Politics

• 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...
  
   - One of Australia's foremost academics/public intellectuals. Manne is an author of numerous books on Australian politics and society.
• Dennis Altman
  Dennis Altman
  Dennis Patkin Altman is an Australian academic and pioneering gay rights activist.Altman was a Fullbright scholar at Cornell University in the 1960s when he met and began working with leading gay activists in the United States...
  
   - One of Australia's most prominent academics and expert on the politics of gender.
• Judith Brett
  Judith Brett
  Judith Brett is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.She was an editor of Meanjin, the Melbourne-based Australian literary quarterly in the 1980s, and was a co-editor of Arena Magazine in the 1990s.-Books:...
  
   - Prominent academic in the field of politics
  Politics
  Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
  
   and author of several books on Australian politics.
• Nick Bisley - High profile political economist who frequently contributes to the media and public debates.
• Joseph Camilleri - One of Australia's most prominent academics in the field of International Relations
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
   and director of the Centre for Dialogue

Sociology and Anthropology

• John Carroll
  John Carroll (author)
  John Carroll is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, and author of Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive, Guilt, Ego and Soul, Humanism: The Rebirth and Wreck of Western Culture, and Intruders In The Bush: The Australian Quest For Identity.Humanism is Carroll's most ambitious work to date...
  
  http://www.latrobe.edu.au/socsci/staff/carroll/carroll.html - Prominent academic in the field of sociology. Public intellectual
• Peter Beilharz
  Peter Beilharz
  Peter Beilharz is an Australian sociologist. Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Beilharz is also a co-founder and editor of the international journal of social theory Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology published by Sage...
  
   - Public intellectual
• Alberto Gomes - Anthropology Professor.
• Sandy Gifford - Anthropology professor, Refugee rights advocate.
• Joel Kahn - emeritus anthropology professor, expert on the concept of culture and anthropology of Southeast Asia

Engineering

• Daryl E. Hooper
  Daryl E. Hooper
  Daryl Egbert Hooper was an electronic engineer notable for pioneering engineering at La Trobe University and heading up the GEC Research Hirst Centre in the 1980s. He is also notable for his textbook on amplifier design.-Education:...
  
   - inaugural professor
• Shinichi Endo - Phd
• Akbar Sathaar - Professor

Economics and Finance

• Dr Don Brash - Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
  Reserve Bank of New Zealand
  The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is the central bank of New Zealand and is constituted under the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989. The Governor of the Reserve Bank is responsible for New Zealand's currency and operating monetary policy. The Bank's current Governor is Dr. Alan Bollard...
  
   and former New Zealand Opposition Leader.

Law

• Mike Moore - Former Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and former Prime Minister of New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  

• Chris Field - West Australian
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
   Ombudsman
  Ombudsman
  An ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests...
  
   (also former La Trobe Law student)
• Jianfu Chen
• Spencer Zifcak
• Randy Peerenboom
• Jill Murray

Philosophy

• Peter Singer
  Peter Singer
  Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
  
   - world renowned philosopher and ethicist
• Agnes Heller
  Ágnes Heller
  Ágnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...
  
   - world renowned philosopher
• Frank Cameron Jackson
  Frank Cameron Jackson
  Frank Cameron Jackson is an Australian philosopher, currently Distinguished Professor and former Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. In 2007-2008, he also became a regular visiting professor of philosophy at Princeton University...
  
   - world renowned philosopher
• J. J. C. Smart
  J. J. C. Smart
  John Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart AC is an Australian philosopher and academic who is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia...
  
   - philosopher

History

• John Hirst
  John Hirst (historian)
  John Hirst is an emeritus professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.-Books:*Australia’s Democracy: A Short History ISBN 978-1865088457*QE 17 'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia ISBN 978-1863953412...
  
  
• Richard Broome
  Richard Broome
  Richard Broome is a professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.He is widely recognised as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia....
  
