79 Notable alumni of
Macquarie University
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Macquarie University is 742nd in the world, 15th in Oceania, and 11th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 79 notable alumni from Macquarie 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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Anthony Field
- Occupations
- songwritermusiciandrummerfilm producer
- Biography
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Anthony Donald Joseph Field is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a leader of the children's group the Wiggles and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band the Cockroaches. While still a teenager, he helped found the Cockroaches with his brothers, Paul and John. The Cockroaches recorded two albums and enjoyed moderate success, interrupted by Field's service in the Army, until they disbanded in the late 1980s.
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Chris Lilley
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actor
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Christopher Daniel Lilley is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, director, and producer. He is known for his creation and portrayal of several fictional characters in the mockumentary television series We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year (2005), Summer Heights High (2007), Angry Boys (2011), Ja'mie: Private School Girl (2013), Jonah from Tonga (2014), and the web series Lunatics (2019). He is a two-time winner of the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor.
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Adam Hills
- Occupations
- television presentercomedian
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Adam Christopher Hills is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. In Australia, he hosted the music quiz show Spicks and Specks from 2005 to 2011, and again in 2021 onwards, and the talk show Adam Hills Tonight from 2011 to 2013. In the United Kingdom, he has hosted the talk show The Last Leg since 2012. He has been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award, the Gold Logie Award and numerous BAFTA TV Awards.
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Greg Page
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Gregory John Page, is an Australian singer, musician and actor. He is best known as the original lead singer and a founding member of the children's band the Wiggles from 1991 to 2006 and then again in 2012.
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Murray Cook
- Occupations
- singerguitaristsongwriter
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Murray James Cook, AM is an Australian musician, actor, and DJ. Cook was one of the founding members of the children's band the Wiggles from 1991 to 2012. Cook provided guitar, vocals, and songwriting in the group, and remained involved with its creative and production aspects after his retirement. In 2013, Cook served as the Wiggles' tour manager. He also remains active in many music projects, including, writing and performing with the Sydney soul-rock band The Soul Movers. He is the father of wheelchair basketball player Georgia Munro-Cook. In 2015, he was one of the members of the Australian jury for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
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Yalda Hakim
- Occupations
- presenterjournalistspokesperson
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Yalda Hakim is an Australian broadcast journalist, news presenter, and documentary maker. She was one of the chief presenters at BBC News broadcasting in English in the UK and globally. After her family left Afghanistan and settled in Australia in 1986, she grew up in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta and went on to study journalism. She started her career at SBS Television, moving to BBC TV in 2012. In July 2023, it was announced that she was leaving the BBC to join Sky News.
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Michael Hooper
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Michael Kent Hooper is an Australian professional rugby union player who is the former captain of the Australia national team, the Wallabies. His primary position is openside flanker.
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Tanya Plibersek
- Occupations
- politician
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Tanya Joan Plibersek is an Australian politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. A member of the Labor Party, Plibersek served as a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd, Gillard and Albanese governments. She is currently the Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese ministry since 2022, having previously served as the Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Women between 2019 and 2022.
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Daniella Rahme
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantactor
- Biography
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Daniella Yousef Rahme is a Lebanese Australian actress, dancer, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2010, and winner of Dancing with the Stars: Raqs el Noujoum season 2.
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Sam Dastyari
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Sam Dastyari is an Australian former politician, who from 2013 to 2018 represented New South Wales in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Dastyari was previously General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party. He was the first person of Iranian origin and Azerbaijani descent to sit in the Australian Parliament. As a Senator, Dastyari was the subject of a Chinese-related donations scandal, which eventually led to his resignation from the Senate on 25 January 2018.
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Zoe Naylor
- Occupations
- film directormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Zoe Naylor is an Australian actress, journalist and television presenter.
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David Tibet
- Occupations
- songwriterpublishermusiciansinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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David Tibet is an English poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member.
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Marty Natalegawa
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, is an Indonesian diplomat and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet. He served as Indonesia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 5 September 2007 until his latest appointment and has also served as the Indonesian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and as a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Tim Robards
- Occupations
- actormodeltelevision actor
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Timothy Robards is an Australian actor, chiropractor, model, and television personality. Robards worked as a chiropractor for seven years, before he was cast in the first season of The Bachelor Australia. He chose Anna Heinrich in the finale. The couple later appeared on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2015. Robards took part in the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars and appeared on Australian Ninja Warrior. In 2018, Robards had a guest role in soap opera Neighbours as Pierce Greyson, which led to him joining the regular cast in 2019. Outside of television, Robards has worked as a model, and has developed a fitness program called The Robards Method.
