56 Notable alumni of
University of Technology Sydney
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The University of Technology Sydney is 1007th in the world, 22nd in Oceania, and 17th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from the University of Technology Sydney sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Natasha Liu Bordizzo
- Occupations
- film actoractortaekwondo athlete
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Natasha Liu Bordizzo is an Australian actress. She made her movie debut portraying the character of Snow Vase in Netflix's 2016 wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. In 2019, she portrayed the character of Helena in Netflix's The Society. in 2021, she played Julia in Amazon Prime's erotic thriller The Voyeurs, and in 2022, she portrayed the character of Heather in Netflix's Day Shift. In 2023, she portrayed the Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren in the Disney+ series Ahsoka.
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Hotman Paris Hutapea
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- celebritylawyer
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Hotman Paris Hutapea is an Indonesian lawyer, presenter, and businessman. He is known for his flamboyant style, high-profile clients, and luxurious lifestyle.
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Sonia Kruger
- Occupations
- dancer
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Sonia Melissa Kruger is an Australian television presenter, actress and media personality. She is best known for co-hosting the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars alongside Chris Brown, and for the role of Tina Sparkle in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom. Kruger was also the host of Big Brother Australia from 2012 to 2014 on Nine, and later returned as host during its revival on Channel 7, from 2020 to 2023.
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Tanya Plibersek
- Occupations
- politician
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Tanya Joan Pliberšek is an Australian politician who has served as Minister for Social Services since 2025 and the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Sydney since 1998. Previously, she served as the Minister for the Environment and Water from 2022 to 2025, deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2013 to 2019, and held ministerial offices in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
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Zoe Naylor
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- modelfilm directoractorfilm actor
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Zoe Naylor is an Australian actress, journalist and television presenter.
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Angela Tanoesoedibjo
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Studied in 2005-2006
- 2006-2008 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 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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Marc Fennell
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- journalistfilm critic
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Marc Fennell is an Australian technology journalist, television presenter, radio personality and author. He became known as co-anchor of The Feed, and as of November 2023 is the host of Mastermind and Stuff the British Stole (radio and TV). He was also the host of Download This Show (radio) until 2025.
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Lara Pitt
- Occupations
- television presenter
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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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Kate Grenville
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- writernovelistteachershort story writer
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Catherine Elizabeth Grenville AO is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process. In 2001, she won the Orange Prize for The Idea of Perfection, and in 2006 she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Secret River. The Secret River was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Chris Taylor
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Christopher Thornton Taylor is an Australian comedy writer, performer and broadcaster from Sydney. As a founding member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows CNNNN (2002–2003) and The Chaser's War on Everything (2006 – July 2009). He formerly co-hosted the drive radio show Today Today (2004–05) on Triple J with fellow Chaser member Craig Reucassel, and in 2007, he wrote the musical comedy Dead Caesar. Taylor also hosted the mini documentary series 'Australia's Heritage: National Treasures'.
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Craig Thomson
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- 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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Matt Kean
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- politicianmember of legislative assembly
- Biography
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Matthew John Kean is a former Australian politician who is the Chair of the Climate Change Authority. Prior to this, he was the Treasurer of New South Wales in the second Perrottet ministry of New South Wales between October 2021 and March 2023. He was also the Minister for Energy between April 2019 and March 2023 and was also the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from August 2022 until March 2023. He represented Hornsby for the party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2024.
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He Rong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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He Rong is a Chinese jurist and politician who has been serving as the 13th Minister of Justice of China since February 2023. She previously served as executive vice president of the Supreme People's Court of China from 2020 to 2023 and deputy party secretary of Shaanxi province from 2018 to 2020.
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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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Prue MacSween
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Prudence Gay MacSween is an Australian television and radio presenter, reporter, social commentator, and public relations director. She has made a number of comments considered to be controversial.
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Jessica M. Thompson
- Born in
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Australia - Occupations
- screenwriterexecutive producerfilm directorfilm editor
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Jessica M. Thompson is an Australian film and television writer, director, editor, and producer. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Dominic Knight
- Occupations
- novelistradio personalityscreenwriter
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Dominic John Sebastian Knight is an Australian novelist, comedy writer, radio host and media commentator. Best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy Logie Award–winning group The Chaser, he is also an occasional writer, columnist and blogger for The Sydney Morning Herald, and a former host of Evenings on ABC Local Radio across NSW and the ACT. Along with fellow Sydney University students Charles Firth, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel, Knight founded The Chaser newspaper, launched in May 1999.
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Janine Shepherd
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- motivational speakerskieropinion journalistaircraft pilot
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Janine Shepherd, AM is an Australian author, aerobatics pilot and former cross-country skier. Shepherd's career as an athlete ended when she sustained life-threatening injuries when hit by a truck during a training bike ride, while in contention to win Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics. She survived and her story later became the focus of national attention, as well as a popular telemovie.
