100 Notable alumni of
Monash University
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Monash University is 317th in the world, 5th in Oceania, and 4th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Monash 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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Julian McMahon
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Julian Dana William McMahon is an Australian actor and former model. He is the only son of former Prime Minister of Australia, Sir William McMahon. He is best known for his roles as Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four duology, Jonah in Runaways, and Jess LaCroix in CBS crime drama FBI: Most Wanted.
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George Pell
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconLatin Catholic bishopCatholic bishop
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George Pell was an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018. Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, he was made a cardinal in 2003. Pell served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996). He was also an author, columnist and public speaker. From 1996, Pell maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining an adherence to Catholic orthodoxy.
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Vance Joy
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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James Gabriel Keogh, known professionally as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer-songwriter and former Australian rules footballer. He is best known for his 2013 hit song "Riptide".
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Peter Higgs
- Enrolled in Monash University
- 2005-2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicistresearcherparticle physicist
- Biography
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Peter Ware Higgs is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
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Daniel Andrews
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Michael Andrews is an Australian former politician who served as the 48th premier of Victoria from 2014 to 2023. He held office as the leader of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2010 and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Mulgrave from 2002 until his resignation in 2023. Andrews is the longest-serving Labor premier and fourth-most-tenured premier in Victorian state history.
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Bill Shorten
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- trade unionistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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William Richard Shorten is an Australian politician and former trade unionist serving as the current Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme since 2022. Previously, Shorten was leader of the opposition and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019. A member of parliament (MP) for the division of Maribyrnong since 2007, Shorten also held several ministerial portfolios in the Gillard and Rudd governments from 2010 to 2013.
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Lim Guan Eng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lim Guan Eng is a Malaysian politician and accountant from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bagan, Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Air Putih since March 2008 and 5th National Chairman of DAP since March 2022. He served as the Minister of Finance in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020, 4th Chief Minister of Penang from March 2008 to May 2018, MP for Kota Melaka from August 1986 to November 1999 and 4th Secretary-General of DAP from September 2004 to March 2022.
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Josh Frydenberg
- Occupations
- civil servantpoliticianinternational forum participantinvestment banker
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Joshua Anthony Frydenberg is an Australian former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2018 to 2022. He also served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Kooyong from 2010 to 2022.
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Airlangga Hartarto
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Airlangga Hartarto is an Indonesian politician and businessman. He is the current Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs in President Joko Widodo's Onward Indonesia Cabinet, appointed on 23 October 2019. He is also the chairman of Golkar Party.
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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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Atiqah Hasiholan
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Atiqah Hasiholan Alhady is an Indonesian-Arab actress and model.
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Jane Turner
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actoractortelevision producercomedian
- Biography
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Jane Turner is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award-winning comedy series creator and screenwriter.
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Nadia Nakai
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- rappersongwriter
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Nadia Nakai Kandava, is a Zimbabwean-South African rapper and television personality.
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Boediono
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist. He was the 11th vice president of Indonesia, in office from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Prior to this he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
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Peter Carey
- Occupations
- writernovelistuniversity teacherscreenwriterchildren's writer
- Biography
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Peter Philip Carey AO is an Australian novelist.
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Gina Liano
- Occupations
- actorautobiographerbarrister
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Gina Liano is an Australian barrister, author, entrepreneur and television personality. She is best known for her role in The Real Housewives of Melbourne.
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Baron Waqa
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- politiciancomposer
- Biography
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Baron Divavesi Waqa is a Nauruan politician who was President of Nauru from 11 June 2013 until 27 August 2019. He previously served as Minister of Education from 2004 to 2007.
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Anthony Pratt
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Anthony Joseph Pratt, an Australian businessman and billionaire, is the executive chairman of Visy Industries (Pratt Industries USA in the US), the world's largest privately owned packaging and paper company. He is the heir of Richard Pratt, who was a manufacturing magnate and president of the Carlton Football Club.
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Adam Bandt
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Adam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer who is the leader of the Australian Greens and federal MP for Melbourne. Previously, he served as co-deputy leader of the Greens from 2012 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020. He was elected leader following the resignation of Richard Di Natale in February 2020.
