100 Notable alumni of
University of Western Australia
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The University of Western Australia is 472nd in the world, 10th in Oceania, and 8th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Western Australia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Western Australia won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Tim Minchin
- Occupations
- composersingercomedianstand-up comedianactor
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Timothy David Minchin AM is a British-born Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, poet, composer, and songwriter.
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Peter Lim
- Occupations
- stockbroker
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Peter Lim is a Singaporean business magnate who was a stockbroker, and is now a private investor who has invested in sectors ranging from palm oil to medicine. In 2019, Forbes ranked him as the 10th richest person in Singapore with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. He is a shareholder of English club Salford City and the owner of Spanish La Liga club Valencia CF since 2014.
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Bob Hawke
- Occupations
- union organizertrade unionistpolitician
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Robert James Lee Hawke AC GCL was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and president of the Labor Party national executive from 1973 to 1978.
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Barry Marshall
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Occupations
- biologistphysicianmicrobiologistprofessorautobiographer
- Biography
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Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
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Marcus Stoinis
- Occupations
- cricketer
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Marcus Peter Stoinis is an Australian cricketer who plays limited overs cricket for the Australian national team. He is contracted to Western Australia and Melbourne Stars domestically, and has previously also played for Perth Scorchers and Victoria as an all rounder. Stoinis was a member of the Australian team that won the 2021 T20 World Cup and 2023 Cricket World Cup.
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Andrew Forrest
- Occupations
- jackarooentrepreneurinternational forum participant
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John Andrew Henry Forrest, nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations.
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Christian Porter
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Charles Christian Porter is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the 37th Attorney-General of Australia from 2017 to 2021 in the Turnbull government and the subsequent Morrison government. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Pearce from 2013 to 2022 and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Porter also served as Leader of the House and Minister for Industrial Relations from 2019 to 2021, and Minister for Industry, Science and Technology in 2021 following his resignation as attorney-general.
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Toby Schmitz
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Toby Schmitz is an Australian actor and playwright.
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Akshay Venkatesh
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Akshay Venkatesh is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.
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Boediono
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist. He was the 11th vice president of Indonesia, in office from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Prior to this he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
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Kim Beazley
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- viceroypoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Kim Christian Beazley AC is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously, he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament, he served as ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016 and 33rd governor of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022.
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Michaelia Cash
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician who served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Shaun Tan
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerillustratorcomics artistdrawer
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Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include The Red Tree and The Arrival.
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Matt Parker
- Occupations
- writerphysicisttelevision producermathematiciancomedian
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Matthew Thomas Parker is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator based in the United Kingdom. His book Humble Pi was the first maths book in the UK to be a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. Parker was the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is a former maths teacher and has helped popularise maths via his tours and videos.
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Simon Katich
- Occupations
- cricketer
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Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also, until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Katich also played for Lancashire, represented his birth state of Western Australia and played in Indian Premier League for Kings XI Punjab. Katich was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
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Robin Warren
- Occupations
- biologistpathologistphysicianmicrobiologistresearcher
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John Robin Warren is an Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the cause of most peptic ulcers.
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Matthew Pavlich
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
- Biography
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Matthew Lee Pavlich is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Rachel Kum
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Studied finance
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Rachel Kum is a Singaporean entrepreneur, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She co-founded the Singaporean company Rachel K Cosmetics. She won Miss Singapore Universe 2009 and represented Singapore in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant which was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas on 23 August 2009.
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Trilby Glover
- Occupations
- actor
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Trilby Glover is an Australian actress known for her roles as Shoshanna in The Starter Wife mini-series, Jessica in the feature film Righteous Kill, and as Jane Hollis in the second season of Fox comedy-horror series Scream Queens.
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Colin Barnett
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- economistpolitician
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Colin James Barnett is an Australian former politician who was the 29th Premier of Western Australia. He concurrently served as the state's Treasurer at several points during his tenure and had previously held various other portfolios in Western Australia's Court–Cowan Ministry.
