33 Notable alumni of
Charles Sturt University
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Charles Sturt University is 1280th in the world, 28th in Oceania, and 22nd in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Charles Sturt University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Lee
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
- Biography
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John Lee Ka-chiu GBM SBS PDSM PMSM is a Hong Kong politician and former police officer who is currently the fifth chief executive of Hong Kong since 1 July 2022.
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Brendan Cowell
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor and writer. He is known for starring in the 2024 television series Plum, which he adapted for television from his 2021 novel of the same name.
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Sussan Ley
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotpolitician
- Biography
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Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2025 to 2026, the first woman to hold either role. She has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Farrer since 2001. Ley previously held various ministerial positions in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments.
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Samantha Armytage
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She co-hosted the Seven Network's breakfast television program Sunrise from 2013 to 2021 alongside David Koch. She also previously co-hosted Weekend Sunrise and presented Seven's 4.30 News.
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Linda Burney
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Linda Jean Burney is an Australian Labor Party (ALP) politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Barton from 2016 to 2025. She was the minister for Indigenous Australians from 2022 to July 2024. She was formerly a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Canterbury from 2003 to 2016 and previously a teacher.
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Andrew Denton
- Occupations
- television presenterscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie–nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique. He is also responsible for introducing the troupe of The Chaser to Australian audiences.
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Amanda Keller
- Occupations
- television presenterradio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Amanda Rose Keller OAM is an Australian television and radio presenter, comedian, writer, actress, journalist, and media personality, best known as the hostess of the popular Australian lifestyle program The Living Room. Keller also co-hosts Jonesy & Amanda with Brendan Jones on Gold 101.7 and Dancing with the Stars with Grant Denyer on Network 10.
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Stuart Beattie
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Stuart Beattie is an Australian filmmaker. His screenplay for Collateral (2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and Saturn Award for Best Writing.
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Hamish Macdonald
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Hamish Macdonald is an Australian broadcast journalist and current host of Sydney Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney.
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Jessica Rowe
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jessica June Rowe AM is an Australian journalist, author and television presenter. She was the co-host of Studio 10 on Network Ten until March 2018, and is Member of the Order of Australia for her mental health advocacy.
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Melissa Doyle
- Occupations
- journalistpresenter
- Biography
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Melissa Jane Doyle is an Australian television presenter, author and journalist.
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Deborah Knight
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Deborah Knight is an Australian television and news presenter, radio host, and journalist.
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Natarsha Belling
- Occupations
- news presenter
- Biography
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Natarsha Belling is an Australian journalist, television and radio presenter.
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Anna Coren
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Anna Coren is an Australian journalist.
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Amelia Adams
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Amelia Adams is an Australian journalist, news presenter, producer and reporter.
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Fiona Nash
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fiona Joy Nash is an Australian former politician. She served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2017, representing the National Party. She was the party's deputy leader from 2016 to 2017 and was a cabinet minister in the Turnbull government.
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Lasarus Ratuere
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lasarus Ratuere is an Australian actor. He is known for his portrayal of Ishikawa, a member of Section 9, in the DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures feature film adaptation Ghost in the Shell.
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David Elliott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Andrew Elliott is an Australian former politician. Elliott served as the New South Wales Minister for Transport and the Minister for Veterans in the Perrottet ministry between 21 December 2021 and 25 March 2023. Elliott was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Baulkham Hills for the Liberal Party between 2011 and 2023.
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Amanda Spratt
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Amanda Spratt is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
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Kieran Gilbert
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kieran Gilbert is an Australian journalist currently serving as chief political reporter for Sky News Australia. Gilbert attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield.
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Scott McGregor
- Occupations
- television actortelevision presenter
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Scott McGregor is an Australian actor and television presenter.
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Shokufeh Kavani
- Occupations
- painterhuman rights defendertranslator
- Biography
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Shokufeh Kavani is an Iranian-born Australian contemporary artist, painter, nurse, translator. She is primarily known as a translator and as an abstract painter. She is fluent in Australian English, in addition to her native language Persian. She lives in Sydney.
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Lyndal Oatley
- Occupations
- equestrian
- Biography
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Lyndal Oatley is an Australian equestrian. She represented Australia at two Summer Olympics in equestrian dressage (in 2012 and 2016).
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Joe McGirr
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Joseph Gregory McGirr is an Australian independent politician, physician and former associate dean of the University of Notre Dame Australia.
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Violeta Ayala
- Occupations
- writerfilm director
- Biography
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Violeta Ayala is a Bolivian-Australian Quechua filmmaker, artist and technologist. Her credits include Huk, The Jaguaress (2025), Las Awichas (2024), Prison X – The Devil & The Sun (2021) and the documentaries La Lucha (2023), Cocaine Prison (2017), The Fight (2017), The Bolivian Case (2015), and Stolen (2009).
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Ellie Brush
- Occupations
- Australian rules football playerassociation football player
- Biography
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Ellie Katherine Brush is an Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Canberra United in the Australian A-League Women. She has also played Australian rules football for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
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Robert Atkinson
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Robert Atkinson, AO, APM is an Australian police officer who served as the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service from 2000 until his retirement in 2012. In 2013, Atkinson was appointed as one of the six Royal Commissioners to the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Chris Eaton
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Chris Eaton is a former police officer and integrity specialist who has also overseen security and anti-corruption efforts in sports. He is a well-known figure in the world of sports results manipulation and is sought worldwide for his opinion and feedback on program's aimed at tackling corruption in sport. He has worked in sport integrity at FIFA, INTERPOL and as the executive director of sport integrity at the International Centre for Sport Security. He is now retired but occasionally works as an integrity consultant and media commentator.
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Meredith Mitchell
- Occupations
- agronomist
- Biography
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Dr Meredith Leigh Mitchell an Australian agronomist. She is a senior research scientist with the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries.
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Jane Mills
- Born in
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Australia - Enrolled in Charles Sturt University
- 2009-2010 studied education
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth Mills is an Australian-New Zealand academic and as of 2020 is the Dean and Head, La Trobe Rural Health School, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
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Dean Windsor
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Dean Windsor is an Australian professional racing cyclist who is known internationally as a criterium rider. Riding on the Track as a junior Dean Windsor won the Under19 Oceania Points Race Championship at Wanganui, NZ in 2004. Then focused on Road Racing winning the National U23 Criterium Championship, in 2007 at Brisbane. Then in 2010 was runner-up in the Australian Elite Criterium Championship at Ballarat. In 2011 he was runner-up in the British Elite Circuit Series behind then Rapha Condor-Sharp Team mate Dean Downing which included a win in the Stafford GP.
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Manuel Aston
- Enrolled in Charles Sturt University
- 2001-2002 studied education
- Occupations
- playwright
- Biography
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Manuel 'Manny' Aston is an Australian playwright and academic best known for his 1993 play, Fossils.
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Caitlin De Wit
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Caitlin De Wit is a 3.0 point Australian wheelchair basketball player. She was part of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2013, and the Asia-Oceania Zone Qualifiers in Bangkok in November 2013. She played with the Hills Hornets team that won the Women's National Wheelchair basketball League (WNWBL) championship title in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and the Sydney University Flames team that won it in 2010.
