35 Notable alumni of
University of New England, Australia
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The University of New England, Australia is 1866th in the world, 37th in Oceania, and 29th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the University of New England, Australia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Barnaby Joyce
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who was the leader of the National Party of Australia from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022. Joyce was the 17th deputy prime minister of Australia during both his leadership tenures under Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from 2016 to 2018 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison from 2021 to 2022.
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Rhonda Burchmore
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Rhonda Suzanne Burchmore OAM is an Australian entertainer, most notable as an actress, recording artist and singer in musical theatre, she has appeared in numerous television shows and briefly in film.
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David Elliott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Andrew Elliott is an Australian former politician. Elliott served as the New South Wales Minister for Transport and the Minister for Veterans in the Perrottet ministry between 21 December 2021 and 25 March 2023. Elliott was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Baulkham Hills for the Liberal Party between 2011 and 2023.
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Tony Windsor
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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Antony Harold Curties Windsor, AM is a former Australian politician. Windsor was an independent member for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Tamworth from 1991 to 2001 − supporting the incumbent Greiner Liberal/National Coalition minority government at the 1991 election.
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Deborah O'Neill
- Occupations
- politicianlecturer
- Biography
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Deborah Mary O'Neill is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator for New South Wales with the Australian Labor Party since 2013. She previously served as Member of Parliament for Robertson from 2010 to 2013. Before entering politics O'Neill was a school teacher and university academic. In her Senate role, she has been described as taking "a fierce approach to accountability." In June 2023, O'Neill was appointed to chair the newly formed Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. In this role, the committee has largely focused on failures of governance and public accountability amongst the large consulting firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC.
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Michele Bullock
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Michele Bullock is an Australian economist who is currently governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). She commenced as governor on 18 September 2023, and is the first woman to hold the role.
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Gabrielle Lord
- Occupations
- writernovelistchildren's writerjournalist
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Gabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.
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John Veron
- Occupations
- zoologistmarine biologistbiologist
- Biography
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John Edward Norwood Veron OAM, credited in research as J. E. N. Veron, and in other writing as Charlie Veron, is an Australian biologist, taxonomist, and specialist in the study of corals and reefs. He is believed to have discovered more than 20% of the world's coral species.
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Kevin Scarce
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- chancellorgovernorbusiness executivenaval officercivil servant
- Biography
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Rear Admiral Kevin John Scarce, AC, CSC is a retired Royal Australian Navy officer who was the 34th Governor of South Australia, serving from August 2007 to August 2014. He was succeeded by Hieu Van Le, who had previously been his lieutenant governor. He was the 16th Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 2014 to 2020.
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Slade Brockman
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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William Edward Slade Brockman is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator for Western Australia since 2017, representing the Liberal Party. He was elected President of the Australian Senate in October 2021 following the resignation of Scott Ryan.
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Libby Coker
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistteacher
- Biography
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Elizabeth Ann Coker is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election, representing the Victorian seat of Corangamite. She previously served as the mayor of the Surf Coast Shire. Coker won her seat in the 2022 Australian federal election with a 6.5% swing to the ALP.
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Raymond Apple
- Occupations
- authorrabbi
- Biography
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Raymond Apple AO RFD was an Australian and Israeli rabbi who worked in England and Australia and retired to Israel. He was the Senior Rabbi of The Great Synagogue of Sydney between 1972 and 2005. In this role, he was one of Australia's highest profile rabbis and the leading spokesman for Judaism in Australia.
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Peter Tinley
- Occupations
- soldierpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Peter Charles Tinley AM is an Australian politician and former soldier. Peter has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since November 2009, representing the electorate of Willagee.
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Susan Coyle
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Susan May Coyle, AM, CSC, DSM is a senior officer in the Australian Army. She joined the army as a reservist in 1987 and, following training at the Australian Defence Force Academy, was commissioned into the Royal Australian Corps of Signals in 1992. She has commanded the 104th Signal Squadron (2003–04), 17th Signal Regiment (2009–10), Task Group Afghanistan (2015) and the 6th Combat Support Brigade (2017–19), and has deployed on operations to East Timor, the Solomon Islands and Afghanistan. She was appointed Commander Joint Task Force 633, with responsibility for all Australian operations in the Middle East, from January to November 2020. She was the first woman to command the task force, which had oversight for 1,200 personnel under Operation Accordion. Coyle was Head Information Warfare from January 2021 to November 2022, Commander Forces Command from November 2022 to June 2024, and assumed the role of Chief of Joint Capabilities in July 2024.
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George Souris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Souris AM is an Australian politician and former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Upper Hunter for the Nationals from 1988 to 2015. Souris is a former leader of the National Party in NSW.
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Alice Gorman
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- archaeologistresearcher
- Biography
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Alice Gorman FAHA FSA is an Australian archaeologist, heritage consultant, and lecturer, who is best known for pioneering work in the field of space archaeology and her Space Age Archaeology blog. Based at Flinders University, she is an expert in Indigenous stone tool analysis, but better known for her research into the archaeology of orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and satellite tracking stations. Gorman teaches modern material culture studies, cultural heritage management, and Australian stone tools. Gorman is also a founding member of the Archaeology, Science and Heritage Council of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit organisation developing and seeking to implement an international convention to protect human cultural heritage in outer space.
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Peter Drysdale
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Peter David Drysdale AO is an Australian economist and writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He was executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) until 2002.
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Richard Torbay
- Occupations
- politicianmayor
- Biography
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George Richard Torbay is a former Australian politician who was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Northern Tablelands from 1999 to 2013. Torbay was the 30th Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, serving from 2007 until 2011, and was the first independent member to be Speaker of the House since 1913. Prior to his election to state parliament, he served as Mayor of Armidale City Council from 1995 to 1998.