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Amanda Platell
- Occupations
- presenterjournalist
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Amanda Jane Platell is an Australian journalist. Between 1999 and 2001 she was the press secretary to William Hague, the then leader of the British Conservative Party. She is currently based in the UK.
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Maram Susli
- Occupations
- YouTuberpropagandisttelevision producerbloggerpodcaster
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Maram Susli, also known as Mimi al-Laham, PartisanGirl, Syrian Girl and Syrian Sister, is a Syrian Australian conspiracy theorist, YouTube content creator, and political commentator who prepares videos on the Syrian Civil War, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Gamergate controversy.
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Billy Snedden
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- politicianlawyercivil servant
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Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, KCMG, QC was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
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Fiona Stanley
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Fiona Juliet Stanley is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work, her research into child and maternal health as well as birth disorders such as cerebral palsy. Stanley is the patron of the Telethon Kids Institute and a distinguished professorial fellow in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. From 1990 to December 2011 she was the founding director of Telethon Kids.
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Geraldine Doogue
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistradio personality
- Biography
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Geraldine Frances Doogue is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
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Robert French
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- barristerjudgesolicitor
- Biography
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Robert Shenton French is an Australian lawyer and judge who served as the twelfth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 2008 to 2017. He has been the chancellor of the University of Western Australia since November 2017.
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Stephen Smith
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- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
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Stephen Francis Smith is an Australian former politician and diplomat serving as the 26th and current high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom since 2023. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was the federal member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Perth from 1993 to 2013, serving in the Rudd and Gillard governments as minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010, minister for Trade in 2010 and minister for Defence from 2010 to 2013.
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Paul Hasluck
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- In 1932 graduated with diploma of journalism
- In 1937 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1940 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianpoliticiangovernorjournalist
- Biography
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Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck, KG, GCMG, GCVO, PC was an Australian statesman who served as the 17th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1969 to 1974. Prior to that, he was a Liberal Party politician, holding ministerial office continuously from 1951 to 1969.
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Shirley Strickland
- Occupations
- sprinterathletics competitor
- Biography
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Shirley Barbara de la Hunty AO, MBE, known as Shirley Strickland during her early career, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.
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Carmen Lawrence
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- university teacherpoliticianpsychologist
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Carmen Mary Lawrence is an Australian academic and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993, the first woman to become the premier of an Australian state. To date she is the only woman premier of Western Australia. A member of the Labor Party, she later entered federal politics as a member of the House of Representatives from 1994 to 2007, and served as a minister in the Keating government.
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Troy Buswell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Troy Raymond Buswell is an Australian former politician who was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2014, representing the seat of Vasse. He was Treasurer of Western Australia in the Barnett Ministry from 2008 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014, and also held several other portfolios.
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Roseanna Cunningham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roseanna Cunningham is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training from 2014 until 2016.
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Melissa Price
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Melissa Lee Price is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Defence Industry from 2019 to 2022 and as Minister for Science and Technology from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the Division of Durack in Western Australia. A member of the Liberal Party, she previously served as Minister for the Environment (2018–2019) and Assistant Minister for the Environment (2017–2018).
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Sandra Angelia
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Sandra Angelia Hadisiswantoro is an Indonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Indonesia 2008. She was also voted "Miss Favorite" by the audience, beating soap opera star Kartika Indah Pelapory. She is a representative of the East Java province. Once elected as Miss Indonesia, she represented Indonesia in the Miss World 2008 pageant.
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Richard Court
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Richard Fairfax Court is a former Australian politician and diplomat. He served as Premier of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and as Australian Ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented the Perth-area electorate of Nedlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2001. His father, Sir Charles Court, also served as state premier.
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Geoff Gallop
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Geoffrey Ian Gallop is an Australian academic and former politician who served as the 27th premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a professor and director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.
