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Australia 2020 Summit Delegates (General)

The general list of the Australia 2020 Summit
Australia 2020 Summit
The Australia 2020 Summit was a convention, referred to in Australian media as a summit, which was held on 19-20 April 2008 in Canberra, Australia, aiming to "help shape a long term strategy for the nation's future"...

 participants, and their working groups, announced on 28 March 2008, is:

A long-term national health strategy

  • Professor Diane Geraldine Alcorn
  • Ms Pat Anderson
  • Mr Warwick Anderson
  • Professor Kaarin Anstey
  • Mrs Julianne Badenoch
  • Professor Perry F Bartlett
  • Professor Louise Alison Baur
  • Professor Peter Brooks
  • Mr Graham Charles Brown
  • Professor Graham Brown
  • Dr Ngiare J Brown
  • Associate Professor Brendan Burkett
  • Ms Belinda Caldwell
  • Dr Ian Cameron
  • Ms Alisa Camplin
    Alisa Camplin
    Alisa Camplin OAM is an Australian aerial skier who won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the second ever winter olympic gold medal for Australia. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Camplin finished third, a bronze medal...

  • Professor Jonathan Rhys Carapetis
  • Ms Kate Carnell
    Kate Carnell
    Anne Katherine Carnell AO was the third Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, serving from 1995 to 2000. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Food and Grocery Council.-Pharmacy career:...

  • Professor Elizabeth Mary Chiarella
  • Associate Professor David Colquhoun
  • Professor Suzanne Cory
  • Dr Catherine Crock
  • Mr David Crosbie
  • Professor Tony Cunningham
  • Professor Jon Nicolas Currie
  • Professor John Daly
  • Mr Robert de Castella
    Robert de Castella
    Robert Francois de Castella, MBE is an Australian former world champion marathon runner. He is widely known as "Deek" or "Deeks" to the Australian public, and "Tree" to his competitors due to his thick legs and inner calm...

  • Professor Caroline May de Costa
  • Ms Hanan Dover
  • Ms Elizabeth Elliot
  • Professor Niki Ellis
  • Professor Christian Ansgar Otto Gericke
  • Mr Michael Gooda
  • Professor Michelle Haber
  • Dr Clive David Hadfield
  • Dr Mukesh Chandra Haikerwal
    Mukesh Haikerwal
    Dr. Mukesh Chandra Haikerwal AO is a Melbourne, Australia GP and former federal president of the Australian Medical Association .-Background:...

  • Professor Margaret Hamilton AO
  • Professor Ian Bernard Hickie AM
  • Mr James Hird
    James Hird
    James Hird is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....

  • Ms Helen Hopkins
  • Dr Anna Howe
  • Ms Geraldine (Ged) Kearney
  • Professor Helen Marie Keleher
  • Professor Anne Kelso
  • Professor Hal Kendig
  • Professor Michael Richard Kidd
  • Ms Sabina Margaret Knight
  • Mr Jonathon Kruger
  • Professor Stephen Ross Leeder
  • Mr Michael Luscombe
  • Professor Tony McMichael
  • Dr Caroline McMillen
  • Dr Brian McNamee
  • Professor John Anthony Mendoza
  • Professor Rob Moodie
    Rob Moodie (doctor)
    Rob Moodie is currently the Professor of Global Health at the Nossal Institute of Global Health at the University of Melbourne and was named Victorian Father of the Year in 2005...

  • Dr Beverly Sara Muhlhausler
  • Associate Professor Christopher Newell AM
  • Professor Brian Frederick Oldenburg
  • Dr Susan Oliver
  • Ms Lynne Pezzullo
  • Mr Frederick Allan Pidgeon
  • Professor Lawrie Powell
  • Dr Vasantha Preetham
  • Dr Deborah Rathjen
  • Mr Michael Rayner
  • Dr Leanna Read
  • Professor Sally Redman
  • Dr Ian Reinecke
  • Dr Mike Rungie
  • Associate Professor Elizabeth Savage
  • Ms Anne-Marie Scully
  • Professor Cindy Shannon
  • Dr Sunita Shaunak
  • Professor Margaret Sheil
  • Dr Meredith Sheil
  • Dr Clare Alice Skinner
  • Professor Andrew (John) Spencer
  • Dr Rosemary Allison Stanton
  • Ms Janelle Stirling
  • Dr Marian Sullivan
  • Associate Professor Paul Torzillo
  • Ms Anne Trimmer
  • Dr Jim Varghese
  • Dr Alison Venn
  • Professor Emma Whitelaw
  • Associate Professor Ted Wilkes
  • Mr Peter Wills AC
  • Professor Gary Allen Wittert
  • Dr Fiona Wood
    Fiona Wood
    Fiona Melanie Wood, AM is a British born plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service...

  • Dr Catherine Elizabeth Yelland.

Australia’s future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world

  • Mr Waleed Aly
    Waleed Aly
    Waleed Aly is an Australian lawyer, academic and rock musician. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria and has served as the council's head of public affairs. He is a frequent commentator on Australian Muslim affairs. In 2008 he was selected to...

  • Professor Kent Anderson
  • Ms Kate Barelle
  • Dr Walter Samuel Grono Bateman
  • Ms Tamerlaine Beasley
  • Dr Sarah Bekessy
  • Mr Christian David Bennett
  • Associate Professor Santina Bertone
  • Mr Bill Bowtell
  • Ms Denise Boyd
  • Dr Susan Jennifer Delyse Boyd
  • Ms Susan Margaret Brennan
  • Ms Sharan Burrow
    Sharan Burrow
    Sharan Burrow is the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and a former President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions...

  • Mr Damian Burton
  • MS Danielle Louise Chubb
  • Ms Melissa Conley Tyler
  • Mr Gregory Rolph Copley
  • General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (ret)
    Peter Cosgrove
    General Peter John Cosgrove AC, MC is a retired Australian Army officer. He was the Chief of the Defence Force from 3 July 2002 to 3 July 2005, when he retired from active service...

  • Mr Paddy Crumlin
  • Dr Jane Patricia Cunneen
  • Dr James Barton Curran
  • Ms Aguil De Chut Deng
  • Ms Geraldine Doogue
    Geraldine Doogue
    Dr Geraldine Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television host.Doogue was the host of Radio National's Life Matters program for 11 years. She received a United Nations Media Peace Prize and two Penguin Awards for her role in ABC TV's coverage of the Gulf War...

