100 Notable alumni of
University of New South Wales
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The University of New South Wales is 286th in the world, 4th in Oceania, and 3rd in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of New South Wales sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rebel Wilson
- Occupations
- comediantelevision producervideo game actorvoice actortelevision presenter
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Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson is an Australian actress, comedian and producer. After graduating from the Australian Theatre for Young People in 2003, Wilson began appearing in the SBS comedy series Pizza (2003–2007) and later appeared in the sketch comedy show The Wedge (2006–2007). She wrote, produced and starred in the musical comedy series Bogan Pride (2008). Shortly after moving to the United States, Wilson appeared in the comedy films Bridesmaids and A Few Best Men, both in 2011.
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Vajiralongkorn
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Studied in 1972-1976
- Occupations
- monarch
- Biography
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Vajiralongkorn, also known by his regnal name Rama X, is King of Thailand, reigning since 2016. He is the 10th monarch of the Chakri dynasty, the reigning dynasty of Thailand since 1782.
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Simon Baker
- Occupations
- film directormodeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Simon Lucas Baker is an Australian actor and director. He first gained prominence on the Australian soap opera E Street (1992–1993). He later starred in the CBS legal drama The Guardian (2001–2004), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama in 2002. From 2008 to 2015, he portrayed Patrick Jane in the drama series The Mentalist, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2009. Baker has also appeared in several films, including L.A. Confidential (1997), Restaurant (1998), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and Margin Call (2011).
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Nathalie Kelley
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Nathalie Kelley is a Peruvian-Australian actress, known for her role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and for her roles in various television series including Body of Proof (2011–2012), Unreal (2015), The Vampire Diaries (2016–2017), Dynasty (2017–2018) and The Baker and the Beauty (2020).
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Scott Morrison
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott John Morrison is an Australian former politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2018 to 2022. He was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Cook from 2007 to 2024.
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George Miller
- Occupations
- film directorfilm screenwriterproducerdirectormanufacturer
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George Miller is an Australian filmmaker. Over the course of four decades he has received critical and popular success, and is widely known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979, including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time according to Metacritic. He has earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award from six nominations in five different categories.
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Turia Pitt
- Occupations
- autobiographerengineerathletics competitormining engineer
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Turia Pitt is an Australian athlete, motivational speaker and author.
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Usman Khawaja
- Occupations
- cricketer
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Usman Tariq Khawaja is a former Australian international cricketer who represented the Australia national cricket team in all formats from 2011 to 2026, and captains the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and plays for Queensland at domestic level.
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Gladys Berejiklian
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with Master of Commerce
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian currently works as an executive for the telecommunications company Optus.
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Tupou VI of Tonga
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- monarchnaval officerdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Tupou VI is King of Tonga. He served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006 during the reign of his father King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV.
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Peter Garrett
- Occupations
- singerpoliticianpeace activistenvironmentalisthuman rights defender
- Biography
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Peter Robert Garrett AM is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
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Markus Zusak
- Occupations
- children's writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels that became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2014.
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Marta Dusseldorp
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Marta Dusseldorp is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include BlackJack, Crownies, Jack Irish and A Place to Call Home.
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Leonardo Nam
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Leonardo Nam is an American actor. Born in Argentina to South Korean immigrant parents, he emigrated to Australia as a child before moving to the United States in the 1990s to begin his career as an actor. He made his breakthrough as Roy in The Perfect Score (2004), and gained further recognition for his roles as Morimoto in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and Brian McBrian in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008).
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Vimala Raman
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Vimala Raman is an Australian actress and former model who has worked in Indian cinema. She appears in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films. Born and brought up in Australia, she made her debut in 2006 with the Tamil film Poi. An established Bharatanatyam dancer and a graduate in B.Sc Information Systems from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Raman had also won the title of Miss India Australia in 2004
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David A. Sinclair
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- In 1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in molecular genetics
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistgerontologistgeneticistanti-aging practitioner and activist
- Biography
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David Andrew Sinclair AO is an Australian-American biologist and academic known for his research on aging and epigenetics. Sinclair is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard. He is the co-author of Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don't Have To.
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Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Occupations
- computer scientistbusinesspersonuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Michael Cannon-Brookes is an Australian businessman who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the software company Atlassian.