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Taryn Fiebig
- Occupations
- cellistopera singer
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Taryn Fiebig was an Australian soprano, a principal soprano of Opera Australia who also performed internationally. She appeared in many Mozart roles such as Susanna and Zerlina. The versatile singer also performed in Baroque opera, Italian repertoire, contemporary opera, operetta and musical theatre.
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Asha de Vos
- Occupations
- international forum participantbiologist
- Biography
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Asha de Vos (Sinhala:ආශා ඩි වොස් (born 1979) is a Sri Lankan marine biologist, ocean educator and pioneer of blue whale research within the northern Indian Ocean. She is known for her Blue Whale Project. She is a Senior TED Fellow and was chosen for a BBC 100 Women award in 2018. She is a National Geographic 2016 Emerging Explorer Grantee.
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Warren Snowdon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996, and again from October 1998 until May 2022. Initially representing the Division of Northern Territory, and later the Division of Lingiari, his constituents consisted of all the residents of the Northern Territory located outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. He was the last sitting MP who was first elected in the 1980s, and the last who served in Old Parliament House.
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Dean Smith
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical adviser
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Dean Anthony Smith is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2012, representing Western Australia.
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Alannah MacTiernan
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- politician
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Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan is a former Australian politician. From 1988 to 2023, she has served in politics at a federal, state, and local level, including as a minister in the Western Australian state governments of Geoff Gallop, Alan Carpenter, and Mark McGowan. She is best known for her role as the minister for planning and infrastructure during the construction of the Mandurah line. Born in Melbourne, she moved to Perth to study at the University of Western Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and later with a law degree. She worked for the Department of Employment before practising as a lawyer between 1986 and 1992. During this time, she also served on the Perth City Council. In 1976, MacTiernan joined the Australian Labor Party, and at the 1993 Western Australian state election, she was elected to the Legislative Council's East Metropolitan Region. She became a shadow minister in October 1994, and she was transferred to the Legislative Assembly at the 1996 state election, winning the seat of Armadale.
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Alan Carpenter
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Alan John Carpenter is a former Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Western Australia, from 2006 to 2008. From Albany, Carpenter graduated from the University of Western Australia, and worked as a journalist before entering politics. A member of the Labor Party, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1996 state election, representing the seat of Willagee. In the Gallop ministry, which took office following the 2001 election, Carpenter was Minister for Education (later Education and Training), as well as holding several other portfolios. He replaced Geoff Gallop as premier in January 2006, following Gallop's resignation, but Labor lost office following a hung parliament at the 2008 election, with Colin Barnett becoming premier as the leader of a minority Liberal Party government. Carpenter resigned from parliament in 2009, and until 2018 held a senior management position with Wesfarmers.
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Matt Price
- Years
- 1961-2007 (aged 46)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Matt Price was an Australian journalist and newspaper columnist.
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Kerry Sanderson
- Occupations
- businesspersongovernorcivil servant
- Biography
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Kerry Gaye Sanderson, AC, CVO is a retired Australian public servant and business director, who served as the 32nd Governor of Western Australia, in office from 20 October 2014 to 1 May 2018. She is the first woman to have held the position. She has since served as Chancellor of Edith Cowan University for 2019–2021.
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Fred Chaney
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticiansolicitor
- Biography
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Frederick Michael Chaney, AO is an Australian former politician who was deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1989 to 1990 and served as a minister in the Fraser government. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1974 to 1990, and then served a single term in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993.
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Dorothy Coade Hewett
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- novelistpoetplaywrightwriter
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Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
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Wong Soon Koh
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- politician
- Biography
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Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, is a Malaysian politician who has served as State Leader of the Opposition of Sarawak since November 2020 and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bawang Assan since September 1991. He served as the State Minister of Finance II of Sarawak from 2004 and State Minister of International Trade and E-Commerce from May 2017 to his resignation in July 2019, State Minister of Local Government and Community Development from September 2011 to May 2016 and State Minister of Environment and Public Health from 2008 to September 2011. He is a member of and has also served as 1st and founding President of the Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) since 2015 and was previously a member of the Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP).