  • Professor Alan Dupont
  • Ms Katherine Fallah
  • Dr Simon David Feeny
  • Ms Dimity Fifer
  • Ms Julia Anne Fraser
  • Mr John Gibson
  • Ms Sara Louise Goldsworthy
  • Dr Jane Elizabeth Golley
  • Mr Abraham Steven Gubler
  • Mr Alan Gyngell
  • Dr Bronwyn Delveen Harch
  • Professor David Hill
  • Ms Felicity Jane Hill
  • Dr Anna Hutchens
  • Ms Elena Jeffreys
  • Professor Alison Jones
  • Dr Chris Theng Hong Kang
  • Ms Antonia Krystina Kaucz
  • Ms Phoebe Cecile Knowles
  • Ms Martine Letts
  • Mr Jason Yat-Sen Li
  • Ms Serena Lilywhite
  • Professor Tim Lindsey
  • Mr Alastair Fraser MacGibbon
  • Professor Andrew MacIntyre
  • Ms Eliza Matthews
  • Professor Lorraine Mazzerolle
  • Associate Professor Jude McCulloch
  • Mr Ben McDevitt
  • Ms Jennifer Margaret McGregor
  • Mr Huw McKay
  • Mr Alexander Callum McLeod
  • Ms Fiona Margaret McLeod SC
  • Ms Louise Michelle Merrington
  • Ms Louisa Jane Minney
  • Ms Caroline Emma Morrison
  • Dr Katherine Morton
  • Mr Warren Mundine
    Warren Mundine
    Warren Stephen Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and the former National President of the Australian Labor Party . He is a member of the Bundjalung people....

  • Ms Maha Najjarine
  • Mr Gregory Williams Nelson
  • Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon
    Christine Nixon
    Christine Nixon APM was the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police between 23 April 2001 and 27 February 2009. After leaving Victoria Police, she was appointed chair of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority in February 2009 until she stood down from the position in July...

  • Mr Andrew O'Neil
  • Dr Dave Peebles
  • Associate Professor Sharon Pickering
  • Dr George Quinn
  • Mr Paul Andrew Godwin Ramadge
  • Ms Mahboba Rawi
  • Mr Garry Llewellyn Redlich
  • Professor Benjamin Reilly
  • Mr John Francis Richardson
  • Mr Neville Joseph Roach
  • Mr Michael Roux
  • Professor Amin Saikal
    Amin Saikal
    Professor Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Professor Saikal has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia...

  • Ms Leigh Peta Sales
  • Dr Ben Saul
    Ben Saul
    Ben Saul is associate professor of the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. His research interests include international law, in particular, international aspects of anti-terrorism law, humanitarian law, human rights law, among others.Ben Saul publishes...

  • Mr Phil Scanlan
  • Mr Gregory Sheridan
    Greg Sheridan
    Greg Sheridan is the foreign editor of The Australian and a right-wing commentator on foreign affairs.Writing on and from the Asian region since the 1980s, Sheridan is an expert on Asian politics, and has written four books on the topic, plus a book on Australia-U.S...

  • Mrs Jillian Sylvia Shoebridge
  • Dr Gary Gordon Sigley
  • Ms Robyn Slarke
  • Ms Deborah Rosalyn Storie
  • Professor Swee-Hin Toh
  • Ms Nola Watson
  • Associate Professor David Peter Wright-Neville
  • Associate Professor Samina Yasmeen
  • Mr Kevin Wei-Cher Yeoh

Future directions for the Australian economy

  • Dr Bronte Adams
  • Professor Patricia Apps
  • Mr Don Argus
    Don Argus
    Donald Robert Argus AC is an Australian businessman, and the former chairman of BHP Billiton and Brambles. He stepped down as Chairman in favour of Jacques Nasser in 2010....

  • Ms Nicola Ballenden
  • Mr Gary Banks
  • Ms Juliet Bourke
  • Ms Cath Bowtell
  • Mr Steve Bracks
    Steve Bracks
    Stephen Philip Bracks AC is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Australian Labor Party, and was party leader and Premier from 1999 to 2007....

  • Mr Stephen Bradford
  • Mr Mark Douglas Irving Burrows
  • Ms Margot Cairnes
  • Ms Sally Anne Capp
  • Mr Bob Carr
    Bob Carr
    Robert John "Bob" Carr , Australian statesman, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as premier of NSW...

  • Mr Michael Chaney
    Michael Chaney (Australian businessman)
    Michael Alfred Chaney AO is an Australian businessman, and current Chairman of the National Australia Bank Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Gresham Partners Holdings Limited...

  • Ms Melinda Cilento
  • Ms Megan Clark
  • Dr Marilyn Clare Clark-Murphy
  • Mr Paul Clitheroe
  • Mr Tony Cole
  • Professor Edwina Cornish
  • Ms Katie Dean
  • Mr Geoff Dixon
    Geoff Dixon
    Geoff Dixon is an Australian corporate executive and former CEO and Managing Director of Qantas.-Qantas:...

  • Ms Elena Joy Douglas
  • Professor Steve Dowrick
  • Ms Eileen Doyle
  • Ms Jane Elizabeth Drake-Brockman
  • Mr Bill Evans
  • Mr Ted Evans
  • Dr Lucy Ashley Firth
  • Ms Joan Fitzpatrick
  • Mr Brian Flannery
  • Mr John Ellis Flint
  • Mr Andrew Forrest
    Andrew Forrest
    Andrew Forrest also known by his nickname "Twiggy", is a Western Australian mining entrepreneur, former chief executive officer, non-executive chairman, and the major shareholder of Fortescue Metals Group...

  • Professor John Foster
  • Ms Tania Foster
  • Mr Lindsay Fox
    Lindsay Fox
    Lindsay Edward Fox AC is an Australian businessman. As of 2009, he was the 10th richest person in Australia, with a net worth of around 1.5 billion . He is best known as the founder and chairman of his family-owned trucking and logistics company, Linfox.- Early life :Lindsay Fox was brought up in...

  • Mr Greg Gailey
  • Mr Nick Greiner
    Nick Greiner
    Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

  • Dr Susan Betty Harwood
  • Ms Elaine Henry
  • Mr Russell Higgins
  • Professor Frederick George Hilmer AO
    Fred Hilmer
    Professor Frederick George Hilmer AO is an Australian academic and business figure.Professor Hilmer obtained from the University of Sydney the degree of Bachelor of Laws with Honours Class II in April 1966....

  • Mr Lance Hockridge
  • Professor Margaret Anne Jackson
  • Ms Margaret Jackson AC
    Margaret Jackson
    Margaret Jackson, AC is an Australian corporate executive.Jackson was born in Warragul, Victoria, and studied at Warragul High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Melbourne...

  • Ms Amanda Jane Johnston
  • Professor Pramod Nagorao Junankar
  • Dr Michael Keating
  • Ms Narelle Anne Kennedy
  • Mr David Kirk
  • Mr David Kirk
  • Mr Marius Kloppers
    Marius Kloppers
    Dr Marius Kloppers is CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He is presently the group president of BHP's non ferrous metals division.- Education :...

  • Mr Greg Lindsay
    Greg Lindsay
    Gregory John Lindsay AO is Executive Director of the prominent Australian think tank The Centre for Independent Studies which he founded in 1976 when a young mathematics teacher in the western suburbs of Sydney...

