of Jessica Whitbread

Jessica Whitbread

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Jessica Whitbread works in the realm of social practice and community art, often merging art and activism to engage a diversity of audiences in critical dialogue. Whitbread often uses her…
Portrait of Jessica White

Jessica White

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Jessica White is the author of A Curious Intimacy (Viking, 2007), for which she was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist, and Entitlement (Viking, 2012). Jessica’s work has…
Portrait of Joel Wright

Joel Wright

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A Gunditjmara man from south western Victoria, Joel Wright has worked predominately in Aboriginal Affairs for over 35 years. Joel is currently the co-ordinator of the Laka Gunditj Language program which…
Portrait of John Wood

John Wood

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John Wood is founder of Room to Read, a non-profit dedicated to delivering literacy and gender equality in education.
Portrait of Jonathon Welch

Jonathon Welch

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Jonathon Welch is an (ARIA, Logie and Helpmann) award-winning singer, choral conductor, recording artist, songwriter and producer. Jonathon was founding musical director of the hugely successful ABC TV series Choir…
Portrait of Joshua Wong

Joshua Wong

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Joshua Wong is a Hong Kong student activist and politician born in 1996. He serves as secretary-general of pro-democracy party Demosisto, which promotes democracy and progressive values through street activism…

Julian Wu

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Julian Wu is Melbourne’s foremost rock chef, with a long history straddling Melbourne’s rock and street food scenes from the 1980s to the present day.
Portrait of Karen White

Karen White

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Karen White is a water professional with a passion for combining science with policy to improve the management of waterways and the wellbeing of communities Working locally and internationally, Karen…
Portrait of Karly Warner

Karly Warner

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Karly Warner is a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal woman with connections to the Cowen and the Lockley families. She is executive officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and…
Portrait of Kate White

Kate White

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Kate White is an internationally recognised researcher on gender and higher education. She is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and Co-director of the nine-country research consortium, the Women…
Portrait of Kate Wild

Kate Wild

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Kate Wild is an investigative journalist whose work with distinguished teams at the ABC has been recognised with three Walkley Awards and a Logie. Her reports from Darwin, where she…
Portrait of Katy Warner

Katy Warner

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Katy Warner always thought she wanted to be an actor and for a big part of her life that's what she did – until she realised she actually preferred writing…
Portrait of Kayla Rae Whitaker

Kayla Rae Whitaker

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Kayla Rae Whitaker is an American writer whose first novel is The Animators. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and of New York University’s MFA program.
Portrait of Kerry Walker

Kerry Walker

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Kerry Walker has enjoyed an extensive career in film, theatre and television.
Portrait of Kerry-Anne Walsh

Kerry-Anne Walsh

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Kerry-Anne Walsh worked as a press secretary in the Hawke government before joining the Daily Telegraph’s Canberra bureau. Known as ‘KA’, Kerry-Anne remained in the federal parliamentary press gallery…
Portrait of Khalid Warsame

Khalid Warsame

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Khalid Warsame is a writer, photographer, and arts producer who lives in Melbourne. His essays and fiction have appeared in the Lifted Brow, Overland, the Big Issue, Cordite…
Portrait of Kim Williams

Kim Williams

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Kim Williams AM has been a senior media executive for over 30 years, working in television management, film and television production, public policy in government and most recently as the…
Portrait of Kyle Wiens

Kyle Wiens

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Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He’s dedicated his life to defeating the second law of thermodynamics, a battle fought in the courtroom as often…
Portrait of Uncle Larry Walsh

Uncle Larry Walsh

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Uncle Larry Walsh is a local Aboriginal cultural leader and storyteller. He particularly loves working with the younger generation as he sees them as the torchbearers of the future. Inspired…
Portrait of Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett is a Melbourne-based author. Her short story collection The Love of a Bad Man (2016) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the…
Portrait of Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler

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Lawrence Weschler for a staff writer at the New Yorker for over 20 years; his work there shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of…
Portrait of Lili Wilkinson

Lili Wilkinson

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Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of twelve YA novels, including Pink, Green Valentine and The Boundless Sublime. She established the insideadog website, the Inky Awards and the…
Portrait of Lindy West