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Richard Di Natale
- Occupations
- general practitionerpublic health scientistAustralian rules football playerpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Luigi Di Natale is a former Australian politician who was a senator for Victoria. He was also the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020. Di Natale was elected to the Senate in the 2010 federal election. A former general practitioner, Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015 following the resignation of Christine Milne. He was the leader of the Greens during the 2016 and 2019 federal elections.
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Peter Costello
- Occupations
- barristereconomistpoliticianinvestment banker
- Biography
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Peter Howard Costello is an Australian businessman, lawyer and former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia in government of John Howard from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving treasurer in Australia's history. Costello was a member of parliament (MP) of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing the Division of Higgins. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007.
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Tim Flannery
- Occupations
- naturalistclimate activistbiologistexplorerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist. He was awarded Australian of the Year in 2007 for his work and advocacy on environmental issues. He is the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Fondation Segré Distinguished Visiting Professor.
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Andy Griffiths
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Andrew Noel Griffiths is an Australian children's and comedy writer. He was educated at Yarra Valley Grammar School. He is most notable for his Just! series, which was adapted into an animated television series called What's with Andy?, his novel The Day My Bum Went Psycho, which was also adapted into a television series, and the Treehouse series, which has been adapted into several stage plays. Previously a vocalist with alternative rock bands Gothic Farmyard and Ivory Coast, in 1992 he turned to writing. He is well known for working with Terry Denton.
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Diana Glenn
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Diana Glenn is an Australian actress with many credits in television, film, and theatre.
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Graeme Simsion
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Graeme C. Simsion is a New Zealand-born Australian author, screenwriter, playwright, and data modeller, best known for his first novel The Rosie Project.
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Ruslan Kogan
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Ruslan Kogan is an Australian entrepreneur known as founder and CEO of Kogan.com, as well as several other ecommerce companies in Australia. He was Australia's richest person under the age of 30 from 2011 to his 30th birthday in November 2012. In 2020, Kogan's net worth was estimated by the Financial Review 2020 Rich List as A$575 million.
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Dan Tehan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election, representing the Victorian seat of Wannon. He held ministerial office in the Coalition governments under Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, serving as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016), Defence Personnel (2016–2017), Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017), Social Services (2017–2018), Education (2018–2020), and Trade, Tourism and Investment. He was a public servant and political adviser before entering parliament.
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Charlie Pickering
- Occupations
- presenter
- Biography
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Charlie Pickering is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer.
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Simon Crean
- Occupations
- trade unionistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Simon Findlay Crean was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2001 to 2003. He represented the seat of Hotham in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2013 and was a cabinet minister in the Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments.
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Tim Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Robert Wilson is an Australian former politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia who served as the Federal Member for Goldstein in the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022. Wilson served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Economics from 2018 to 2021 and as the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction from 2021 to 2022. In the 2022 Australian federal election, Wilson lost his seat to independent candidate Zoe Daniel.
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Clare O'Neil
- Occupations
- politicianmanagement consultant
- Biography
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Clare Ellen O'Neil is an Australian politician who is the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security, since 2022. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the Victorian seat of Hotham.
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Wendy Zukerman
- Occupations
- podcasterjournalist
- Biography
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Wendy Zukerman is an Australian-American science journalist and podcaster. She is best known as the host of Science Vs, a program that dissects areas of scientific controversy and public confusion.
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Kevin Andrews
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Kevin James Andrews is an Australian former politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He was the Member of House of Representatives for the seat of Menzies from a by-election in 1991 until the 2022 Australian federal election. Andrews is a conservative and a Catholic.
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Andika Hazrumy
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Studied in 2003-2005
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andika Hazrumy is the formerly Vice Governor of Banten since 2017 to 2022. He is the son of former Governor of Banten Ratu Atut Chosiyah.
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Sarah Henderson
- Occupations
- solicitorpoliticianbarristerarticled clerkjournalist
- Biography
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Sarah Moya Henderson is an Australian politician, lawyer and former journalist. She has been a Senator for Victoria since September 2019, representing the Liberal Party. She previously held the Division of Corangamite in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
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Judy Chan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Judy Chan Kapui is a Hong Kong politician who is a current member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong elected through the Elections Committee. She is a member of the New People's Party and was a former member of Southern District Council for South Horizons West, until 2019.
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David Williamson
- Occupations
- film directorlighting designerdramaturgeplaywrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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David Keith Williamson is an Australian playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.
