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Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly is one of Australia's most respected and versatile media talents. He is a broadcaster, author, academic and musician. Waleed is co-host of ...

Julia Banks

Julia Banks is a leadership consultant, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at t...

Paul Barry

Some journalists might see upsetting the Packers and Murdochs as career suicide, but Paul Barry has built his highly successful and respected career o...

The Hon Peter Beattie

Mr Peter Beattie joined the Australian Rugby League Commission in July 2017 and was Chairman from February 2018 to October 2019. Amongst a wide-ran...

The Hon Julie Bishop

Current Roles: Julie is the founder of Julie Bishop and Partners a boutique consultancy providing high-level strategic advisory services to clients ...

John Brogden AM

John Brogden AM has walked a very public journey of success, failure and redemption. From the youngest ever leader of a major political party in Au...

Nick Bryant

During his distinguished career with the BBC, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of its finest foreign correspondents and also its leading authori...

Professor The Hon Bob Carr

Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr is also the longest continuously serving Premier in New South Wales history. He served as Minister for Planning an...

Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy is one of Australia's most experienced political journalists, having covered federal politics since the late 1970s. In the late 1980s, ...

Lee Lin Chin

Television News and Current Affairs Presenter of many years standing with the highly regarded SBS prime time News. Lee Lin Chin possesses a thorough ...

Tasneem Chopra

Tasneem is an experienced Cross Cultural Consultant and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) trainer helping business, not-for-profits and government ...

Rt Hon Helen Clark

Rt Hon Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand for three successive terms from 1999-2008. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister follo...



Melissa Coade

Melissa Coade is news editor for The Mandarin, based in the Canberra parliamentary press gallery. With more than 15 years in media, Melissa has wor...

Jeffrey Cole

Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology policy issues in both the United States and internationally for the past ...

Chanel Contos

Chanel Contos founded Teach Us Consent, a grassroots campaign in Australia that exposed how many school students experience and perpetrate sexual viol...

Arne Corneliussen

Arne Elias Corneliussen is a geopolitical advisor who supports business leaders, financial companies and policy makers. He is a political scientist an...

Rev. Tim Costello

Rev Tim Costello is one of Australia's most respected community leaders and a sought after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics. T...

Jon Dee

Jon Dee is an award-winning social entrepreneur, broadcaster and campaigner. With 37 years experience, Jon is a high-profile expert in the field of bu...

The Hon. Alexander Downer AC

Alexander Downer retired from politics in 2008 after an amazing 24 years and prior to that was a highly successful career diplomat. In every respect A...

Anton Enus

Anton Enus is an award winning broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience. His career spans television, radio and print coverage of in...

Professor Tim Flannery

Prof Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential environmentalists. An author of best-selling books, presenter for numerous television documen...



Anna Funder

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her signature works tell true stories of courage, resistance, conscience and l...

Peter Garrett

Labor Member for Kingsford Smith Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Reconciliation and the Arts Peter was elected as the Labor Member for Kingsfor...

The Hon Julia Gillard AC

Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. As Prime Minister and...

Brigid Glanville

Brigid Glanville is a former NSW Political Reporter for ABC television, radio and online. She commenced her new role in May 2019 as Deputy Chief of S...

Corinne Grant

Corinne Grant is an accomplished stand up comedian, television and radio presenter, emcee, and author. Best known for her work on Rove Live and The Gl...

A.C. Grayling

A. C. Grayling is the Principal of Northeastern University London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's Col...

The Hon. Nick Greiner

Nick Greiner was Premier and Treasurer of New South Wales from 1988-1992. Since his retirement from politics he has been heavily involved in the corpo...

Christian Habla

As CEO of Geopolitical Strategy and Geopolitical Dispatch, Christian brings a rare combination of geopolitical and commercial insight to the boardroom...

Tim Harcourt

Professor Tim Harcourt is Chief Economist of the new Centre for Sport Business and Society (CSBS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Tim...



Dr John Hewson OA

Dr Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system. He has worked as an e...

David Hill

David Hill is unquestionably one of Australia's most sort after business speakers with experience spanning most industries from Government, the Media,...

The Hon Joe Hockey

With a quick wit, sharp mind and a wealth of international political experience, the Honorable Joe Hockey has become a widely recognized authority on ...

The Hon. John Howard, OM AC SSI

John Winston Howard, born 26 July 1939, served as Australia's Prime Minister between March 1996 and November 2007. He is the nation's second longest ...

Lucy Hughes-Turnbull AO

Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist with a longstanding interest in cities, and technological and social innovation. Fr...

Ronni Kahn AO

Ronni Kahn AO is a South-African born Australian social entrepreneur who founded the food rescue charity OzHarvest. She is a passionate advocate and a...



Patricia Karvelas

Patricia Karvelas is a prominent and highly respected Australian journalist, television and radio host, podcaster, political journalist, and commentat...