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Emil Dardak
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Emil Elestianto Dardak is an Indonesian politician who is the Vice Governor of East Java. Before becoming Vice Governor, he was the regent of Trenggalek Regency from 2016 to 2019 and was a singer cum actor prior to his political career.
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Robyn Denholm
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with Master of Commerce in commerce
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robyn M. Denholm is an Australian business executive and former accountant who is chair of Tesla, Inc. In November 2018, Denholm was chosen by Elon Musk to succeed him as chair of Tesla. Prior to her appointment, she was relatively unknown. She is the highest-paid chair of any public company in the United States.
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Sussan Ley
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotpolitician
- Biography
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Sussan Penelope Ley is an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2025 to 2026, the first woman to hold either role. She has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Farrer since 2001. Ley previously held various ministerial positions in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments.
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Nick Littlemore
- Occupations
- singerrecord producercomposer
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Nicholas George Littlemore is an Australian musician, record producer, singer, songwriter and tour manager. As a musician, he is the frontman of the electronic project Pnau, a member of the art-rock band Teenager and one part of the electro pop-duo Empire of the Sun. As a record producer, he has worked with Elton John, Lover Lover, Groove Armada and Mika. From late 2009, Littlemore had worked with the Cirque Du Soleil as a composer and musical director for the touring arena show Zarkana, which debuted on 29 June 2011. His older brother Sam La More is also a musician and record producer. In 2019, he and Peter Mayes launched the label Lab78.
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Stan Grant
- Occupations
- news presenteropinion journalistwriterjournalisttelevision journalist
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Stan Grant is an Australian and a Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharawal man who had been a journalist, writer, radio and television presenter and theologian. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity.
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Alina Zhang
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Zhang Meng, also known as Alina Zhang, is a Chinese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is most well known as the winner of the Miss Universe China 2004 and for her role as the Fire Princess in 2016 television hit series Ice Fantasy.
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Sarah Song
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Sarah Song is a Chinese-Australian television host, actress, professional MC, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Chinese International 2007. Previously Song was crowned Miss Sydney Chinese 2006.
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Mark Taylor
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Taylor AO is a former Australian cricketer and current Nine Network commentator. He was the captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
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Natalie Tran
- Occupations
- television producerYouTuberactorfilm actor
- Biography
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Natalie Tran, also known online as communitychannel, is an Australian comedian, actress, television presenter, and former YouTuber. She became known on YouTube for her comedy videos, in which she discusses everyday issues.
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Scott Farquhar
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Scott Farquhar is an Australian businessman who is the co-founder and the former co-chief executive officer of software company Atlassian. Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the aim to replicate the $48,500 graduate starting salary typical at corporations without having to work for someone else. Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes were Australia’s first technology billionaires.
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Marise Payne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marise Ann Payne is an Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1997 until 2023, representing the Liberal Party. She held senior ministerial office in Coalition governments between 2013 and 2022, including as Minister for Defence (2015–2018) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (2018–2022).
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Raj Reddy
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- In 1960 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He and Edward Feigenbaum won the 1994 ACM Turing Award, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for their work in the field of artificial intelligence. Reddy was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award.
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Richard Farleigh
- Occupations
- chess playerbusinesspersoninvestor
- Biography
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Richard Bruce Farleigh is an Australian private investor and reality television personality. Farleigh featured in series 3 and 4 of the BBC's Dragons' Den. He currently resides in London, England.
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Vega Tamotia
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Vega Tamotia, also known mononymously as Vega, is an Australian actress and producer, who has appeared in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films. She is probably best known for her performances as Saroja in the film of the same name, and Sobikannu in Pasanga. Vega, with the motive of acting in films, earlier had been acting for Broadway Drama Troupe and gained experience in theatre arts.
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Angela Tanoesoedibjo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angela Herliani Tanoesoedibjo ––known as Angela Chen (安琪拉·陳; Pinyin: Ānqílā chén) in China–– (born 23 April 1987) is an Indonesian politician, who is the Vice Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy since 2019, first under Wishnutama Kusubandio, then Sandiaga Uno, businesspersons. As the eldest daughter of MNC Group CEO, founder, and chairman Hary Tanoesoedibjo, she unexpectedly became one of the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin young ministerial candidates while co-currently the Commissioner of the MNC Group. As the editor in chief of Tanoesoedibjo Media Business Network's High End Magazine and High End Teen, Tanoesoedibjo holds this position.