  • Professor Max Gaoqing Lu
  • Professor Sonja Lyneham
  • Ms Kerrie Mather
  • Mr Donald McGauchie
    Donald McGauchie
    Donald McGauchie in Sydney, Australia, is a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia since 30 March 2001 and has recently been appointed chairman of the Nufarm board, and was the former chairman of Telstra Corporation. McGauchie began his duties as chairman on 20 July 2004, taking over...

  • Mr Patrick McKendry
  • Mr Greg Medcraft
  • Dr James Bradfield Moody
    James Bradfield Moody
    James Bradfield Moody is Executive Director, Development at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. He is also a panel member of the ABC Television show “The New Inventors” and co-author of The Sixth Wave with Bianca Nogrady.From 2004 to 2009 he held various roles at...

  • Lord Mayor Clover Moore
    Clover Moore
    Clover Moore , is an Australian politician, the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Sydney. Moore is the first publicly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. Prior to the 2007 NSW state election, she...

  • Mr Alan Moss
  • Mr John Mulcahy
  • Ms Jude Munro
  • Mr Lachlan Murdoch
    Lachlan Murdoch
    Lachlan Keith Murdoch is the eldest son of Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his second wife Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005...

  • Mr Ralph Norris
    Ralph Norris
    Sir Ralph James Norris, KNZM was the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia until 30/11/2011. A New Zealander, he was previously CEO of the ASB Bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's New Zealand subsidiary...

  • Ms Helen Nugent
  • Emeritus Professor Mary Josephine O'Kane
  • Mr James Packer
    James Packer
    James Douglas Packer is an Australian businessman.Packer is the son of the late media mogul Kerry Packer and grandson of Frank Packer. He inherited the family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, which controls investments in Crown Limited, Consolidated Media Holdings and other companies...

  • Mr Tony (Anthony) Bennett Park
  • Ms Narelle Lisa Pearse
  • Mr John Porter
  • Mrs Heather May Ridout
  • Mr John Cameron Robertson
    John Robertson (New South Wales politician)
    John Cameron Robertson MP , an Australian politician, is the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and the Leader of the Opposition. Robertson is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Blacktown for Labor since 2011...

  • Ms Ann Caroline Sherry AO
  • Mr Tim Simms
  • Mr Glenn Stevens
    Glenn Stevens
    Glenn Robert Stevens is an Australian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.-Early life and education:...

  • Mr John Stewart
  • Ms Louise Tarrant
  • Ms Helene Teichmann
  • Mr Steve Vamos
  • Mr Garry Weaven
  • Mr Sam White
  • Ms Alice Williams
  • Ms Deidre Willmott
    Deidre Willmott
    Deidre Willmott is an Australian Business Manager. She is currently the "Group Manager, Approvals and Government Relations" for the Fortescue Metals Group.She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia. She studied law at the University of Western Australia...

  • Mr Peter Yates

Future directions for rural industries and rural communities

  • Ms Sue Ann Adair
  • Ms Susie Allison
  • Professor Margaret Alston
  • Ms Kate Andrews
  • Mr David Ansell
  • Mr Peter Bailey
  • Mrs Deborah Bain
  • Mrs Maxine Margaret Baldwin
  • Ms Genevieve Mary Barlow
  • Mr Dean Belle
  • Mr Donald Ian Blesing
  • Mr Kenneth Arnold Boundy
  • Ms Robyn Claire Boundy
  • Ms Merrill Joan Boyd
  • Mrs Susan G Bradley J P
  • Mr Drew Braithwaite
  • Mrs Bobby Brazil
  • Ms Lucy Broad
  • Mrs Helen Marguerite Reading Cathles
  • Ms Anne Champness
  • Mr Roy Chisholm
  • Mr Joel Michael Clark
  • Mr Everald Ernest Compton
  • Mrs Lucinda Lee Flinders Corrigan
  • Mrs Lynette Coulston
  • Mr David Charles Crombie
  • Mr Monte Dwyer
  • Associate Professor Anthony English
  • Mr George Etrelezis
  • Mr John Fisher OAM
  • Dr James Paul Fitzpatrick
  • Mr Roger Fletcher
  • Ms Susan Natalie Frater
  • Ms Jodie May Goldsworthy
  • Mr John Laurence Gosper
  • Mr Robert Geoffrey Granger
  • Mr Frederick Sheppard Grimwade
  • Professor Fiona M. Haslam McKenzie
  • Mr Ben Scott Haslett
  • Mr Brett Heading
  • Mr Stuart James Higgins
  • Ms Serenity Hill
  • Mr James Graham Houston
  • Mr Paul Howes
    Paul Howes
    Paul Howes is the National Secretary of The Australian Workers' Union, a position he has held since the age of 26. He is also Vice President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and serves on a number of Government boards....

  • Mr Robert Beresford Hudson
  • Dr Bill Hurditch
  • Ms Alana Johnson
  • Mr Gary Richard Johnston
  • Ms Kerrina Victoria King
  • Dr John William Kramer
  • Dr Susan Jennifer Lambert
  • Mr Paul Lane
  • Professor Deidre Lemerle
  • Professor Bob Lonne
  • Ms Kate Maree Lord
  • Mr Alexander Ian Macintosh AM
  • Mr Simon Mansfield
  • Dr Suzanne Elizabeth Martin
  • Dr Mark Francis McGovern
  • Ms Catherine McGowan
  • Mr John Martin McQuilten
  • Mrs Karen Diane Morrissey
  • Ms Marion Murphy
  • Mr Sidney Hordern Myer
  • Mrs Mary Elizabeth Nenke
  • Mr Bryan Geoffrey John Nye
  • Dr Julianne Maree O'Reilly-Wapstra
  • Mr Scott Pape
  • Ms Elaine Janet Paton
  • Ms Claire Anne Penniceard
  • Mr Charles Jeffreys Prell
  • Ms Vanessa Rankin
  • Mr Peter Reading
  • Professor Timothy Gerald Reeves
  • Mr Steven Victor Richardson
  • Ms Linda Sewell
  • Ms Frances Marie Shapter
  • Mrs Georgina Jane Persse Somerset
  • Mrs Jacqueline Stutt
  • Mrs Michelle Leanne Thiele
  • Ms Terry Underwood
  • Ms Diane Walsh
  • Mrs Mary Ann Walsh
  • Mrs Beth Louise Welden
  • Mr Richard (Dick) Wells
  • Councillor Robert Ian Wilson
  • Mrs Heather Adelle Wilton
  • Dr Susan Wong
  • Ms Rosemary Young, AM

Future of Australian governance

  • Ms Erin Adams
  • Mr Phillip Adams
    Phillip Adams
    Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The...