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Karunasena Kodituwakku
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Karunasena Kodituwakku is a Sri Lankan politician, academic and diplomat. He was educated at St. Servatius' College, Matara. He was the Sri Lankan ambassador to China, and non-resident ambassador to Mongolia and North Korea. He was the former Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of Education, Human Resources Development and Cultural Affairs and the third governor of the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. He also served as the vice chancellor of University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Sri Lankan ambassador to Japan and Republic of Korea.
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Milena Pires
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Milena Pires is an East Timorese politician and women's rights activist who served as director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women in East Timor. Since 2016, she has been the Permanent Representative of East Timor to the United Nations.
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Gregory Retallack
- Occupations
- university teacherpaleontologistbotanistgeologist
- Biography
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Gregory John Retallack is an Australian paleontologist, geologist, and author who specializes in the study of fossil soils (paleopedology). His research has examined the fossil record of soils though major events in Earth history, extending back some 4.6 billion years. He has written two textbooks on paleopedology.
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Jacqueline Lawrence
- Occupations
- kayakercanoeist
- Biography
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Jacqueline "Jacqui" Lawrence is an Australian slalom canoeist and Olympic silver medallist, from Old Bonalbo, New South Wales. She competed at the international level from 2000 to 2008.
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Peter K. Latz
- Occupations
- agrostologistbotanist
- Biography
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Peter Kenneth Latz is an agrostologist, botanist, ethnobotanist, and author from Central Australia. For 55 years he worked with the Eastern and Western Arrernte, Alyawarre, Anmatyerre, Pintupi/Luritja, Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, and Warlpiri people to organise and share their cultural and scientific knowledge of central Australian plants. In many areas of Australia this knowledge has been lost, but it has been preserved in the Red Centre as a result of this lifelong collaboration. He has published articles and books on Australian plants, particularly on arid grasses and vegetation and Aboriginal plant use.
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Les Bursill
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Leslie William Bursill was a Dharawal (Aboriginal Australian) historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, and publisher, born in Hurstville, New South Wales, in February 1945. His father, Wallace Richard Bursill, was serving in the 7th Division of the Australian Imperial Force (2nd) (AIF) in New Guinea at the time of Bursill's birth. Although Bursill is strongly identified with the Dharawal of southern Sydney (in 2009, he became chair of the Sutherland Shire Aboriginal Advisory Committee), his maternal Dharawal forebears hailed from the area between Kangaroo Valley and the coast near Nowra. Bursill was made a Justice of the Peace at Sutherland Court House in 1976. In 1995, he was appointed Lecturer in Mental Health and Counselling at the University of Sydney. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001. In 2007, he was awarded the NSW Police Commanders Award for excellence in teaching. In 2008, he was appointed Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. In 2009, he was awarded a Premiers Heritage Volunteer Award and also received a Certificate of Excellence for Teaching from the Australian College of Educators. He received the Order of Australia Medal in that same year.
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Anne Plunkett
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Anne Maree Plunkett is a senior Australian public servant and career diplomat. She was the Australian Ambassador to Portugal from 2012 to 2016, with non-resident accreditation to Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. She was previously Australian Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland and the Holy See (Vatican) between 2006 and 2008.
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Lionel Gilbert
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Lionel Arthur Gilbert OAM CF was an Australian historian, author, curator, lecturer, and biographer, specializing in applied, natural, and local history. Born in Burwood, New South Wales, he studied at Sydney Teachers College and, beginning in 1946, worked as a teacher and later a headmaster in state schools in various locations around New South Wales until 1961. In 1963 Gilbert graduated from the University of New England with a Bachelor of Arts in History. That same year, he was appointed a lecturer and curator at the Armidale Teachers' College Museum of Education, in which capacity he served until his retirement in 1984, overseeing several expansions of the museum and establishment of a historical research centre.
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Adriana Taylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adriana Johanna Taylor is an Australian politician. She was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Elwick from 2010 to 2016.
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Glenn Tasker
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- sports executive
- Biography
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Glenn Robert Tasker was a leading Australian sport administrator particularly in swimming, tennis and the Paralympic movement. He was President of the Australian Paralympic Committee from 2013 to 2018.
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Marie-Louise Ayres
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Marie-Louise Ayres is a librarian whose work has centered on providing digital access to cultural resources throughout Australia. Since 2017 she has been the Director-General of the National Library of Australia.
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Alan Powell
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Alan Walter Powell was a historian and author of Northern Territory history.
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Evan Williams
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Evan John Williams is a retired Australian diplomat and public servant who served as the Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 1 November 2003 until 31 October 2005.
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Claire Smith
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologistauthor
- Biography
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Claire Edwina Smith AO, FSA, FAHA is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Indigenous archaeology, symbolic communication and rock art. She was dean (research) of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2017-2018 and, before that, head of the Department of Archaeology. She was president of the World Archaeological Congress from 2003 to 2014. Among her many publications is the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer 2014, 2020).
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Anne de Bruin
- Occupations
- academiceconomist
- Biography
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Anne Marguerite de Bruin is a socio-economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance at the Albany campus of Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social enterprises and women's entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Roderick Bovingdon
- Occupations
- lyricistresearcherlinguistregistered psychiatric nursewriter
- Biography
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Roderick "Rigu" Bovingdon is an Anglo-Maltese Australian writer, academic, promoter of Maltese culture, social commentator, translator and musician.
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Marilyn Fleer
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Enrolled in the University of New England, Australia
- Graduated with Master of Education
- Occupations
- academicpsychologist
- Biography
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Marilyn Fleer FASSA is an Australian professor of early childhood education and development at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in 2018.
