Category: Government, Politics and Law
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a mechanical engineer, social advocate, writer and petrol head and is the 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year. She ad...
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Barrie Adams PSM FCPA completed his accounting studies in 1970 and was admitted as a CPA in 1971 with the Australian Society of Accountants. He advanc...
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Broadcaster, filmmaker, author, archaeologist, controversialist, social commentator and satirist, Phillip Adams was elected one of Australia's 100 Nat...
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Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author, academic, musician and one of Australia’s most respected and versatile media talents. He is co-host of network TE...
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Some journalists might see upsetting the Packers and Murdochs as career suicide, but Paul Barry has built his highly successful and respected career o...
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Mr Peter Beattie was appointed Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission in February 2018.
Peter served as the 36th Premier of Queensland ...
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The Hon Julie Bishop served as Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 until her resignation in 2018. She was the first female to hold the ...
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An economic and social commentator on present-day Australia, Geoffrey Blainey was born in Victoria and brought up in country towns, including Leongath...
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Anna Bligh is a widely recognized and acknowledged Australian leader, a wife and the proud mother of two sons. Until recently, when she moved to NSW t...
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John Brogden has been Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) since January 2015. The A...
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Enigmatic and irreverent, John Brown's life is full of contradictions.
A successful businessman and politician, the former Minister for Sport Recr...
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Bob (Robert James) Brown, was born in 1944 and educated in rural New South Wales, before becoming the captain of Blacktown Boys High School and gradua...
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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...
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Barrie Cassidy is one of Australia's most experienced political journalists, having covered federal politics since the late 1970s. In the late 1980s, ...
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Television News and Current Affairs Presenter of many years standing with the highly regarded SBS prime time News. Lee Lin Chin possesses a thorough ...
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A Cross-cultural Consultant, Tasneem has recently been appointed as an ‘Anti-Racism Champion’ by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Previously, s...
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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...
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Barry Cohen admits that what kept him sane through thirty years as a politician, was the funny side of his profession. As a raconteur with a bower bir...
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Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology policy issues in both the United States and internationally for the past ...
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Geoff is an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist...
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In the year 2000 David Combe was named "Australia's Top Export Salesmen" by Overseas Trading Magazine and included in the "Twenty Five Most Influenti...
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Rev Tim Costello is one of Australia’s best known community leaders and a sought after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics.
For...
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Paul Davies is theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author and broadcaster. He currently holds the position of Professor of Natural Phi...
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Jon Dee is an award-winning social entrepreneur, broadcaster and campaigner.
On Sky News Business channel from July 2015 to November 2017, Jon rese...
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Sir Roger Douglas, as Minister of Finance in New Zealand, won an international reputation as the strategist and driving force responsible for the refo...
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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...
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Amanda Ellis is Deputy Secretary for the International Development Group, managing New Zealand's international aid and development program and advisin...
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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...
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Prof Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential environmentalists. An author of best-selling books, presenter for numerous television documen...
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David Galbally is one of Australia's best know lawyers and Queens Council and is the son of Australia's greatest criminal lawyer Frank Galbally. David...
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Labor Member for Kingsford Smith
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Reconciliation and the Arts
Peter was elected as the Labor Member for Kingsfor...
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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...
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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...
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The inaugural Chairperson of the state's largest professional regulatory authority, the Victorian Institute of Teaching, Susan Halliday is known to ma...
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Tim Harcourt is the Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance (IPPG) at the University of Technology Sy...
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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...
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David Hill is unquestionably one of Australia's most sort after business speakers with experience spanning most industries from Government, the Media,...
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With a quick wit, sharp mind and a wealth of international political experience, the Honorable Joe Hockey has become a widely recognised authority on ...
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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 ...
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Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist with a longstanding interest in cities, and technological and social innovation.
Fr...
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Ex-Detective Sergeant Simon Illingworth was bashed, threatened and intimidated by bent cops and underworld criminals, all in the line of duty. His lif...
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Driven by a determination to find purpose in her life, the simple act of rescuing good food and delivering it to people in need quickly caught on, and...
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Patricia Karvelas is a prominent and highly respected award winning Australian journalist, television and radio host, podcaster, political journalist,...
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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...
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Mr Kennett entered the Victorian State Parliament in 1976 after a military and commercial career.
He was elected Leader of the Opposition in 1982 a...
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Rt Hon Sir John Key was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016, winning three general elections as leader of the centre-right National Party....
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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...
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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...
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Sam Lipski has been Chief Executive of The Pratt Foundation, the philanthropic trust of the Pratt family and the Visy Group of companies, since Novemb...
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Ken Livingstone is a Londoner born and bred, and earned a record of speaking up for Londoners throughout his time in politics.
He established a re...
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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...
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Hamish Macdonald comes from Jindabyne in country NSW. He began his media career in regional radio and television before embarking on an international ...
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David Marshall is one of the National Capital's high profile business leaders, having headed up Canberra's Austereo stations FM104.7 and 2CA for six y...
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Wendy McCarthy began her career as a secondary school teacher and remains passionate about the power of education. For four decades she has been a tea...
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Kate McClymont is one of the country’s best-known investigative journalists.
She writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Kate is an ei...
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Catherine McGregor is a freelance writer broadcaster and author. She is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon from which she graduated wit...
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Maxine McKew is an author and Hon Enterprise Professor of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.
Her most recen...
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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...
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Lisa Millar joins ABC News Breakfast in mid August and takes on a role as guest presenter on the ABC’s popular Back Roads program.
It caps off a de...
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Patrice Newell manages a large certified bio-dynamic farm in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW near Scone and is the author of three books.
The first ...
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Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury between March 2011 and December ...
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Christopher Francis Patten was born in 1944. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History...
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“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...
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Christopher Pyne was the Australian Minister for Defence responsible for delivering the $200 billion build-up of Australia’s military capability, the ...
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Before serving his country as President, Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta was known internationally as a peacemaker. In exile from his country for the better part...
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Jamila Rizvi is an author, presenter and political commentator. Described as one of the pre-eminent voices of young Australian women, Jamila injects h...
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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...
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Jen Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer at Doughty Street Chambers in London; specialising in human rights, media, public, and international...
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Born in Sydney, educated at Knox Grammar School and Sydney University (BA, LLB) Ian Sinclair was admitted as a barrister in 1952 and bred cattle and s...
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Jim Soorley was born in northern NSW in 1951. He was educated at the local primary school and then as a boarder at Woodlawn, outside of Lismore, run b...
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The Australian Financial Review's political editor Laura Tingle has spent most of her 35 year career covering federal politics, writing on both econom...
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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.
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Don Watson is one of Australia's most distinguished writers and public speakers. He grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at ...
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Jay Weatherill served as the 45th Premier of South Australia and is the South Australian Labor Party’s longest continuous serving Minister of the Crow...
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Tim is one of Australia's most challenging opinion makers drawing on strong philosophical principles, backed up with evidence, while maintaining a rea...
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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...
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