  
• Marilyn Lake
  Marilyn Lake
  Marilyn Lake is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society, the political history of Australian women and Australian racism including the White Australia Policy and the movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights...
  
  
• Inga Clendinnen
  Inga Clendinnen
  Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.-Life and career:Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA...
  
  
• Peter Cochrane
  Peter Cochrane (historian)
  Dr Peter Cochrane is an Australian historian and writer. In 2007, his book Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy shared the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History with Les Carlyon's The Great War....
  
   historian and author
• Edward Duyker
  Edward Duyker
  Edward Duyker is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius...
  
  , historian and author
• Rhys Isaac
• Alan Frost
  Alan Frost
  Alan Frost is a La Trobe University-based academic. A major theme of his research has involved the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean over the second half of the eighteenth century. He is best known for books in which he challenges common historical stereotypes and misconceptions concerning...
  
  
• Katie Holmes
  Katie Holmes (historian)
  Katie Holmes is an associate-professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.-Books:*Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s ISBN 1863737316...
  
  

Cinema & Media Studies

• John Flaus
  John Flaus
  John Flaus is an Australian broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist and raconteur. He was formerly a prominent film academic and theorist. He was born in Maroubra, Sydney....
  
   - film academic and theorist, actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
  
• Rhys L Isaac - Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Lawrie Zion
• Terrie Waddell
  Terrie Waddell
  Terrie Waddell is a former Australian actress, best known for her role as Lisa Mullins in the television series Prisoner. She had replaced Nicki Paull, who had left the role due to an illness. Waddell remained with the series until its final episode in 1986....
  
  

Science

• David Vaux - internationally acclaimed cell biology researcher
• Daniel Tillett
  Daniel Tillett
  Daniel Tillett is a scientist working in the area of genomics, bioinformatics and DNA sequencing. In 1999 he, together with Paul Marsh, founded Nucleics, an Australian biotechnology company located at LaTrobe University....
  
   - Genomics and DNA sequencing researcher
• Roger Parish
  Roger Parish
  Roger Parish is a professor of botany at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He was the Acting Vice-Chancellor in 2006.-Recent Publications:*Suppression and restoration of male fertility using a transcription factor Plant Biotech...
  
   - Botanist
• Graeme Clark

Past

• Andrew Robb
  Andrew Robb
  Andrew John Robb AO , Australian politician and former federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Goldstein, Victoria for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election.Robb, one of nine children, was...
  
   (also former La Trobe student) - Current Federal Liberal MP, former Liberal Party treasurer
• Petro Georgiou
  Petro Georgiou
  Petro Georgiou , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.-Early life:...
  
   - Federal Liberal MP
• Burkhard Dallwitz
  Burkhard Dallwitz
  Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...
  
   - Composer, Golden Globe winner
• Peter Höj - CEO of the Australian Research Council
  Australian Research Council
  The Australian Research Council is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. Its mission is to advance Australia’s capacity to undertake research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Politics and government

• Jacinta Allan
  Jacinta Allan
  Jacinta Marie Allan is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing the electorate of Bendigo East. A member of a prominent Bendigo political family, she is the granddaughter of the late Bendigo Trades Hall...
  
  , Victorian Government Minister
• Fran Bailey
  Fran Bailey
  Frances Esther "Fran" Bailey is an Australianpolitician and Liberal member of theAustralian House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1996 to 2010, representing the electorate of McEwen in Victoria.-Personal life:...
  
  , Federal Liberal MP, former federal government minister
• Helen Buckingham
  Helen Buckingham
  Helen Elizabeth Buckingham is a retired Australian politician. She was the Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006, representing Koonung Province...
  
  , MP
• Phil Cleary
  Phil Cleary
  Philip Ronald Cleary is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a former independent politician elected at the 1992 Wills by-election.-Football playing career:...
  
  , Former Federal Independent MP, Author, social activist, political and sports commentator, former VFL Footballer, ABC
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
  
   Presenter
• Jacinta Collins
  Jacinta Collins
  Jacinta Mary Ann Collins , is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate. She served from May 1995 to 2005, and again from May 2008, representing the state of Victoria....
  