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Lu Jun Hong
- Occupations
- educatorfaith healer
- Biography
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Richard Jun Hong Lu, also known as Lu Tai Zhang (盧台長, lit. Master Lu) by his followers, was a Chinese-born Australian Buddhist faith healer and the founder of the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door religious movement (觀世音菩薩心靈法門). During his lifetime, the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door garnered praise from regular and new Buddhist followers, but also drew controversy among some Buddhist organisations.
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Bob Carr
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Robert John Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. He later entered federal politics as a New South Wales senator, and served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013. Following his departure from politics, he served as the director of the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) from 2014 to 2019 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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Lucy Turnbull
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Lucinda Mary Turnbull AO is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, and former local government politician. She served on the Sydney City Council from 1999 to 2004, including as Lord Mayor of Sydney from 2003 to 2004 – the first woman to hold the position. She has since held positions on a number of urban planning bodies, including as chief commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission from 2015 to 2020. Her husband Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.
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Adam Pak
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Adam Pak Tin-nam is an Australian-born Hong Kong actor and model. Making his feature film debut as Thompson Yau in the action film L Storm (2018), Pak received a nomination for Best New Performer in the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards. He has also starred in the crime film trilogy Breakout Brothers (2021–2022), ViuTV drama series Ink at Tai Ping (2021), and the legal drama film A Guilty Conscience (2023).
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Angus Campbell
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- civil servantmilitary officer
- Biography
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General Angus John Campbell, AO, DSC is a retired senior officer in the Australian Army, who served as the Chief of the Defence Force from 6 July 2018 until 10 July 2024. He was previously posted as Commander Operation Sovereign Borders from September 2013 until he was appointed Chief of Army in May 2015.
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Jeremy Tam
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotpolitician
- Biography
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Jeremy Jansen Tam Man-ho is a Hong Kong politician, airline pilot, and former Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Party's Kowloon East Branch. He was a former member of the Legislative Council representing Kowloon East, having been elected in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. Tam resigned along with 14 other remaining pro-democracy legislators from the Legislative Council on 11 November 2020, after the central government had unseated four of pro-democracy legislators the same day.
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Paul Tse
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Tse Wai-chun, JP is a Hong Kong solicitor and politician. Self claiming the "Superman of Law", he was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2008 through the tourism functional constituency as an owner of a small travel agency, before standing and re-elected in 2012 at Kowloon East constituency, and subsequently the revived Election Committee constituency in 2021.
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Costa Georgiadis
- Occupations
- television presenterlandscape architecteducator
- Biography
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Costa Georgiadis is an Australian author, landscape architect, environmental educator and television presenter. Costa is the third host of ABC television series Gardening Australia after Peter Cundall and Stephen Ryan, and previously appeared as 'Costa the Garden Gnome' in the ABC Kids program Get Grubby TV.
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Glenn Murcutt
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect.
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Tim Flannery
- Occupations
- biologistclimate activistnaturalistpaleontologistzoologist
- 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 Australia, 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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Mehreen Faruqi
- Occupations
- environmental engineercivil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Mehreen Saeed Faruqi is an Australian politician and former engineer who has been a federal Senator for New South Wales since 15 August 2018, representing the Greens. She was chosen to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Lee Rhiannon, before being elected in her own right in 2019. She had previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between June 2013 and August 2018. Since June 2022, Faruqi has served as Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens.
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Campbell Newman
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is an Australian former politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between 24 March 2012 and 31 January 2015. He was LNP Leader from 2 April 2011 to 7 February 2015; Newman previously served as the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 27 March 2004 to 3 April 2011.
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Andrew Hastie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as the deputy leader of the Opposition and the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Western Australian division of Canning since 2015. Hastie was a troop commander in the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) prior to entering politics.
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Issa Zarepour
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eisa Zarepour is an Iranian conservative politician who has served as Minister of Information and Communications Technology from 2021 to 2024 in the government of President Ebrahim Raisi.
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Kerry Chant
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Occupations
- physicianhealth officerchief medical officer
- Biography
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Kerry Gai Chant AO PSM is an Australian public health physician who has been the chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, since 2008. She gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia providing regular public health advice for New South Wales, a contribution for which she was named the state's Woman of the Year in March 2021.
