62 Notable alumni of
Griffith University
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Griffith University is 898th in the world, 19th in Oceania, and 14th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 62 notable alumni from Griffith 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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Nick Vujicic
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in accounting
- Occupations
- motivational speakerwriterpatron of the artsactor
- Biography
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Nicholas James Vujicic is an Australian-American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker of Serbian descent. Vujicic has tetra-amelia syndrome, a condition characterised by the absence of arms and legs.
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Jung Ryeo-won
- Occupations
- film actormodelsingeractor
- Biography
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Jung Ryeo-won is an Australian actress and former singer based in South Korea. She began her career as a singer in the girl group Chakra, following their disbandment of the group, she transitioned to an actress where she rose to fame in the hit television series My Name Is Kim Sam-soon (2005). She is also known for her roles in Two Faces of My Girlfriend (2007), Castaway on the Moon (2009), History of a Salaryman (2012) and Wok of Love (2018).
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Jeff Horn
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Christopher Horn Jr. is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2020. He held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. As an amateur, he represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals of the light-welterweight bracket.
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Emma McKeon
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Emma Jennifer McKeon, AM is a retired Australian competitive swimmer. She is an eight-time world record holder, three current and five former, in relays. Her total career haul of 14 Olympic medals following the 2024 Olympic Games made her the most decorated Australian, the third-most decorated swimmer, and the seventh-most decorated athlete in Olympic history and included one gold medal from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, four gold medals from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and one gold medal from the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. With four gold and three bronze medals she was the most decorated athlete across all sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and tied for the most medals won by a woman in a single Olympic Games. She also won 20 medals, including five gold medals, at the World Aquatics Championships; and a record 20 medals, including 14 gold, at the Commonwealth Games.
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Dami Im
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Dami Im is an Australian singer and songwriter. She represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 held in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "Sound of Silence", placing second and achieving the highest Eurovision Song Contest score for Australia.
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Kate Miller-Heidke
- Occupations
- opera singeractorsongwriter
- Biography
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Kate Melina Miller-Heidke is an Australian singer and songwriter. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music. She signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK, but since 2014 has been an independent artist. Four of her solo studio albums have peaked in the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart, Curiouser (October 2008), Nightflight (April 2012), O Vertigo! (March 2014) and Child in Reverse (October 2020). Her most popular single, "The Last Day on Earth" (July 2009), reached No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart after being used in promos for TV soap, Neighbours, earlier in that year. At the ARIA Music Awards Miller-Heidke has been nominated 17 times.
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Mirusia Louwerse
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Mirusia Louwerse is an Australian soprano. She performs as Mirusia and has been called "The Unconventional Pop Star" and "The Angel of Australia".
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Jim Chalmers
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Edward Chalmers is an Australian politician. He has been Treasurer of Australia in the Albanese government since May 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a member of parliament for the division of Rankin since 2013.
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Sultan Al Niadi
- Occupations
- astronaut
- Biography
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Sultan Saif Al Neyadi is an Emirati Minister of Youth and a najmonaut. He is one of the first two najmonauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. He is the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission, as part of Expedition 69 and the first Arab astronaut to perform a spacewalk. He was sworn in on 11 January 2024 as the United Arab Emirates Minister of Youth.
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Cameron McEvoy
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Cameron McEvoy is an Australian competitive swimmer who represented his country at the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. He is the reigning Olympic champion in the men's 50m freestyle, and also the first Australian man to win a gold at this event.
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Madison de Rozario
- Occupations
- para athletics competitor
- Biography
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Madison de Rozario, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair racer who specialises in middle and long-distance events. She competed at the 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Paralympics, winning two gold, four silver and two bronze medals. She has also won ten medals (three gold, three silver and four bronze) at the World Para Athletics Championships and four gold at the Commonwealth Games. De Rozario holds the world record in the Women's 800m T53 and formerly in the Women's 1500m T53/54.
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Luke Keary
- Occupations
- rugby league player
- Biography
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Luke Keary is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth or halfback for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and Ireland at international level.
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Libby Trickett
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Lisbeth Constance Trickett, OAM is an Australian retired competitive swimmer. She was a gold medallist at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the world record holder in the short-course (25m) 100-metre freestyle.