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David Leyonhjelm
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politicianveterinarianadvisor
- Biography
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David Ean Leyonhjelm is an Australian former politician. He was a Senator for New South Wales, representing the Liberal Democratic Party from 2014 to 2019. Having been elected at the 2013 federal election, he took office on 1 July 2014, and was re-elected in the 2016 full Senate election. He resigned from the Senate in March 2019 to stand for the Legislative Council at the 2019 New South Wales state election, but failed to be elected. Before being elected to federal parliament, Leyonhjelm worked as a veterinarian and then as an agribusiness consultant. He also writes columns for several Australian publications, with a concentration on rural issues.
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Jeannette Young
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 1993-1994 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- health administratorphysician
- Biography
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Jeannette Rosita Young is an Australian medical doctor and administrator who is the current governor of Queensland since 1 November 2021. Before being sworn in as governor, Young was the chief health officer of Queensland from 2005 to 2021.
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Brad Hazzard
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Diploma in Education in environmental science
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorteacher
- Biography
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Bradley Ronald "Brad" Hazzard is a retired Australian politician who served as the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Wakehurst between May 1991 and March 2023.
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Pete Bethune
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
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Captain Peter James Bethune is a New Zealand ship's captain with 500 ton master licence, published author, producer of The Operatives TV show, and public speaker. He is the founder of Earthrace Conservation. He works assisting countries in Asia, Central America and Africa with fisheries enforcement and anti-poaching. He is the holder of the world record for circumnavigating the globe in his powerboat Earthrace, a wavepiercing trimaran powered with biofuels.
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Jordon Steele-John
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jordon Alexander Steele-John is an Australian politician and disability rights advocate. He is a member of the Australian Senate as a representative of Western Australia, and is a member of the Australian Greens.
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Su Xing
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Su Xing is a Chinese singer, songwriter and actor. He took the 2nd place in the 2007 Super Boy 快乐男声contest, which was a national singing contest for young male contestants held by Hunan Satellite Television. Although he was only 23 years old while participating in the contest, Allen appeared much more sophisticated than many other young men of his age. After winning second place in the contest, he released his first EP, including six brand new songs, of which two of them were written by Allen himself.
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Geraldine Doogue
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistradio personality
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Geraldine Frances Doogue is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
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Hugh Riminton
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Hugh Riminton is a Sri Lankan-born Australian foreign correspondent, journalist and television news presenter. He is currently national affairs editor and occasional presenter of 10 News First. He previously co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully until February 2017.
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Jane Caro
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Catherine Jane Caro is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.
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Margaret Pomeranz
- Occupations
- film critic
- Biography
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Margaret Pomeranz is an Australian film critic, writer, producer, and television personality.
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Victor Dominello
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Victor Michael Dominello, is an Australian politician who was the New South Wales Minister for Customer Service in the second Berejiklian ministry from April 2019, and in the Perrottet ministry until March 2023. Dominello is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party from 2008 until his retirement in 2023.
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Rodney Adler
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Rodney Stephen Adler is an Australian whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became chief executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia's third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of HIH Insurance after the acquisition of that company, and resigned in January 2001, two months before HIH collapsed. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH, where Adler obtained A$2 million from HIH by false or misleading statements and being dishonest as a director.
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F. J. Duarte
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- In 1978 studied physics
- Occupations
- inventorphysicist
- Biography
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Francisco Javier "Frank" Duarte is a laser physicist and author/editor of several books on tunable lasers.
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Greg Sheridan
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- editing staffjournalist
- Biography
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Gregory Paul Sheridan is an Australian foreign affairs journalist, author and commentator. He has written a number of books on politics, religion and international affairs and has been the foreign editor of The Australian newspaper since 1992. He is a regular commentator on Australian television and radio, including for the ABC and Sky News Australia. The ABC describes Sheridan as "one of Australia's most respected and influential analysts of domestic and international politics."