Lindy West

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Lindy West is a Seattle-based writer and performer whose work focuses on pop culture, feminism, social justice, humour and body image. Currently a weekly columnist at the Guardian and culture…
Portrait of Lisa Waller

Lisa Waller

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Lisa Waller is a senior lecturer in Communication at the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Her research centres on questions about how news shapes society, especially at…
Portrait of Lisa West McNeice

Lisa West McNeice

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During her twenty or so years as a teacher in secondary classrooms, Lisa West McNeice has taught English, English Language, Literature and Art. At Monash University she worked with beginning…
Portrait of Lois Weaver

Lois Weaver

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Lois Weaver is an artist, activist and part time professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater, WOW and Artistic Director of…
Portrait of Lou Wall

Lou Wall

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Lou Wall is a multi-award winning comedian, writer, and composer. Since 2017, she has toured nationally with her black comedy cabaret A Dingo Ate My Baby (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne International…
Portrait of Louise Walsh

Louise Walsh

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Louise Walsh brings extensive corporate, government, not for profit and philanthropic leadership experience to her role as CEO of Philanthropy Australia.
Portrait of Lucy Watson

Lucy Watson

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Lucy Watson is Archer Magazine's editor-in-chief. Lucy also works in health promotion for LGBTQ people, and recently finished a PhD about celebrities.
Portrait of Lynette Wallworth

Lynette Wallworth

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Lynette Wallworth is a multiple Emmy® Award-winning Australian artist and filmmaker whose immersive video installations and film works reflect on the connections between people and the natural world. She has been awarded…
Portrait of Malcolm Whittaker

Malcolm Whittaker

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Malcolm Whittaker is a young man from Sydney who works as an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and performer. He does this in solo pursuits, as a member of performance collective…
Portrait of Manny Waks

Manny Waks

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Manny Waks was raised in Melbourne, the second oldest of 17 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family. In 2011, Manny publicly disclosed his personal experiences of child sexual abuse within the…
Portrait of Marcus Westbury

Marcus Westbury

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Marcus Westbury is the inaugural CEO of Contemporary Arts Precincts Ltd that is leading the development of the Collingwood Arts Precinct in Melbourne. He is also the founder of the…
Portrait of Marian Wilkinson

Marian Wilkinson

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Marian Wilkinson is regarded as one of the most distinguished journalists in Australia. A member of the Australian Media Hall of Fame, Marian was a pioneer in the resurgence of…
Portrait of Marieka Walsh

Marieka Walsh

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Marieka Walsh is an Australian director/animator whose AACTA/AFI award winning short film The Hunter has marked her out as a rising talent to watch.
Portrait of Mark Wakeham

Mark Wakeham

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Mark Wakeham is the Campaigns Director for Environment Victoria, one of Australia’s leading environment non-government organization.
Portrait of Mark Watson

Mark Watson

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Mark Watson is one of the most celebrated comedians on the international circuit. He has been awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including Best Newcomer at the Perrier Awards, the…
Portrait of Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson

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Mark Wilson is a Melbourne based maker, performer, dramaturg and director. He trained at the VCA (Performance Creation, Directing) and Monash (Performing Arts), has studied with Philippe Gaulier and is an International…
Portrait of Marlee Jane Ward

Marlee Jane Ward

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Marlee Jane Ward is a writer, reader and weirdo living in Melbourne. She grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales and studied Creative Writing at the University…
Portrait of Martin Whitely

Martin Whitely

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Martin Whitely is a recently retired WA politician, teacher and author of Speed Up and Sit Still: The Controversies of ADHD. Martin made tackling what he terms the ‘ADHD…
Portrait of Matt Wicking

Matt Wicking

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Matt is currently Greenie-in-Residence at Arts House, where he’s helping a group of progressive arts organisations build sustainability into their practice.
Portrait of Matthew Warren

Matthew Warren

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Matthew Warren joined esaa in January 2012, having spent 15 years working as an environment and energy policy specialist. An economist by training, his objective at esaa is to ensure…
Portrait of Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright

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Matthew Wright is the lead author of the award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Plan, and 2010’s Young Environmentalist of the Year.
Portrait of Maya Ward

