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- Richard AlstonRichard Alston (politician)Richard Kenneth Robert Alston was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1986 to 2004, representing the state of Victoria....
– Former Australian SenatorAustralian SenateThe Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
, MinisterMinister (government)A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....
and Australian High CommissionerHigh CommissionerHigh Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...
in London - Daniel AndrewsDaniel AndrewsDaniel Michael Andrews is an Australian politician. He is the current state Australian Labor Party leader and Leader of the Opposition in Victoria...
– Victorian Leader of the Opposition - Kevin AndrewsKevin Andrews (Australian politician)Kevin James Andrews is an Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He is a member of the House of Representatives and was Minister for Immigration and Citizenship in the Howard Government, having previously been Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 7...
– Former Australian Minister for Immigration and Workplace Relations - Louise AsherLouise AsherLouise Asher is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Brighton for the Liberal Party of Australia. She is currently the Victorian Minister for Tourism and Major Events as well as Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business since 2 December 2010 in the Baillieu...
– Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal PartyLiberal Party of AustraliaThe 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... - Jim BaconJim BaconJames Alexander Bacon, AC was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004.-Early life:Bacon was born in Melbourne; his father Frank, a doctor, died when Jim was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his mother Joan. He was educated at Scotch College and later at Monash University, but he did not graduate....
– former PremierPremierPremier is a title for the head of government in some countries and states.-Examples by country:In many nations, "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister"...
of TasmaniaTasmaniaTasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
(did not graduate) - Adam BandtAdam BandtAdam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer. Bandt was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in the 2010 Australian federal election for the Division of Melbourne...
– Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian GreensAustralian GreensThe Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party.The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group , the first Green party in the world, which...
, first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election. - Dr BoedionoBoedionoBoediono is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.-Education:Boediono received his early education in primary school in Blitar, East Java...
– current Vice President of IndonesiaVice President of IndonesiaThe Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia is the first in the line of succession in the Republic of Indonesia.-History of the office:The Indonesian Vice Presidency was established during the formulation of the 1945 constitution by the Researching Body for the Preparation of the Indonesian... - Sue BoyceSue BoyceSuzanne Kay "Sue" Boyce , Australian politician, businesswoman and disability advocate, is a member of the Australian Senate for Queensland. She was selected by the Liberal Party in Queensland to replace Santo Santoro in the Senate, and endorsed by the Parliament of Queensland. She is Queensland's...
– Australian Senator - Andrew BridesonAndrew BridesonAndrew Ronald Brideson is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1992 until 2006, representing Waverley Province...
– former Member of the Parliament of VictoriaParliament of VictoriaThe Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly... - Helen BuckinghamHelen BuckinghamHelen 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...
– former Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Anna BurkeAnna BurkeAnna Elizabeth Burke , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Chisholm, Victoria...
– politician, current Deputy SpeakerSpeaker of the Australian House of RepresentativesThe Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. The presiding officer in the upper house is the President of the Senate....
of the Australian House of RepresentativesAustralian House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years.... - Elaine CarbinesElaine CarbinesElaine Cafferty Carbines is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to November 2006, representing Geelong Province. A former teacher and community campaigner, Carbines was a prominent backbench member of the...
– former Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Peter CleelandPeter CleelandPeter Robert Cleeland , Australian politician, was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the electorate of McEwen in Victoria between 1984 and 1990, and subsequently between 1993 and 1996....
– former Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Jacinta CollinsJacinta CollinsJacinta 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....
– Australian Senator - Ann CorcoranAnn CorcoranAnn Kathleen Corcoran , an Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from 12 August 2000 to the 2007 election, representing the Division of Isaacs, Victoria....
– Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Peter CostelloPeter CostelloPeter Howard Costello AC is an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australian history. Costello was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing...
– longest-serving Treasurer of AustraliaTreasurer of AustraliaThe Treasurer of Australia is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising. He is the head of the Department of the Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government...
, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Party of AustraliaThe 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... - Simon CreanSimon CreanSimon Findlay Crean is an Australian politician, and the current Minister for the Arts and Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level,...
– Australian Minister for TradeMinister for Trade (Australia)The Australian Minister for Trade has been Dr. Craig Emerson since 14 September 2010.-Portfolio:Currently the Minister for Trade administers the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade jointly with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, although prior to 1987 there was a separate Department of Trade...
, former Leader of the OppositionLeader of the OppositionThe Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government...
and Leader of the ALPAustralian Labor PartyThe 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... - David de KretserDavid de KretserDavid Morritz de Kretser, AC is an Australian medical researcher and a former Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.-Biography:...
– medical researcher, current GovernorGovernors of VictoriaThe Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level...
of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... - John DelzoppoJohn DelzoppoJohn Delzoppo was an Australian politician who was Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria from 1992-1996 as part of the Liberal Kennett Government....
– Former Speaker of the Parliament of VictoriaParliament of VictoriaThe Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly... - Richard Di NataleRichard Di NataleRichard Di Natale is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Greens. Di Natale was elected to the Australian Senate in the 2010 Australian federal election...
– Greens Senator for Victoria - Robert DoyleRobert DoyleRobert Keith Bennett Doyle is an Australian politician and the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008...
– Former Leader of the OppositionLeader of the OppositionThe Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government...
and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, now Lord Mayor of Melbourne - John ElferinkJohn ElferinkJohan Wessel Elferink is an Australian politician.He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1997 to 2005, representing the rural electorate of MacDonnell...
– Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer - Peter FalconerPeter FalconerPeter David Falconer was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he attended Monash University before becoming a management consultant. He served as Press Secretary to Senator Ivor Greenwood and as Secretary to federal Opposition Leader Billy Snedden before his own election to the Australian...
– Member of the Australian House of Representatives - David FeeneyDavid FeeneyDavid Ian Feeney is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008.Feeney was born in Adelaide. His father is a immigrant from Northern Ireland. Raised Catholic, he attended Mercedes College, Adelaide before moving to Melbourne, where he attended...
– Australian Senator - Jeannie FerrisJeannie FerrisJeannie Margaret Ferris was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia. She was educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics....
– Australian Senator - Steve FieldingSteve FieldingSteven "Steve" Fielding , was a Senator representing the state of Victoria and the federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party in Australia. Elected to the Senate at the 2004 federal election on two percent of the Victorian vote, he failed to gain re-election at the 2010 federal election...
– former Australian Senator - Gail GagoGail GagoGail Elizabeth Gago is an Australian politician, and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council since being elected in 2002...
– South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health - James GomezJames GomezDr. James Gomez is an academic from Singapore and he manages an online consultancy – The GOMEZ Centre. A prominent public intellectual in the country, he is currently the Executive Director of Singaporeans for Democracy and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party .-Biography:Gomez was born in...
– Singaporean politician and academic at Monash - Alan GriffithsAlan GriffithsAlan Gordon Griffiths , is a former Australian politician who represented the Division of Maribyrnong for the Australian Labor Party from March 1983 to January 1996.-Early life:...
– former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources - Dianne HaddenDianne HaddenDianne Gladys Hadden was an Australian politician. She was an independent member of the Victorian Legislative Council since April 2004, after resigning from the Australian Labor Party, which she previously represented since 1999...
– politician - Peter HallPeter Hall (politician)Peter Ronald Hall is an Australian politician. He has been a National member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1988, representing Gippsland Province. He is the current leader of the National Party in the Legislative Council and the Shadow Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Alistair HarknessAlistair HarknessDr Alistair Harkness is an Australian politician, and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party.- Early life :...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator - Carolyn HirshCarolyn HirshCarolyn Dorothy Hirsh is a former Australian politician representing Silvan Province in the Victorian Legislative Council. Elected as a member of the Australian Labor Party, she was forced to resign from the party in September 2004 after being booked for driving a car without a licence...
– former Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Rob HudsonRob HudsonRob Hudson is a former Australian politician, and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party. He holds honours degrees in Social Work and Law. Hudson is a supporter of the Hawthorn Hawks football club.Hudson was elected to the Bentleigh electorate in the 2002...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Dennis JensenDennis JensenDr Dennis Jensen , Australian politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 9 October 2004 federal election for the Division of Tangney, Western Australia, for the Liberal Party.- Education :...
– Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Gary JohnsGary JohnsGary Thomas Johns is a former Australian politician.Johns was born in Melbourne, Victoria and received a Bachelor of Economics and a M.A. from Monash University. He was elected as the member for Petrie in 1987, and held it for the Australian Labor Party until his defeat in 1996...
– former Special Minister of StateSpecial Minister of StateThe Special Minister of State , currently the Special Minister of State for the Public Service and Integrity is a ministerial portfolio in the Australian Government Department of Finance and Deregulation responsible for various parliamentary, electoral, financial and oversight affairs.Other areas...
, academic - Michael KrogerMichael KrogerMichael Norman Kroger is a businessman and a powerbroker within the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.-Early Life :...
– Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Party of AustraliaThe 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...
powerbroker and businessman - Norman LacyNorman LacyNorman Henry Lacy, Australian politician, is a former Victorian Government Minister from May 1979 to April 1982 who grew up in Richmond, Victoria and three times represented his state at national under age basketball championships...
– Former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services - Albert LangerAlbert LangerAlbert Langer is an Australian political activist, best known for his 1996 conviction and gaoling on contempt charges after breaching an injunction forbidding his advocacy of marking electoral ballot papers in a way discouraged by the Australian Electoral Commission...
– political activist - John LangmoreJohn LangmoreJohn Vance Langmore is an Australian academic and politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1984 to 1996....
– Former Member of the Australian House of Representatives, Director of Social Policy and Development at the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, academic - John LendersJohn LendersJohn Lenders is an Australian Labor Party politician representing the Southern Metropolitan Region in the Victorian Legislative Council. He was most notably the Minister for Education in the Bracks Government and Treasurer of Victoria in the Brumby Government....
– Victorian TreasurerTreasurerA treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury of an organization. The adjective for a treasurer is normally "tresorial". The adjective "treasurial" normally means pertaining to a treasury, rather than the treasurer.-Government:...
, Victoria's longest-serving Finance MinisterFinance ministerThe finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances... - Lim Guan EngLim Guan EngLim Guan Eng is the 4th Chief Minister of the State of Penang and Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party . He is the son of Lim Kit Siang, Leader of the Opposition in the Dewan Rakyat from 1973 to 1999 and 2004 to 2008....
– Malaysian politician, current Chief Minister of the State of Penang - Hong LimHong LimHong Muy Lim , Australian politician, has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1996, representing the seat of Clayton for the Australian Labor Party.Lim was born in Cambodia, and is of Chinese Cambodian origins...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Tony LuptonTony LuptonAnthony Gerard "Tony" Lupton , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2010.-Early life:...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria, Secretary of Cabinet under John BrumbyJohn BrumbyJohn Mansfield Brumby , is an Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election... - Julian McGauranJulian McGauranJulian McGauran , Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Victoria. Elected as a member of the National Party, he resigned from the Nationals and joined the Liberal Party of Australia in February 2006...
– Australian Senator - Marlene MosesMarlene MosesHer Excellency Marlene Moses is a diplomat and a political and administrative figure from Nauru. She has served since 2005 as the current Nauruan Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with ambassadorial rank, having previously held consular responsibilities in Japan and New Zealand...
– Diplomat, Foreign MinisterForeign ministerA Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...
of NauruNauruNauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just... - Simbarashe MumbengegwiSimbarashe MumbengegwiSimbarashe Simbaneduku Mumbengegwi is a Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs whose right to entry is currently prohibited by Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand and the United States. Mumbengegwi was born in Chivi, Zimbabwe...
– Foreign MinisterForeign ministerA Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...
of ZimbabweZimbabweZimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three... - Janice MuntJanice MuntJanice Munt is an Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party, she represented the Electoral district of Mordialloc in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. She was elected in 2002 and held the seat until her defeat in 2010...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Brendan O'Connor – Australian Minister for Home Affairs
- Gavan O'ConnorGavan O'ConnorGavan Michael O'Connor , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to November 2007, representing the Division of Corio, Victoria.-Education:...
– former Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Neil O'KeefeNeil O'KeefeNeil 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 Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Clare O'NeilClare O'NeilClare O'Neil is an Australian politician and student.She attended Loreto Mandeville Hall, and studied for a Bachelor of Arts and then a Bachelor of Laws degree at Monash University...
– youngest female Mayor in Australia's history - John PandazopoulosJohn PandazopoulosJohn Pandazopoulos is a Victorian politician. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Dandenong for the Australian Labor Party. During the Bracks Government, he was a member of Cabinet, serving as Minister for Major Projects, Employment, Tourism, Gaming and Racing...
– Former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects - Kay PattersonKay PattersonKay Christine Lesley Patterson is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria....
– Former Australian Senator and Former Minister for Health - Martin PakulaMartin PakulaMartin Philip Pakula is an Australian politician, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. He was Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Public Transport in the Labor Government of Premier John Brumby.-Early life:...
– Victorian Minister for Public Transport - Chris PearceChris PearceChristopher John Pearce , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Aston, Victoria from July 2001, when he retained the seat for the Liberal Party in the 2001 Aston by-election, to his retirement in 2010.Pearce was born in...
– Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Sue PennicuikSue PennicuikSusan Margaret "Sue" Pennicuik is an Australian politician, and Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council.-Early career:...
– Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Inga PeulichInga PeulichInga Peulich is an Australian politician. She is of Bosnian heritage, being born Inga Dosen in Bosnia and Herzegovina and migrated to Australia in 1967 with her family. Peulich has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Education...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Victor PertonVictor PertonVictor Perton is a former Australian parliamentarian. He is the Commissioner to the Americas based in San Francisco representing the Australian State of Victoria....
- former Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Peter ReithPeter ReithPeter Keaston Reith, , former Australian politician, was a Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and then a senior Cabinet minister in the first two terms of the Howard Government.-Early life:...
– Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentFounded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their...
, former Defence Minister, former Minister for Workplace Relations - Robert RayRobert Ray (Australian politician)Robert Francis Ray , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from July 1981 to May 2008, representing the state of Victoria....
– Australian Senator and Former Defence Minister - Gordon Rich-PhillipsGordon Rich-PhillipsGordon Kenneth Rich-Phillips is an Australian politician representing the Liberal Party of Australia in the Victorian Legislative Council....
– Shadow Victorian Finance MinisterFinance ministerThe finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances... - Teo Ming Kian – politician, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (Singapore)Ministry of Finance (Singapore)The Ministry of Finance , is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for administering and regulating financial institutions and structures of the economy of Singapore. It is headed by the Minister for Finance...
, Recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award - Tony RobinsonTony Robinson (politician)Anthony Gerard Peter Robinson is a former Australian politician who served as the member for Mitcham in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He represented the Australian Labor Party.Robinson was first elected at the 1997 Mitcham by-election...
– Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming - Bill ShortenBill ShortenWilliam Richard "Bill" Shorten is an Australian politician, the Member for Maribyrnong in the Australian Parliament, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Children's Services in the Rudd/Gillard Government...
– Member of the Australian House of Representatives, former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' UnionAustralian Workers' UnionThe Australian Workers' Union is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the 1880s, and currently has approximately 135,000 members...
and President of the Victorian ALPAustralian Labor PartyThe 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... - Helen SilverHelen SilverHelen Silver became Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet of Victoria, Australia in 2008, making her the State's chief public servant...
– public servant, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet - Adem SomyurekAdem SomyürekAdem Somyürek is a Turkish Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council....
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Sharman StoneSharman StoneDr. 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...
– Former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, current Shadow Minister for Immigration - Kirsty Sword GusmãoKirsty Sword GusmãoKirsty Sword Gusmão is married to Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister and former President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor...
– political activist, former first lady of East TimorEast TimorThe Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor... - Murray ThompsonMurray ThompsonMurray Thompson is currently a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He has served the Sandringham electorate since 1992. The electorate includes the suburbs of Beaumaris, Black Rock, Cheltenham , Hampton , Highett , Mentone and Sandringham...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - John ThwaitesJohn Thwaites (Australian politician)Johnstone William "John" Thwaites , Australian politician, was Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007.-Early life :...
– Former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change - David VigorDavid VigorDavid Bernard Vigor was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party....
– Australian Senator - Nick WakelingNick WakelingNick Wakeling is a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of Ferntree Gully for the Liberal Party of Australia. He was elected in November 2006. Prior to his election, Wakeling was employed as senior workplace relations advisor.- Childhood and education...
– Member of the Parliament of Victoria - Don WatsonDon WatsonDon 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...
– speechwriter to Paul KeatingPaul KeatingPaul 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...
, author - Graeme WeidemanGraeme WeidemanGeorge "Graeme" Weideman was a Victorian politician representing Frankston for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1976 to 1982 and 1992 to 1996. He served as Minister for Tourism and Assistant Minister for Health from 1981 until the fall of the Liberal Government in 1982.-References:...
– Former Victorian Minister for Tourism - Dean Wells – Former Attorney-General of QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment - Steve WettenhallSteve WettenhallStephen Peter Arthur "Steve" Wettenhall is the Australian Labor Party MP for the Queensland state electorate of Barron River...
– Member of the Parliament of QueenslandParliament of QueenslandThe Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland, Australia. According to the state's constitution, the Parliament consists of the Queen and the Legislative Assembly. It is the only unicameral state parliament in the country, the upper chamber, the Legislative Council, having been... - Greg WiltonGreg WiltonGregory Stuart Wilton was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Isaacs, from 1996 until his suicide at the age of 44...
(1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives - Michael WooldridgeMichael WooldridgeMichael Richard Lewis Wooldridge is an Australian doctor, company director, and a former politician. He was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Liberal Party representing the Division of Chisholm, Victoria, between 1987 and 1996, and representing the Division of Casey,...