  • Mr Peter Ajak
  • Mr Martin James Bailey
  • Ms Robin Banks
  • Mr Sean Barrett
  • Mr Benedict Bartl
  • Senator the Hon George Brandis
    George Brandis
    George Henry Brandis, SC , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland since May 2000.-Education & Early Career:...

  • Professor Judith Margaret Brett
  • Dr Alexander Jonathon Brown
  • Mr Julian William Kennedy Burnside
    Julian Burnside
    Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO QC is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile cases...

  • Associate Professor Lyn Carson
  • Mr Paul Chadwick
  • Professor Hilary Charlesworth
  • Professor Greg Craven
  • Associate Professor Kate Jane Crawford
    Kate Crawford
    Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer and academic based in Sydney, Australia.Crawford was previously part of Sydney electronic band Btek Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer and academic based in Sydney, Australia.Crawford was previously part of Sydney electronic band B(if)tek...

  • Sir William Deane
    William Deane
    Sir William Patrick Deane, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:William Deane was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in...

  • Ms Miranda Devine
    Miranda Devine
    Miranda Devine is an Australian columnist and writer noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. Her column, formerly printed twice weekly in Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, now appears in the News Limited Daily Telegraph with...

  • Mr Macgregor Duncan
  • Mr Harry Evans
  • Professor Allan Fels
    Allan Fels
    Professor Allan Fels is an Australian economist, lawyer and public servant. He was most widely known in his role as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from its inception in 1995 until 30 June 2003...

  • Mr Joseph Martin Fernandez
  • The Honourable Matthew (Matt) Joseph Foley
  • Mr Paul Formosa
  • Ms Pia-Angela Francini
  • Ms Alison Lesley Gaines
  • Professor Geoffrey Ian Gallop
    Geoff Gallop
    Geoffrey Ian Gallop, AC is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. He currently resides in Sydney.-Early life and education:...

  • The Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron
    Mary Gaudron
    Mary Genevieve Gaudron, AC, QC , Australian lawyer and judge, was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.-Youth:...

  • Ms Kate Gauthier
  • Ms Janet Giles
  • Ms Olivia Guarna
  • Ms Susan Gail Harris Rimmer
  • Professor Janette Hartz-Karp
  • Mr Michael James Harvey
  • Mr Gerard Henderson
    Gerard Henderson
    Gerard Henderson is a conservative Australian newspaper columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.. He is also Executive Director of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded current affairs forum. His wife Anne Henderson is Deputy Director.-Education:Henderson attended the Jesuit Xavier College in...

  • Ms Iresha Herath
  • Ms Kristen Anna Isobel Hilton
  • Ms Elizabeth Francesca Ho
  • Ms Janet Eileen Hunt
  • Dr Helen Irving
  • Ms Bridie Kathleen Jabour
  • Professor Sarah Louise Joseph
    Sarah Joseph (Australian legal academic)
    Professor Sarah Louise Joseph is an Australian human rights scholar. Joseph is currently the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, a position she has held since 2005...

  • Ms Joanne Kelly
  • Dr Paul Kelly
    Paul Kelly (journalist)
    Paul John Kelly is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian...

  • Ms Janice Winearls Keynton
  • Ms Amy Sarah King
  • Professor the Honourable Michael Lavarch
    Michael Lavarch
    Michael Hugh Lavarch is an Australian lawyer, educator and former politician. He was the Attorney-General of Australia between 1993 and 1996, and since 2004 has been Dean and Professor of Law at Queensland University of Technology , his alma mater.Lavarch commenced his legal career in Brisbane as...

  • Ms Miriam Lyons
    Miriam Lyons
    Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development , an independent public interest think tank set up in 2007. Formerly the Policy Coordinator for newmatilda.com, Miriam has a long history of bringing innovative policy ideas and debate to new audiences.Miriam co-founded...

  • Dr Terry MacDonald
  • Professor Robert Manne
    Robert Manne
    Robert Manne is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.Born in Melbourne, Manne's earliest political consciousness was formed by the fact that his parents were Jewish refugees from Europe and his grandparents were victims of the Holocaust...

  • Mr David Marr
    David Marr (journalist)
    David Ewan Marr is an Australian journalist, author, and progressive political and social commentator. His areas of expertise include the law, Australian politics, censorship, the media and the arts...

  • Sir Anthony Mason
  • Ms Lyn Mason
  • Mr Michael McKinnon
  • Mr Alexander McLaughlin
  • Mr Ian McPhee
  • Mr Stewart Mcrae
  • Ms Sarah Jane O'Rourke
  • Ms Holly Elizabeth Ransom
  • Mr Simon Rice
  • Ms Jamila Helen Rizvi
  • Mr Mauri Japarta Ryan
  • Ms Katherine Dawn Sampson
  • Professor Cheryl Anne Saunders
  • Professor Marian Sawer
  • Mr Wayne Francis Scheggia
  • Prof Julianne Schultz
  • The Honourable Helen Sham-Ho
  • Dr Christine (Chrissy) Sharp
  • Professor Christopher Dominic Sidoti
  • Ms Amelia Mary Simpson
  • Ms Tanya Louise Smith
  • Mr Brett Solomon
  • Dr David Solomon
  • Mr Matt Stevens
  • Mr Kerry Stokes
    Kerry Stokes
    Kerry Matthew Stokes AC is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in a diverse range of industries including electronic and print media, property, mining, and construction equipment. He is most widely known as the chairman of the Seven Network, one of the largest broadcasting...

  • Rev Professor Michael Tate
    Michael Tate
    Michael Carter Tate AO is a former Australian Labor Party politician who later became an ambassador and then a Catholic priest....

  • Dr Anne Tiernan
  • Associate Professor Anne Frances Twomey
  • Ms Danielle Vujovich
  • Ms Sally Warhaft
  • Professor Patrick Weller AO
  • Mr Howard Whitton
  • Professor George Williams
  • Mr Alan Wu
    Alan Wu
    Alan Wu was the 2008 recipient of the Australian Human Rights Commission's Young People's Human Rights Commendation. Wu's term as Chair of the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, Australia's national youth affairs peak body, saw the organisation successfully lobby for the re-establishment of the...

  • Dr Sally Young

Options for the future of Indigenous Australia

  • Dr Mick Adams
  • Mr Alfred Parry Agius
  • Ms Carolyn Allport
  • Professor Jon Altman
  • Professor Ian Anderson
  • Dr Veronica Arbon
  • Mrs Leah Marie Armstrong
  • Ms Muriel Bamblett AM
  • Mr Wayne Bergman
  • Mr Mark Bin Bakar
  • Ms Susan Pamela Boucher
  • Professor Wendy Brabham
  • Father Frank Brennan
  • Mr Paul Anthony Briggs OAM
  • Professor Peter Buckskin
  • Ms Alison Carroll
  • Ms Julie Cobb
  • Ms Renee Kay Coffey
  • Ms Adele Helena Cox
  • Ms Brenda Louise Croft
  • Ms Megan Jane Davis
  • Mr Graham Hamilton Dillon
  • Mr Rodney Scott Dillon
  • Mr Damien Djerrkura
  • Mr Patrick Dodson
    Patrick Dodson
    Patrick Dodson is a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, he is a former Chairman of the "Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation", a former Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and former Roman Catholic priest. He was the winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize...