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Jenny Leong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jenny Leong, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Newtown for the Greens since 2015. Leong is the first person to represent Newtown in its current form, as it was created for the 2015 election.
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Elizabeth Broderick
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Broderick AO is an Australian lawyer, who was the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner for over eight years from 2007 to 2015 and has been a United Nations special rapporteur for Discrimination against Women and Girls since 2017. She is a former partner and head of legal technology at Ashurst Australia, a global commercial law firm.
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Anthony Roberts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony John Roberts is an Australian politician. Roberts is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Lane Cove for the Liberal Party since 2003. He is the longest-serving Member of the Legislative Assembly and so holds the honorary title of "Father of the House."
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Judy Singer
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- sociologistresearcher
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Judy Singer is an Australian sociologist credited with popularizing the term "neurodiversity". After working as a computer consultant, Singer studied sociology at the University of Technology Sydney, where she was influenced by disability studies and Lorna Wing's conception of autism as a spectrum.
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Shawn Atleo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, is a Canadian activist and politician, a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada (serving 2009 to 2014). He also has served since 1999 as a Hereditary Chief of the Ahousaht First Nation, part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation based in British Columbia.
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Susan Templeman
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- radio journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Susan Raye Templeman is an Australian politician. She is the member for Macquarie in the Australian House of Representatives and is Australia's Special Envoy for the Arts. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and defeated the Liberal Louise Markus at the 2016 federal election. She was re-elected in 2019, 2022 and 2025. Templeman had previously run twice for the same seat, in 2010 and 2013.
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Alyssa McClelland
- Occupations
- film actoractorfilm director
- Biography
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Alyssa McClelland is a director, screenwriter, producer and former actress. She directed the finale episodes of acclaimed Netflix series Sex Education and was the set-up director of Everything Now, also with Netflix. McClelland directed the successful BBC comedy series Amandaland and the award-winning short film Second Best. Prior to her directing career, she appeared in lead roles in Australian film, television and theatre.
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Anne McCue
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- singerrecord producercomposer
- Biography
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Anne Monica McCue is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, music-recording producer, video director, and radio host, more recently based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
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Mieke Buchan
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- television presentersports commentator
- Biography
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Mieke Buchan is an Australian television and radio presenter, writer and producer, born in Brisbane (Australia). She has covered major events including: The Olympics, the US Open Tennis, 5 Super Bowls, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship and the Oscars. She has worked for American and Australian television networks, including FOX Sport America, ESPN, SBS and Encore Movie Networks.
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Samantha Rebillet
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterdirectorsongwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Samantha Rebillet was a French-born Australian film director, actress, screenwriter, producer, singer and songwriter. She had guest roles in various Australian television series and roles in several films. Rebillet wrote, directed and produced several films and documentaries including the 2004 documentary Butterfly Man which won a Silver Cub Award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.
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Julia Kempe
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherphysicistmathematician
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Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the New York University Center for Data Science and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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Hugh McDermott
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- politicianbarrister
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Paul Joseph Hugh McDermott is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the State Member for Prospect for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Prior to entering Parliament he had a career as an international lawyer and university academic. Since 2023 he has served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General in the government of Chris Minns.
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Sekai Holland
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- ministerhuman rights defenderpolitician
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Sekai Holland is a Zimbabwean former politician who served as Minister of State for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration in the administrations of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Sekai has been involved in campaigning on a number of human rights issues, including those relating to Aboriginal Australians, apartheid in South Africa and the women's rights and democracy in Zimbabwe.
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Kathryn Eisman
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- writertelevision personality
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Kathryn Eisman is an Australian fashion, lifestyle and entertainment television journalist, author, model and designer. She was part of the two-time Emmy nominated E! News Entertainment team, was the entertainment correspondent for Sunrise on the Seven Network, and the author of two books. She is the founder of High Heel Jungle Socks. Eisman hosted and co-executive produced the wardrobe makeover series Undressed on Paramount+, which premiered on 6 October 2022. Kathryn is daughter of Peter and Sylvia Eisman, a Sydney based pediatrician and an educator, respectively. She is niece of John Eisman, who was honoured with the Order of Australia. and granddaughter of Anna Reich, the last known holocaust survivor from Sydney to have been in Schindler's List. She later went to Australia where she became a fashion identity, philanthropist and businesswoman.
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Amanda Palmer
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- journalistfilm producer
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Amanda Palmer is an Australian-English media and film executive and international journalist, whose 18-year-career in film and media entertainment, content creation and entertainment platforms has spanned Australia, Britain, United States and the Middle East.
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Katie Kelly
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Kathleen Margaret "Katie" Kelly OAM is an Australian paratriathlete, who has a degenerative disease known as Usher syndrome. Kelly began competing in the PT5 paratriathlon classification in February 2015 when her condition deteriorated to a legally blind state. She has just 30 per cent of her vision. With her guide Michellie Jones, Kelly won gold medals at the 2015 and 2017 ITU World Championships and 2016 Rio Paralympics. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
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Henry Tsang
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- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Shiu-Lung Tsang OAM is a Chinese-born Australian architect, politician and formerly a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1999 until his resignation effective 3 December 2009.