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Robert Doyle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Keith Bennett Doyle is an Australian politician who was the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008 until he resigned on 4 February 2018 amidst allegations of sexual harassment. He was previously Member for Malvern in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria from 1992 to 2006 and Leader of the Victorian Opposition from 2002 to 2006, representing the Liberal Party.
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Song Tao
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Song Tao is a Chinese politician and diplomat, currently serving as director of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office since December 2022. He served as head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party from 2015 to 2022. He was previously Chinese ambassador to Guyana, the Philippines, the disciplinary chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and executive deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office.
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Adem Somyürek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adem Kubilay Somyurek is an Australian politician. He has served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council currently representing the Northern Metropolitan Region.
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Tan Le
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Tan Le is a Vietnamese-born Australian telecommunications entrepreneur and a co-founder of Emotiv. She was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year.
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Hugh Evans
- Occupations
- human rights activistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian. Evans is the co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, formerly called Global Poverty Project, and Executive Producer of One World:Together at Home and Global Citizen Live. He has received domestic and international accolades for his work in promoting youth advocacy and volunteerism in order to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries.
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Michael Kroger
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Michael Norman Kroger is a former Australian lawyer. He was president of the Victorian Liberal Party from 1987 to 1992 and from 2015 to 2018, and is considered a member of the conservative faction.
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Afgan
- Occupations
- singeractor
- Biography
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Afgansyah Reza, better known by his mononym Afgan, is an Indonesian singer and actor, known for his pop and R&B songs.
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Julian Burnside
- Occupations
- lawyerchildren's writerhuman rights activistwriter
- Biography
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Julian William Kennedy Burnside is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He practises principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide variety of high-profile cases. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, "for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law." He unsuccessfully stood for the Division of Kooyong at the 2019 federal election as an Australian Greens candidate, but achieved the highest vote for the Greens in the seat at a federal election and allowed the party to enter into the two-party preferred vote.
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Dion Weisler
- Occupations
- international forum participantchief executive officer
- Biography
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Dion Joseph Weisler is an Australian-born businessman, and was the chief executive officer and president of HP Inc. from November 2015, when HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise split into separate companies, to November 2019.
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Julian Savulescu
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Julian Savulescu is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist of Romanian origins. He is Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at National University of Singapore. He was previously Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and co-director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. He is visiting professorial fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and distinguished visiting professor in law at Melbourne University since 2017. He directs the Biomedical Ethics Research Group and is a member of the Centre for Ethics of Pediatric Genomics in Australia. He is a former editor and current board member of the Journal of Medical Ethics (2001–2004 and 2011–2018), which is ranked as the No.2 journal in bioethics worldwide by Google Scholar Metrics, as of 2022. In addition to his background in applied ethics and philosophy, he also has a background in medicine and neuroscience and completed his MBBS (Hons) and BMedSc at Monash University, graduating top of his class with 18 of 19 final year prizes in Medicine. He edits the Oxford University Press book series, the Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics.
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Tim Costello
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Timothy Ewen Costello AO is an Australian Baptist minister who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia. Costello worked as a lawyer and served as mayor of St Kilda. He has authored a number of books on faith and life. A National Trust poll in 2014 elected him one of Australia's 100 national living treasures.
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Alan Finkel
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Engineering
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- engineerneuroscientist
- Biography
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Alan Simon Finkel is an Australian neuroscientist, inventor, researcher, entrepreneur, educator, policy advisor, and philanthropist. He was Australia’s Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020. Prior to his appointment, his career included Chancellor of Monash University, President of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and CEO and founder of Axon Instruments, and CTO for the electric car start-up Better Place Australia.
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Cathy McGowan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Catherine McGowan AO is a former Australian politician who was the independent MP for the rural Victorian seat of Indi from the 2013 federal election, when she defeated Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella, until her retirement before the 2019 federal election.
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão, is an Australian-East Timorese activist who served as the First Lady of East Timor from 2002 until 2007. She is married to Xanana Gusmão, former prime minister and president of East Timor, though they separated in 2015. She is the founding director of the Alola Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives of women in Timor-Leste, a nation with one of the world's lowest per capita GDPs.