  , Federal Senator
• Michael Danby
  Michael Danby
  Michael David Danby is an Australian politician and has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria...
  
  , Federal Labor MP
• Mary Delahunty
  Mary Delahunty
  Mary Delahunty is an Australian journalist and retired politician with the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:Delahunty was born in Victoria, Australia and educated at Loreto College, in Victoria. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Latrobe University.-Media career:Delahunty...
  
  , Victorian MP, former minister, former ABC TV presenter
• Martin Dixon, Victorian MP, opposition frontbencher
• Stephen Duckett
  Stephen Duckett
  Stephen John Duckett is an economist and health services manager who has occupied leadership roles in health services in both Australia and Canada. He is currently a professor at the University of Alberta.- Educational background:...
  
   former Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (1994–1996) and currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services
  Alberta Health Services
  Alberta Health Services is the province-wide organization responsible for providing hospital and other health care in the Canadian province of Alberta. Known as the "superboard", it was created in May 2008, with the abolition of nine previous regional health authorities, the Alberta Mental Health...
  
   in Canada.
• Abdirahman Mohamud Farole
  Abdirahman Mohamud Farole
  Abdirahman Mohamud Farole is a Somali politician. He is the fourth and current President of Puntland.-Biography:Farole was born in the qandala region of Somalia in 1945. He first pursued his post-secondary education locally, earning a Diploma of Public Health in 1964 from the Scuola Professionale...
  
  , President of the Puntland
  Puntland
  Puntland , officially the Puntland State of Somalia , is a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998....
  
   region of Somalia
  Somalia
  Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
  
  
• Matthew Guy
  Matthew Guy
  Matthew Guy is an Australian politician, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Liberal Party. He is the current Minister for Planning in the state of Victoria....
  
  , Liberal MP
• Bill Kelty
  Bill Kelty
  William John "Bill" Kelty, AC is an Australian trade unionist and a well-known figure in the Australian labour movement, who served as Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1983 to 2000....
  
  , former ACTU
  Australian Council of Trade Unions
  The Australian Council of Trade Unions is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia. It is a national trade union centre of 46 affiliated unions.-History:The ACTU was formed in 1927 as the "Australian Council of Trade Unions"...
  
   secretary, union official, AFL Commissioner, Union icon
• Sussan Ley
  Sussan Ley
  Sussan Penelope Ley , Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Farrer, New South Wales....
  
  , Federal MP
• Brian Loughnane
  Brian Loughnane
  Brian Loughnane is the current Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia and has served in this role since February 2003. He was born in Geelong, Victoria and was educated in Colac, Victoria. He graduated with an Honours degree in Political science from LaTrobe University.Loughnane worked...
  
  , Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia
  Liberal Party of Australia
  The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
  
  
• Terry Moran
  Terry Moran
  Terry Moran is the co-anchor of Nightline.-Biography:Moran was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Lawrence University in 1982.-Professional career:-Career as Correspondent:...
  
  , Head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Head of the Federal Public Service
• Neil O'Keefe
  Neil O'Keefe
  Neil Patrick O'Keefe is a retired Australian politician and lobbyist. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at La Trobe University and then Monash University before becoming a teacher, union official and small business proprietor. In 1984, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as...
  
  , Former Federal Government minister, political commentator
• Maximus Ongkili
  Maximus Ongkili
  Datuk Seri Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili is a Malaysian politician. He is the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation and the member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the seat of Kota Marudu in Sabah. He is a member of the United Sabah Party in the governing Barisan Nasional...
  
  , Malaysian Cabinet minister
• Emilia Pires, Finance Minister, East Timor
• Geoff Raby
  Geoff Raby
  Geoff Raby is an Australian economist and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 2007 until August 2011.- Education and public career :...
  