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Larissa Waters
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Larissa Joy Waters is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Greens and has served as a Senator for Queensland since 2018. She previously served in the Senate from 2011 to 2017, resigning during the parliamentary eligibility crisis due to her holding Canadian citizenship in violation of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. Waters serves as her party's Senate leader, in office since February 2020. She previously served as co-deputy leader from May 2015 to July 2017 and again from December 2018 to June 2022.
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Pembayun, Princess Mangkubumi
- Biography
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Mangkubumi, Crown Princess of Yogyakarta is the first child and daughter of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta and his consort, Queen Hemas. On 5 May 2015 she was proclaimed Crown Princess by her father. She married Prince Wironegoro, a businessman and philanthropist. If she accedes the throne, she will become the first Sultanah of Yogyakarta.
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Troy Hunt
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Studied in 1995-1997
- Occupations
- oratorauthorsoftware developer
- Biography
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Troy Adam Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created and operates Have I Been Pwned?, a data breach search website that allows users to see if their personal information has been compromised. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight, and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics. He created ASafaWeb, a tool that formerly performed automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites.
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Jackie Trad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacklyn Anne Trad is an Australian former politician. She was Deputy Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2020, Treasurer of Queensland from 2017 to 2020 and represented the Electoral district of South Brisbane for the Labor Party from April 2012 to October 2020.
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Clare Polkinghorne
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Clare Elizabeth Polkinghorne OAM is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Kristianstads DFF, and formerly for the Australia national team. On 2 October 2024 she announced her retirement from international football, and played her last game for the Matildas in a friendly against Chinese Taipei on 7 December 2024. She became Australia's most capped footballer in February 2023, and as of her final game, she extended this record with 169 appearances since her debut in 2006. She continues her club career at Kristianstad.
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Tracey Moffatt
- Occupations
- television producerprintmakerfilm directorproducerfilm producer
- Biography
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Tracey Moffatt AO is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.
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Amanda Stoker
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Amanda Jane Stoker is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 2018 until 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. She was appointed to the Senate after the retirement of George Brandis. Stoker held the ministerial portfolios of Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General, Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations and Assistant Minister for Women in the Morrison government. Stoker was unsuccessful in her re-election bid in the 2022 federal election and departed the Senate on 30 June 2022.
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Natalie Gruzlewski
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter.
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Anika Wells
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anika Shay Wells is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represents the Division of Lilley in Queensland. Wells is currently the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport.
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Alex Deane
- Occupations
- political punditpolitical adviserwriter
- Biography
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Alexander John Cameron Deane is a British writer, political commentator and consultant. He is a regular commentator on Sky News and GB News, and formerly on BBC Dateline London.
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Matthew Denny
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Matthew Denny is an Australian athlete specialising in the discus throw. He won the bronze medal in the men's discus throw at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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Dinesh Palipana
- Occupations
- lawyerphysician
- Biography
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Dinesh Palipana OAM is an Australian doctor, lawyer, scientist and disability advocate. He is the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, Australia. He is the second person with quadriplegia to graduate as a doctor in Australia and the first with spinal cord injury.
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Katarina Carroll
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Katarina Ruzh Carroll APM (born 17 November 1963) is a retired Australian police officer and was the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) from July 2019 to March 2024. She is the first female commissioner of QPS. She was formerly the Commissioner of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services from August 2015 until July 2019. On 20 February 2024, Carroll announced she would not seek an extension to her contract and would step down as of Friday 1 March 2024.
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Mark Bailey
- Born in
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Australia - Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with Diploma in Education
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Craig Bailey is an Australian politician who has been the Labor member for Miller in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015. Bailey most recently served as the Minister for Transport and Main Roads of Queensland until 17 December 2023. He has also worked in gambling, liquor and racing policy for the Queensland state government.
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James McGrath
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- Biography
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James Anthony McGrath is an Australian politician and Senator for Queensland since 2014. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. Following his re-election in 2022, McGrath was appointed as Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance and Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition.
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Natalie Jeremijenko
- Occupations
- inventorresearcherartistdesign engineervisual artist
- Biography
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Natalie Jeremijenko AO is an Australian artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology. She has alternatively described her work as "X Design" (short for experimental design) and herself as a "thingker", a combination of thing-maker and thinker. In 2018, she was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College, and is currently an associate professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department, and has affiliated faculty appointments in the school's Computer Science and Environmental Studies.