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Gai Waterhouse
- Occupations
- horse trainer
- Biography
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Gabriel Marie "Gai" Waterhouse AO is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman. The daughter of Tommy J. Smith, a leading trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses, Waterhouse was born and raised in Sydney. After graduating from the University of New South Wales, she worked as an actor for a time, appearing in both Australian and English television series. Having worked under her father for a period of 15 years, Waterhouse was granted an Australian Jockey Club (AJC) licence in 1992, and trained her first Group One winner later that year.
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Stuart Robert
- Occupations
- politiciansoldier
- Biography
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Stuart Rowland Robert is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business from 2021 to 2022, following his appointment as Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme in 2019. He was also appointed Acting Minister for Education and Youth in December 2021 and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fadden upon winning the seat at the 2007 federal election, until his resignation in May 2023.
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Andrew Wilkie
- Occupations
- intelligence officerpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Damien Wilkie is an Australian politician and independent federal member for Clark (previously Denison). Before entering politics Wilkie was an infantry officer in the Australian Army.
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Chua Tian Chang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chua Tian Chang, better known as Tian Chua, is a Malaysian politician who served as Special Advisor to the Minister of Works from March 2019 to February 2020 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu from March 2008 to May 2018. He is an independent and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) as well as Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalitions. He was also a member of the Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM). He served as Vice-President of PKR from the founding of PKR in April 1999 to July 2022 and Information Chief of PKR from April 2004 to March 2008 and Division Chief of Batu of PKR before July 2022.
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Jason Clare
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jason Dean Clare is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Education since 1 June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Blaxland in Western Sydney since 2007.
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Philip Lowe
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Commerce in economics and econometrics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Philip Lowe is an Australian economist and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, from September 2016 to September 2023. He was also deputy governor under Glenn Stevens from February 2012 to September 2016.
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Brad Hazzard
- Occupations
- teachersolicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Bradley Ronald "Brad" Hazzard is a retired Australian politician who served as the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Wakehurst between May 1991 and March 2023.
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Gordon Bell
- Occupations
- computer scientistmanagerelectrical engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chester Gordon Bell was an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), from 1960 to 1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later served as the company's Vice President of Engineering from 1972 to 1983, overseeing development of the VAX computer systems. Bell's later career included roles as an entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate from 1986 to 1987, and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research from 1995 to 2015.
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Emile Sherman
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Emile Paul Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for producing the film The King's Speech (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA award for Best Film and Best British Film, and for executive producing television series Top of the Lake, which was nominated for an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe award. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won one; nominated for five BAFTAs and won three, and nominated for two Emmy Awards and won one.
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Geoff Lawson
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Geoffrey Francis Lawson, OAM is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer and the former coach of the Pakistan cricket team.
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Lara Pitt
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Lara Pitt is an Australian television presenter and sports journalist, mainly known for reporting for Fox Sports on their NRL coverage and Monday Night with Matty Johns.
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Greg Combet
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticianmining engineertrade unionist
- Biography
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Gregory Ivan Combet AO is the chairman of Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund. Prior to this he served as chair of the Australian Government Net Zero Economy Agency, establishing a government authority to oversee the economic transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy and net zero emissions.
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Mah Bow Tan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mah Bow Tan is a Singaporean former politician who served as Leader of the House between 2007 and 2011, Minister for National Development between 1999 and 2011, Minister for the Environment from 1993 to 1995, and Minister for Communications between 1991 and 1999. A former member of the People's Action Party, he served as the Member of Parliament representing the Tampines East ward of Tampines Group Representation Constituency between 1988 and 2015.
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David Kilcullen
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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David John Kilcullen FRGS is an Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert and current president of the Cordillera Applications Group. Previously he served as non-executive chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded. He is a professor at Arizona State University and at University of New South Wales, Canberra.
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Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum CF is a Fijian politician and a former cabinet minister. He was the Fijian Attorney-General and the Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, and also served as the Minister responsible for Climate Change under the FijiFirst government. He is the third-highest polling candidate from the Fijian general elections of 2014, 2018 and 2022.