Maya Ward

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Maya Ward is the author of The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage, published by Transit Lounge, has been shortlisted for the National Year of Reading ‘Our Story’ project.
Portrait of Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios

Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios

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Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios is a lecturer in the Arts and Cultural Management and Art History programs at the University of Melbourne, where she researches and publishes in the areas of cultural economics and…
Portrait of Meg Watson

Meg Watson

Meg Watson is an Associate Editor at Crikey, and former Editor of Junkee. She is a culture writer who has written for publications including the Age, the Saturday…
Portrait of Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

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Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times-bestselling author of numerous books, including The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, and The Wife, which was recently made into an…
Portrait of Megan Washington

Megan Washington

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Modern pop’s patron saint Washington is a platinum-selling and ARIA award-winning musician who’s been known to reduce grown men to tears. The acute thinker and blistering performer has captivated music listeners with her ability to tell…
Portrait of Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska

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Mia Wasikowska is an actor who has established herself as a rising star of the big screen. Residing in Canberra, Mia is making her directorial debut with Long, Clear View…

Michael Webster

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Michael Webster is a senior lecturer in publishing at RMIT and principal consultant, Nielsen BookScan.
Portrait of Michael Wesley

Michael Wesley

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Professor Michael Wesley is Deputy Vice Chancellor International of the University of Melbourne. He has extensive experience in international strategy and relations and has worked in higher education, government and…
Portrait of Michael Wesley

Michael Wesley

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Michael Wesley is professor of national security at the Australian National University. His career has spanned academia, with previous appointments at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, the…
Portrait of Michael Williams

Michael Williams

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Michael Williams is the Director of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne. He has worked at the Wheeler Centre since inception in 2009, when he was…
Portrait of Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright

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Michelle Wright is a writer of short stories. Her debut collection, Fine, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by Allen and…
Portrait of Mike White

Mike White

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Mike White is an international authority on community arts and health practice and research. He is Director of Strategic Development at the Australian Centre for Arts and Health, the national…
Portrait of Monica Weightman

Monica Weightman

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Monica Weightman is a musician and Murri woman. She grew up in Townsville, influenced by her Islander father Ray but with the musical genes of her Scottish-English-Italian mother. Although she…
Portrait of Myf Warhurst

Myf Warhurst

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Myf Warhurst be heard across the country on ABC Radio from 12.30pm-2pm weekdays. She presents Bang On with co-host Zan Rowe – a podcast where they chat about the biggest…
Portrait of Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf

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Feminist and activist Naomi Wolf is the author of The Beauty Myth, Fire With Fire and The Treehouse.
Portrait of Nicci Wilks

Nicci Wilks

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Nicci is a freelance artist continually creating and performing works of various art forms She began her career with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. She has trained in theatre and…
Portrait of Nikki Williams

Nikki Williams

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Dr Nikki Williams is a non-executive director of both Tellus Holdings and Neuroscience Research Australia and chairman of the NeuRA Foundation. She is an ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education…
Portrait of Panda Wong

Panda Wong

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Panda is a poet and editor in Melbourne/Narrm. She has been published in Runway Journal, the Lifted Brow, Rabbit, Sick Leave, Free Association and more. Her ‘practice’…
Portrait of Patrick West

Patrick West

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Patrick West writes short fiction, essays and screenplays. He is Senior Lecturer in Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University, Melbourne campus. He and his partner are raising two children.
Portrait of Paul West

Paul West

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Paul West is a trained chef, a passionate gardener, farmer and popular media personality. Paul hosted four seasons of River Cottage Australia (Foxtel and SBS), is the author of The…
Portrait of Paul Woodward

Paul Woodward

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Paul Woodward is a director, performer and writer based in Melbourne.
Portrait of Pauline Whyman

Pauline Whyman

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Pauline Whyman is a proud Yorta Yorta and Kulin Nations woman Pauline’s work as an actor, writer and director includes verbatim theatre for La Mama’s Minutes of Evidence, proudly…
Portrait of Penny Wong

Penny Wong

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Penny Wong is the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Portrait of Peter Waples-Crowe