   Foreign Affairs secretary, Australia's most senior Trade official, World Trade Organisation negotiator and the Australian ambassador to China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  .
• Andrew Robb
  Andrew Robb
  Andrew John Robb AO , Australian politician and former federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Goldstein, Victoria for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election.Robb, one of nine children, was...
  
  , Federal MP, Parliamentary secretary, Former Liberal
  Liberal Party of Australia
  The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
  
   Treasurer
• Mahinda Samarasinghe
  Mahinda Samarasinghe
  Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe, MP is a Sri Lankan politician and former diplomat. He is the current Cabinet Minister of Plantation in President Mahinda Rajapakse's Government, and Sri Lanka Freedom Party chief organiser for the Agalawatte Electorate in Kalutara District...
  
  , Sri Lankan cabinet minister of disaster management and MP
• Tony Sheehan
  Tony Sheehan
  Anthony John "Tony" Sheehan is a former Australian politician. He obtained an economics degree at La Trobe University and was a school teacher at Heidleberg High School. He was elected branch secretary of the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association.He was a member of the Victorian Legislative...
  
  , Former Treasurer, deputy opposition leader
• Sharman Stone
  Sharman Stone
  Dr. Sharman Nancy Stone née Bawden , Australian politician, has been an Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Murray, Victoria...
  
  , Federal MP, Opposition frontbencher, Former Government minister
• Theo Theophanous
  Theo Theophanous
  Theo Charles Theophanous is a former Australian politician who served in the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Northern Metropolitan Region. He is the brother of former federal politician Andrew Theophanous...
  
  , Victorian Government Minister
• Geoff Walsh
  Geoff Walsh
  Geoffrey David Walsh AO is an Australian political adviser.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and La Trobe University, Walsh worked as a journalist for the Border Mail, Herald Sun, The Age and The Australian Financial Review before serving as an advisor to Australian Labor Party politicians Bob...
  
  , Former ALP
  Australian Labor Party
  The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
  
   National Secretary, UN official and delegate, adviser to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke
  Bob Hawke
  Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
  
   and Paul Keating
  Paul Keating
  Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...
  
  , Consul General to Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
  
  , Age
  The Age
  The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
  
   and AFR journalist
• Don Watson
  Don Watson
  Don Watson is an Australian author and public speaker.-Biography:Watson grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and a Ph.D at Monash University and was for ten years an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his...
  
  , Author, academic, political commentator, former speechwriter to Paul Keating
  Paul Keating
  Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...
  
  
• Ian Watt
  Ian Watt
  Ian Watt was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University. His Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding is an important work in the history of the genre...
  
  , Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance, former Treasury and cabinet official, former diplomat
  Diplomat
  A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
  
  
• Christian Zahra
  Christian Zahra
  Christian John Zahra , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the seat of McMillan, Victoria. He was born in Malta, and was educated at La Trobe University...
  
  , Former Federal Opposition frontbencher

Media & Arts

• Wendy Hughes
  Wendy Hughes
  -Career:Hughes began her career on television in the early 1970s with appearances in Homicide, Number 96, Matlock Police and in 1976, ABC Mini-Series, Power Without Glory...
  
  , well known actor
• Jennifer Keyte
  Jennifer Keyte
  Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
  
  , journalist, TV news presenter
• John Flaus
  John Flaus
  John Flaus is an Australian broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist and raconteur. He was formerly a prominent film academic and theorist. He was born in Maroubra, Sydney....
  
  , film maker, writer, social activist
• Morag Fraser, Prominent Academic, social commentator, journalist
• 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...
  
  , TV Personality, comedian, actor
• Leonard French
  Leonard French
  Leonard William French OBE is an Australian artist, known principally for major stained glass works.French was born in Brunswick, Victoria...
  
  , artist
• Jane Gazzo
  Jane Gazzo
  Jane Gazzo is an Australian television presenter, radio presenter, performance and club DJ, television personality, voice artist, and music journalist....
  
  , BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   presenter
• Philip Mora, Film director
• Louis Nowra
  Louis Nowra
  Louis Nowra is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights...
  
  , Playwright and screenwriter.
• Naomi Robson
  Naomi Robson
  Naomi Robson is an Australian television presenter who is best known as the former presenter of the east coast edition of Today Tonight, an Australian current affairs program which is broadcast on weeknights on the Seven Network, from 1997 to 2006...
  
  , journalist, presenter
• Tim Ross
  Merrick and Rosso
  Merrick and Rosso are an Australian comedy duo, Merrick Watts and Tim Ross. The duo began in stand up comedy and first came together when they teamed up for a one off comedy show in 1996...
  
  , TV and Radio Personality, Comedian (Merrick and Rosso
  Merrick and Rosso
  Merrick and Rosso are an Australian comedy duo, Merrick Watts and Tim Ross. The duo began in stand up comedy and first came together when they teamed up for a one off comedy show in 1996...
  
  )
• John Silvester
  John Silvester
  John Silvester is an Australian journalist and crime writer. He has written for major Melbourne based newspapers such as The Age, the Sunday Herald Sun and others. Silvester has also co-written a number of bestselling books with Andrew Rule, based on crime in Melbourne. Some of their works formed...
  
  , crime writer, prominent Age
  The Age
  The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
  
   journalist
• Virginia Trioli
  Virginia Trioli
  Virginia Frances Trioli is an award-winning Australian journalist and author.-Biography:Born in Bendigo, she attended Donvale High School and graduated from La Trobe University in the 1980s, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a fine arts major in cinema...
  
  , ABC Presenter,journalist, author, political commentator
• Maureen Wheeler
  Maureen Wheeler
  Maureen Wheeler is a Northern Ireland-born Australian publisher and a co-founder and director of Lonely Planet Publications.Wheeler was born in Belfast and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony Wheeler on a park bench in London on 7 October 1970...
  
  , Founder of Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...
  
  
• Rebecca Twigley - Model

Business

• David Morgan
  David Morgan
  David Morgan may refer to:*David Morgan , professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison*David Morgan , British sociologist*David Morgan , American frontiersman...
  
  , Westpac
  Westpac
  Westpac , is a multinational financial services, one of the Australian "big four" banks and the second-largest bank in New Zealand....
  
   CEO, former Treasury official, BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
  
   Director
• Rob Hunt, CEO Bendigo Bank
  Bendigo Bank
  Bendigo Bank is an Australian financial institution, operating primarily in retail banking. The company merged with Adelaide Bank in November 2007, with shareholders voting in March 2008 to change the merged company’s name to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited.Before the merger, Bendigo Bank...
  
  
• Ahmed Fahour
  Ahmed Fahour
  Ahmed Fahour is a business executive currently serving as the Managing Director and CEO of Australia Post and was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian operations of the National Australia Bank .- Early life and career :...
  
  , former CEO National Australia Bank
  National Australia Bank
  National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...
  
  , Australian Region
• Garry Weaven, Founder of Industry Funds Services, superannuation pioneer
• Chris Field -West Australian
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
   Ombudsman
  Ombudsman
  An ombudsman is a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests...
  
  , former Chairman of the Australian Consumers Association
  Australian Consumers Association
  The Australian Consumers’ Association, which trades as CHOICE, is an Australian not for profit consumer organisation. It is a non-partisan organisation that was founded in 1959 which researches and campaigns on behalf of Australian consumers...
  
   (CHOICE
  Choice
  Choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them. While a choice can be made between imagined options , often a choice is made between real options, and followed by the corresponding action...
  
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• John Ilhan
  John Ilhan
  John Ilhan was the founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain and the richest Australian under 40 years of age in 2003. He was an Australian Muslim of Turkish origin.-Early life:...
  
