100 Notable alumni of
Monash University
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Monash University is 315th 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
- actortelevision actorvideo game actormodelfilm actor
- Biography
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Julian Dana William McMahon is an Australian-American actor. He is the only son of Sir William McMahon, a former Prime Minister of Australia. He is best known for his roles as Ben Lucini in Home and Away, 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. For his performance in Nip/Tuck, McMahon was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama Series.
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Vance Joy
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterAustralian rules football playersinger
- 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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George Pell
- Occupations
- Latin Catholic bishopCatholic deaconCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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George Pell AC 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 and columnist. 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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Daniel Andrews
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Michael Andrews AC 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 the fourth-most-tenured premier in Victorian state history.
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Bill Shorten
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistlawyer
- Biography
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William Richard Shorten is an Australian former politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2013 to 2019. He also served as a cabinet minister in the Gillard (2011–2013), Rudd (2013) and Albanese governments (2022–2025).
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Lim Guan Eng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lim Guan Eng is a Malaysian politician and accountant who served as the Minister of Finance of Malaysia from 2018 to 2020. A member of Democratic Action Party (DAP), he is the fifth national chairman of the party since 2022.
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Airlangga Hartarto
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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 was also the chairman of Golkar Party from 2017 to 2024.
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Yalda Hakim
- Occupations
- journalistpresenterspokesperson
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Yalda Hakim is an Australian broadcast journalist, Sky News Lead World 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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Josh Frydenberg
- Occupations
- politicianinvestment bankercivil servant
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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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Atiqah Hasiholan
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Atiqah Hasiholan Alhady is an Indonesian-Arab actress.
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Jane Turner
- Occupations
- television produceractorfilm actorscreenwritercomedian
- Biography
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Jane Turner OAM is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award-winning comedy series creator and screenwriter. She is widely known for her role as Kath in the TV sitcom Kath and Kim.
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Boediono
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before this, he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
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Nadia Nakai
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- songwriterrapper
- Biography
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Nadia Nakai Kandava, is a Zimbabwean-South African rapper and television personality.
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Alyssa Soebandono
- Enrolled in Monash University
- 2009-2011 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Alyssa Soebandono is an Indonesian actress and former singer. She have appeared in her many soap opera, commercial, and several films' career acting.
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Anthony Pratt
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Colonel Anthony Joseph Pratt is an Australian businessman. He is the chairman of Pratt Industries and Visy, the world's largest privately owned packaging and paper company. Pratt is the heir to former chair of Visy Richard Pratt, who was the son of Leon Pratt, who co-founded the company in 1945.
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Gina Liano
- Occupations
- barristerautobiographeractor
- Biography
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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 66)
- Occupations
- composerpolitician
- Biography
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Baron Divavesi Waqa is a Nauruan politician who currently serves as the secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum. He was the 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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Adam Bandt
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
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Adam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer who is the leader of the Australian Greens and member of parliament (MP) for the Division of 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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Peter Costello
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistbarristerinvestment banker
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Peter Howard Costello AC 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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Richard Di Natale
- Occupations
- politicianAustralian rules football playerpublic health scientistgeneral practitioner
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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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Andy Griffiths
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- 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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Tim Flannery
- Occupations
- zoologistenvironmentalistexplorerbiologistclimate activist
- Biography
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Timothy Fridtjof Flannery FAA is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist, and public scientist. He is especially known for his 1994 book The Future Eaters, on the natural history of Australasia, which was adapted for television in 2006, and his 2006 book The Weather Makers, about the effects of climate change in Australia.
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Diana Glenn
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- 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
- writernovelistscreenwriter
- 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 (2020–2022). He was a public servant and political adviser before entering parliament.
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Simon Crean
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistlawyer
- Biography
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Simon Findlay Crean AC 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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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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Clare O'Neil
- Occupations
- management consultantpolitician
- Biography
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Clare Ellen O'Neil is an Australian politician who is the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness since July 2024, and was the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security from June 2022 to July 2024. 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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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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Wendy Zukerman
- Occupations
- journalistpodcaster
- 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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Afgan
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- 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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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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Kevin Andrews
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Kevin James Andrews AM was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a cabinet minister in the Howard and Abbott governments. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2022, representing the Victorian seat of Menzies.
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Song Tao
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- 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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Sarah Henderson
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticiansolicitorjournalistarticled clerk
- 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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David Williamson
- Occupations
- screenwriterplaywrightdramaturgelighting designerfilm director
- Biography
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David Keith Williamson AO is an Australian playwright, who has also written screenplays and teleplays. He became known in the early 1970s with his political comic drama Don's Party, and other well-known plays include The Club, Travelling North, and Emerald City.
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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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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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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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Hugh Evans
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- 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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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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Julian Burnside
- Occupations
- writerhuman rights activistchildren's writerlawyer
- Biography
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Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO KC is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He practises principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law. He is best 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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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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Dion Weisler
- Occupations
- chief 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
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Julian Savulescu is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist. He is Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and was previously the 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 a 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).