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Army
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Richard Maxwell "Rick" Burr, AO, DSC, MVO is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army, who served as Chief of Army from 2 July 2018 to 1 July 2022. He was previously Commander 1st Division from 2011 to 2012, Deputy Commanding General – Operations, United States Army Pacific from January 2013 to November 2014, and Deputy Chief of Army from 2015 to 2018.
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Kathryn Campbell
- Occupations
- civil servantmilitary officer
- Biography
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Kathryn Jane Campbell, AO, CSC is a former Australian public servant and a former senior officer in the Australian Army Reserve.
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Mehdi Ghazanfari
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Mehdi Ghazanfari Khansari is an Iranian politician and the current chairman of the National Development Fund of Iran since October 2021. He was Minister of Industries and Business from 3 August 2011 to 15 August 2013 and Minister of Commerce in the second cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 9 August 2009 to 3 August 2011.
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Craig Thomson
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Craig Robert Thomson is an Australian former trade union official and a former politician implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair.
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Hamid Mirzadeh
- Occupations
- teacheracademicpolitician
- Biography
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Hamid Mirzadeh is an Iranian politician and academic who was the 3rd president of the Islamic Azad University system.
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David Coleman
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness consultant
- Biography
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David Bernard Coleman is an Australian former politician. He represented the New South Wales seat of Banks in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2025 for the Liberal Party. Coleman served as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention from December 2020 until May 2022. He previously served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from August 2018, although in December 2019 he took indefinite leave for personal reasons. He had earlier served as Assistant Minister for Finance in the Turnbull government from 2017 to 2018.
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Craig Laundy
- Occupations
- hotel managerpolitician
- Biography
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Craig Arthur Samuel Laundy is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Reid from 2013 until his retirement in 2019. He served as Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation in the Second Turnbull Ministry, before resigning in August 2018 following the ousting of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister. On 15 March 2019, Laundy announced he would retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
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Tom Tate
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Thomas Richard Tate is an Australian businessman, property investor, and politician who is the current and 13th mayor of the Gold Coast, Australia. Standing as an independent candidate he was first elected as mayor in 2012, and following his re-election in 2024 he is now the longest-serving holder of that office.
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Alex Greenwich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Hart Greenwich is an Australian politician. He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Sydney since the 2012 Sydney by-election. He ran as an independent and was backed by his predecessor, independent Clover Moore.
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Maha Sinnathamby
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Maha Sinnathamby AM is an Australian businessman and property developer. He is the entrepreneur behind the Greater Springfield Development in Queensland, the largest master-planned community in Australia.
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Katharine Cullen
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Katharine Cullen is an Australian actress, daughter of actors Max Cullen and Colleen Anne Fitzpatrick.
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Cheng Kar Foo Andrew
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Cheng Kar-foo is a Hong Kong former politician and solicitor. He is a former Democratic Party member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories East geographical constituency.
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Lior
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Lior Attar, better known simply as Lior, is an independent Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne. He is best known for his 2005 debut studio album Autumn Flow, which featured singles such as "Daniel", the title track and his signature song "This Old Love".
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Duncan J. Watts
- Occupations
- researcheracademicphysicistsociologist
- Biography
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Duncan James Watts is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.
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Rodney Adler
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- 1978-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Rodney Stephen Adler is an Australian whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became chief executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia's third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of HIH Insurance after the acquisition of that company, and resigned in January 2001, two months before HIH collapsed. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH, where Adler obtained A$2 million from HIH by false or misleading statements and being dishonest as a director.
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Andrew Morton
- Occupations
- computer scientistprogrammerengineer
- Biography
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Andrew Keith Paul Morton is an Australian software engineer. He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management.
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Foo Mee Har
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Foo Mee Har is a Malaysian-born Singaporean business executive and politician. A member of the People's Action Party (PAP), she served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayer Rajah division from 2011 to 2020, and from 2020 to 2025 she represented the Ayer Rajah–Gek Poh division in the West Coast Group Representation Constituency.
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Luke Foley
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Luke Aquinas Foley is a former Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of New South Wales from 2015 to 2018. Foley was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 19 June 2010 until his resignation to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn at the 2015 New South Wales election. Foley resigned after it was alleged that he had indecently assaulted an ABC journalist. Foley denies the allegations.
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Helen Haines
- Occupations
- researcherpolitician
- Biography
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Helen Mary Haines is an Australian politician who has served as the independent MP for the Victorian seat of Indi since the 2019 federal election.