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Martin Bean
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Education
- Occupations
- academic administrator
- Biography
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Martin George Bean CBE is an Australian education administrator. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), from 2015 to 2021. He was Vice-Chancellor of Open University from 2009 to 2015.
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John Robertson
- Occupations
- electricianpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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John Cameron "Robbo" Robertson is a former Australian politician who served as the leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales from 2011 to 2014. Before entering politics he was prominent in the union movement.
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Nina Curtis
- Occupations
- skipper
- Biography
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Nina Curtis is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing, winning a silver medal.
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Greg Natale
- Occupations
- interior designer
- Biography
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Greg Natale is an Australian interior designer, and the founder of Greg Natale Design.
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Pamela Freeman
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writeruniversity teacherlecturer
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Pamela Freeman is an Australian author of books for both adults and children. Most of her work is fantasy but she has also written mystery stories, science fiction, family dramas and non-fiction. Her first adult series, the Castings Trilogy is published globally by Orbit Books. She is best known in Australia for the junior novel Victor’s Quest and an associated series, the Floramonde books, and for The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop’s Early Years, which won the NSW Premier's History Prize in 2006.
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Danielle Small
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Danielle Margaret Small is a retired Australian soccer player, who played for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League.
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Tom Budin
- Occupations
- disc jockeyrecord producer
- Biography
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Tom Budin is an Australian DJ and record producer based in Sydney, Australia. He is known for officially remixing songs for musicians such as Lost Frequencies, Zedd, Britney Spears, G-Eazy and Timmy Trumpet.
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Adam Aitken
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- poet
- Biography
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Adam Aitken is an Australian poet.
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Kyla Ward
- Born in
- Australia
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriter
- Biography
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Kyla Ward is an Australian writer of speculative fiction, poet and actor. Her work has been nominated multiple times for the Ditmar Award, the Aurealis Award, the Australian Shadows Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the Rhysling Award. She won the Aurealis Award in 2006 for her collaborative novel Prismatic (as by 'Edwina Grey').
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Bryan Doyle
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bryan Michael Doyle is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Campbelltown for the Liberal Party from 2011 to 2015.
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Allanah Zitserman
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Allanah Zitserman is an Australian scriptwriter and film producer, founder of Dungog Film Festival, and director of Lumila Films.
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Patricia Holmes
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Graduate Diploma in Law
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Patricia Ann Holmes is an Australian diplomat and is an officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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Angus Roberts
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Angus Roberts is a professional Australian rugby union player for the Melbourne Rebels. His preferred positions are fullback and flyhalf.
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Ken Canning
- Born in
- Australia
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Ken Canning is a Murri activist, writer and poet, whose people are from the Kunja Clan of the Bidjara Nation in south west Queensland, Australia. Canning now lives and teaches in Sydney. Ken works with the Rainbow Lodge program where he supports Aboriginal men leaving custody.
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Bart Bunting
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- alpine skier
- Biography
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Bartholomew Bunting is an Australian blind Paralympic alpine skier. He started skiing in 1998 with his guide Nathan Chivers. He won two gold medals and a silver medal with Chivers at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Paralympics and competed at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.
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Alister Munro Campbell
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Alister Campbell is an Australian rugby union player. He is a lock for the Melbourne Rebels.
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Theodora Cowan
- Occupations
- sculptorwatercolorist
- Biography
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Theodora Esther Cowan was an Australian artist, regarded as the first Australian-born woman sculptor. She was one of a number of women sculptors who were working at the end of the 19th century. Apart from being the first to be born in Australia, Cowan (along with Margaret Baskerville) was among the first to achieve success, especially for her portrait work.
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Zara Pasfield
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Zara Pasfield is a retired Australian figure skater. She is the 2011 NZ Winter Games bronze medalist and the 2012 Australian national champion.
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Katherine Woodthorpe
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- scientistbusiness executive
- Biography
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Katherine Lesley Woodthorpe is an Australian chair and company director, president and fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has also been chair of the Cooperative Research Centre for Bushfire and Natural Hazards, chair of Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, as well as Chair of National Climate Science Advisory Committee.
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Beatriz Copello
- Born in
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Argentina - Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Beatriz Copello is an Australian writer, poet, playwright and psychologist. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Australia and overseas, in literary journals such as Southerly and Australian Women's Book Review, and in several anthologies and feminist publications. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. She is the recipient of several prizes, including a first prize at the 2000 Sydney Writers' Festival. Her book of lesbian poetry Women Souls and Shadows is her best-known work.
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Vicki Karaminas
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Vicki Karaminas is a New Zealand fashion academic, and a full professor at Massey University. In 2024 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded Karaminas the Humanities Aronui Medal for her work advancing the discipline of fashion studies.