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão, AO is an Australian-East Timorese activist who served as the First Lady of East Timor from 2002 until 2007. She was 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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Alan Finkel
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Engineering
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neuroscientistengineer
- Biography
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Alan Simon Finkel is an Australian neuroscientist, inventor, researcher, entrepreneur, educator, policy advisor, and philanthropist. He was Australia’s 8th 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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Sim Kui Hian
- Occupations
- cardiologistpolitician
- Biography
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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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Peter Reith
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Keaston Reith AM 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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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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Brendan O'Connor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brendan Patrick O'Connor is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Skills and Training from 2022 to 2024 in the Albanese ministry after having served in the same portfolio in 2013 in the Second Rudd ministry. 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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Peter Hogg
- Occupations
- lawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Wardell Hogg CC QC FRSC 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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Ged Kearney
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistnurse
- Biography
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Gerardine Mary "Ged" Kearney is an Australian politician and trade unionist who is the Australian Labor Party (ALP / Labor) member for the federal Division of Cooper and the current Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, a position she has occupied since the election of the government of Anthony Albanese at the 2022 Australian federal election. Kearney has been a member of the House of Representatives since March 2018, first representing the Division of Batman. Prior to entering politics, Kearney served as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2010 to 2018.
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Leslie Howard
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- 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
- civil servantpolitician
- 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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Martin Foley
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history and political science
- 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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Anna Burke
- Occupations
- union organizerpolitician
- Biography
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Anna Elizabeth Burke AO is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from October 2012 to August 2013, and was Acting Speaker from May to October 2012. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Chisholm from 1998 to 2016.
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Jon Faine
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Jonathan Eric Faine AM is an Australian former radio presenter who hosted the morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne in Melbourne. Faine is recognised as a prominent and influential member of the Australian Jewish community.
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Mick Dodson
- Occupations
- barristerhuman rights activistacademic
- 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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Josh Burns
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- political adviserpolitician
- 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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Tim Watts
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- 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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David Feeney
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- 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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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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Joel Neoh Eu-Jin
- Occupations
- entrepreneurmodel
- 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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M. A. Sumanthiran
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mathiaparanan Abraham Sumanthiran, 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 served as Member of Parliament from the Jaffna District from 2015 to 2024, and National List from 2010 to 2015 from the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi.
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Michelle Wong
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Michelle Wong Yi Lin is a Singaporean actress, host and model. She was a finalist in The 5 Search competition.
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Elliot Perlman
- Occupations
- writerbarristernovelist
- Biography
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Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written four novels (Three Dollars, Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Street Sweeper and Maybe the Horse Will Talk), one short story collection (The Reasons I Won't Be Coming) and a book for children.
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Patrick McGorry
- Occupations
- psychiatristresearcher
- 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
- spokespersonacademiccivil servantpoliticianresearch professor
- 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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Sharon R. Lewin
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Sharon Ruth Lewin is an Australian infectious diseases expert who is the inaugural Director of The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics. She is also a Melbourne Laureate Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne, and the current president of the International AIDS Society (IAS) (2022 - 2024).
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Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa
- Years
- 1951-2023 (aged 72)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- In 1993 graduated with Master of Business
- Occupations
- politiciancertified public accountant
- 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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Susan Lim
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- entrepreneursurgeon
- 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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Gary Johns
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gary Thomas Johns is an Australian writer and 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
- diabetologistphysicianendocrinologistengineer
- Biography
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David Morritz de Kretser is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from 2006 to 2011.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- 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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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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Damian Conway
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- 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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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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Soe Tjen Marching
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwritercomposeruniversity teacher
- 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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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Occupations
- woman of letterswritertranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is a Vietnamese poet and novelist. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English.
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Richard Alston
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Kenneth Robert Alston AO 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 was simultaneously Australia's longest serving Communications minister and Arts minister.
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David Southwick
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David James Southwick is an Australian Liberal politician, and has been the member for Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010. Southwick has been the Parliamentary Secretary for Police and Emergency Services. He has also held positions of Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment, Shadow Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Shadow Minister for Major Projects and Shadow Minister for Cost of Living. As of 2025, Southwick is the Shadow Minister for Police and Corrections, Shadow Minister for Youth and Future Leaders and Shadow Minister for Youth Justice. From 7 September 2021 until 27 December 2024, Southwick was the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria.
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Tom Ballard
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Thomas Colin Ballard is an Australian comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. Starting out in radio, he became known as a Triple J host, along with his friend Alex Dyson, over seven years with the station. He his known for his stand-up comedy, as a host of podcasts, and as television presenter, such as the 2017 ABC Television comedy show Tonightly with Tom Ballard. He is author of the 2022 book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else.
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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
- politiciancommunications consultant
- 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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Ian Macfarlane
- 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
- politicianbarristersolicitor
- Biography
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Johnstone William "John" Thwaites AM is an Australian former politician, and served as Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007.
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Race Mathews
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Charles Race Thorson Mathews is an Australian former politician, academic, author and reformer. He was a member of Australia's Federal Parliament and the Victorian State Parliament for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Jacinta Collins
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- 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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Keith Wolahan
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Keith Wolahan is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2022 federal election, representing the seat of Menzies. Prior to entering politics he was an Australian Army officer, serving three tours of Afghanistan as a commando officer, and also practiced as a commercial barrister for twelve years.
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Lynne Kelly
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterscience writerscientist
- Biography
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Lynne Kelly AM 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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Terry Speed
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Enrolled in Monash University
- 1965-1969 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- bioinformaticianstatistician
- 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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Mina Guli
- Occupations
- businessperson
- 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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Sam Prince
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sam Prince is an Australian entrepreneur and doctor. Prince is known for founding the Mexican restaurant chain, Zambrero.
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Ranjana Srivastava
- Occupations
- oncologistphysician
- Biography
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Ranjana Srivastava OAM is an Australian oncologist, Fulbright scholar and author. 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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Sharman Stone
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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Sharman Nancy Stone AM 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 subsequently served as the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls from when Natasha Stott Despoja stepped down from the role in late 2016 until 2020.
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton
- Enrolled in Monash University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.
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Samah Sabawi
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- 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.