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Peter Reith
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Peter Keaston Reith was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983 and from 1984 to 2001, representing the Liberal Party. He was the party's deputy leader from 1990 to 1993, and served as a minister in the Howard government.
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Muhamad Faisal Manap
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muhamad Faisal bin Abdul Manap is a Singaporean politician. A member of the opposition Workers' Party (WP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Kaki Bukit division of Aljunied GRC since 2011 and has been serving as Vice-Chairman of the WP since 2016.
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Julian Hill
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Julian Christopher Hill is an Australian politician who is currently serving as the Member of Parliament for Bruce in the House of Representatives. Hill was previously the 4th Mayor of Port Phillip and a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), where he succeeded Alan Griffin at the 2016 federal election.
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Peter Hogg
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyer
- Biography
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Peter Wardell Hogg was a New Zealand-born Canadian legal scholar and lawyer. He was best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law, with the most academic citations in Supreme Court jurisprudence of any living scholar during his lifetime, according to Emmett Macfarlane of the University of Waterloo.
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Martin Foley
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science and history
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Peter Foley is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly between 2007 and 2022, representing Albert Park. He was the Minister for Equality in the First and Second Andrews Ministry between December 2014 and June 2022 and the Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services between September 2020 and June 2022. He was previously the Minister for Mental Health and Minister for Creative Industries prior to September 2020.
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Sim Kui Hian
- Occupations
- politiciancardiologist
- Biography
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Prof. Datuk Amar Dr. Sim Kui Hian is a Malaysian politician and cardiologist who is serving as the Deputy Premier of Sarawak and the territory's Minister of Public Health, Housing and Local Government Sarawak in the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) administration under Premier Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg since January 2022, as well as an elected representative for the constituency of N14 Batu Kawah in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (DUN) since May 2016.
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Leslie Howard
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Leslie John Howard is an Australian pianist, musicologist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings. He has been described by The Guardian as "a master of a tradition of pianism in serious danger of dying out".
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Gai Brodtmann
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Gai Marie Brodtmann is an Australian former politician, who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Canberra representing the Australian Labor Party from 2010 until 2019. A career public servant, diplomat and later small business owner, she succeeded Labor MP Annette Ellis, who retired from politics at the 2010 federal election. Like Ellis, Brodtmann was aligned with the Right faction. Appointed Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence following the 2013 Election, Brodtmann was the Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Defence in the Outer Shadow Cabinet after the 2016 election. As at 2021, Gai is a member of the think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute council, which is funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, and defence and technology companies.
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Ged Kearney
- Occupations
- trade unionistpoliticiannurse
- Biography
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Gerardine Mary "Ged" Kearney is an Australian politician and trade unionist who is the Labor member for the federal division of Cooper and the current assistant minister for health and aged care. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since March 2018, first representing the division of Batman. Prior to politics, Kearney served as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2010 to 2018.
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Brendan O'Connor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brendan Patrick O'Connor is an Australian politician who has served as Minister for Skills and Training since 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2001. He held ministerial office in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013, including as a member of cabinet from 2012 to 2013. He was a member of the shadow cabinet from 2013 to 2022.
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Anna Burke
- Occupations
- politicianunion organizer
- Biography
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Anna Elizabeth Burke is an Australian former politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. She is a current Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and an Officer of the Order of Australia. Burke was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016, representing the Division of Chisholm in Victoria for the Australian Labor Party. From 2012 to 2013, she was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. She was the second woman to become Speaker.
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Mick Dodson
- Occupations
- barristeracademichuman rights activist
- Biography
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Michael James Dodson AM, FASSA is an Aboriginal Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru people in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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David Feeney
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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David Ian Feeney is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the division of Batman in the House of Representatives from 7 September 2013 to 1 February 2018. Before that, he was a member of the Australian Senate for Victoria from 2008 until his resignation to contest Batman. Feeney resigned as a member of Parliament on 1 February 2018 as he was unable to produce any documentary evidence disproving he was a dual citizen, which is a breach of section 44 of the Constitution of Australia.
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Tim Watts
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Timothy Graham Watts is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election, representing the Victorian seat of Gellibrand. Since 1 June 2022, Watts has served as Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
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Joel Neoh Eu-Jin
- Occupations
- modelentrepreneur
- Biography
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Joel Neoh Eu-Jin is a Malaysian entrepreneur, speaker, and investor. He is best known for his role as the founder of Groupon Malaysia and as the International Vice President of Groupon Asia Pacific. He is the founder of Fave but stepped down as its CEO in 2023.