– Former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS
Law
- Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...
, Current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative TribunalVictorian Civil and Administrative TribunalThe Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is a government agency in the state of Victoria, Australia. The name is pronounced 'vee-cat'...
(VCAT) - Diana BryantDiana BryantDiana Bryant QC was appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia on 5 July 2004.Bryant attended grammar school in Melbourne, at the Firbank Girls' School. Chief Justice Bryant holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Melbourne University, and a Master of Laws degree from Monash University....
– Current Chief Justice of the Family Court of AustraliaFamily Court of AustraliaThe Family Court of Australia is a superior Australian federal court of record which deals with family law matters. Together with the Federal Magistrates Court, it covers family law matters in all states and territories of Australia except Western Australia... - Julian BurnsideJulian BurnsideJulian 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...
, QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
– High profile barrister, human rights advocate, author, listed as one of the Australian Living TreasuresAustralian Living TreasuresAustralian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997.... - Paul CroninPaul Cronin (judge)Paul Cronin is an Australian judge. He has been a Judge of the Family Court of Australia since December 2006.Cronin studied law at Monash University while simultaneously working as a Clerk of Courts in Melbourne. He was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1980, whereupon he moved to Shepparton...
– Justice of the Family Court of AustraliaFamily Court of AustraliaThe Family Court of Australia is a superior Australian federal court of record which deals with family law matters. Together with the Federal Magistrates Court, it covers family law matters in all states and territories of Australia except Western Australia... - Tom Danos – High profile barrister. Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial
- Raymond FinkelsteinRaymond FinkelsteinRaymond Finkelstein QC is an Australian lawyer and judge. From 1997 until 2011, he served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. His judgments were highly influential in commercial law, giving rise to new approaches in insolvency, competition law and class actions.-Early life and...
– Justice of the Federal Court of AustraliaFederal Court of AustraliaThe Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges... - Paul GrantPaul GrantPaul Grant was a British bodybuilder. He was born as a twin in Wales in 1943. He left school at 16 and began working with his own bread delivery business whilst training with weights to increase his muscle mass....
– Current Chief Magistrate of the Victorian Children's Court - Ian GrayIan Gray (Australian magistrate)Ian Gray is the current Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates' Court of Victoria. He completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws at Monash University, graduating in 1973. He initially practised as a private solicitor, before beginning work as a community lawyer in a Community Legal Service...
– Current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of VictoriaMagistrates' Court of VictoriaThe Magistrates' Court of Victoria is the lowest court in the Victorian court system, with the County Court of Victoria and the Supreme Court of Victoria respectively judicially higher... - Felicity HampelFelicity HampelFelicity Pia Hampel SC was a prominent Australian human rights lawyer and, since 2005, judge of the County Court of Victoria. Hampel's career as a barrister began in 1981, and she became a Senior Counsel in 1996....
– Prominent human rightsHuman rightsHuman rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
lawyer, now Judge of the County Court of VictoriaCounty Court of VictoriaThe County Court of Victoria was established in 1852 by the County Courts Act 1852. The court has jurisdiction in the State of Victoria, Australia... - Peter HayesPeter Hayes (lawyer)Peter Hayes, QC was a prominent barrister in Melbourne, Australia. He was a director of the Melbourne Football Club from 2000 to 2003.-Professional life:...
QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
– High profile barrister - Peter HoggPeter HoggPeter Wardell Hogg, CC, QC, FRSC is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law....
– constitutional law scholar - Graeme JohnstoneGraeme JohnstoneGraeme Johnstone was the state coroner of Victoria, Australia from 1994-2007. He retired on 29 November 2007, and was replaced by Judge Jennifer Coate. He is noted for often personally visiting the scenes of deaths that fall within his jurisdiction....
– Current State CoronerCoronerA coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...
of Victoria - Marc Jongebloed – lawyer, runner-up on The MoleThe Mole (Australia season 3)The third season of the Australian version of The Mole took place mostly in Gold Coast, Queensland and was hosted by Grant Bowler.-Show Details:...
in 2002 - Murray KellamMurray KellamMurray Kellam was formerly a judge of the County Court of Victoria in Australia before being appointed as a judge on 28 January 1998 to the Supreme Court of Victoria, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. He was also the first President of VCAT...
– Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...
and first President of VCATVictorian Civil and Administrative TribunalThe Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is a government agency in the state of Victoria, Australia. The name is pronounced 'vee-cat'... - Lex Lasry QC – High profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, human rights advocate and now Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...
- Stuart MorrisStuart MorrisStuart Morris QC is an Australian lawyer. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and as President of VCAT from 2003 until 2007. Former Chairman of the Victorian Government's Local Government Commission, 1986 under the Cain Government. Stuart Morris worked as a barrister, and was...
– Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...
, Former President of VCATVictorian Civil and Administrative TribunalThe Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is a government agency in the state of Victoria, Australia. The name is pronounced 'vee-cat'... - Ross RayRoss RayRoss Ray QC is an Australian barrister and is currently the President of the Law Council of Australia.Ross Ray studied at Monash University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws, graduating in 1975....
– Current President of the Law Council of AustraliaLaw Council of AustraliaThe Law Council of Australia is an association of law societies and bar associations from the States and territories of Australia, and the peak body representing the legal profession in Australia. The Council was formed in 1933 to unite the various state legal associations, in order to represent... - Neil ReesNeil ReesProfessor Neil Rees is an Australian jurist and legal academic. He is currently the Chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission , Victoria's chief law reform organisation....
– Current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission, foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School - Michael RozenesMichael RozenesMichael Rozenes AO QC is the Chief Judge of the County Court.- Early life :Rozenes was born in Sosnowiec, Poland and migrated with his family to Australia when he was three years old. Rozenes was educated at the North Caulfield State school and then at Brighton Grammar School...
– Current Chief Judge of the County Court of VictoriaCounty Court of VictoriaThe County Court of Victoria was established in 1852 by the County Courts Act 1852. The court has jurisdiction in the State of Victoria, Australia... - Pamela TatePamela TatePamela Tate SC was the Solicitor-General of Victoria, Australia. In 2003, she became the first woman to be appointed to the position. The Solicitor-General is the second highest law officer of state in Victoria, behind the Attorney-General...
– Current Solicitor-General of Victoria - Marilyn WarrenMarilyn WarrenMarilyn Louise Warren AC, QC is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria.- Early life :...
– Current and first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state... - Mark WeinbergMark Weinberg-Early life and education:Weinberg was born in South Africa and educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. He received degrees in Commerce and Law and practised as a barrister...
– Justice of the Federal Court of AustraliaFederal Court of AustraliaThe Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges...
, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, current Chief Justice of Norfolk IslandNorfolk IslandNorfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
Media & Arts
- Rory BarnesRory BarnesRory Barnes is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London, he has lived most of his life in Australia.-Bibliography:*Valencies *The Bomb-Monger's Daughter...
- novelist - Jean BedfordJean BedfordJean Bedford is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has also written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.-Life:Bedford was...
– novelist - Peter BonnerPeter BonnerPeter Bonner is an Australian artist, who in 1996 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia. He was awarded the prize for his work Interior....
– artist, winner of the Dobell PrizeDobell PrizeDobell Prize for drawing, Australian art prize held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales the highest prize for drawing in Australia. The prize had previously been held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize, around the early part of the year, but was moved in 2003 to... - Damien BroderickDamien BroderickDamien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
– author, futurist - Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist
- Damien Carrick – presenter, ABC Radio National "Law Report".
- Nick CaveNick CaveNicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
– musician (attended Caulfield Institute of Technology, now Monash Caulfield. He did not graduate) - Timothy ConigraveTimothy ConigraveTim Conigrave was an Australian actor, writer, and activist. He was born in Melbourne, and after attending the Jesuit Xavier College and Monash University he moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art , from which he graduated in 1984...
(1959–1994) – actor and writer - Peter CorrisPeter CorrisPeter Robert Corris is an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction...
– crime fiction author - Cecilia Dart-ThorntonCecilia Dart-ThorntonCecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, most notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.-Biography:Cecilia Dart-Thornton was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She became a schoolteacher before...
– author - Lindy DaviesLindy DaviesLindy Davies is an Australian actress, director and drama teacher. From 1995–2007 she was the Dean of the School of Drama at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne....
– actor and Dean of the Victorian College of Arts - Cherie DitchamCherie DitchamCherie Leena Ditcham is an actress and model affiliated with Wilhelmina Models and NTA Talent Agency. She was co-host of HDNet's travel series Get Out!, seasons 10 and 11 with Lindsay Clubine. Ditcham won the search for a co-host broadcast during Season 9...
– actress, model - Laurie DugganLaurie DugganLaurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
– poet - Hazel EdwardsHazel EdwardsHazel Edwards is an Australian author who has written 200 books, including the classic children's book, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and a short film Since its publication in 1981, the age-less Hippopotamus on the roof has been...