Peter Waples-Crowe

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Peter Waples-Crowe is a Ngarigo visual and performance-based artist living in Melbourne. His intersecting experiences as an Aboriginal person and his work with community health and arts organisations give him…
Portrait of Phil Wang

Phil Wang

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Phil Wang is a son of the British Empire. But in a world intent on building walls and bolstering borders, what is a Commonwealth man to do? Some blistering new…
Portrait of Philip Wollen

Philip Wollen

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Philip was vice president of Citibank, specialising in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions.
Portrait of Rachel Webster

Rachel Webster

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Rachel Webster is Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Physics at Melbourne University.
Portrait of Rae White

Rae White

Rae White is a non-binary transgender poet, writer and zinester. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth (University of Queensland Press) won 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was shortlisted…
Portrait of Raquel Willis

Raquel Willis

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‘As we commit to each other to build this movement of resistance and liberation, no one can be an afterthought.’ Raquel Willis is a Black queer transgender activist, writer and…
Portrait of Richard Watts

Richard Watts

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Richard Watts is a writer, broadcaster and critic, and the host of 3RRR’s flagship arts program, SmartArts.
Portrait of Robert Webb

Robert Webb

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Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such, he has been a boy in a world of fighting, pointless posturing, and the insistence that he stop…
Portrait of Robyn Williams

Robyn Williams

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Science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams presents Radio National’s The Science Show and Ockham’s Razor.
Portrait of Roderick Waller

Roderick Waller

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Roderick Waller was born in Yorkshire in 1948 to a working-class family of ship builders. In 1971 he immigrated to Australia. He has worked as a jackaroo, a UN economist and…
Portrait of Rohan Wilson

Rohan Wilson

Rohan Wilson is a Brisbane-based writer. His first book, The Roving Party, won the 2011 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award as well as the Margaret Scott Prize, Tasmanian Literary…
Portrait of Rosie Waterland

Rosie Waterland

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Rosie Waterland is a Sydney-based author, columnist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The Anti-Cool Girl, published through HarperCollins in 2015, won the ABIA People’s Choice Matt Richell Award for…
Portrait of Sally Warhaft

Sally Warhaft

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Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations…
Portrait of Sam Wallman

Sam Wallman

Sam Wallman is a comics-journalist, cartoonist and organiser based in Melbourne, Australia. His drawings have been published in places like the Guardian, New York Times, ABC and SBS.
Portrait of Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward

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Sarah is a multi-award winning, powerhouse chanteuse and performer.
Portrait of Sarah Winch

Sarah Winch

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Dr Sarah Winch is head of the discipline of Medical Ethics, Law and Professionalism at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, and CEO of Health Ethics Australia, a charity…
Portrait of Scott Wright

Scott Wright

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Scott Wright is Senior Lecturer in Political Communication and a former Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include everyday political talk, below the line comment fields and…
Portrait of Sean Watson

Sean Watson

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Sean Watson is an editor and sometimes-writer living in Melbourne’s west. He is an editor of Farrago magazine at the University of Melbourne, and a poetry editor for Voiceworks,…
Portrait of Shantel Wetherall

Shantel Wetherall

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Shantel Wetherall is a British/Australia Writer and Host. She's also a proud aunty, dog-mother, and loud-laughed black woman. Her practice creates space for nuanced conversations about women, culture and change…
Portrait of Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

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Simon Winchester studied Geology at Oxford University. He is the author of A Crack in the Edge of the World, Krakatoa, The Map that Changed the World, The Professor and…
Portrait of Stan Winford

Stan Winford

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Stan Winford is Associate Director at the Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University where he is particularly interested in exploring how the justice system can have a positive impact on…
Portrait of Stephanie Winkler

Stephanie Winkler

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Stephanie is a cultural strategist and insights specialist from Melbourne. She currently works as a Director for Crowd DNA, following five years as Head of Insight at VICE Media Group…
Portrait of Stephanie Wood

Stephanie Wood

Stephanie Wood is an award-winning long-form features writer, known for her ability to tell substantial, compelling stories across a range of subjects. She is a former senior staff writer at…
Portrait of Sue Williams

Sue Williams

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Sue Williams is the author of Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest, a biography of Melbourne icon and national treasure Father Bob Maguire. An award-winning journalist, Sue was born in…
Portrait of Sue Williams