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Idrus
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Idrus was an Indonesian author best known for his realistic short stories and novels. He is known as the representative of the prose of the '45 generation of Indonesian literature.
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M. A. Sumanthiran
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Mathiaparanan Abraham Sumanthiran, MP, PC born 9 February 1964) is a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician. A successful civil lawyer who practices civil litigation, human rights and constitutional law; Sumanthiran has severed as Member of Parliament from the Jaffna District since 2015 and National List from the 2010 to 2015 from the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi.
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Sharon R. Lewin
- Occupations
- physicianresearcher
- Biography
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Sharon Ruth Lewin AO, FAA, FRACP, FAHMS is an Australian physician who is the inaugural Director of The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She is also a Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne, a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow, Director of the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, and President of the International AIDS Society (IAS).
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Susan Lim
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- surgeonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Susan Lim Mey Lee is a Singaporean surgeon who in 1990 performed the first successful liver transplant in Singapore.
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Patrick McGorry
- Occupations
- researcherpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Patrick Dennistoun McGorry is an Irish-born Australian psychiatrist known for his development of the early intervention services for emerging mental disorders in young people.
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Dewi Fortuna Anwar
- Enrolled in Monash University
- In 1990 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- international forum participantspokespersonresearch professorpoliticianacademic
- Biography
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Dewi Fortuna Anwar is an Indonesian scientist, professor, and the Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs to the Vice President of Indonesia.
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Josh Burns
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical adviser
- Biography
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Joshua Solomon Burns is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party, he was elected as the member for the division of Macnamara in Melbourne at the 2019 Australian federal election.
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Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa
- Years
- 1951-2023 (aged 72)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- In 1993 graduated with Master of Business
- Occupations
- certified public accountantpolitician
- Biography
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Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa was a Tongan accountant and politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Tonga from 2019 to 2021. Tu'i'onetoa succeeded Semisi Sika, who had served as acting prime minister, since the death of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva.
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Gary Johns
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gary Thomas Johns is an Australian writer and former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1996, holding the Queensland seat of Petrie for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He served as a minister in the Keating government.
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David de Kretser
- Occupations
- engineerendocrinologistphysiciandiabetologist
- Biography
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David Morritz de Kretser, AC, FAA, FTSE, FAHMS is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from 2006 to 2011.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. He has been referred to as a 'rebel with a cause', an ‘enfant terrible of the '70s', and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema’s 'second revolution'. He is also renowned as an academic, playwright and poet.
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Brett King
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Brett King is an Australian futurist, author, and co-founder of Moven, originally a New York-based mobile banking startup. He is regarded as an influencer in financial services globally, and his book Augmented was cited by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as recommended reading on artificial intelligence. His book Bank 4.0 was awarded Top Book by a Foreign Author in Russia for the year 2019, as judged by an independent panel audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was inducted into the Fintech Hall of Fame in 2020 for his contribution to the industry.
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Damian Conway
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Damian Conway is a computer scientist, a member of the Perl and Raku communities, a public speaker, and the author of several books. Until 2010, he was also an adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.
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Soe Tjen Marching
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerwriterpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Soe Tjen Marching is a writer, academician, activist, and a composer of avant-garde music from Indonesia. In 1998, she won the national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy. Her compositions have been played in New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan. Her work has been released on the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia, played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. In 2010, her work has been selected as one of the two best compositions in the International Competition for avant-garde composers held in Singapore. In her musical career, she has been mainly an autodidact.
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Richard Alston
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Richard Kenneth Robert Alston is an Australian businessman, former politician and former barrister. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1986 to 2004, representing the Liberal Party. During the Howard government he held ministerial office as Minister for Communications and the Arts (1996–1997), Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts (1997–1998), and Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (1998–2003). He is Australia's longest serving both Communications minister and Arts minister.
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Archbishop Makarios of Australia
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis is the current archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia and the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, succeeding Archbishop Stylianos of Australia.