  , Founder of Crazy John's
• Martyn Dunne
  Martyn Dunne
  Martyn John Dunne CNZM , , soldier and senior public servant, is New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia. He was Comptroller of Customs and Chief Executive of the New Zealand Customs Service and was a career soldier in the New Zealand Army from 1970 ending his military career in 2004 as...
  
  , CEO, NZ Customs
• Adrian Collette, CEO, Opera Australia
  Opera Australia
  Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne...
  
  
• Scott Pape
  Scott Pape
  Scott Pape is an investment advisor, author and radio commentator who lives in Melbourne, Australia.-Career:Scott Pape grew up in Ouyen, Victoria, where he held odd jobs - once being paid by his father with a single BHP share...
  
  , The Barefoot Investor
• Tricia Caswell, CEO, Victorian Association of Forest Industries

Science

• Tim Flannery
  Tim Flannery
  Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
  
  , Well known biologist, author and prominent commentator on global warming
  Global warming
  Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
  
  , 2007 Australian of the Year
  Australian of the Year
  Since 1960 the Australian of the Year Award has been part of the celebrations surrounding Australia Day , during which time the award has grown steadily in significance to become Australia’s pre-eminent award. The Australian of the Year announcement has become a very prominent part of the annual...
  
  
• Neil J. Gunther
  Neil J. Gunther
  Neil Gunther, is a computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick and developing the to computer capacity planning and performance analysis...
  
   Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
• Carlo Montagner, Bioscientist
• Dr Margaret Brumby, General Manager of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
• Lindsay Falvey
  Lindsay Falvey
  John Lindsay Falvey known as Lindsay Falvey, is an author who writes on topics concerning agricultural science and philosophy, religion, international development and more lately spiritual development...
  
  , Academic
• Linzi Wilson-Wilde, forensic scientist
• Geoff Love
  Geoff Love
  Geoff Love was a British easy-listening, and disco orchestra leader. He was born in the industrial town of Todmorden in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a mixed race American-born guitarist and dancer, and his mother an actress. As a child, Love began to learn to play the violin but...
  
  , Australian Director of Meteorology

Sport

• Andrew Demetriou
  Andrew Demetriou
  Andrew Demetriou is the chief executive officer of the Australian Football League and a former Australian rules footballer. He is the youngest son of Greek-Cypriot immigrants and, before becoming a VFL player, he worked in the dental import industry...
  
  , AFL
  Australian Football League
  The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
  
   CEO
• Tamsyn Lewis
  Tamsyn Lewis
  Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis is an Australian athlete and middle-distance runner, who has won a total of seventeen Australian Championships at 400 metres, 800 metres and 400m hurdles....
  
  , Olympic athlete, World Champion
• Linda Beilharz, Adventurer
• Tim Matthews
  Tim Matthews
  Tim Matthews is a British actor who began his career in Fuente Ovejuna at the National Theatre in London and after several other stage jobs found his first television appearance in a supporting role in the premiere episode of Five Children and It in 1991.From 2001 till 2007 he played the role of...
  
  , Paralympian
• Chris Mullins, Paralympian
• Catherine Arlove
  Catherine Arlove
  Catherine Arlove is an Australian judoka who has also represented Australia in wrestling and competed at a national level in cycling...
  
  , Olympian, Judo
• Samuel Beltz, Olympian, Rowing
• Rachel Imison, Olympian, Field Hockey
• Warwick Draper
  Warwick Draper
  Warwick Draper is an Australian slalom canoeist who has competed since the mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of fifth in the K-1 event at Beijing in 2008.-References:*...
  
  , Olympic kayak competitor

Current Students

• Angus Monfries
  Angus Monfries
  Angus Monfries is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. Monfries plays forward pocket or half forward.- Early Football Career :...
  
   - AFL Player, Essendon
• Dailan Evans
  Dailan Evans
  Dailan Evans is an Australian actor and comedian. He was born in Melbourne in 1971. With writing partner Craig Eagle, they both starred in their own television series, Eagle & Evans, which was broadcast in 2004 on the ABC....
  
  - Comedian