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Mike Kelly
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Colonel Michael Joseph Kelly, is an Australian former politician who twice represented the Division of Eden-Monaro in the Parliament of Australia, from 2007 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2020. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Napoleon Perdis
- Occupations
- make-up artistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Napoleon Perdis is an Australian make-up artist and businessman. Perdis launched a small makeup studio in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt in 1992. He created a line of cosmetic products which he sold through his own store in the Sydney suburb of Paddington in 1995 and later through major department stores. By 2011, the brand operated 65 stores across Australia and New Zealand and sold its cosmetics from 4,500 locations. His business expanded to the United States with a number of stores; his products are also stocked by Ulta beauty product stores and independent retailers throughout the country.
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Russel Norman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Russel William Norman is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. He was a Member of Parliament and co-leader of the Green Party. Norman resigned as an MP in October 2015 to work as Executive Director of Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Hugh Mackay
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- novelistjournalistpsychologist
- Biography
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Hugh Clifford Mackay is an Australian psychologist, social researcher and writer, who founded the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979–2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is a regularly appearing commentator on radio and television.
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John Faulkner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments.
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Matt Dunning
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Matt Dunning is a former Australian rugby union footballer. He played as a prop for the Waratahs and Western Force in Super Rugby, and represented Australia. He coached the Balmain rugby club in Sydney 2013/2014.
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Magdalena Roze
- Occupations
- meteorologistjournalist
- Biography
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Magdalena Roze is an Australian (with Polish heritage) meteorologist, weather presenter and journalist.
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Frederick Pitcher
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frederick William Pitcher is a Nauruan political figure. In December 2007, Pitcher was appointed Minister of Finance of Nauru, to serve in the Administration of President Marcus Stephen.
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Dan Ilic
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Dan Ilic is an Australian presenter, comedian and filmmaker. Ilic has been known for his parody work, including videos and Beaconsfield: The Musical, which he wrote, and more recently for his work on the show Hungry Beast. Dan's mother is half Lebanese and half Italian. Dan's father was born in Germany to Serbian parents. He was previously the head of satirical content for digital content provider AJ+ until he was fired for misusing company materials for a failed audition to The Daily Show.
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Matt Barrie
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 2008-2009 studied finance
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Robert Matthew "Matt" Barrie is an Australian technology entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Freelancer.com, an online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace. Barrie is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Sydney, where he has taught classes in computer and network security since 2001 and technology venture creation since 2010.
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Alan Mackay-Sim
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- biomedical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alan Mackay-Sim was an Australian biomedical scientist specialising in adult stem cell research, and winner of the 2017 Australian of the Year. Some of his research focused on olfactory ensheathing cells, which are cells in the human nose that interact with the nervous system to cause a sense of smell.
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George Levendis
- Born in
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South Africa - Occupations
- television production companydisc jockeymusic executivetelevision producer
- Biography
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George Levendis, is a Global Television and Record Executive and is currently managing director within the Antenna Group. Prior to this, he was the executive producer and show-runner of Red Bull's The Cut. In 2018 he took on the role of COO of Acun Medya Global, focusing on expanding TV formats internationally. From 2011 to 2018 he was Head of International for Syco TV, a joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment. In this role he has been responsible for the international expansion of The X Factor and Got Talent as well working on Red or Black?, Keep It in the Family, The Investigator and Food Glorious Food. During his tenure at Syco, Got Talent and The X Factor grew rapidly internationally. Got Talent has been produced in over 70 markets and The X Factor was sold to over 56 markets globally.
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Pat McCabe
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Pat McCabe is a former professional Australian rugby union player, now practising lawyer. He played for the Brumbies in the Super Rugby, and Warringah in Sydney, and represented Australia at various age grade levels before a senior debut in 2010. He was a utility player, able to cover inside centre, outside centre, winger or fullback.
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Janelle Saffin
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorteacher
- Biography
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Janelle Anne Saffin is an Australian Labor Party politician. She has been the Member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 23 March 2019. She was the Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013, and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2003.
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Nadia Wheatley
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Nadia Wheatley is an Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history. Perhaps best known for her classic picture book My Place, the author's biography of Charmian Clift was described by critic Peter Craven as 'one of the greatest Australian biographies'. Another book by Wheatley is A Banner Bold, a historical novel.