– children's author - Jon FaineJon FaineJon Faine is an Australian radio presenter and host of a morning program on 774 ABC in Melbourne.Faine was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and emigrated to Sydney with his parents at a young age. Later they moved to Melbourne, where he attended Melbourne High School.In the late 1970s and early 1980s...
– prominent Melbourne radio personality - Phillip FrazerPhillip FrazerPhillip Frazer, is a writer, editor and publisher. He was a founder of the teen pop newspaper, Go-Set in 1966 which was published weekly until 1974, introducing Australia's first national pop record charts and featuring many notable contributors...
– Australian publisher - Max GilliesMax GilliesMax Gillies AM is an Australian actor.Gillies was a founding member of the experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group, which was active throughout the 1970s....
– actor/satirist - Andy GriffithsAndy GriffithsAndrew "Andy" Griffiths is an Australian children's book author and comedy writer. He is most notable for his Just! series, which was converted into an animated television series called What's with Andy?...
– children's author - John Griffiths (musician)John Griffiths (musician)John Griffiths is a musician and musicologist specialised in music for guitar and early plucked instruments, especially the vihuela and lute. He is known internationally for his research on many aspects of the sixteenth-century Spanish vihuela, its history and its music...
- musician and musicologist - Leslie HowardLeslie Howard (musician)Leslie Howard AM is an Australian pianist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings...
– Pianist and composer - Sue Howard – Director of Radio and Regional Content, Australian Broadcasting CorporationAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
- Paul JenningsPaul Jennings (Australian author)Paul Jennings AM is an English-born Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist.-Biography:...
– children's author - Adib KhanAdib KhanAdib Khan is an Australian novelist of Bangladeshi origin. He moved to Australia in 1973 and obtained an MA from Monash University in 1976. He taught creative writing at Ballarat University, and in 2007 returned to Monash to pursue a PhD. Khan started writing in his 40s and has published five novels...
– novelist - Lucy KiralyLucy KiralyLucy Kiraly is an Australian fashion model and television presenter.She was, with David Johnston, the presenter of the first TattsLotto draw conducted by Melbourne television station HSV7 on 22 June 1972. Born in Romania, she was educated at Monash University...
- fashion model and television presenter - Michael LeunigMichael LeunigMichael Leunig , typically referred to as Leunig, is an Australian poet, cartoonist and cultural commentator. His best known works include The Adventures of Vasco Pyjama and the Curly Flats series...
– cartoonist - Campbell McComasCampbell McComasGeoffrey Campbell McComas AM was an Australian comedian, writer and actor.McComas attended Caulfield Grammar School and Scotch College in Hawthorn, Melbourne, and studied law and arts at Monash University...
(1952–2005) – Comedian and actor - Louise MilliganLouise MilliganLouise Milligan is a reporter for Seven News in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Milligan became State Political Reporter for New South Wales in October 2004, the same time she joined Seven News and moved to Sydney to become their state political reporter...
– Journalist - Raghav SacharRaghav SacharRaghav Sachar is an Indian singer born to father, R. K. Sachar, and mother, Usha Sachar. He is the youngest of three children. He started playing his first instrument, the harmonica, at the age of four. Every year since then his parents have gifted him an instrument. Born into a family of music...
– IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n singer songwriter - Brenda NiallBrenda NiallDr Brenda Niall AO is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers...
– author - Nikolai NikolaeffNikolai NikolaeffNikolai Nikolaeff is an Australian actor who is best known for his roles in the television series Sea Patrol, Power Rangers: Jungle Fury and Wicked Science....
- actor - Eva OrnerEva OrnerEva Orner is an Australian film producer. Her works include Untold Desires , Strange Fits of Passion Eva Orner (born 1969) is an Australian film producer. Her works include Untold Desires (winner of Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Awards, the Logie Awards and the Australian Human...
– Academy-Award winning film producer - Charlie PickeringCharlie PickeringCharlie Pickering he grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended an Independent Anglican Boys' School; Brighton Grammar...
– comedian - John RomerilJohn RomerilJohn Henry Romeril is a contemporary Australian playwright.John Romeril was born and grew up in Melbourne where he attended Monash University. His first plays, I Don't Know Who To Feel Sorry For and Chicago, Chicago were written while he was still a student...
– playwright - John A. ScottJohn A. ScottJohn Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....
– poet - Fiona SpenceFiona SpenceFiona Spence is a British-born stage and television actress. One of the most recognisable Australian television stars during the early 1980s, she is best known for her roles in the Australian television series Prisoner and Home and Away...
– actress, star of PrisonerPrisoner (TV series)Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s... - Jo StanleyJo StanleyJoanne "Jo" Stanley is an Australian television and radio personality.Stanley has appeared as the host of Network Ten's Bread TV program, a show that focuses on small business and is currently the host of The Matt and Jo Show on Austereo's FOX FM, a show she joined in 2003.- Biography :She...
– radio personality - StelarcStelarcStelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...
– performance artist - Matt TilleyMatt TilleyMatthew "Matt" "Old Mate" Vernon Thompson Tilley is an Australian radio presenter and comedian who has worked for Melbourne radio station FOX FM since 1990.-Biography:...
– comedian - Mary TonkinMary TonkinMary Tonkin is an Australian artist, who in 2002 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia. She was awarded her prize for her work Rocky Outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2000....
– artist, winner of the Dobell PrizeDobell PrizeDobell Prize for drawing, Australian art prize held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales the highest prize for drawing in Australia. The prize had previously been held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize, around the early part of the year, but was moved in 2003 to... - Don WatsonDon WatsonDon 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 - Alan WearneAlan WearneAlan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...
– poet - David WilliamsonDavid WilliamsonDavid Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...
– playwright - Shaun WilsonShaun WilsonShaun Wilson is an Australian artist, film maker, academic and curator working with themes of memory, place and scale through painting, miniatures and video art...
– artist
Business
- Fiona BalfourFiona BalfourFiona Balfour is an Australian businesswoman. She is best known for the changes she made at Qantas during the 1990s, having joined the airline in 1992. In 2006, she was Telstra's high profile appointment as Chief Information Officer...
– Businesswoman, former QantasQantasQantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...
and TelstraTelstraTelstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services....
executive - John F. O. Bilson – Economist
- Mark BirrellMark BirrellMark Alexander Birrell is a solicitor, company director and a former Cabinet Minister in the Australian state of Victoria.-Early life:...
– Company director, former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology - Henry Tay Yun Chwan – Executive Chairman and Co-founder, The Hour Glass
- Tony D'AloisioTony D'AloisioTony D'Aloisio was Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission . He held the position from 13 May 2007 to 2011, having previously served as an ASIC commissioner....
– Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments CommissionAustralian Securities and Investments CommissionThe Australian Securities & Investments Commission is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australia's corporate regulator...
(ASIC) and former CEO, Australian Securities ExchangeAustralian Securities ExchangeThe Australian Securities Exchange was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in July 2006. It is the primary stock exchange group in Australia....
(ASX) - Henry ErgasHenry ErgasHenry Ergas is a regulatory economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics Advisory Group...
– economist - Tracey Fellows – Managing Director of MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New ZealandNew ZealandNew 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... - M.agantaranansa fardhan – consultant technology oracle
- John A. FraserJohn A. Fraser (businessman)John A. Fraser is an Australian businessman and is Chairman and CEO Global Asset Management at UBS AG. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of UBS Asset Management and Head of Asia Pacific. ....
– Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS AGUBS AGUBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland...
, former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury - Joshua FrydenbergJoshua FrydenbergJoshua Anthony "Josh" Frydenberg is an Australian banker and politician. He has been the Liberal member for Kooyong in the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010....
– banker and political aspirant - Peter IvanyPeter IvanyPeter Alexander Ivany is an Australian media mogul. Son to Alex and Agota Ivany and brother to Paul. He currently runs Ivany Investment Group and previously was the CEO of Hoyts ....
– Australian media mogul and billionaire - Margaret JacksonMargaret JacksonMargaret 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...
– first female Chairman of QantasQantasQantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport... - Teo Ming Kian – Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board
- Michael KrogerMichael KrogerMichael Norman Kroger is a businessman and a powerbroker within the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.-Early Life :...
– Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Party of AustraliaThe 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...
powerbroker and businessman - Tan LeTan LeTan Le , a Vietnamese-Australian telecommunications entrepreneur, is a co-Founder of Emotiv. She was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year....
– technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year - Peter LewPeter LewPeter Lew , is an Australian businessman from Melbourne.He is the Chairman of P Lew Investment Group, owner of the BrandBank Group of Companies and has extensive interests in retail, financial services and property investments inherited from his father, Solomon Lew...
– businessman - Ian LittleIan LittleIan Little is a record producer who is best known for the single "Is There Something I Should Know" and the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger, both by Duran Duran. He has also worked with Roxy Music, Phil Manzanera, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Sparks, Belouis Some, and other artists.-External...