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Janette Howard
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Janette Howard is the wife of John Howard, who was the 25th prime minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007.
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Liu Thai Ker
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- urban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Liu Thai Ker DUBC PJG PPA was a Singaporean architect and a master planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. He was also involved in the urban planning of various cities in China since the 1980s.
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Ken Henry
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- economistcivil servantbusiness executive
- Biography
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Kenneth Ross Henry AC is an Australian economist and public servant who served as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011.
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Saul Griffith
- Occupations
- engineerinventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Saul Griffith is an Australian–American inventor and renewable electricity advocate. He is the founder or co-founder of multiple companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables.
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Matt Thistlethwaite
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013, representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. Since 29 July 2024, Thistlethwaite has served as the Assistant Minister for Immigration in the ministry of Anthony Albanese. He has also served as the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade since May 2025.
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Lee Rhiannon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lee Rhiannon is an Australian former politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Federal Parliament, Rhiannon was a Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.
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Jason Falinski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jason George Falinski is an Australian former politician. He was first elected as the Member for Mackellar for the Liberal Party in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2016 Australian election and was re-elected at the 2019 Australian election. He lost his re-election bid in the 2022 Australian federal election to independent candidate Sophie Scamps. During his time in office, Falinski served as Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, and the Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue. He was elected as President of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party in 2023.
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Mike Kelly
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- military officerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Colonel Michael Joseph Kelly, AM is an Australian former politician who twice represented the Division of Eden-Monaro in the Parliament of Australia, from 2007 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2020. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Todd Greenberg
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Todd Greenberg is an Australian sports administrator who served as chief executive officer of the NRL between March 2016 and April 2020. In January 2021 he was appointed as chief executive officer of the Australian Cricketers' Association.
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Biman Prasad
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Biman Prasad is a Fijian politician, economist and former Cabinet minister who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 2022 to 2025. He has led the National Federation Party since 2014.
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George Szekeres
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- In 1963 graduated with professor
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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George Szekeres AM FAA was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician.
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Shi Zhengrong
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Shi Zhengrong is a Chinese-Australian businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and, up to March 2013, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power.
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Larissa Behrendt
- Occupations
- novelistuniversity teacherfilm directorwriterjurist
- Biography
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Larissa Yasmin Behrendt AO FASSA FAHA FAAL is an Australian legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate. She was a professor of law (2001-2018) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), now distinguished professor there. She was director of research and academic programs (2001-2011) at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, and holds the inaugural Chair in Indigenous Research at UTS. In 2025 she was appointed as the chair of the Writing Australia Council.
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Sharan Burrow
- Occupations
- teachertrade unionist
- Biography
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Sharan Leslie Burrow AC is an Australian trade unionist who served as the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) from 2010 to 2022 and as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2000 to 2010. She was the first woman to become General Secretary of the ITUC since its foundation in 2006, and was the second woman to become President of the ACTU.
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Saul Newman
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- In 1994 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in political science
- In 1998 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- writerpolitical theoristpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Saul Newman is a British political theorist who writes on post-anarchism. He is professor of political theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Tim Cook
- Enrolled in the University of New South Wales
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Timothy Raleigh Brown Cook CM FRSC was a Canadian military historian and author. Cook was a historian at the Canadian War Museum and the author of thirteen books about the military history of Canada. Having written extensively about World War I, Cook's focus shifted to Canada's involvement in World War II with the 2014 publication of the first volume in a two-volume series chronicling Canada's role in that war. He won the Charles Taylor Prize in 2009 for his book Shock Troops. He was a two-time recipient (2000 and 2015) of the C.P. Stacey Prize, a two-time recipient of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, and a three-time winner of the Ottawa Book Prize. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. He was a member of the Order of Canada.
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Sarah Mitchell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Ann Mitchell, an Australian politician, is the former Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning in the second Berejiklian ministry and in the Perrottet ministry. She has been a Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since March 2011.
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Anita Heiss
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Anita Marianne Heiss AM is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees.
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Penny Sharpe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2005, representing the Labor Party. Since March 2023, Sharpe is the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council and the Vice-President of the Executive Council since Labor's election victory in March 2023, having previously served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council between 2021 and 2023.