  • Ms Marcia Ella Duncan
  • Ms Anne Murren Dunn
  • Ms Caroline Edwards
  • Ms Jeannie Nugeryai Egan
  • Mrs Christine Fejo-King
  • Ms Eugene Elizabeth Hooi Lee (Eugenia) Flynn
  • Mrs Nicola Margaret Forrest
  • Mr Darryl Gardiner
  • Ms Janina Gawler
  • Ms Kate George
  • Mr Daniel Thomas Gilbert
  • Ms Mary Graham
  • Mr Stephen Hagan
    Stephen Hagan
    Stephen Hagan is an Australian author, activist and campaigner against racism. He is also a newspaper editor, documentary maker, university lecturer and former diplomat....

  • Mr Bill Hart
  • Associate Professor Colleen Patricia Hayward
  • Dr Richard Hazelwood
  • Mrs Dot Henry
  • Mr Gary John Highland
  • Ms Tanya Louise Hosch
  • Mrs Matilda House
  • Professor Edward Shane Houston
  • Ms Terri Janke
  • Dr Christine Jeffries-Stokes
  • Dr Marlene Kong
  • Mr Steven Raymond Larkin
  • Associate Professor Teresa Sue Lea
  • Mr Danny Lester
  • Ms Barbara Mary Livesey
  • Dr Sarah Maddison
    Sarah Maddison
    Sarah Maddison is an Australian author and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at University of New South Wales....

  • Professor Ann Margaret McGrath
  • Mr Jeff McMullen AM
    Jeff McMullen
    Jeffrey John "Jeff" McMullen AM, is an Australian journalist. He was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades , a reporter for the investigative television program Four Corners and later joined the Australian version of 60 Minutes...

  • Ms Shirley McPherson
  • Ms Karen Michelle Milward
  • Ms Makinti Rosalind Minutjukur
  • Mr Romlie Mokak
  • Mr Bill Moss
  • Mr Vince Mundraby
  • Ms Yananymul Mununggurr
  • Professor Nicholas Martin Nakata
  • Ms Sana Nakata
  • The Honourable Alastair Nicholson
  • Ms Bronwyn Nimmo
  • Dr Rae Norris
  • Ms Kristie Parker
  • Mr Bruce Pascoe
  • Mr Noel Pearson
  • Mr Andrew Penfold
  • Ms Hetti Perkins
  • Mr Shane Phillips
  • Ms Susan Pinckham
  • Dr Marika Raymattja
  • Mr Thomas Jangala Rice
  • Mr David Ross
  • Ms Darcel Russell
  • Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley
    Fiona Stanley
    Fiona Stanley, AC is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work, and her research into child and maternal health, and birth disorders such as cerebral palsy.-Life:...

  • Mayor Napau Pedro Stephen
  • Ms Georgia Symmons
  • Mr Barry Taylor
  • Mr Ian Richard Trust
  • Ms Patricia Ann Turner
  • Commissioner Klynton Wanganeen
  • Dr Mark Wenitong
  • Ms Tammy Williams
  • Mr Neil Michael Willmett
  • Mr Wali Wunungmurra
  • Mr Peter Yu
  • Mr Tyson Yunkaporta

Population, sustainability, climate change and water

  • Ms Maria Atkinson
  • Ms Cheryl Batagol
  • Mr Damien Troy Bell
  • Mr Michael Peter Berwick
  • Professor Marcela Bilek
  • Mr Carl Eric Binning
  • Dr Stuart Blanch
  • Dr Grant Blashki
  • Ms Georgina Elise Boon
  • Mrs Leith Boully
  • Mr Greg Bourne
  • Ms Petrea Bradford
  • Ms Jillian Broadbent
  • Ms Larissa Brown
  • Emeritus Professor Valerie Anne Brown
  • Mr Russell Ronald Caplan
  • Ms Irina Cattalini
  • Ms Erin Mara Cini
  • Mr Peter Coates
  • Professor Chris (Christopher Reid) Cocklin
  • Dr Peter J Cook
  • Dr Wendy Craik
  • Professor Mary Elizabeth Crock
  • Ms Cheryl Desha
  • Mr Stewart Ellis
  • Ms Penelope Figgis (AO)
  • Dr Brian Fisher
  • Professor Timothy Flannery
    Tim Flannery
    Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....

  • Professor Ross Garnaut
    Ross Garnaut
    Ross Gregory Garnaut AO is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Australian National University and both a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow of Economics at The University of Melbourne....

  • Professor Stephen Thomas Garnett
  • Dr Geoff Garrett
  • Ms Melissa-Leigh Jane George
  • Professor Ross Stewart Guest
  • Ms Tanya Ha
  • Dr Steve Hatfield Dodds
  • Mr Michael Hawker
  • Professor Lesley Margaret Head
  • Dr Judy Isabel Henderson
  • Ms Anne Howe
  • Mr Gerry Hueston
  • Dr Karen Elizabeth Hussey
  • Mr Andrew Jaspan
    Andrew Jaspan
    Andrew Jaspan, a British journalist, was appointed in October 2004, as Editor-in-Chief of The Age, a broadsheet daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was the founder and editor of the Sunday Herald in Scotland from 1999 to 2004...

  • Ms Susan Barbara Jeanes
  • Dr Andrew Kenneth Leonard Johnson
  • Honourable Dr Barry Owen Jones
    Barry Jones (Australian politician)
    Barry Owen Jones AO, FAA, FASSA, FAHA, FTSE, FACE is a writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan, and remains against capital punishment...

  • Professor David John Karoly
  • The Hon Roslyn Joan Kelly
  • Professor Shahbaz Khan
  • Mr Ian Bruce Kiernan
  • Mr Eric Ronald Wing-Fai Knight
  • Dr Gabrielle Sarah Kuiper
  • The Hon Susan Mary Lenehan
  • Professor Ian Lowe
    Ian Lowe
    Ian Lowe is President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Professor of Science, Technology and Society and former Head of the School of Science at Griffith University, as well as an adjunct professor at Sunshine Coast University and Flinders University. In 1996 he was chair-person of the...