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Ian Macfarlane
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Ian John Macfarlane AC is an Australian economist, and central banker. After an early career as an economist in Melbourne, Sydney, Oxford and Paris, he joined the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1979 and rose to become Governor from 1996 to 2006. After retiring from the Reserve Bank, he became a company director, economic consultant and author of two books.
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John Thwaites
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticiansolicitor
- Biography
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Johnstone William "John" Thwaites, is an Australian former politician, and served as Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007.
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Jacinta Collins
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Jacinta Mary Ann Collins is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1995 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2019. She represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was the party's deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2013. Collins was a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard government and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing in the second Rudd government. She retired from politics prior to the 2019 federal election and accepted an appointment as national executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission on 18 February 2019.
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Linden Hall
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Linden Hall is an Australian track and field middle-distance runner.
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Will Fowles
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- communications consultantpolitician
- Biography
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Will Fowles is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018, initially representing the seat of Burwood in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs. Ahead of the 2022 Victorian state election, the seat of Burwood was abolished by Victoria's Electoral Boundaries Commission, leading Fowles to stand for the seat of Ringwood, where he resides with his family.
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Mina Guli
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Mina Guli is an Australian businesswoman, active in the environmental sector. She is CEO of Thirst.
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Terry Speed
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 81)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- 1965-1969 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- statisticianbioinformatician
- Biography
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Terence Paul "Terry" Speed, FAA FRS is an Australian statistician. A senior principal research scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, he is known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarray data.
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Lynne Kelly
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- science writerwriteruniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Lynne Kelly is an Australian writer, researcher and science educator. Her academic work focuses mainly on the study of primary orality, as well as the mnemonic devices used by ancient and modern oral cultures from around the world. She proposes a theory on the purpose of the Stonehenge megalithic, which she believes served as a centre for the transmission of knowledge among Neolithic Britons.
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Sharman Stone
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Sharman Nancy Stone is a former Australian politician who represented Murray in the Australian House of Representatives between March 1996 and July 2016 as a member of the Liberal Party. She currently serves as the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls after Natasha Stott Despoja stepped down from the role in late 2016.
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Pia Mancini
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Monash University
- 2006-2007 graduated with Master of Arts in Asian studies
- Occupations
- activistinternational forum participantpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Pia Mancini is an activist and technical project leader from Argentina. She is co-founder of Democracy Earth and Open Collective. The latter is a project that facilitates open source code contributors to receive donations.
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.
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Ranjana Srivastava
- Occupations
- physicianoncologist
- Biography
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Ranjana Srivastava is an oncologist, Fulbright scholar and author from Melbourne. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian newspaper, where she writes about the intersection between medicine and humanity, and a frequent essayist for the New England Journal of Medicine. She was a finalist for the Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2018.
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Brad McKay
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Brad McKay is an New Zealand born Australian doctor, science communicator and author. He is best known for his television series Embarrassing Bodies Down Under, which was broadcast in 2013. He is also a regular guest on numerous Australian television and radio programs including Today.
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Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Simbarashe Simbanenduku Mumbengegwi is a Zimbabwean politician and diplomat currently serving as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and Monitoring Government Programmes. Previously he was acting Foreign Minister for a few days following the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe He had previously served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2017. From October to November 2017, he was Minister of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion.
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Samah Sabawi
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian playwright, scholar, commentator and poet. Her plays include Cries from the Land (2003), Three Wishes (2008), Tales of a City by the Sea (2014) and Them (2019). Sabawi has received two Drama Victoria Awards, a Green Room Award, and a place in the VCE Drama curriculum for the latter two plays. Since 2014, Tales of a City by the Sea has been staged over 100 times in theaters and schools around the world. THEM will be remounted in July 2021, with a premiere at the Arts Centre Melbourne before it tours through Shepparton, Bendigo, and Sydney.
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Celeste Liddle
- Occupations
- trade unionistwriter
- Biography
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Celeste Liddle is an Indigenous feminist, unionist, and writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Having first risen to prominence via her personal blog, Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist, Liddle has written opinion and commentary for several media publications and anthologies.
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Jennifer Coate
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Jennifer Ann Coate is an Australian jurist. Coate was a Judge of the Family Court of Australia and one of the six Royal Commissioners appointed by the Australian government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Kay Patterson
- Occupations
- politicianacademic
- Biography
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Kay Christine Lesley Patterson is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