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Meaghan Scanlon
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Meaghan Alana Jenkins Scanlon is an Australian politician and lawyer. She has been the Labor member for Gaven in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017. She previously served as the Queensland Minister for Housing in 2023. Prior to May 2023, Scanlon was the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs.
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Leeanne Enoch
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Labor member for Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015. Prior to the 2024 Queensland election she served as a Minister in the Palaszczuk and Miles governments, most recently as Minister for Treaty, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Minister for Communities and Minister for the Arts.
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Andrew Lofthouse
- Occupations
- news presentermusician
- Biography
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Andrew Lofthouse is a former television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Australia. The former teacher was formerly the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes between 2009 and 2024. Prior to working at Nine News, he presented the weekday evening news bulletin of ABC News Queensland, as well as reading the news on the 612 ABC Brisbane radio station on weekday afternoons.
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Ben Lucas
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Benjamin Lucas is an Australian rugby union player who used to play for Montpellier as a fly-half in the Top 14.
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Justine Elliot
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maria Justine Elliot is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2004 federal election, representing the New South Wales seat of Richmond. She served as Minister for Ageing in the First Rudd government from 2007 to 2010 and as a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard government from 2010 to 2013.
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Julie Owens
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julie Ann Owens is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Parramatta from 2004 to 2022, when she retired from politics.
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Duncan Pegg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Duncan Andrew Pegg was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Stretton in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from the 2015 election until his death in 2021. On 22 April 2021, Pegg announced he would be resigning within several weeks to undergo treatment for cancer. Pegg's death triggered a by-election for Stretton.
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Michael Berkman
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Craig Berkman is an Australian politician and the member for Maiwar in Brisbane's inner-west. Berkman has been the member for Maiwar since the 2017 Queensland state elections, when he became the first Greens member to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He is the first member for Maiwar, after the electorate was created from the merger of the former Indooroopilly and Mt Coot-tha electorates.
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Nujoom Al-Ghanem
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorpoet
- Biography
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Nujoom Alghanem is an Emirati poet, artist and film director. She has published eight poetry collections and has directed more than twenty films. Alghanem is active in her community and is considered a well established writer and filmmaker in the Arab world. Her achievements in the arts have been recognized both nationally and internationally. She is the cofounder of Nahar Productions, a film production company based in Dubai. Currently she works as a professional mentor in filmmaking and creative writing, as well as a cultural and media consultant.
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Andrew Fraser
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Peter Fraser is Chancellor of Griffith University, and was formerly an Australian Labor politician. He was first elected into the Legislative Assembly of Queensland on 7 February 2004. He was the Deputy Premier of Queensland, Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade of the Queensland Government. On 24 March 2012, Andrew Fraser lost his seat to the LNP candidate Saxon Rice.
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Cate Faehrmann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cate Faehrmann is an Australian politician and environmental activist. Faehrmann was a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2011 to 2013. She resigned from the Legislative Council in June 2013 to stand for the Senate at the federal election of the same year, and was unsuccessful in obtaining a seat. She worked in the office of the Leader of the Australian Greens, Richard Di Natale, as his chief of staff from May 2015 to March 2018. In August 2018, she was re-elected to the Legislative Council to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mehreen Faruqi, who had replaced Lee Rhiannon in the Australian Senate.
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Sara Carrigan
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Sara Carrigan OAM is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam.
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Van Thanh Rudd
- Occupations
- performance artist
- Biography
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Van Thanh Rudd, also known as Van Nishing, is an Australian artist and political candidate.
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Brian Fitzgerald
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Brian Fitzgerald is an Australian legal academic and barrister. He is an intellectual property and information technology/internet lawyer who has pioneered the teaching of internet/cyber law in Australia. Fitzgerald was a specialist research professor at the Queensland University of Technology until February 2012, when he became the inaugural executive dean of law at the Australian Catholic University's Faculty of Law and Business.
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Mick de Brenni
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Christopher de Brenni, is an Australian politician currently serving as the Manager of Opposition Business in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
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Anthony Chisholm
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony David Chisholm is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016. He was appointed an assistant minister in the Albanese government following the party's victory at the 2022 federal election. He previously served as the party's state secretary from 2008 to 2014.