  • Professor Amanda Lynch
  • Ms Romilly Madew
  • Professor Warwick James McKibbin
  • Ms Robyn Leigh McLeod
  • Dr Pam McRae-Williams
  • Mr Stephen Mills
  • Mr Joe Morrison
  • Ms Sam Mostyn
  • Dr Chloe Munro
  • Ms Elizabeth Ann Nosworthy
  • Adjunct Professor Monica Viviene Oliphant
  • Ms Natasha Palich
  • Mr George Pappas
  • Dr Graeme Ivan Pearman
  • Mrs Joanne Louise Pfeiffer
  • Professor Hugh Possingham
  • Ms Elaine Prior
  • Professor John Quiggin
  • Mr Marcus Randolph
  • Dr Russell Evan Reichelt
  • Ms Tania Ritchie
  • Dr Bev Ronalds
  • Ms Anna Rose
  • Mr Joe Ross
  • Mr Bernard Joseph Salt
  • Ms Ann Kathryn Shaw Rungie
  • Mr David Shelmerdine
  • Dr Paul Simshauser
  • Professor Will Steffen
  • Dr Lorraine Stephenson
  • The Honourable John Thwaites
    John Thwaites (Australian politician)
    Johnstone William "John" Thwaites , Australian politician, was Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007.-Early life :...

  • Professor Patrick Nicol Troy, AO
  • Dr Tony Paul Wilkins

Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion

  • Dr Mohamad Abdalla
  • Ms Hala Abdelnour
  • Mr Fadi Abdul-Rahman
  • Ms Maayan Adler
  • Ms Vivienne Amery
  • Ms Gina Nancy McGregor Anderson
  • Mrs Shelley Argent
  • Dr Mark Bagshaw
  • Ms Toni May Bauman
  • Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel
  • Ms Jennifer Branch
  • Professor Freda Briggs
  • Ms Elizabeth Broderick
  • Monsignor David Cappo
    David Cappo
    David Cappo AO is Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide in South Australia., Cappo, as Vicar General, is next in line to the current Bishop in South Australia, Philip Wilson.-Early life:...

  • Ms Elizabeth Cham
  • Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain
  • Mrs Katrina Clark
  • Ms Margherita Coppolino
  • Major General William James Crews
  • Dr Kylie Cripps
  • Ms Sarah Davies
  • Professor Julian Disney
  • Ms Hazel Douglas
  • Ms Julie Mary Edwards
  • Mr Paul Andrew Evans
  • Mr Ahmed Fahour
  • Ms Maree Ann Faulkner
  • Ms Valerie Thelma French, AM
  • Reverend Keith Vincent Garner
  • Ms Kerry Graham
  • Ms Sara Haghdoosti
  • Professor Ann Harding
  • Ms Lisa Harvey
  • Ms Lin Hatfield Dodds
  • Ms Katrine Ann Hildyard
  • Mr Mark Hubbard
  • Ms Joan Anne Hughes
  • Ms Lyndsey Kate Jackson
  • Mr Kon Karapanagiotidis
  • Ms Corinne Kemp
  • Ms Joan Kirner
    Joan Kirner
    Joan Elizabeth Kirner AM , Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first woman to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.-Biography:...

  • Revd Dr Catherine Laufer
  • Ms Catherine Jean Leane
  • Dr Marie Leech
  • Associate Professor Michael Herbert Levy
  • Mr David Manne
  • Ms Nickky McColl Jones
  • MS Cathryn McConaghy
  • Mr Alex James McDonald
  • Ms Jayne Meyer Tucker
  • Mr Tony Nicholson
  • Mr Michael O'Neill
  • Mr Daniel Petre AO
  • Ms Sandra Joy Pitcher
  • Mr James Allan Pitts
  • Professor Barbara Ann Pocock
  • Mr Francis Gerard Quinlan
  • Ms Zoe Scott Rathus
  • Ms Elizabeth Jean Rayner
  • Father Christopher Riley
  • Associate Professor Alison Ritter
  • Ms Anne Miriam Robinson
  • Dr Wendell John Rosevear
  • Ms Roslyn Sackley
  • Professor Ann Sanson
  • Reverend Graham Sawyer
  • Professor Peter Shergold
  • Mr Iqbal Singh
  • Associate Professor Michelle Slatter
  • Dr Judith Marion Slocombe
  • Dr Kevin John Smith
  • Mr Xian-Zhi Soon
  • Professor Daniela Anna Stehlik
  • Ms Tirrania Suhood
  • Ms Kathleen Swinbourne
  • Mr Quang Ba Thich
  • Mr David George Thompson
  • Adjunct Professor Clyde Spence Thomson
  • Dr Adam Matthew Tominson
  • Ms Jessica Catherine Wellard
  • Mrs Julie Margot White
  • Ms Linda White
  • Ms Indigo Willing
  • Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson
  • Ms Michele Wright
  • Mr Galarrwuy Yunupingu

The Productivity Agenda (education, skills, training, science and innovation)

  • Ms Yasmin Allen
  • Associate Professor Marian Baird
  • Dr Subho Bannerjee
  • Professor Sharon Joy Bell
  • Ms Jane Bennett
  • Ms Michelle Bissett
  • Mr John Braithwaite
  • Ms Sarina Bratton
  • Professor Deb Brennan
  • Ms Jennifer Buckingham
  • Ms Allison Burgess
  • Professor Brian Caldwell
  • Professor Jack Caldwell
  • Ms Gillian Calvert
  • Mr Rod Camm
  • Professor Bruce James Chapman
  • Mr Phillip Clarke
  • Professor Mark Considine
  • Mr Michael Julian Cooney
  • Dr Rachael Claire Cooper
  • Mr Alan Cransberg
    Alan Cransberg
    Alan John Cransberg is an Australian businessman and former Australian rules footballer...

  • Dr Terrence Austin Cutler
  • Ms Deb Daly
  • Mr Cholmondeley (Chum) Darvall
  • Ms Gail Davidson
  • Professor Peter John Dawkins
  • Ms Leanne De Bortoli
  • Mr Jihad Dib
  • Mr Peter Kevin Dorling
  • Rev Monsignor Tom Doyle
  • Ms Patricia Faulkner
  • Ms Marion Fitzpatrick
  • Mr William James Frewen
  • Professor Bryan Malcolm Gaensler
    Bryan Gaensler
    Bryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :...

  • Professor Joshua Samuel Gans
    Joshua Gans
    Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual...

  • Mr Angelo Gavrielatos
  • Mr Bob Gregory
  • Dr Nicholas John Gruen
  • Professor Jeanette Hacket
  • Ms Sandra Harding
  • Professor Elizabeth Harman
  • Dr Ian Harper
    Ian Harper
    Ian Harper FASSA FAICD is an Australian economist. He was the inaugural chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission before that body was abolished in 2009....

  • Ms Liz Harris
  • Professor Jeannie Herbert
  • Ms Bee Ho Teow
  • Mr William (Sam) Jeffries
  • Mr Tony Keenan
  • Prof Dr Marcia Lynne Langton
  • Mr Jeff Lawrence
    Jeff Lawrence (unionist)
    Jeff Lawrence is an Australian trade unionist who was the Secretary of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union . Lawrence was Secretary of the LHMU, one of Australia's biggest unions, from 1990 to 2007....

