Rowena Danziger AM was Headmistress of Ascham School from 1973-2003. She was a member of the Board of Opera Australia from 1989–2009, including a period as Chairman (2001-2003). Rowena is currently Chairman of the Foundation of the Art Gallery of NSW, and is a board member of both Crown Ltd and Consolidated Media Holdings.
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Paul Donovan is an Executive Director of Allen & Unwin, the independent Australian book publisher. Previously he has been Managing Director of Allen & Unwin and before that the Sales and Marketing Director. He joined Allen & Unwin in the late 1970s and was one of the directors who bought the Australian company when the original British firm was sold in July 1990.
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Peter FitzSimons is Australia's bestselling non-fiction author and biographer, while also writing columns for the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He has played rugby for Australia and written 20 books, including a biography of former Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley. In 2001 he released biographies of both John Eales and Australia's most decorated war heroine, Nancy Wake, which stayed on the bestseller lists for 29 weeks between them, and have sold 220,000 copies to date. In 2003 he released his book on the Kokoda Track, which was Australia's number one selling nonfiction book of the year, and followed that up with Tobruk in 2006. In 2007 he was the Books Alive author with his biography of Les Darcy. In May 2009, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched Peter’s latest book, Charles Kingsford Smith And Those Magnificent Men ...
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Elizabeth is a recently retired corporate partner and now consultant with Blake Dawson lawyers. Her practice focused on company law and governance. She is also a member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Macquarie University Hospital and Auditing and Assurance Standards Boards. Elizabeth coordinates Blake Dawson's Boardroom Engagement program, is involved with the Blake Dawson Business Writing prize and is the Blake Dawson CEDA Trustee. For 10 years she served on the Australian Press Council and in a previous life taught literature.
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Shona Martyn is the Publishing Director for Australia and New Zealand for HarperCollins. Having started her career in the rough-and-tumble world of daily newspapers, Shona was named New Zealand Journalist of the Year in 1981. She subsequently worked in newspapers and magazines in the UK and Australia – where she worked for Vogue as a feature writer and edited Good Weekend before launching the much-lauded HQ magazine. In 1996 she moved to books, being appointed Publisher at Transworld publisher before moving to HarperCollins in 1999.
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Tim Peach has been a bookseller for over 30 years and has run shops in Sydney, Adelaide, Fremantle, Newcastle and Parramatta. He has been active in the retail book industry at both a state and federal level. His past service on the executive of the Australian Booksellers Association included a term as president. In 1988 Tim established a specialist Australiana bookshop, The Library Shop, for the State Library of NSW. He continues to run that shop and in his position as Merchandising Manager he oversees a range of commercial activities for the State Library.
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Michael Sexton SC is Solicitor General for New South Wales. He is the co-author of the Australian text on defamation law as well as the author of several books on Australian history and politics and a novel. He has reviewed books for various journals, most particularly The Sydney Morning Herald for 30 years. He was a member of the NSW Library Council from 1987 to 1991 and between 1996 and 1998 was Chairman of the State Rail Authority and a member of the NSW Public Transport Authority. He is currently a member of the Council of the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Deena Shiff is Group Managing Director of Telstra Business and has held a number of senior executive positions in Telstra. Deena has been a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jacques and has held a number of non executive director positions.
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Annette Shun Wah is an author, actor and broadcaster. She has produced and presented numerous television programs for ABC and SBS. Co-author of the award-winning Banquet – Ten Courses to Harmony, she has been published in Meanjin, Life Writing, and the anthologies Grandma Magic, Growing up Asian in Australia, Come Away With Me and Family Journeys. Annette serves on the board of Performance 4a which administers the Asian-Australian Performance Directory, and the Performing Arts and Arts Management Committee of Asialink. Annette is also co-founder of Bookmark Media, which produces digital book trailers.
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Bret Walker SC has practised as a barrister mainly in Sydney since 1979. His principal areas of advocacy and advice are public (Constitutional and administrative) law and commercial law. Appointed Senior Counsel in 1993.
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Sandra Yates AO joined the Board of Sydney Writers’ Festival in 1999 and has been Chairperson since 2000. She is a former Chairperson of Saatchi & Saatchi Australia and the NSW TAFE Commission Board. She is currently Chairperson of Books Alive and is a Director on the Board of the National Art School.
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