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Jamie Parker
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jamie Thomas Parker is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens from 2011 until his retirement in 2023. Parker was the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
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Joseph Paul Forgas
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologistpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Joseph Paul Forgas is an Australian social psychologist, currently Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to Australia at the age of 22. He is married with two children, and lives in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
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Sam Hibbins
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- community organizationpoliticiansocial worker
- Biography
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Samuel Peter Hibbins is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the electoral district of Prahran. Along with Ellen Sandell who won Melbourne at the same election, Hibbins was one of the first two Greens politicians elected to the Victorian lower house. Hibbins is also the first Greens candidate to gain a seat from a sitting Liberal MP.
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Peter Debnam
- Occupations
- naval officerpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Peter John Debnam, is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Vaucluse between 1994 and 2011. Debnam is a former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Western Sydney, Redfern/Waterloo and Citizenship. He also held the shadow portfolios of Infrastructure and Energy.
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Marcus Padley
- Occupations
- stockbroker
- Biography
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Marcus Padley is an English-born stockbroker and writer. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.
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Barry W. Brook
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 1996-1998 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientistuniversity teacherecologist
- Biography
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Barry William Brook is an Australian scientist. He is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology. He was formerly an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change from 2007 to 2014. He was also Director of Climate Science at the Environment Institute.
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Cameron Murphy
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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The Hon. Cameron Lionel Murphy AM MLC is an Australian barrister, civil libertarian and Labor Party member of the NSW Legislative Council.
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Craig Benjamin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Craig G. Benjamin is an Australian-American historian who is professor of history in the Frederik J. Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches East Asian civilization, big history, ancient Central Asian history, and world history historiography. In 2014 and 2015 he served as president of the World History Association.
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Shayne Mallard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maxwell Shayne Mallard is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2015 until 2023. He was formerly a councillor of the City of South Sydney from 2000 to 2004, and of the City of Sydney from 2004 to 2012.
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Peter Doyle
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Peter Doyle is an Australian author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown, New South Wales, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production and as a part-time curator of Sydney’s Justice and Police Museum.
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Trish Doyle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Trisha Lee Doyle is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Blue Mountains for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election.
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Catharine Lumby
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Studied in 2021
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Professor Catharine Lumby is an Australian academic, author and journalist, currently Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at University of Sydney.
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Ann Curthoys
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Ann Curthoys, AM, FASSA, FAHA is an Australian historian and academic.
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Holly Lincoln-Smith
- Occupations
- water polo player
- Biography
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Holly Jane Young is an Australian former water polo player. Her sister is skeleton competitor Emma Lincoln-Smith. They are the first set of Australian siblings where one competed at the Summer Olympics and the other at the Winter Olympics.
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Rob Hood
- Occupations
- editorial cartoonistwriter
- Biography
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Robert Maxwell Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime.
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John Foulcher
- Occupations
- poetanthologistteacher
- Biography
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John Foulcher is an Australian poet and teacher.
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Ross Dawson
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 2001-2003 studied finance
- Occupations
- stockbrokermotivational speaker
- Biography
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Ross Dawson is an Australian author, futurist, entrepreneur and former stockbroker. Best known for his 2002 book 'Living Networks', Dawson founded the futures think tank Future Exploration Network and consults on digital futures to various big organisations such as Ernst & Young, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft and News Corp.
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Christine Jensen Burke
- Occupations
- mountaineer
- Biography
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Chris Jensen Burke was the first New Zealand or Australian woman to reach the summit of K2. Since climbing Mount Everest on 20 May 2011, Burke has climbed nine other eight-thousanders, including K2 on 26 July 2014 and Kanchenjunga on 17 May 2018. She is also the first New Zealand or Australian woman to complete the Seven Summits.
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Katherine Belov
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Katherine Belov is an Australian geneticist, professor of comparative genomics in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor of Global Engagement at the University of Sydney. She is head of the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group and research expert in the area of comparative genomics and immunogenetics, including Tasmanian devils and koalas, two iconic Australian species that are threatened by disease processes. Throughout her career, she has disproved the idea that marsupial immune system is primitive, characterized the South American gray short-tailed opossum's immune genes, participated in the Platypus Genome Project, led research identifying the properties of platypus venom, and identified the cause of the spread of the Tasmanian devil's contagious cancer.
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Richard Bryant
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Richard Allan Bryant is an Australian medical scientist. He is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and director of the UNSW Traumatic Stress Clinic, based at UNSW and Westmead Institute for Medical Research. His main areas of research are posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and prolonged grief disorder. On 13 June 2016 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), for eminent service to medical research in the field of psychotraumatology, as a psychologist and author, to the study of Indigenous mental health, as an advisor to a range of government and international organisations, and to professional societies.