  • Dr Andrew Leigh
    Andrew Leigh
    Andrew Keith Leigh is an Australian politician and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Canberra seat of Fraser. In 2011, Andrew was awarded the Economic Society of...

  • Ms Catherine Brighid Livingstone
  • Mr Ken Loughnan AO
  • Mr Christopher Jonn Lovell
  • Ms Lucy Macali
  • Ms Tanya Major
    Tania Major
    Tania Major , first came to prominence in 2004 as the youngest person elected to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission ....

  • Professor Geoff Masters
  • Mr Patrick McClure AO
  • Professor Barry McGaw
  • Ms Barbara McPherson
  • Dr Zoe Morrison
  • Ms Karen Moses
  • Ms Julie Moss
  • Professor Bruce David Muirhead
  • Mr Peter Noonan
  • Mr Andrew Norton
    Andrew Norton
    Andrew Norton is an Australian author and researcher. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies and Policy and Government Relations Adviser at the University of Melbourne...

  • Mr Frank Oberklaid
  • Mr Dave Oliver
  • Ms Marilynne Paspaley
  • Ms Rachel Peck
  • Ms Marie Persson
  • Mr Anthony Pratt
    Anthony Pratt (businessman)
    Anthony Pratt is Chairman and CEO of Pratt Industries and Group Deputy Chairman of Visy Industries, the world’s largest privately-owned paper and packaging company...

  • Professor Janice Reid AM
  • Dr Chris Sarra
    Chris Sarra
    Chris Sarra is an Australian educationalist. Hailing from Bundaberg in Queensland and the youngest of ten children, Sarra experienced first-hand many of the issues faced by indigenous students....

  • Mr Bill Scales
  • Ms Sally Margot Sinclair
  • Mr Steven Michael Skala
  • Ms Judith Sloan
  • Mr Keith Spence
  • Ms Rosa Storelli
  • Ms Natalie Tabbah
  • Professor Collette Tayler
  • Professor Leon van Schaik
  • Ms Gerri Walker
  • Mr Peter Francis Waters
  • Professor Jonathan West
  • Dr Fiona Quality Wood
  • Ms Helen Wyatt
  • Mr Mandawuy Yunupingu
    Mandawuy Yunupingu
    Mandawuy Yunupingu , born 17 September 1956, is an Aboriginal Australian musician, most notable for being the front man of the band Yothu Yindi.-Early life:...


Towards a Creative Australia

  • Ms Louise Adler
    Louise Adler
    Louise Adler AM was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1954. She is married to the actor and comedian Max Gillies. In 2008 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to literature....

  • Mr Neil Armfield
    Neil Armfield
    Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.Born in Sydney, Armfield was the youngest of three boys. The son of a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's biscuit factory he was brought up in the suburb of Concord adjacent to Exile Bay...

  • Mr Stephen Armstrong
  • Mr Geoffrey John Atherden
    Geoffrey Atherden
    Geoffrey John Atherden, AM, is an Australian television writer, best known for the sitcom Mother and Son. He also wrote the sitcom Grass Roots and the mockumentary BabaKiueria, and contributed to The Aunty Jack Show....

  • Mr James Baker
  • Ms Geraldine Barlow
  • Professor Larissa Behrendt
    Larissa Behrendt
    Larissa Behrendt is an Australian academic and writer of Aboriginal and European descent. She is currently a Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney....

  • Ms Mara Blazic
  • Mr Shaun Michael Brown
    Shaun Brown
    Shaun Brown is the former Managing Director of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. He was appointed to the position on 14 February 2006 for four years. In 2008, the SBS Board extended his contract until July 2011. During his time at SBS, the broadcaster's ratings share has risen to 6.2...

  • Adjunct Professor Michael Bryce
    Michael Bryce
    Michael John Bryce AM AE is an Australian architect and graphic and industrial designer. He is the husband of the current Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce.-Biography:...

  • Ms Jennifer Margaret Buckland
  • Mr Darrell Buckley
  • Ms Leticia Caceres
  • Mr Bob Campbell
  • Ms Karen Casey
  • Ms Kate Champion
    Kate Champion
    Kate Champion is a contemporary dance choreographer and the director of Force Majeure, a dance collective exploring strong physical performance.Champion began her dance training with Karen Kerkhoven and also studied in Munich...

  • Professor John Coetzee
    John Maxwell Coetzee
    John Maxwell Coetzee ; is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in Adelaide, South Australia...

  • Mr Robert John Connolly
  • Ms Alison Croggon
    Alison Croggon
    Alison Croggon is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.-Life:Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. She has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning...

  • Mr Stuart Cunningham
    Stuart Cunningham
    Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation...

  • Mr Andrew Denton
    Andrew Denton
    Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique...

  • Ms Rachel Dixon
  • Mr Khoa Do
    Khoa Do
    Khoa Do , born 1979, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is a film director, screenwriter, professional speaker and philanthropist who received the Young Australian of the Year Award in 2005. The Do family arrived in Sydney as Vietnamese refugees in 1980. His brother is the comedian Anh Do...

  • Ms Phoebe Rebecca Dunn
  • Ms Jo Dyer
  • Mr Joel Edgerton
    Joel Edgerton
    Joel Edgerton is an Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, to a homemaker mother and a solicitor/property developer father, Michael. His brother, Nash Edgerton, is a stuntman and filmmaker...

  • Ms Kristy Edmunds
  • Mr Wesley Enoch
    Wesley Enoch
    Wesley Enoch is an Australian playwright and artistic director of Murri descent.- Life :The eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane....

  • Mr Saul Eslake
  • Associate Professor Robyn Ann Ewing
  • Ms Anna Funder
    Anna Funder
    Anna Funder is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Melbourne, also later studying at the Free University of Berlin as the recipient in 1994 of a DAAD Scholarship...

  • Mr Richard Gill
    Richard Gill (conductor)
    Richard James Gill OAM is an Australian conductor who has earned awards for his work. He conducts choral, orchestral and operatic works, and has been involved in music training and education...

  • Dr Peter Goldsworthy
    Peter Goldsworthy
    Peter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....

  • Mr David Michael Gonski, AC
    David Gonski
    David Michael Gonski, BComm, LLB, AC, is an Australian public figure and businessman. The Sydney Morning Herald has described him as "one of the country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "arguably Sydney's most networked man".David Gonski was born in 1953 in...

  • Mr Michael William Gow
    Michael Gow
    Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director most famed for his 1986 work Away.As a student at Sydney University, Gow acted and directed with the Dramatic Society from 1973-1976. After graduation, Gow went on to act with Nimrod, Thalia and Sydney theatre companies.He has been the Artist...