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H. C. Coombs
- Occupations
- economistcivil servant
- Biography
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Herbert Cole "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant. He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, in which capacity he served from 1960 to 1968.
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Peter Whish-Wilson
- Occupations
- politicianwinegrowereconomist
- Biography
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Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2012, representing the Australian Greens. Formerly a lecturer in economics at the University of Tasmania, Whish-Wilson was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy caused by the retirement of former party leader Bob Brown, and has since won election in his own right in 2013, 2016 and 2022.
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Peter Bell
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
- Biography
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Peter Francis Bell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He played as a rover (or follower). A former captain of the Fremantle Football Club, Bell was twice named as a member of the All-Australian Team. He was an acclaimed ball-winner and had more than 30 possessions in a game on 39 occasions in his career.
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John Dawkins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins AO is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and his abrupt exit from politics.
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Anthony de Jasay
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Studied in 1955
- Occupations
- philosophereconomist
- Biography
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Anthony de Jasay was a Hungarian writer, economist, and right-libertarian philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, and obtained a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.
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Megan Clark
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- engineerbusiness executivecivil servantgeologist
- Biography
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Megan Elizabeth Clark AC, FTSE is an Australian geologist and business executive, former director of the CSIRO, and former head of the Australian Space Agency.
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Madeleine King
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticiansolicitor
- Biography
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Madeleine Mary Harvie King is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia in the Albanese government since June 2022. She has represented the Western Australian seat of Brand in the House of Representatives since 2016. She worked as a lawyer and political adviser before entering politics.
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Greg Moriarty
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- civil servantdiplomat
- Biography
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Gregory Laurence Moriarty, is a senior Australian public servant and diplomat, and the current Secretary of the Department of Defence since 4 September 2017. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Moriarty has been Australian Ambassador to Iran from 2005 to 2008, Australian Ambassador to Indonesia from 2010 to 2014, the inaugural Commonwealth Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 2015 to 2016, and the International and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister.
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Malcolm McCusker
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- barrister
- Biography
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Malcolm James McCusker is an Australian barrister and philanthropist who was the 31st Governor of Western Australia, serving from July 2011 to June 2014.
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Jarrad Seng
- Occupations
- filmmakerphotographer
- Biography
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Jarrad Seng is an Australian photographer and filmmaker. Based in Perth, his work often mixes with his interests in music, travel and volunteering. Seng frequently collaborates with English singer Passenger, serving as his tour photographer on seven tours between 2012 and 2015, as well as directing many of his music videos. Seng has also toured with American band Matchbox Twenty and Australian folk singer Stu Larsen.
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Rosamond McKitterick
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachermedievalist
- Biography
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Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is an English medieval historian. She is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge.
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Kim Beazley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Edward Beazley was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1945 to 1977, representing the Labor Party. He was Minister for Education in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975.
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Oren Yiftachel
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- urban plannergeographeractivist
- Biography
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Oren Yiftachel is an Israeli professor of political and legal geography, urban studies and urban planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba. He holds the Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Urban Studies.
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Peter Dowding
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter McCallum Dowding SC is an Australian lawyer and former politician who was the 24th Premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990.
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David Irvine
- Occupations
- journalistdiplomat
- Biography
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David Taylor Irvine, was an Australian diplomat who, from March 2009 to September 2014, was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Prior to his appointment to ASIO, he was Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) from 2003 to 2009. In 2017 he was appointed Chair of the Foreign Investment Review Board.
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Dave Warner
- Occupations
- songwriternovelistsingerscreenwriterchildren's writer
- Biography
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David Robert Warner is an Australian rock musician, author and screenwriter. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.
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Chris Evans
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 1993 to 2013, representing the Australian Labor Party.