– Secretary, Department of Treasury and Finance, 1998–2006 - Michael LuscombeMichael LuscombeMichael Luscombe is an Australian businessman. He is the former CEO and Managing Director of Woolworths Limited, the largest retail company in Australia.-Early life:Luscombe was educated at De La Salle College, Malvern and Monash University...
– CEO and Managing Director, Woolworths LimitedWoolworths LimitedWoolworths Limited is a major Australian company with extensive retail interest throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the:* largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand by market capitalisation and sales... - Ian MacfarlaneIan Macfarlane (economist)Ian John Macfarlane, AC , Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia , Australia's central bank, from 1996 to 17 September 2006...
, economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of AustraliaReserve Bank of AustraliaThe Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on 14 January 1960 as Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank to it....
(1996–2006) - Naomi Milgrom – Owner and CEO of Sussan Group
- Andrew Mohl – Managing Director and CEO, AMPAMP LimitedAMP Limited is an Australian financial corporation. It operates primarily in Australia and New Zealand. AMP formed in 1849 as the Australian Mutual Provident Society, a non-profit life insurance company. In 1998 it was demutualised and listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges...
- Paresh NarayanParesh NarayanProfessor Paresh Kumar Narayan , is an academic of Fiji Indian origin, who is Australia's youngest Professor of Finance and is now the chair of finance at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.- Early life and education:...
– economist - Joel NeohJoel NeohJoel Neoh , is an entrepreneur whose first success was a million ringgit business venture at the age of 20 while still in university. At age 23, he won Malaysia's first corporate reality television programme, The Firm as the youngest contestant...
– businessman, TV personality - Trevor O'HoyTrevor O'HoyTrever O'Hoy was the President and CEO of Foster's Group from 2004 until 10 June 2008.He was educated at Monash University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Economics in 1976. He has also studied at the Harvard Advanced Management Program....
– President and CEO, Foster's GroupFoster's GroupFoster's Group is a beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks. Foster's Group is the brewer of the Foster's Lager. Foster's Group Limited is a publicly-listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange and is based in Melbourne, Victoria... - Pasuk PhongpaichitPasuk PhongpaichitPasuk Phongpaichit is a Thai economist. A professor at Chulalongkorn University, she is the author of several books on corruption in Thailand.Dr Pasuk graduated from Monash University in Australia, and received her PhD at Cambridge University in England...
– Economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner, Recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award - Brad Davies - Dead Set Legend
- Rameshwari Ramachandra – Author and entrepreneur
- Peter ReithPeter ReithPeter Keaston Reith, , former Australian politician, was a Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and then a senior Cabinet minister in the first two terms of the Howard Government.-Early life:...
– Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentFounded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their... - Gary P. SampsonGary P. SampsonGary Sampson currently holds the John Gough Chair in the Practice of International Trade at Melbourne Business School .In 1996, he was appointed Director at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, and then in 1995, Director at the World Trade Organisation where he has directed a...
– WTO economist - Graeme SamuelGraeme SamuelGraeme Julian Samuel AC is an Australian businessman. He is currently works as chairman of the Melbourne office of investment bank Greenhill Caliburn, and is a member of the Australian National University Council...
– Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer CommissionAustralian Competition and Consumer CommissionThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is an independent authority of the Australia government. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974...
(ACCC) - Jannie Tay – Executive Vice-Chairman and Co-founder, The Hour Glass, Recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Medicine & Science
- Greg AyersGreg AyersGreg Ayers is an Australian atmospheric scientist and current Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.Prior to his current role, Ayers was Chief of Marine and Atmospheric Research at the CSIRO, where he had worked since 1975....
– atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology - David BrownDavid Brown (meteorologist)David Brown is an Australian meteorologist for Seven News in Melbourne and the national Seven 4.30 News bulletin. He was also the former weather presenter for Sunrise....
– meteorologist, Seven NewsSeven NewsSeven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
weatherman - Michael CowleyMichael CowleyProfessor Michael Cowley is an Australian physiologist who has mapped the neural circuits involved in metabolism and is now working on an effective therapy to treat obesity and diabetes...
– physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009 - Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of PharmacyVictorian College of PharmacyMonash University, Parkville campus is a campus of Monash University, located in Parkville, Victoria, Australia. It is home to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, previously known as the Victorian College of Pharmacy...
, now Monash Parkville Campus) - Ian G. EntingIan G. EntingIan Enting is a mathematical physicist and the AMSI/MASCOS Professorial Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems based at The University of Melbourne....
– mathematician - Tim FlanneryTim FlanneryTimothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
– biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the YearAustralian of the YearSince 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... - David de KretserDavid de KretserDavid Morritz de Kretser, AC is an Australian medical researcher and a former Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.-Biography:...
- medical researcher, current GovernorGovernors of VictoriaThe Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level...
of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... - Patrick McGorryPatrick McGorryPatrick Dennistoun McGorry FRCP FASSA FRANZCP AO PhD MD is an Australian psychiatrist, best known for his development of the early intervention services for youth....
– psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the YearAustralian of the YearSince 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... - Terry SpeedTerry SpeedProfessor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed , is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data....
– mathematician - Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar SuleimanAbu Bakar SuleimanTan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman is a Malaysian medical professional and academic. He is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur....
– Vice-Chancellor of International Medical UniversityInternational Medical UniversityThe International Medical University is a private international medical university in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It offers courses such as Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing as well as postgraduate studies...
, Recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award - Dr Susan LimSusan LimSusan Lim is a Singaporean surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplant in Singapore in 1990.She was born in Singapore, where she was educated at Singapore Chinese Girls' School and the Raffles Institution...
– surgeonSurgeonIn medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant, Recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award - Norman Arthur WakefieldNorman Arthur WakefieldNorman Arthur Wakefield was an Australian teacher, naturalist, paleontologist and botanist, notable as an expert on ferns. He described many new species of plants....
– botanist - Tan Sri Dato' Dr Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon, performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia
Social Services & Academia
- Phillip AspinallPhillip AspinallPhillip Aspinall has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia since February 2002 and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia since July 2005. He succeeded Peter Hollingworth as Archbishop of Brisbane....
– Head of the Anglican Church of Australia - Diane BellDiane BellDiane Robin Bell is a pioneering Australian feminist anthropologist, author and activist, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D. C., Writer and Editor in Residence at Flinders University, South Australia and Visiting Professor School of Social...
– anthropologist - Gidon BrombergGidon BrombergGidon Bromberg is the Israeli Director of EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East . FoEME is a regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East...
– environmentalist - Michael ClyneMichael ClyneMichael George Clyne, AM, FAHA, FASSA was an Australian linguist, academic and intellectual. He was a scholar in various fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, bilingualism and multilingualism, second language learning, contact linguistics and intercultural communication...
– linguist - Anthony G. CollinsAnthony G. CollinsAnthony G. Collins is the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. He began serving as president on July 1, 2003.Born in 1949, Collins grew up outside Melbourne, Australia, earned an undergraduate civil engineering degree from Monash University, and then master's and doctoral...
– President of Clarkson UniversityClarkson University-The Clarkson School:The Clarkson School, a special division of Clarkson University, was founded in 1978 as a unique educational opportunity. The School offers students an early entrance opportunity into college, replacing the typical senior year of high school with a year of college... - Tim CostelloTim CostelloTimothy Ewen Costello AO is a prominent Baptist minister and current CEO of World Vision Australia.He is an "Australian Living Treasure". He is the brother of former treasurer of Australia and Federal Member for Higgins Peter Costello....
– humanitarian, CEO of World VisionWorld VisionWorld Vision, founded in the USA in 1950, is an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of...
Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living TreasuresAustralian Living TreasuresAustralian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997.... - Mick DodsonMick DodsonProfessor Michael James "Mick" Dodson, AM is an indigenous Australian leader, a member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia. His brother is Patrick Dodson, also a noted Aboriginal leader.Following his parents' death, he boarded at Monivae...
– Indigenous rights campaigner, Convenor of the ANUAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
Institute for Indigenous Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living TreasuresAustralian Living TreasuresAustralian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997....
, 2009 Australian of the YearAustralian of the YearSince 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... - Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist
- Siri Gamage – educationist focusing on social justice and immigrant issues
- Ben KiernanBen KiernanBenedict F. Kiernan is the Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He is a prolific writer on the Cambodian genocide...
– Leading researcher in the study of genocide - Peter Leslie LeePeter Leslie LeeProfessor Peter Leslie Lee is an Australian engineer, academic, and higher education administrator, and a recognized authority within the field of process control.-Education:...
- Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross UniversitySouthern Cross UniversitySouthern Cross University is a university based on the North and Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is a regional University with more than 14,000 students. The University's primary campus is in Lismore, with other campuses located at Coffs Harbour and Tweed Heads.The University is... - Stuart MacintyreStuart MacintyreStuart Forbes Macintyre , Australian historian, academic and public intellectual, is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has been voted one of Australia's most influential public intellectuals...