  • Mr Paul Grabowksi
    Paul Grabowsky
    -Biography:Grabowsky was born on 27 September 1958 in Lae, Papua New Guinea; his father Alistair had lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Charlotte since the 1930s working on oil rigs, building roads, flying planes and playing the drums...

  • Ms Corinne Grant
    Corinne Grant
    Corinne Grant is an Australian comedian and television presenter.-Career:After briefly studying as a nurse in Wodonga, she embarked upon a career as an actor in Melbourne, obtaining a degree in drama. After graduating, Grant started doing stand-up comedy to overcome her stage-fright. Her first...

  • Ms Anna Habeich
  • Ms Marieke Hardy
    Marieke Hardy
    Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian writer, broadcaster, television producer and former television actress.-Early life and family:...

  • Mr Sam Haren
  • Ms Rachel Healy
  • Mr Frank Richard Howarth
    Frank Howarth
    Frank Richard Howarth is an Australian public servant, and has been the Director of the Australian Museum since February 2004....

  • Mr Scott Hucknall
  • Ms Catherine Elizabeth Hunt
  • Mr Hugh Jackman
    Hugh Jackman
    Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters...

  • Mr Nick Jose
    Nicholas Jose
    -Biography:Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990...

  • Ms Claudia Karvan
    Claudia Karvan
    Claudia Karvan is an Australian actress popular for her roles in the television series The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way. She is also a producer and writer on Love My Way. She currently stars in the drama series Spirited...

  • Mr Andrew Kay
  • Ms Ana Kokkinos
    Ana Kokkinos
    Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...

  • Mr Barrie Kosky
    Barrie Kosky
    Barrie KoskyBarrie Kosky's name is sometimes misspelled as Barry Kosky, Barrie Koski, Barrie Koskie. is an Australian theatre and opera director.Kosky also plays the piano, as he did in his production of Monteverdi's Poppea...

  • Ms Ramona Koval
    Ramona Koval
    Ramona Koval is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.Her parents were Yiddish-speaking survivors of the Holocaust who arrived in Melbourne from Poland in 1950....

  • Ms Sandra Levy
  • Dr Liza Swee Lyn Lim
    Liza Lim
    Liza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects...

  • Mr Fergus Linehan
  • Ms Rachael Bronwyn Lucas
  • Mr Matthew Lutton
  • Ms Elizabeth Ann Macgregor
  • Mr Greg Mackie
    Greg Mackie
    Gregory Alan "Greg" Mackie is a South Australian who has worked to promote the arts in South Australia. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his "service to the community through the promotion of the arts, particularly the Adelaide Festival of Ideas".He was a councilor with the...

  • Ms Anna Malgorzewicz
  • Mr Nicholas George Grant Marchand
    Nick Marchand
    Nick Marchand is an Australian theatre director. From 2006 to 2010, he was Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of Griffin Theatre Company. He was previously co-curator of Wharf 2 Blueprints at Sydney Theatre Company ....

  • Ms Catherine Martin
    Catherine Martin
    Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.-Biography:Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School...

  • Ms Susan Mary Maslin
  • Mr David Graeme McAllister
  • Mr Hal McElroy
  • Mr Marshall McGuire
    Marshall McGuire
    Marshall McGuire is a renowned Australian harpist, teacher, conductor and musical administrator. He has been described as the world's greatest champion of new music for the harp. Tristram Cary has written "A new school of harp music is emerging from the enterprise of this innovative master...

  • Dr Julian Meyrick
  • Ms Shelagh Mgaza
  • Ms Jan Minchin
  • Mr Callum Morton
  • Mr Rhys Muldoon
    Rhys Muldoon
    Rhys Muldoon is an Australian actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, theatre and radio.-Television:...

  • Mr Enda Murray
  • Mr Rupert Myer
  • Ms Rose Myers
  • Ms Lena Nahlous
  • Ms Sue Nattrass AO
  • Ms Margo Neale
  • Ms Helen O'Neil
  • Ms Alison Joy Page
  • Mr Stephen Page
    Stephen Page
    Born in Brisbane in 1965, Stephen Page is a descendant from the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh tribe from southeast Queensland...

  • Mr Charles Parkinson
  • Ms Rachel Perkins
    Rachel Perkins
    Rachel Perkins is a film and television director, film and television producer and a writer. She is known for her films Bran Nue Dae, Radiance and One Night the Moon. Perkins is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by parents Eileen and Charles Perkins...

  • Mr David John Pledger
  • Mr John Polson
    John Polson
    John Polson is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan where his film Siam Sunset won the Minami Toshiko Award...

  • Ms Marion Potts
  • Dr Ronald Warwick Radford
  • Professor John Redmond
  • Mr Ian Robertson
  • Mr Mark Scott
  • Ms Margaret Seares
  • Ms Katrina Sedgewick
  • Mr Ivan Sen
    Ivan Sen
    Ivan Sen is an Australian filmmaker. Throughout the late 1990s Sen worked on numerous short films, before making his feature film debut with Beneath Clouds in 2002. He studied filmmaking at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he produced his first short films, working with the...

  • Mr Brett Sheehey
  • Mr Adam Simpson
  • Mr James Alexander Strong
  • Professor David Throsby
    David Throsby
    Charles David Throsby is an Australian economist, especially well-known as a cultural economist. His book The Economics of the Performing Arts, co-authored with Glenn Withers, first published in 1979 and reissued in 1993, has become a standard reference work in the field...

  • Mr Richard Tognetti
    Richard Tognetti
    Richard Leo Tognetti, AO is an Australian violinist, composer and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Maribor Festival in Maribor, Slovenia....

  • Ms Mary Vallentine
  • Mr Marcus Westbury
    Marcus Westbury
    Marcus Westbury is an Australian festival director. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where he filmed the TV series Not Quite Art...

  • Mr Kim Williams
  • Dr Astrid Elizabeth Grace Wootton

Australia 2020 Summit Youth Delegates

Eleven young people were also selected by their peers at the 2020 Youth Summit, running from 11 to 13 April 2008, to represent Australian youth at the Australia 2020 Summit
Australia 2020 Summit
The Australia 2020 Summit was a convention, referred to in Australian media as a summit, which was held on 19-20 April 2008 in Canberra, Australia, aiming to "help shape a long term strategy for the nation's future"...

:
  • Mr Michael Loftus – A long-term national health strategy
  • Ms Angela Ha and Mr Tom O'Connor – Australia’s future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world
  • Mr Siddhartha Chakrabarti – Future directions for the Australian economy
  • Ms Naomi Godden – Future directions for rural industries and rural communities
  • Mr Owen Wareham – Future of Australian governance
  • Mr Tim Goodwin – Options for the future of Indigenous Australia
  • Mr Ben Kent – Population, sustainability, climate change and water
  • Ms Samah Hadid – Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
  • Mr Simon Sheikh – The Productivity Agenda (education, skills, training, science and innovation)
  • Ms Tammy Edwards – Towards a Creative Australia
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