The Hon. Paul Keating

Paul Keating is one of the great Australian political leaders. Born in Sydney in 1944, Paul Keating was elected a Member of Parliament for the federal...

The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

When he retired from the High Court of Australia on 2 February 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia's longest serving judge. He was first appointed in...



The Rt Hon Helen Liddell

Helen Liddell arrived in Australia to take up her position as British High Commissioner, on July 8 2005 to news of the London bombings. A former Cabi...

Dr Simon Longstaff

Simon Longstaff began his working life on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is proud of his kinship ties to the Anindilyakwa p...

Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars, disasters, and major world events. He hosts Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney and is ...

Wendy McCarthy AO

Wendy McCarthy has made her mark on this country in many extraordinary ways. For more than 50 years, she has been on the leading edge of feminism and ...

Kate McClymont

Kate McClymont is one of the country's best-known investigative journalists. She writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Kate is a nin...

The Hon Mark McGowan AC

30th Premier of Western Australia 2017-2023 Mark McGowan AC is the former Premier and Treasurer of Western Australia. Mr McGowan delivered seven st...

Catherine McGregor AM

Catherine McGregor AM is a freelance writer, broadcaster and author. She is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon from which she gradua...

Colin McLaren

Colin McLaren is the subject of a film being produced in Australia, of his life. In particular, the film follows the back chapters of his hugely succe...

George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis is one of Australia’s leading political and economic thinkers. He is an author and journalist with more than three decades’ exp...

Lisa Millar

Lisa Millar is one of the ABC’s most popular personalities. She’s the narrator and presenter of the smash hit series Muster Dogs and a guest prese...

Jess Miller

Currently serving on the City of Sydney Council, Jess has has contributed to various sustainability, cultural and urban projects. These include the Wi...

Paul Monk

Paul Monk is a historian, international relations scholar, former senior intelligence analyst (of China, Japan, North and South Korea and Taiwan), a f...

Dr Shireen Morris

Shireen Morris researches, teaches and publishes in constitutional law and constitutional reform, Indigenous constitutional recognition, as well as pu...

Lt General David Morrison AO (Retd)

Retired Chief of Army Australian of the Year 2016 Champion of Change General Morrison concluded his appointment as Australia’s Chief of Army in...

Prabha Nandagopal

Prabha Nandagopal is an award-winning human rights and discrimination lawyer and advocate, having worked over 18 years in a variety of areas from busi...

Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM FASSA FIPAA

Dr Martin Parkinson was appointed the Chancellor of Macquarie University in October 2019. He previously served as Secretary of the Department of the P...

Shane Phillips

"We have to create our own destiny and develop our own tools to do it." Advocate for Aboriginal rights, Shane Phillips is a respected member of the...



His Excellency Dr.Jose Ramos-Horta

“IN VICTORY BE MAGNANIMOUS, NEVER SEEK TO HUMILIATE THE ADVERSARY; IF HE IS ON HIS KNEES HOLD HIS HANDS, PLEAD WITH HIM "TO RISE UP. WALK HALFWAY AN...



The Hon Bernie Ripoll

As a former Member of Parliament and Assistant Minister under the Gillard Government, Bernie played a leading role in far-reaching Australian financia...

Geoffery Robertson, QC

Geoffrey Robertson QC has had a distinguished career as a trial counsel, human rights advocate and United Nations judge. He has appeared in many celeb...

Jennifer Robinson

Jen Robinson is one of the world’s most respected human rights lawyers and advocates. She is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London, Europ...

Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks

Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks is the founder of Missing Perspectives, a media startup platforming female storytelling worldwide. Established in June 2021, M...

Julianne Schultz AM FAHA

Dr Julianne Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture at Griffith University's Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Her much acclaimed ne...

Natasha Stott-Despoja AO

Natasha Stott Despoja AO is a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, a former politician, diplomat, advocate a...

David Thomas

David Thomas is well known in the Asia Pacific region for his experience, credibility and passion for identifying, building and facilitating business ...

Laura Tingle

The Australian Financial Review's political editor Laura Tingle has spent most of her 35 year career covering federal politics, writing on both econom...

The Hon Malcolm Turnbull

While studying at Sydney University the Hon Malcolm worked as a journalist and continued doing so when he studied at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. ...

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, a proud Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul Woman, is a Human Rights advocate, author, and writer with degrees in Law and Social Work....



The Hon Jay Weatherill AO

The Honourable Jay Weatherill AO is the Executive Director of Democracy with the Susan McKinnon Foundation and, together with The Honourable Mike Bair...

Tim Wilson

Tim is one of Australia's most challenging opinion makers drawing on strong philosophical principles, backed up with evidence, while maintaining a rea...

Jason Yat-sen Li

Jason has an Arts/Law degree with first class honours from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Law from New York University Law School, where he...