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Gregory J. Retallack
- Occupations
- paleontologistuniversity teachergeologistbotanist
- Biography
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Gregory John Retallack is an Australian paleontologist, geologist, and author who specializes in the study of fossil soils (paleopedology). His research has examined the fossil record of soils though major events in Earth history, extending back some 4.6 billion years. Among his publications he has written two standard paleopedology textbooks, said N. Jones in Nature Geoscience "Retallack has literally written the book on ancient soils."
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Abigail Boyd
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Clinical Psychology
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Abigail Selina Boyd is an Australian politician living on the Central Coast in New South Wales. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019, representing the Greens.
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Stephen R. Kane
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Stephen Kane is a full professor of astronomy and planetary astrophysics at the University of California, Riverside who specializes in exoplanetary science. His work covers a broad range of exoplanet detection methods, including the microlensing, transit, radial velocity, and imaging techniques. He is a leading expert on the topic of planetary habitability and the habitable zone of planetary systems. He has published hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers and has discovered/co-discovered several hundred planets orbiting other stars. He is a prolific advocate of interdisciplinarity science and studying Venus as an exoplanet analog.
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Andrew Pitman
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 2000-2001 graduated with graduate certificate
- Occupations
- atmospheric scientistclimatologist
- Biography
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Andrew John Pitman is a British-Australian atmospheric scientist.
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Bunty Avieson
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Carolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, feature writer, novelist and academic.
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Patricia Holmes
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Patricia Ann Holmes is an Australian diplomat and is an officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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Frances Šeparović
- Occupations
- biophysicistbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Frances Separovic is a biophysical chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne, where she taught physical chemistry and trained graduate students in her field. She is credited with developing a technique which utilises nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to study peptides in aligned lipid bilayers, and has applications in the study of the structure of membrane proteins and their effects on the membrane. Her more recent research concerns 'the structure and interactions of amyloid peptides from Alzheimer's disease, pore-forming toxins and antibiotic peptides in model biological membranes'.
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Frances Watts
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Frances Watts is the pen-name of Ali Lavau, a Swiss born Australian author, who moved to Sydney, Australia when she was three years old. She has studied English literature at Macquarie University, going on to teach Australian Literature and children's literature. After graduating with a PhD, she obtained her first job in publishing.
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Caroline Bowen
- Occupations
- speech and language therapist
- Biography
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Caroline Bowen is a speech pathologist who was born in New Zealand, and who has lived and worked in Australia most of her life. She specialises in children's speech sound disorders. Her clinical career as a speech-language pathologist spanned 42 years from 1970 to 2011.
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Dana M. Bergstrom
- Occupations
- ecologist
- Biography
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Dana Michelle Bergstrom is a senior researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division most notable for her work on identifying and mitigating risks against Antarctic and Sub Antarctic Ecosystems.
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Graham Joseph Hill
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- academictheologianuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Graham Joseph Hill is an Australian theologian who is a former associate professor of the University of Divinity. He is the State Leader of Baptist Mission Australia (Western Australia). Hill's research focuses on World Christianity but he is also known for his work on biblical egalitarianism and women theologians of global Christianity. He has published in the areas of missiology, applied theology, and global and ecumenical approaches to missional ecclesiology.
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David Stuart
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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David Stuart was the Ambassador of Australia to Austria from 2012 to 2016. Prior, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C., between 2007 and 2010. Stuart was appointed to the position in July 2007. Before his role as Deputy Chief of Mission, Stuart served in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was the Third Secretary at the Embassy of Australia in Madrid (1981–1984), a member of the Australian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council (1988–1992), Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Australia in Jakarta (1997–1999), Australian ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1999–2002), and the First Assistant Secretary at the International Security Division in Canberra.
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Carolyn Allport
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Carolyn Allport was an Australian historian, unionist and activist.
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Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-Dunlop is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair in Pacific studies.
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Manuel Aston
- Enrolled in Macquarie University
- 1981-1987 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 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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Sean Bellerby
- Born in
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Australia - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sean Bellerby is an Australian entrepreneur. He is the founding CEO and President of GoSnow, Inc., a Los Angeles–based investor backed software company known for taking the worldwide snow sports industry on demand.
