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Portrait of Ahmed Yussuf

Ahmed Yussuf

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Ahmed Yussuf is a writer and journalist. He co-edited Growing Up African in Australia, the first non-fiction anthology of African-diaspora stories in Australia. His work has featured in Acclaim…
Portrait of Chris Ying

Chris Ying

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Chris Ying is the editor-in-chief of the print version of Lucky Peach, the collaboration between McSweeney’s and David Chang.
Portrait of Damon Young

Damon Young

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Damon Young is a prize-winning philosopher and writer. He is the author of ten books in English and translation, including The Art of Reading, How to Think About Exercise…
Portrait of Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara

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Hanya Yanagihara is the author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees. She is deputy editor at the New York Times' T Magazine, and lives…
Portrait of Irfan Yusuf

Irfan Yusuf

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Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer and commentator who writes on national security, cultural diversity and conservative politics. He has been published in Crikey, The Canberra Times, The Drum…
Portrait of Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu

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Jessica Yu (@jessicazmyu) is the recipient of the Young Writers Innovation Prize 2014 and founding editor of interactive narrativity website, Betanarratives. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been published or are forthcoming in …
Portrait of Liao Yiwu

Liao Yiwu

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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China.
Portrait of Mark Yettica-Paulson

Mark Yettica-Paulson

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Mark Yettica-Paulson is an Australian Indigenous man from southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. Mark is the founder and director of The Yettica Group, specialising in Indigenous leadership and…
Portrait of Natasha Yacoub

Natasha Yacoub

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Natasha Yacoub is an international human rights lawyer. After a period with the Australian federal government, she spent the past 11 years working with the United Nations High Commissioner for…
Portrait of Ouyang Yu

Ouyang Yu

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Ouyang Yu came to Australia in early 1991 and has since published 55 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in English and Chinese.
Portrait of Sally Young

Sally Young

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Sally Young is an Associate Professor in Political Science and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the areas of Australian…
Portrait of Sherman Young

Sherman Young

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Associate Professor Sherman Young is Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. He is also the Deputy Head of the Department of Media,…
Portrait of Stella Young

Stella Young

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Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and editor of ABC’s Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia.

Sue Yorston

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Sue Yorston commenced with Relationships Australia Victoria as manager of the Ballarat Centre and was recently appointed to the role of Senior Manager, Social Inclusion and Diversity. In this role,…
Portrait of Sumeya Yussuf

Sumeya Yussuf

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Sumeya Yussuf is a high school student working on the perils of VCE. She works with a youth action council in Hume in her downtime. She loves to read fantasy…
Portrait of Tyson Yunkaporta

Tyson Yunkaporta

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Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, arts critic and researcher, who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a…
Portrait of William Yang

William Yang

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William Yang is a writer and visual artist.
Portrait of Zali Yager

Zali Yager

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Zali Yager is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education at Victoria University in Melbourne. She is passionate about preparing the next generation of health and PE teachers to…