– Historian - Ron McCallumRon McCallumProfessor Ronald Clive McCallum, AO is an Australian legal academic. He is an expert in labour law, and has served as a Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Sydney...
– Labour law scholar - Simon Molesworth QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts - Justin OakleyJustin OakleyDr Justin Oakley is a bioethicist and moral philosopher. He has been part of the revival of the ethical doctrine known as virtue ethics, an Aristotelian doctrine which has received renewed interest in the past few decades....
– philosopher - George PellGeorge PellGeorge Pell AC is an Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the eighth and current Archbishop of Sydney, serving since 2001. He previously served as auxiliary bishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne...
– Australia's CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
of the Catholic Church - Neil ReesNeil ReesProfessor Neil Rees is an Australian jurist and legal academic. He is currently the Chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission , Victoria's chief law reform organisation....
– foundation Dean of the University of NewcastleUniversity of Newcastle, AustraliaThe University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales...
Law School - Matthew J. Gibney - Reader in Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford
- Julian SavulescuJulian SavulescuJulian Savulescu is a Romanian-Australian philosopher and bioethicist. He is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Head of the Melbourne–Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration,...
– Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096... - Brian WeathersonBrian WeathersonBrian Weatherson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy....
– philosopher - Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)
- Beth WilsonBeth WilsonBeth Wilson is a senior Australian public servant. She is currently Victoria's Health Services Commissioner, a position she has held since 1997. Previously, she worked as the President of Victoria's Mental Health Review Board. She is a well known public speaker, and conducts over 100 speeches and...
– Victorian Health Services Commissioner
Sport
- Catherine ArloveCatherine ArloveCatherine Arlove is an Australian judoka who has also represented Australia in wrestling and competed at a national level in cycling...
– Olympic judo competitor - John Bertrand- yachtsman, skipper of Australia IIAustralia IIAustralia II is the Australian 12-metre-class challenge racing yacht that was launched in 1982 and won the 1983 America's Cup for the Royal Perth Yacht Club...
- Mordy BrombergMordy BrombergMordecai "Mordy" Bromberg SC is a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and former Australian rules footballer for St Kilda Football Club...
– Former AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of AustraliaFederal Court of AustraliaThe Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges... - Travis BrooksTravis BrooksTravis Brooks is a field hockey forward from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
– hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist - Nathan BurkeNathan BurkeNathan Burke is a former Australian rules footballer.He was a tough rover who always backed himself in a contest and was one of the most courageous footballers to play for the St Kilda Football Club. He set the club record for most number of games at his retirement, with 323 games which was broken...
– AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer - Alastair ClarksonAlastair ClarksonAlastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.- North Melbourne :...
– Former AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football ClubHawthorn Football ClubThe Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys... - Tony DodemaideTony DodemaideAnthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide is a former Australian Test Cricketer. After a three year stint as Chief Executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association in Perth, he is the current Chief Executive of Cricket Victoria...
– Australian cricketer - Ron Evans – AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer and sports administrator - Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
- Lauren HewittLauren HewittLauren Katherine Hewitt is a track and field sprinter from Australia. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, and won the bronze medal in the women's 200 metres at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.-References:* * *...
– athlete - Geoff HuntGeoff HuntGeoffrey Brian Hunt, MBE , is a retired Australian squash player who is widely considered to be one of the greatest squash players in history....
– squash player, 4 time world champion - Janine IlitchJanine IlitchJanine Ilitch is an Australian netball player.She has been a frequent member of the Australian national team, playing in her usual positions of goal keeper and goal defence, since being first selected in 1995...
– netballer - Paul McNameePaul McNameePaul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator.-Tennis career:...
– tennis player, sports administrator, winner of WimbledonThe Championships, WimbledonThe Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
and Australian OpenAustralian OpenThe Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... - Brenton RickardBrenton RickardBrenton Scott Rickard is a breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games...
– swimmer, Olympic Silver medallist - Paul TrimboliPaul TrimboliPaolo "Paul" Vincenzo Trimboli is a former Australian international football player of Italian ancestry. He attended Xavier College and was a member of the First XI, and was captained by his brother.-Club career:...
– soccer player - Anna WilsonAnna MillwardAnna Millward, née Wilson, is an Australian female cycle racer. She holds an LLB/BSc degree from Monash University . During her cycling career, she won the overall UCI points title in 2001, and twice was UCI overall World Cup points champion, winning a total of 5 World Cup races in her career...
– cyclist, world champion and world record holder - David ZalcbergDavid ZalcbergDavid Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player. He is Jewish.- Table tennis career :...
– Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist
Creative Arts
- Dorothy AuchterlonieDorothy AuchterlonieDorothy Auchterlonie AO was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.-Life:Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England...
– writer and poet - Janine BurkeJanine BurkeJanine Burke, is an author, art historian, biographer and novelist. She has also curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently, Dr Burke holds a research fellowship at Monash University....
– author, novelist, art historian - Franz-Josef DeitersFranz-Josef DeitersFranz-Josef Deiters is a Melbourne based literary critic and theorist. He is currently Associate Professor in German Studies at Monash University. Before moving to Australia he taught at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , and has held visiting appointments at the University of Sarajevo and at...
– literary critic - Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic
- Adrian MartinAdrian MartinDr. Adrian Martin is an Australian film and arts critic from Melbourne. Dr. Martin is Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory and Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash University...
– film critic - Brian NelsonBrian Nelson (literature professor)Brian Nelson is a professor of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne and editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies. Nelson graduated with an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and did postgraduate work at Oxford University. Before going to Monash he taught at the...
– French literature expert and translator - Jennifer StraussJennifer StraussJennifer Strauss AM is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and Melbourne University. Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing...
– poet - Mary TonkinMary TonkinMary Tonkin is an Australian artist, who in 2002 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia. She was awarded her prize for her work Rocky Outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2000....
– artist, winner of the Dobell PrizeDobell PrizeDobell Prize for drawing, Australian art prize held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales the highest prize for drawing in Australia. The prize had previously been held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize, around the early part of the year, but was moved in 2003 to...
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Waleed AlyWaleed AlyWaleed 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...
– Muslim community leader and political commentator - Andrew BenjaminAndrew BenjaminAndrew Benjamin is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Benjamin first came to critical attention with his writings in continental philosophy, writing articles and editing books on the thinking of Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno,...
– philosopher - Leslie Bodi – Founding Professor of German
- Harold BolithoHarold BolithoHarold Bolitho was an Australian academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University The name Bolitho is of Cornish origin.-Career:...
– historian - Geoffrey BoltonGeoffrey BoltonGeoffrey Curgenven Bolton AO is an Australian historian born on 5 November 1931 in North Perth , Western Australia. He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947. He has been publishing works on Australian history since 1952, and has authored 13 books, most recently Land of Vision and Mirage:...
– historian - John BrumbyJohn BrumbyJohn Mansfield Brumby , is an Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election...
- former Premier of Victoria - Kate BurridgeKate BurridgeProfessor Kate Burridge, BA , PhD , FAHA, is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.Burridge completed her undergraduate training in...
– prominent linguist and occasional ABCAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
presenter - John ButtonJohn ButtonJohn Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments...
– former Australian Senator, Leader of the Australian Labor PartyAustralian Labor PartyThe 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...
in the Senate, Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993) - Barbara Caine – historian
- David P. ChandlerDavid P. ChandlerDavid P. Chandler is an American historian and academic who is regarded as one of the foremost western scholars of Cambodia's modern history. Chandler currently resides in Australia, where he is an emeritus professor at Monash University as well as an adjunct professor of Asian Studies at...
– historian - Michael ClyneMichael ClyneMichael George Clyne, AM, FAHA, FASSA was an Australian linguist, academic and intellectual. He was a scholar in various fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, bilingualism and multilingualism, second language learning, contact linguistics and intercultural communication...
– linguist - Ken CoghillKen CoghillKenneth A. Coghill is a former Australian politician.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Coghill studied Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne and worked as a veterinarian before serving on the Wodonga City Council...
– former Speaker of the Parliament of VictoriaParliament of VictoriaThe Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly... - Peter CostelloPeter CostelloPeter Howard Costello AC is an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australian history. Costello was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing...
– Longest-serving Treasurer of AustraliaTreasurer of AustraliaThe Treasurer of Australia is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising. He is the head of the Department of the Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government...
, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Party of AustraliaThe 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... - Nick EconomouNick EconomouDr Nicholas Economou is an Australian political scientist. He is a regular commentator in the media on Australian politics, being published in a wide range of Australian and international newspapers...
– political scientist and media commentator - Herbert FeithHerbert FeithHerbert Feith was an Australian academic and world leading scholar of Indonesian politics.-Background:Born in Vienna, Austria in 1930, Feith witnessed oppression of the Jews and witnessed Kristallnacht in 1938 at the age of 7. He came to Australia as a refugee in 1939 with his Austrian Jewish...
