Tony Abbott MHR (Australian)
Tony Abbott was elected Member for Warringah at a by-election in March 1994. Prior to entering Parliament he was executive director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy from 1993-94. From 1990-93 he was press secretary and political advisor to the Leader of the Opposition, John Hewson. Tony was appointed Minister for Health and Ageing in October 2003 and after the Federal election in 2007, became Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs & the Voluntary Sector. In 2009 he became Leader of the Opposition. He is the author of ‘Battlelines’.
 tonyabbott.com.au
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235: Battlelines: Tony Abbott Talks to Annabel Crabb
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Deborah Abela (Australian)
Deborah Abela studied teaching and communications, then travelled the world for three years before coming home and begging unashamedly for her first job in the script department of television production house, Southern Star. This was followed by seven years at Network TEN as a writer/producer of kids' TV. She left in 2001 to write the Max Remy Superspy series about a feisty spy girl and the Jasper Zammit books, written with the advice of soccer legend, Johnny Warren. Her latest book is ‘The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen’, inspired by her nanna’s stories of friendly ghosts. It was recently named a Notable Book in the CBCA Awards.
deborahabela.com
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222: Behind the Scenes of Children’s Publishing
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Robert Adamson (Australian)
Robert Adamson has published twenty volumes of poetry in Australia, the UK and the USA. His most recent collection is ‘The Golden Bird’, and his previous volume of poems, ‘The Goldfinches of Baghdad’, won the ‘Age’ Book of the Year Award for poetry and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and was short-listed for the New South Wales and Queensland premiers’ literary awards and the State Library of NSW Biography Award. In 2009, Robert edited the ‘Best Australian Poems’. In 1995 he received the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.
robertadamson.com
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65: Tribute to Vicki Viidikas
102: The Poetry of Witness
140: Late Nights at Number One
208: Poetry Anthology Overload?
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Debra Adelaide (Australian)
Debra Adelaide is the author of three novels, ‘The Hotel Albatross’, ‘Serpent Dust’ and the highly acclaimed ‘The Household Guide to Dying’. She is the editor of four themed collections of fiction and memoirs, the latest of which is ‘Acts of Dog’. She has worked as a researcher, editor and book reviewer, and has a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is now a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
debraadelaide.com
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W2: Murder Your Darlings with Debra Adelaide
W4: Murder Your Darlings with Debra Adelaide
82: Big Deal
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Louise Adler (Australian)
Louise Adler is the CEO and publisher-in-chief of Melbourne University Publishing. She is the deputy chancellor of Monash University, and serves as a member of the Monash South Africa board, the board of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Her contribution to Australia’s literary culture was acknowledged in the 2008 Australia Day Honours list with an AM. She is chair of MLC.
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38: Are Australian Publishers E-Ready?
56: Intellectual Property
178: Eric Lax Speaks to Louise Adler
203: In Defence of God
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Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Australian)
Michael Mohammed Ahmad is chief editor of the Bankstown Youth Development Service literary department, Westside Publications. His writing has appeared in the literary journal, ‘HEAT’ and he has read and performed in the 2007 and 2008 Sydney Writers’ Festivals. Mohammed also developed and performed in the production of ‘Alleyway Honour’ for the 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival. As an actor Mohammed has performed in Urban Theatre Project’s ‘Fast Cars and Tractor Engines’ and ‘Stories of Love and Hate’. In 2008 Michael Mohammed received a grant from the FTO’s Young Filmmakers Fund for his script, ‘The Pizza’.
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SR18: Inside the Westside Writers Group
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Adam Aitken (Australian)
Adam Aitken grew up in London, Thailand and Malaysia, before coming to Australia in 1968. His book ‘Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles’, was shortlisted for the South Australian Festival Award for poetry and the ‘Age’ Book of the Year Award. His fourth collection is ‘Eighth Habitation’.
http://adamaitken.blogspot.com
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76: Poetry on the Harbour
199: Late Nights at Number One
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Hanan al-Shaykh (International)
Hanan al-Shaykh grew up in Beirut and is one of the contemporary Arab world's most acclaimed writers. She is the author of the collection ‘I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops’ and her novels include ‘The Story of Zahra’, ‘Women of Sand and Myrrh’ and ‘Beirut Blues’. She lives in London with her husband and two children. ‘The Locust and the Bird’ tells her mother’s story.
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91: Women of Lebanon
188: The Big Reading
226: Hanan al-Shaykh Speaks to Stephanie Dowrick
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Ali Alizadeh (International)
Ali Alizadeh was born in 1976 in Tehran and immigrated to Australia in the early 1990s after experiencing the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. He has taught writing and literature at universities in Australia, China and Turkey and currently lives in the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of fiction, ‘The New Angel’ and poetry, ‘Eyes in Times of War’. Ali’s translations of poetry from Persian to English include the classical Sufi odes translated with Kenneth Avery in ‘Fifty Poems of Attar’. His new non-fiction book is ‘Iran: My Grandfather’.
alializadeh.wordpress.com
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27: Creative Memoir
41: Reading Muster 2
143: Dissent in Iran
172: The Dissident Cafe: Tweeting from Tehran
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Paul Allam (Australian)
Paul Allam is a chef, baker and co-owner with David McGuinness of the popular Bourke Street Bakery, which opened its doors in Surry Hills in 2004. The bakery quickly gained legendary status for its rustic bread, gourmet pies and mouthwatering sweets. The Bourke Street Bakery team has continued to take Sydney by storm, opening more bakeries in Alexandria, Marrickville and the CBD.