Sue Williams

Sue Williams is a science writer and chartered accountant who also holds a PhD in marine biology. She is the author of two murder mysteries: Murder with the Lot and …
Portrait of Sue Williams

Sue Williams

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Sue Williams is a science and travel writer and a chartered accountant who also holds a PhD in marine biology. Her articles have been published in a range of magazines…
Portrait of Susan Wyndham

Susan Wyndham

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Susan Wyndham is the literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. In her career as a journalist she has been editor of Good Weekend magazine, New York correspondent for…
Portrait of Tara June Winch

Tara June Winch

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Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her current novel The Yield won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the People's Choice…
Portrait of Ted Wilson

Ted Wilson

Ted Wilson is a Hobart New Wave filmmaker. His debut independent feature film, Under the Cover of Cloud, premiered at the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Portrait of Tegan Elizabeth Webb

Tegan Elizabeth Webb

Tegan Elizabeth Webb is a writer and zine maker from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in various publications including Scum Mag, Moss Piglet Journal and Concrete Queers. She…
Portrait of Teila Watson

Teila Watson

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Also known as 'Ancestress', Teila Watson is a BirriGubba and Gangulu writer, poet, singer, and performer whose art practice revolves around climate change, ecological and social sustainability and therefore the…
Portrait of Terry Wallace

Terry Wallace

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Terry Wallace is a former AFL player, former AFL coach, businessman and media commentator. As an AFL player who achieved great success with the Hawthorn Football Club, he was a…
Portrait of The Wheeler Centre

The Wheeler Centre

Portrait of Tiger Webb

Tiger Webb

Tiger Webb works at the ABC, helping to manage its pronunciation database and style guide. He has been with the ABC in various guises for six years — previously, he has…
Portrait of Tim Wilson

Tim Wilson

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Tim Wilson is the Member for Goldstein. He was first elected in 2016 and achieved the strongest result in the Goldstein’s history for the Liberal Party. As a proud liberal…
Portrait of Tim Winton

Tim Winton

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Tim Winton is the pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation. He has published twenty-five books for adults and children and his books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. He lives…
Portrait of Tom Walker

Tom Walker

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Tom Walker is a performer, writer, improviser and clown.
Portrait of Tom Wright

Tom Wright

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Tom Wright started as a member of Barrie Kosky’s Gilgul Theatre in the early 1990s, then with Michael Kantor’s Mene Mene in the late 1990s He has worked as an…
Portrait of Tony Walker

Tony Walker

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Tony Walker is international editor of the Australian Financial Review. He is a former Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times.
Portrait of Tony Wheeler

Tony Wheeler

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Tony Wheeler is an English-Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.
Portrait of Tony Wilson

Tony Wilson

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Tony Wilson is an author of twelve books, as well as writing columns and features for the Age, Good Weekend and The Monthly. He was part of the…
Portrait of Tony Windsor

Tony Windsor

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Tony Windsor was the Independent Member for Tamworth (1991–2001) in the NSW Parliament for 10 years, and the Independent member for New England in the federal parliament for 12 years…
Portrait of Tony Wong

Tony Wong

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Tony Wong is Professor and Chief Executive of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities with research hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Singapore. He is internationally recognised for…
Portrait of Willoh S. Weiland

Willoh S. Weiland

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Willoh S. Weiland is an artist, writer, curator and the Artistic Director of Aphids.
Portrait of Yen-Rong Wong

Yen-Rong Wong

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Yen-Rong is writer of non-fiction, based in Meanjin (Brisbane), on Jaggera and Turrbal land. She is the founding editor of Pencilled In, a magazine devoted to publishing and championing…
Portrait of Yvette Walker

Yvette Walker

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Yvette Walker has a BA (Honours) and a PhD from Curtin University. She was a writing fellow at Varuna, the Writer's Centre, in 2009 and again in 2011. Her debut…
Portrait of Yvonne Ward

Yvonne Ward

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Yvonne M. Ward is the author of Unsuitable for Publication: Editing Queen Victoria (2013, Black Inc.) and a historian with a doctorate from La Trobe University. While researching the book,…