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Rachel Siewert
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rachel Mary Siewert is an Australian politician. She was a senator for Western Australia from 2005 to 2021, representing the Australian Greens, and served as the party's co-deputy leader from 2017 to 2018. She previously worked as coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia.
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Patrick Gorman
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical adviser
- Biography
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Patrick Possum Gorman is an Australian politician, elected as an Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Perth at the 2018 Perth by-election.
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Margaret Battye
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Margaret Battye was an Australian barrister and jurist, who was one of the most influential women in politics, business and the legal advancement in Oceania. Battye was the first woman to represent a client and begin a legal practice in Western Australia, and she held a number of roles in the early history of the state's division of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Peter Newman
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- researcherprofessorecologist
- Biography
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Peter William Geoffrey Newman is an environmental scientist, author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. He is best known for his contributions to the development of Perth's electrified metropolitan rail network through both activist and official consulting roles since the 1980s.
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John Tonkin
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Studied in 1921-1922
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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John Trezise Tonkin was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974. He was a minister in the governments of John Willcock, Frank Wise and Bert Hawke, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from April 1933 to February 1977, making him the longest serving member of the Parliament of Western Australia as of 2021.
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Ken Freeman
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Kenneth Charles Freeman is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1940, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Western Australia, and graduated with first class honours in applied mathematics in 1962. He then went to Cambridge University for postgraduate work in theoretical astrophysics with Leon Mestel and Donald Lynden-Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1965. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas with Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to Australia in 1967 as a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at Mount Stromlo. Apart from a year in the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen in 1976 and some occasional absences overseas, he has been at Mount Stromlo ever since.
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Sue Ellery
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Suzanne Mary Ellery is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2001, representing South Metropolitan Region. She is the current Minister for Finance, Minister for Commerce, and Minister for Women's Interests in the McGowan government, having previously served as a minister in the government of Alan Carpenter from 2007 to 2008.
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Eric Ripper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Stephen Ripper is a retired Australian politician. From 2008 to 2012 he was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Labor Party in Western Australia.
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Joan London
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
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Jonathan Strahan
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
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Wayne Martin
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Wayne Stewart Martin is a lawyer and former judge who served as Chief Justice of Western Australia from 2006 until 2018, and Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia from 2009 to 2019.
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Ralph Honner
- Occupations
- Australian rules football playerdiplomat
- Biography
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Lieutenant Colonel Hyacinth Ralph Honner DSO, MC, known as Ralph Honner, was a distinguished Australian soldier during the Second World War. He is considered particularly notable for his leadership during the Kokoda Track Campaign, during which he commanded the 39th Battalion, which fought a series of delaying actions as the Japanese advanced towards Port Moresby. In 1943 Honner was wounded during the fighting in the Ramu and Markham Valleys and, as a result, was discharged from the Army in early 1945. In his later life, he worked as an administrator on the War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal. He was also President of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) from 1961 to 1963, and served as the Australian ambassador to Ireland between 1969 and 1972. He died in 1994, aged 89.
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Ken Michael
- Occupations
- engineergovernorcivil servantcivil engineer
- Biography
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Kenneth Comninos Michael, is an Australian civil engineer, academic and former public servant who was the 30th Governor of Western Australia, serving from 2006 to 2011.
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Tony Buti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antonio De Paulo "Tony" Buti is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Armadale since 2 October 2010, when he was elected in a by-election.
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C. J. van Rijsbergen
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Glasgow, where he founded the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group. He is one of the founders of modern Information Retrieval and the author of the seminal monograph Information Retrieval and of the textbook The Geometry of Information Retrieval.
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Bob McMullan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Francis McMullan is an Australian former politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was the first person to represent the Australian Capital Territory in both houses of federal parliament
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Alexandra Hasluck
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- In 1929 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- authorhistorianbiographerteacher
- Biography
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Dame Alexandra Margaret Martin Hasluck, Lady Hasluck,, also known as Alix Hasluck, was an Australian author and social historian. She published a number of works on the history of Western Australia. She was the wife of Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia.