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1: The Secrets of Bourke Street Bakery
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Patrick Allington (Australian)
Patrick Allington’s debut novel is ‘Figurehead’. His short fiction has appeared in ‘Meanjin’, ‘Griffith Review’, ‘Southerly’ and elsewhere. As a book critic, his interests include fiction, current affairs, culture, biography and history. His critical writings have appeared in ‘Australian Book Review’, ‘The Advertiser’, ‘The Monthly’ and ‘The Weekend Australian’. Patrick was inaugural fiction editor of the literary magazine, ‘Etchings’. He has a Masters in Politics and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, where he has also taught.
patrickallington.net.au/blog
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145: My Brilliant Debut
161: Reading Muster 6
231: Repressive Regimes
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Fiona Allon (Australian)
Fiona Allon is Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at The University of Sydney. She is the author of 'Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home'. She has published widely on home, identity and everyday life in contemporary Australia, and her current research focuses on questions of housing, affordability and sustainability.
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17: Big House
237: When I’m Not Writing, I ...
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Steven Amsterdam (Australian)
Steven Amsterdam was born and raised in New York City. He graduated with a degree in Japanese studies and worked in Tokyo, before returning to the US to work as a film and television producer's assistant and then in different roles at Random House. During these years, a love of pastry led him to eventually become a pastry chef. He moved to Melbourne in 2003 and since then he has been a freelance travel editor, graphic designer, pastry chef, student and psychiatric nurse. It all makes perfect sense, really. ‘Things We Didn't See Coming’ is his first book.
stevenamsterdam.com
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61: Reading Muster 4
145: My Brilliant Debut
171: Writing Short
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Don Anderson (Australian)
Don Anderson is the author/editor of seven collections of essays and stories. He taught North American literature for many years at the University of Sydney. He has published several reviews of novels by Roberto Bolano.
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236: Reading Roberto Bolaño
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Chris Andrews (Australian)
Chris Andrews is a literary translator. He teaches at the University of Western Sydney, where he is a member of the Writing and Society Research Group. Recent translations include ‘Monsieur Pain’ and ‘The Skating Rink’ by Roberto Bolaño and ‘Ghosts’ by Cesar Aira.
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108: Mother Tongue
236: Reading Roberto Bolaño
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Francoise Angenieux (Australian)
Francoise Angenieux is West African-born dancer whose extensive training spanned nine years across two continents including Dance Studies in Dakar Senegal, Africa and the Conservatoire de la Danse in Grenoble, France. Her career as a dancer began with Ballets de Monte Carlo and touring Germany with Schweizer/Tourne Theatre. After moving to Australia, Francoise was employed as a dance teacher at the University of New South Wales while dancing with Kinetic Energy Dance Company and Sydney City Ballet. In 1979 she joined the Sydney Dance Company, where she remained for 11 years.
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SR22: Poetica: Five Arrivals
SR23: Poetica: Five Arrivals
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James Arvanitakis (Australian)
Dr James Arvanitakis is a lecturer in the humanities at the University of Western Sydney and is a member of the Centre for Cultural Research. James has worked as a human rights activist throughout the Pacific, Indonesia and Europe with organisations including Aid/Watch and Oxfam. He is currently working with the Whitlam Institute researching issues confronting Australia's democracy as well as looking at the activism of art. His latest book, ‘Contemporary Society: A sociological analysis of everyday life’, gave rise to 'socio-logic' on FBi Radio.
jamesarvanitakis.net
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146: Politics, Arts and Ecology: Where to Next for the Environment?
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Kalinda Ashton (Australian)
Kalinda Ashton's short stories have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies including ‘Meanjin’, ‘The Sleepers Almanac’, ‘Overland’, ‘Strange’ and ‘Hecate’, and have been broadcast on ABC Radio. Kalinda has a PhD in creative writing from RMIT University and teaches literature and creative writing. She is an associate editor of ‘Overland’ and her short plays have also been produced. Her first novel is ‘The Danger Game’ and she is currently working on a young adult novel.
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41: Reading Muster 2
80: Where Have All the Battlers Gone?
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Reza Aslan (International)
Reza Aslan is a comparative religions scholar from Harvard. His book ‘No god but God’ has been translated into 13 languages. He is a senior fellow at the Orfalae Center for Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara and an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He has studied religions at the universities of Santa Clara, Harvard and California, Santa Barbara, and his work has appeared in the ‘Nation,’ ‘Slate’ and the ‘New York Times’. His latest book is ‘How to Win a Cosmic War’.
rezaaslan.com
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13: Opening Night: Iran, A New Beginning
157: Terrorism: How to Win a Cosmic War
172: The Dissident Cafe: Tweeting from Tehran
189: We Need To Talk About America
203: In Defence of God
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Auburn Poets and Writers Group (Australian)
Auburn Poets and Writers Group has been creating an open and dynamic space for a diversity of writers since 2005. Since 2006, APWG has performed annually at SWF, and in 2008 published ‘Auburn Letters’.
Featuring Alissar Chidiac, Ann Jarjoura, Bhagavadas Sriskanthadas, Bill (Willem) Tibben, Danny Gardner, Gina Wilson, Homayoun Tavakoli, Melissa Paris, Nashaa Hamody Abdul-Hassan, Nur J Alam, Rima Najm and Ten Ch’in U.
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SR17: Zalzala: Inner Quakes and After Shocks
141: Zalzala: Inner Quakes and After Shocks
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