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Brett Mason
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Brett John Mason is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was a Liberal/Liberal National of Queensland member of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1999 to 15 April 2015, representing the state of Queensland. Mason was the Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands from September 2015 to August 2018.
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Mark Robinson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Andrew Robinson is an Australian politician who is a former Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. From 2017 to 2024, he held the seat of Oodgeroo in the Legislative Assembly for the Liberal National Party (LNP), having previously represented the seat of Cleveland from 2009-2017.
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Katie Kelly
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Kathleen Margaret "Katie" Kelly OAM is an Australian paratriathlete, who has a degenerative disease known as Usher syndrome. Kelly began competing in the PT5 paratriathlon classification in February 2015 when her condition deteriorated to a legally blind state. She has just 30 per cent of her vision. With her guide Michellie Jones, Kelly won gold medals at the 2015 and 2017 ITU World Championships and 2016 Rio Paralympics. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
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Aidan McLindon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aidan Patrick McLindon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Beaudesert to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party at the 2009 state election. He resigned from that party to become an independent in May 2010, and in June 2010 he established The Queensland Party, which he merged with Katter's Australian Party in August 2011. He lost his seat to the LNP at the 2012 election. Bob Katter appointed McLindon as National Director for the newly created Katter's Australian Party. 18 months later McLindon resigned to spend more time with his family. McLindon established an independent political consultancy, AMac Consultants Pty Ltd, following the 2013 federal election.
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Deborah Acason
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- weightlifter
- Biography
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Deborah Esther Ainslie Acason is an Australian weightlifter. Initially a discus thrower (she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics), she won three silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She also participated in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic games. She also won awards in cycling, winning the 2005 Queensland open Keirin title, as well as gold medals in the 1 Lap Time Trial and Team Sprint. She competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she placed 4th. This was her 5th Commonwealth Games Appearance.
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Liz Blatchford
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Elizabeth Julia Blatchford is an English professional triathlete. She has placed third at the 2013 and 2015 Ironman World Championship.
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Tania Major
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in criminology
- Occupations
- criminologistactivist
- Biography
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Tania Major is an Australian Aboriginal activist who first came to prominence in 2004 as the youngest person elected to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).
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Ian Ling-Stuckey
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hon. Ian Ling-Stuckey is a Papua New Guinean politician and Member of Parliament for the Kavieng District. He served as a member of the National Alliance Party until joining the Pangu Party and the Marape Government as Treasurer in 2019.
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Dave Greszczyszyn
- Occupations
- skeleton racer
- Biography
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Dave Greszczyszyn is a Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 2007. Greszczyszyn is a two-time Canadian national champion, had four top-10 finishes in the 2014–15 Skeleton World Cup, and finished 11th at the 2015 FIBT World Championships. He also won five races in the Skeleton-Europacup.
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Peter Hegedus
- Occupations
- documentary filmmakerfilm director
- Biography
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Peter Hegedüs is a Hungarian/Australian writer, director and producer of both documentary and fiction films. He is also the grandson of the former Prime Minister of Hungary, András Hegedüs. Hegedüs' work explores critical social justice issues. His most recent film, Sorella's Story, was selected to screen at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Stefanja Orlowska
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Stefanja Orlowska is an Australian actress and writer. She made her film debut in 2011, in the independent film Minds, Adolescents. She is most known for her role as Halina in the documentary film There Is Many Like Us.
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Robert Braiden
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Robert Braiden is an Australian film director, writer and YouTuber.
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Ken Stubbs
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Musical Arts
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Ken Stubbs is an English jazz musician, alto saxophonist and composer.
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Stuart Cunningham
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- 1986-1988 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stuart Cunningham AM FAHA is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies at QUT.
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Karen Struthers
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Karen Struthers is an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2012.
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Amanda Bresnan
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amanda Bresnan is an Australian politician and a former member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. Bresnan was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the ACT Greens at the 2008 election and defeated at the 2012 election
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Frank Leith Jones
- Enrolled in Griffith University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- military historian
- Biography
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Frank Leith Jones Jr. is an American academic, public servant and military historian. He published his first book in 2013, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy, a biography of Robert Komer who served as "national security policy and strategy adviser" to three Presidents. In 2020, he published Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age, a study of the impact Senator Nunn had on US national security and policy during the Cold War and its immediate aftermath.
