51 Notable alumni of
University of Technology Sydney
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The University of Technology Sydney is 1017th in the world, 22nd in Oceania, and 17th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 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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Hugh Jackman
- Occupations
- executive producervoice actortelevision actormusicianfilm producer
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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series (2000–2017, 2024), a role that earned him the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel character", until his record was surpassed by Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier in May 2022. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
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Hotman Paris Hutapea
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- lawyercelebrity
- Biography
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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
- Biography
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Sonia Melissa Kruger is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television presenter, actress and media personality, who has been a prominent figure in the media for over 20 years. Kruger is currently the host of Big Brother Australia and a presenter on The Voice Australia. She is best known for co-hosting the popular Australian version of Dancing with the Stars and for the role of Tina Sparkle in the dark 1992 film Strictly Ballroom, Kruger has also been a co-host of breakfast program Today Extra.
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Tanya Plibersek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tanya Joan Plibersek is an Australian politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. A member of the Labor Party, Plibersek served as a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd, Gillard and Albanese governments. She is currently the Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese ministry since 2022, having previously served as the Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Women between 2019 and 2022.
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Zoe Naylor
- Occupations
- film directormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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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
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Angela Herliani Tanoesoedibjo is an Indonesian businessperson and politician of Chinese descent who is the Vice Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy since 2019, as the deputy of Sandiaga Uno. As the eldest daughter of MNC Group CEO Hary Tanoesoedibjo, she unexpectedly shot to fame being 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, Angela holds this position.
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Marc Fennell
- Occupations
- film criticjournalist
- Biography
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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) and Download This Show (radio).
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Craig Thomson
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- 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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Kate Grenville
- Occupations
- novelistwritershort story writerteacher
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Catherine Elizabeth Grenville 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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Lara Pitt
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Lara Pitt is an Australian television presenter and sports journalist, mainly known for reporting for Fox Sports on their NRL coverage and Monday Night with Matty Johns.
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Chris Taylor
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Christopher Thornton Taylor is an Australian comedy writer, performer and broadcaster from Sydney. As a 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'. In 2010, with his Chaser colleague Andrew Hansen, Taylor made a musical comedy series for Triple J titled The Blow Parade, which became the number one podcast in the country, and won the 2010 ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release. In 2019, Taylor was the creator and co-writer of the drama Upright starring Tim Minchin. The series screened to critical acclaim in both Australia and the UK.
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Matt Kean
- Occupations
- member of a legislative assemblypolitician
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Matthew John Kean is an Australian politician, who 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 Liberal Party from August 2022 till March 2023. He has been Shadow Minister for Health since 2023 and has represented Hornsby for the party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 2011.
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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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Janine Shepherd
- Occupations
- skiermotivational speakeraircraft pilotopinion journalist
- Biography
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Janine Shepherd, 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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Prue MacSween
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Prudence Gay MacSween is an Australian television and radio personality, journalist, social commentator, and public relations director. She is the public relations director of Verve Communications, as a media commentator, MacSween has made a number of comments considered to be controversial whilst under the influence of alcohol.
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He Rong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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He Rong is a Chinese jurist and politician who currently serves as the Minister of Justice 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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Dominic Knight
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterradio personality
- Biography
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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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Elizabeth Broderick
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Broderick 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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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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Shawn Atleo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, is an 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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Mieke Buchan
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- sports commentatortelevision presenter
- 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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Susan Templeman
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianradio journalist
- 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. Templeman had previously run twice for the same seat, in 2010 and 2013.
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Anne McCue
- Occupations
- singercomposerrecord producer
- Biography
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Anne Monica McCue is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, music-recording producer, video director, and radio host from Australia, more recently based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
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Alyssa McClelland
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Alyssa McClelland is an Australian director, writer and actress.
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Samantha Rebillet
- Occupations
- directorscreenwriteractorfilm producerfilm 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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Sekai Holland
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- human rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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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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Julia Kempe
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- computer scientistphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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Kathryn Eisman
- Occupations
- television personalitywriter
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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
- Occupations
- film producerjournalist
- Biography
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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 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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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 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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Henry Tsang
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Henry Shiu-Lung Tsang 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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John Robertson
- Occupations
- trade unionistpoliticianelectrician
- 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
- children's writeruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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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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Tom Budin
- Occupations
- record producerdisc jockey
- 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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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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Adam Aitken
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Adam Aitken is an Australian poet.
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Kyla Ward
- Born in
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Australia - Occupations
- novelistpoet
- 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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Patricia Holmes
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Technology Sydney
- Graduated with Graduate Diploma in Law
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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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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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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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 48)
- 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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Theodora Cowan
- Occupations
- watercoloristsculptor
- 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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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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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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Beatriz Copello
- Born in
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Argentina - Occupations
- writerpoet
- 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.