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Albert Jacob
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Paul Jacob is an Australian politician. He is the current mayor of the City of Joondalup. He was the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ocean Reef from 2008 to 2017, and the Minister for the Environment and Heritage in Colin Barnett's government. He had previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Community Services; Seniors and Volunteering and Youth, from June 2012 to March 2013. His seat was abolished prior to the 2017 state election and he was defeated contesting Burns Beach.
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Beryl Mills
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Beryl Lucy Mills was an advertising agent, librarian, and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the first woman to win the Miss Australia quest in 1926
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Kazi Shahidullah
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Kazi Shahidullah is a Bangladeshi academic and incumbent Chairman of Bangladesh University Grants Commission. He previously served as the vice-chancellor of the National University of Bangladesh during 2009–2013. He taught history at Dhaka University.
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Chris Back
- Occupations
- politicianveterinarian
- Biography
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Christopher John Back is a former Australian politician, who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate for Western Australia from 2009 until his resignation in 2017.
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Robyn Eckersley
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Robyn Eckersley is a Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Pierre Yang
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Pierre Shuai Yang is a Chinese Australian lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 state election, as a Labor member in South Metropolitan Region. His term began on 22 May 2017.
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Alan Eggleston
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Alan Eggleston is an Australian former politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2014 representing Western Australia.
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Chris Ellison
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Christopher Martin Ellison is an Australian lawyer and former politician. He served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1993 to 2009, representing the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Howard government as Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs (1997), Schools, Vocational Education and Training (1997–1998), Special Minister of State (1998–2001), Justice and Customs (2001–2007), and Human Services (2007).
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Reg Withers
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticiansolicitor
- Biography
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Reginald Greive Withers was a long-serving member of the Australian Senate, a government minister, and Lord Mayor of Perth.
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Jim Middleton
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jim Middleton is an Australian journalist and was a senior advisor to former South Australian Senator Tim Storer.
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Shane Love
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronald Shane Love is an Australian politician. He is the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Moore, representing the National Party of Australia (WA) and is currently the leader of the opposition of Western Australia.
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Kim Hames
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Kim Desmond Hames is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2017. He served as a minister in the governments of Richard Court and Colin Barnett, and was deputy premier to Barnett from 2008 to 2016. Hames retired from parliament at the 2017 state election.
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Barbara York Main
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- In 1956 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- arachnologist
- Biography
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Barbara Anne York Main was an Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. The author of four books and over 90 research papers, Main is recognised for her prolific work in establishing taxonomy for arachnids, personally describing 34 species and seven new genera. The BBC and ABC produced a film about her work, Lady of the Spiders, in 1981.
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Vic Garland
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- accountantdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Sir Ransley Victor Garland KBE, usually known as Vic Garland, was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1981, representing the Liberal Party, and served as a minister in the McMahon and Fraser governments. He later served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1983.
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Dave Kelly
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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David Joseph Kelly is an Australian politician who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia since 2013, representing the seat of Bassendean. In the McGowan Ministry, he was Minister for Water, Minister for Fisheries, Minister for Forestry, Minister for Innovation and ICT, and Minister for Science.
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Barry Hickey
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Barry James Hickey OAM KC*HS an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the eighth Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2012.
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Kate Doust
- Enrolled in the University of Western Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Catherine Esther Doust is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2001, representing South Metropolitan Region. She was President of the Legislative Council from 2017 to 2021, the first woman to hold the position.
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Andrea Mitchell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrea Ruth Mitchell was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2008 to 2017, representing the seat of Kingsley. She was a minister in the government of Colin Barnett from March 2016.
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John Coates
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Henry John Coates, AC, MBE was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1990 to 1992. After retiring from the army, he became an author and a visiting fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy branch of the University of New South Wales, pursuing aspects of Australia's military history.