– Indonesian politics expert - Allan FelsAllan FelsProfessor 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...
– economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer CommissionAustralian Competition and Consumer CommissionThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is an independent authority of the Australia government. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974... - John Edward FletcherJohn Edward FletcherJohn Edward Fletcher was a British-Australian scholar best known for his research and publications on Athanasius Kircher as well as several other Germans who had lived in and/or influenced Australia.-Education:...
– German studies expert - James Alexander ForrestJames Alexander ForrestSir James "Jim" Alexander Forrest was an Australian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist.Born in Kerang, Victoria, Forrest was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne before studying an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne...
– lawyer and business, former University Council member - Petro GeorgiouPetro GeorgiouPetro 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:...
- Former Liberal Member of the Parliament of AustraliaParliament of AustraliaThe Parliament of Australia, also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or Federal Parliament, is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It is bicameral, largely modelled in the Westminster tradition, but with some influences from the United States Congress... - Fred GruenFred GruenFred Henry George Gruen was an Australian economist, an early and influential voice in favour of free trade and tariff reductions in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
– economist - Rob J. HyndmanRob J. HyndmanRob J Hyndman is an Australian statistician known for his work on forecasting. He is Professor of Statistics at Monash University and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting...
– statistician, forecaster - Frank Cameron JacksonFrank Cameron JacksonFrank 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...
– philosopher - David Kemp – political scientist and former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
- Helga KuhseHelga KuhseHelga Kuhse is an Australian utilitarian philosopher and bioethicist. From the 1970s, she was one of the first philosophers to address the ethical implications of the developments in biotechnology and biomedicine. With Peter Singer, she founded the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University...
– philosopher and bioethicist - Andrew LinklaterAndrew LinklaterAndrew Linklater is a renowned international relations academic, and is the current Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University...
– international relationsInternational relationsInternational 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...
expert - Mal LoganMal LoganMalcolm Ian Logan, AC is an Australian geographer and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1987-1996.Logan grew up in country New South Wales, attending secondary school in the remote town of Tamworth. He moved to Sydney to complete an honours degree in...
– geographer, former Vice-Chancellor - Chin Liew TenChin Liew TenChin Liew Ten is Professor of Philosophy and former Head of the Philosophy Department, National University of Singapore. Before taking up his appointments at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor of Philosophy and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and...
– philosopher - Tony LuptonTony LuptonAnthony Gerard "Tony" Lupton , Australian politician, was the Australian Labor Party member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2010.-Early life:...
- former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professory of public policy - Race MathewsRace MathewsCharles Race Thorson Mathews, always known as Race Mathews is a Co-operative economist, and former member of Victoria's State Parliament and Australia's Federal Parliament for the Australian Labor Party...
– economist, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough WhitlamGough WhitlamEdward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...
, former Minister for Community Services, former Minister for Police and Emergency Services - Yew-Kwang NgYew-Kwang NgYew-Kwang Ng is an economist at Monash University. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Nanyang University in 1966 and later a Ph.D. from Sydney University in 1971....
– Economist - Graham OppyGraham OppyGraham Robert Oppy is an Australian philosopher whose main area of research is the philosophy of religion. He currently holds the posts of Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and serves as Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and...
– philosopher - Kay PattersonKay PattersonKay Christine Lesley Patterson is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria....
– former Australian Senator and Minister for Health - Mark PeelMark PeelMark Andrew Peel , historian and academic, is Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. He was formerly a Professor and Head of the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Australia...
– historian - Christian Reus-SmitChristian Reus-SmitChris Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a leading constructivist scholar in the field of international relations, and is arguably Australia's pre-eminent scholar in the field...
– international relations expert - John RickardJohn Rickard (academia)Dr. John Rickard is an economist, and Chair of Higher Education Governing Council of Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Previously, he has been Vice Chancellor at Central Queensland University and the University of Southern Queensland, Dean at Monash University, Director of the Graduate...
, economist - Modjtaba SadriaModjtaba SadriaModjtaba Sadria is an Iranian-born philosopher and socio-cultural theorist. Professor Sadria is a specialist in cross-cultural relations and East Asian studies...
– philosopher - Richard ScottonRichard ScottonRichard "Dick" Bailey Scotton AO is an Australian health economist. He is best known as the original author of the Australian Medicare program - Australia's first and current system of publicly-funded universal health care....
– health economist, creator of Australian MedicareMedicare (Australia)Medicare is Australia's publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia. Medicare is intended to provide affordable treatment by doctors and in public hospitals for all resident citizens and permanent residents except for those on Norfolk Island...
program - Kamal Uddin SiddiquiKamal Uddin SiddiquiWorking as faculty at the Monash University, Kamal Uddin Siddiqui, popularly known as Kamal Siddiqui, is an economist and social scientist from Bangladesh....
– economist, diplomat - Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter 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...
– philosopher (now at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, US) - J. J. C. SmartJ. J. C. SmartJohn Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart AC is an Australian philosopher and academic who is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia...
– philosopher - Michael A. Smith – philosopher
- John ThwaitesJohn Thwaites (Australian politician)Johnstone William "John" Thwaites , Australian politician, was Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007.-Early life :...
– Former Deputy PremierPremierPremier is a title for the head of government in some countries and states.-Examples by country:In many nations, "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister"...
of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute - Nick TrakakisNick TrakakisNick Trakakis is a philosopher at Monash University in Australia, and during 2006-2007 was postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame...
– philosopher - Hal VarianHal VarianHal Ronald Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the Chief Economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information...
– economist - David Wright-NevilleDavid Wright-NevilleAssociate Professor David Peter Wright-Neville is an Australian academic, specialising in international relations and terrorism. He was Deputy Director of the Global Terrorism Research Centre and an Associate Professor of Politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University...
– political scientist, terrorism expert - Xiaokai YangXiaokai YangXiaokai Yang was a Chinese-Australian economist. He was one of the world's preeminent theorists in economic analysis, and an influential campaigner for democracy in China....
– economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner
Law
- Bob BaxtBob BaxtProfessor Robert Baxt AO is an Australian lawyer and a former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission , former Dean of Law at Monash University and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne.-Early life:...
– lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC) - Enid CampbellEnid CampbellProfessor Enid Mona Campbell, AC, OBE was an Australian legal scholar, and was the first female professor and Dean of a law school in Australasia...
– jurist - Daryl DawsonDaryl DawsonSir Daryl Michael Dawson, AC, KBE, CB Australian judge and naval officer, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1997.-Education:...
– former Justice of the High Court of AustraliaHigh Court of AustraliaThe High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and... - David DerhamDavid DerhamSir David Plumley Derham KBE CMG was an Australian jurist and university administrator. He was an expert in Australian constitutional law...
– jurist - Raymond FinkelsteinRaymond FinkelsteinRaymond Finkelstein QC is an Australian lawyer and judge. From 1997 until 2011, he served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. His judgments were highly influential in commercial law, giving rise to new approaches in insolvency, competition law and class actions.-Early life and...
– Justice of the Federal Court of AustraliaFederal Court of AustraliaThe Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges... - Arie FreibergArie FreibergProfessor Arie Freiberg AM LLD LLM LLB FASSA is an Australian legal academic. He has been Dean of Monash Law School since 2004. His expertise is in criminal law and criminology and he is current Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council...
, Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council - George Hampel, QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
– former Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...
; leading advocacy instructor - Felicity HampelFelicity HampelFelicity Pia Hampel SC was a prominent Australian human rights lawyer and, since 2005, judge of the County Court of Victoria. Hampel's career as a barrister began in 1981, and she became a Senior Counsel in 1996....
, SCSenior CounselThe title of Senior Counsel or State Counsel is given to a senior barrister or advocate in some countries, typically equivalent to the title "Queen's Counsel" used in Commonwealth Realms...
– judge of the County Court of VictoriaCounty Court of VictoriaThe County Court of Victoria was established in 1852 by the County Courts Act 1852. The court has jurisdiction in the State of Victoria, Australia...
, human rights lawyer - Peter HeereyPeter HeereyPeter Cadden Heerey was an Australian Federal Court Judge of the Federal Court of Australia between 1990 and 2009.Heerey attended university in Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws...
– Justice of the Federal Court of AustraliaFederal Court of AustraliaThe Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges... - Sarah JosephSarah 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...
– human rights scholar - Marcia NeaveMarcia NeaveJustice Marcia Ann Neave AO was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeals division, on 22 February 2006.Before her appointment, Neave was the foundation Chair of the Victorian Law Reform Commission and Professor of Law at Monash University...
– Justice of the Supreme Court of VictoriaSupreme Court of VictoriaThe Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state... - Stephen John ParkerStephen John ParkerStephen John Parker is a legal academic and university administrator. He is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra.Parker was born in the north of England. He graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a Bachelor of Laws. He went on to obtain a PhD from the...
– jurist - Mahadev ShankarMahadev ShankarDatuk Mahadev Shankar is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and former Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge.He is currently serving as a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip to investigate into an allegation of illegal intervention into the judicial appointment process of...
– Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge - Louis WallerLouis WallerProfessor Louis Peter Waller AO is an Australian jurist. He is particularly well known for his work in medical and criminal law. He was Sir Leo Cussen Professor of Law at Monash University from 1965 until 2000. He continues to serve as chairman of a number of medical and legal organisations,...
– medical and criminal law expert - Christopher WeeramantryChristopher WeeramantrySri Lankabhimanya Christopher Gregory Weeramantry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972. He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000, and was Vice-President of the ICJ from 1997 to 2000...
– Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of JusticeInternational Court of JusticeThe International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands...
, human rights advocate
Medicine and Life Sciences
- Bill CharmanBill CharmanBill Charman is an Australian pharmaceutical scientist whose work has developed medical treatments in a range of areas, including a new drug for the treatment of malaria. He was also the founder and director of biomedical sciences company Acrux Ltd. He has published more than 320 scientific papers...
– pharmaceutical scientist - Michael CowleyMichael CowleyProfessor Michael Cowley is an Australian physiologist who has mapped the neural circuits involved in metabolism and is now working on an effective therapy to treat obesity and diabetes...
– physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009 - Basil HetzelBasil HetzelBasil Stuart Hetzel, AC is an Australian medical researcher who has made a major contribution to combating iodine deficiency, a major cause of goitre and cretinism world wide.-Academic career:...
– medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living TreasuresAustralian Living TreasuresAustralian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997.... - Frederic JevonsFrederic JevonsFrederic Raphael Jevons was a British biochemist and later an Australian educator...
– biochemist - David de KretserDavid de KretserDavid Morritz de Kretser, AC is an Australian medical researcher and a former Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.-Biography:...
– medical researcher, current GovernorGovernors of VictoriaThe Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level...
of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... - Richard LarkinsRichard LarkinsProfessor Richard Graeme Larkins AO was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2003 until June 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in medicine, scientific research and academic management....
– medical researcher, former Monash University Vice-Chancellor - A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist
- Elsdon StoreyElsdon StoreyElsdon Storey is an Australian neurologist, Rhode's Scholar & Professor of Neurology at Monash University. His clinical and research interests are in neurogenetics and behavioural neurology ....
– neurologist - Alan O. TrounsonAlan O. TrounsonAlan Trounson, Ph.D., is a biologist and President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine California’s $3 billion stem cell agency...
– world-renowned biologistBiologistA biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
, IVFIn vitro fertilisationIn vitro fertilisation is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed...
pioneer and stem cellStem cellThis article is about the cell type. For the medical therapy, see Stem Cell TreatmentsStem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells...
researcher - Carl WoodCarl WoodEdwin Carlyle "Carl" Wood, AC, CBE, FRCS, FRANZCOG was a prominent Australian gynaecologist, best known for his pioneering work developing and commercialising the technique of in-vitro fertilisation...
– IVFIn vitro fertilisationIn vitro fertilisation is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed...
pioneer
Physical Sciences
- Jim BreenJim BreenJames William Breen is a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor in the area of telecommunications before his retirement in 2003...
, computer scientist (for his work on Japanese dictionary projects - Robert BartnikRobert BartnikRobert Bartnik is an Australian mathematician based at Monash University, where he holds the position of Professor of Pure Mathematics. He is known for his contribution to general relativity, particularly for demonstrating that the ADM mass of an asymptotically flat spacetime is a well-defined...
– mathematician - Damian ConwayDamian ConwayDamian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
– computer scientist, PerlPerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... - John CrossleyJohn Crossley (mathematician)John Newsome Crossley, DPhil, MA , is a British-Australian mathematician and logician who writes in the field of logic in computer science, history of mathematics and medieval history...
- mathematician - John Michael CullenJohn Michael CullenProfessor John Michael Cullen was an Australian ornithologist, of English origin. Mike Cullen began his academic career by studying mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, but later switched to zoology, spending time at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology while investigating the ecology...
– ornithologist - Kenneth H. HuntKenneth H. HuntKenneth Henderson Hunt was Foundation Professor of Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and an expert in kinematics.Hunt was born in Seaford, East Sussex, in the United Kingdom, on 7 June 1920. He studied engineering at Balliol College, Oxford University and, during World War...
– kinematicsKinematicsKinematics is the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of bodies and systems without consideration of the forces that cause the motion....
expert - Vit KlemesVit KlemesVit Klemes was a Canadian hydrologist of Czech origin. He received a Civil Engineering degree from the Technical University in Brno , a CSc degree in hydrology and water resources from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and a DrSc degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague...
– hydrologist - Carlo KoppCarlo KoppCarlo Kopp is a prominent Australian freelance defence analyst and academic who has published ~300 articles in trade publications such as Defence Today, Air International, Journal of Electronic Defense, Jane's Missiles and Rockets, Australian Aviation and the Asia Pacific Defence Reporter on...
– defence analyst / strategist, computer scientist - Louis MathesonLouis MathesonSir James Adam Louis Matheson KBE was a British academic and university administrator, who was the first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.- Early life :...
– engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor - Raymond MartinRaymond Martin (academic)Raymond Leslie Martin AO was an Australian chemistry professor and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1977-1987.- Early life :...
– chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor - Louis MoresiLouis MoresiLouis-Noël Moresi is a Professor of Computational Mathematics & Geophysics at Monash University. He has deeply influenced the understanding of the Geophysics community through his own research as well as providing software for the community to use.-Early career:The London-born Moresi began his...
– geophysicist - Graeme PearmanGraeme PearmanGraeme Pearman was Chief of CSIRO Atmospheric Research in Australia from 1992 to 2002, and is an international expert on increasing levels of carbon dioxide and global warming. He left CSIRO in 2004 to establish his own consultancy company and take up a position with Monash University...
– climate change scientist - Andrew PrenticeAndrew PrenticeAndrew Prentice is an Australian mathematician. He is known for having made a range of unorthodox yet accurate predictions about the solar system. He also established the theory of supersonic turbulence...
– mathematician - Zenon J PudlowskiZenon J PudlowskiZenon Jan Pudlowski is an engineer and educator. He is currently Director of the World Institute for Engineering and Technology Education based in Melbourne, Australia, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in at Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.-Education:Professor Pudlowski...
– engineering expert - John StillwellJohn StillwellJohn Stillwell is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctorate. He received his PhD from MIT in 1970, working...
– mathematician - Chris WallaceChris Wallace (computer scientist)Professor Christopher Stewart Wallace was an Australian computer scientist notable for having devised:...
– computer scientist - Gilah LederGilah LederGilah C. Leder is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and Professor Emerita at La Trobe University. Her research interests are in mathematics education, gender, affect, and exceptionality. Leder was the 2009 recipient of the Felix Klein Medal....
mathematics education
Vice-Chancellors
- Sir Louis MathesonLouis MathesonSir James Adam Louis Matheson KBE was a British academic and university administrator, who was the first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.- Early life :...
(1960–1976) - William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)
- Raymond MartinRaymond Martin (academic)Raymond Leslie Martin AO was an Australian chemistry professor and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1977-1987.- Early life :...
AO (1977–1987) - Mal LoganMal LoganMalcolm Ian Logan, AC is an Australian geographer and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Monash University from 1987-1996.Logan grew up in country New South Wales, attending secondary school in the remote town of Tamworth. He moved to Sydney to complete an honours degree in...
ACOrder of AustraliaThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(1987–1996) - David Robinson (1997–2002)
- Peter DarvallPeter DarvallProfessor Peter Darvall AO was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2002 until August 2003. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in civil engineering and was at Monash for 33 years...
AO (2002–2003) - Richard LarkinsRichard LarkinsProfessor Richard Graeme Larkins AO was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2003 until June 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in medicine, scientific research and academic management....
AO (2003–2009) - Ed ByrneEdward Byrne (academic)Professor Edward Byrne AO MBBS MD DSc MBA FRCP FRACP is a neuroscientist and university administrator. He is currently serving Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Australia.-Early life:...
(2009–)
Chancellors
- Sir Robert Rutherford BlackwoodSir Robert BlackwoodSir Robert Rutherford Blackwood KBE was an Australian engineer, businessman and university administrator. He was the first Chancellor of Monash University, serving from 1961-1968, and Chairman of Dunlop Australia from 1972-1979....
(1958–1968) - Sir Douglas Ian MenziesDouglas MenziesSir Douglas Ian Menzies KBE , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.-Biography:Menzies was born in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1907. He was educated at Hobart High School and Devonport High School in Tasmania, before returning to Victoria to study at the University of Melbourne...
(1968–1974) - Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)
- Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)
- David William Rogers (1992–1998)
- Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)
- Alan FinkelAlan FinkelAlan Simon Finkel AM FTSE PhD is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2007, he was appointed as the new Chancellor of Monash University, a position he commenced on January 1, 2008....
(2008–)