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Sarah Macdonald (Australian)
Sarah Macdonald is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. She’s a former host of triple j’s Arts and Morning Show and has appeared on ABC TV’s Race Around the World, Recovery and Two Shot. She also presents on 702 ABC Sydney. Her best selling book Holy Cow about her time in India, has been published around the world in several languages. Sarah writes for various publications and her column/blog appears Tuesdays on Fairfax’s Daily Life (dailylife.com.au). |
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Hugh Mackay (Australian)
Hugh Mackay is a prolific and well-known social researcher, writer and commentator in Australia. Hugh was a newspaper columnist for over 25 years, and is now an honorary professor of social science at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of nine books in the field of social psychology and philosophy, and five novels. Previous books include Why Don't People Listen?, Reinventing Australia and What Makes Us Tick? |
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Emily Maguire (Australian)
Emily Maguire is the author of four novels and two non-fiction books. Her articles and essays on feminism, sex and culture have been published widely including in The Monthly, The Weekend Australian and The Age. She is a 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and the recipient of the 2011 NSW Writer’s Fellowship. Her latest book is the novel Fishing for Tigers. |
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Anna Maguire (Australian)
Anna Maguire has worked in publishing and digital content for 25 years. Anna teaches authors about their digital publishing and crowdfunding options and trains publishing students. In October 2012, Canberra start-up Editia published Crowdfund it!, Anna's first ebook with information on 38 platforms, comprehensive Tips for Crowdfunding Success as well as case studies from people who have successfully used crowdfunding both in Australia and internationally. Anna also writes about crowdfunding and digital publishing developments.  digireado.com.au
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Carol Major (Australian)
Carol Major is a writing consultant to Varuna. She holds a Master and Doctorate degree in Creative Writing. Her research included notions of place and the psychological dimensions of fiction. Carol has worked as a journalist for over 30 years and is widely published in the area of social policy. Her writing consultancy, Advanced Narrative, employs the elements of story structure to inform architectural design in community spaces. Her most recent place-making document is inspiring the redevelopment of central Wollongong. |
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David Malouf (Australian)
David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger, Remembering Babylon, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff Every Move You Make, his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street and Ransom. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award and Ransom won the Adelaide Festival Literature Award and the Criticos Prize. He was raised in Brisbane and now lives in Sydney. |
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Robert Manne (Australian)
Robert Manne, just retired as professor of politics, is now Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University and a regular writer for The Monthly, most recently on climate change denialism and asylum seeker policy. His books include The Petrov Affair, The Culture of Forgetting, Left, Right, Left: Political Essays: 1977-2005 and Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency. He is also the editor of many books including W.E.H. Stanner: The Dreaming & Other Essays and, with Chris Feik, The Words that Made Australia. |
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Kristi Mansfield (Australian)
Kristi Mansfield is an Australian leader in philanthropy and social investment. She has facilitated more than $25 million in investment to |
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Diego Marani (International)
Diego Marani was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1959. He has worked as a translator at the Council of Ministers of the European Union and as a policy officer for the European Commission and has written several novels, collections of essays and short stories. Diego's earlier novel, New Finnish Grammar, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award and the Best Translated Book Award. The Last of the Vostyachs is Diego's second novel to appear in English. |
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Kathy Marks (Australian)
Kathy Marks is The Independent’s Asia-Pacific correspondent and the author of Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, which won the Ned Kelly Award and was shortlisted for the CAL Waverley Library Award. Her essays have been included in The Best Australian Essays. Her essay Channelling Mannalargenna was recently published in Griffith REVIEW 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point?. |
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Simon Marnie (Australian)
Simon has worked in commercial, community and government media as a journalist, producer and presenter but has also spent time as a short-order cook, magician, restaurant reviewer and at-home parent. Currently 702 ABC Sydney’s Weekend presenter, Simon is also actively involved in prestigious food events such as The Royal Agricultural Society’s President's Medal. He has a passion for local ingredients, good eating and the non-elitist enjoyment of all things gastronomic. |
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David Marr (Australian)
David Marr’s most recent book is Political Animal, The Making of Tony Abbott. He is the multi-award winning author of Patrick White: A life and The High Price of Heaven, and was co-author with Marian Wilkinson of Dark Victory. He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch. In 2010 he wrote the Quarterly Essay Power Trip: The political journey of Kevin Rudd and in 2011 Panic. David serves on the board of Sydney Writers’ Festival. |
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Lauren Martin (Australian)
Lauren Martin is editor of The Global Mail, the Sydney-based, philanthropically funded site producing original and independent multimedia journalism since February 2012. She has previously been an editor and writer for Institutional Investor’s specialist newsletters Corporate Financing Week and Wall Street Letter for New Woman magazine; for the 166 year old uber-broadsheet on Martha’s Vineyard, The Vineyard Gazette; and, for more than a decade, The Sydney Morning Herald. |
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Shona Martyn (Australian)
Shona Martyn is the publishing director for Australia and New Zealand at HarperCollins. Soon after launching her career in the rough-and-tumble world of daily newspapers, Shona was named New Zealand Journalist of the Year. 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 founding the much-lauded HQ magazine. She then transitioned to books, being appointed publisher at Transworld Publishers before moving to HarperCollins in 1999. |
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Walter Mason (Australian)
Walter Mason is a writer, blogger and former bookseller. Part of the Writing & Society Research Group at UWS, he is completing his doctoral thesis on the history of self-help books in Australia. His first book, Destination Saigon was named one of the 10 best travel books of 2010 by The Sydney Morning Herald. His new book, Destination Cambodia will be released by Allen & Unwin in September 2013. |
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Chris Masters (Australian)
Chris Masters is Australia's best-known investigative reporter, and is the author of the bestselling Jonestown. In 1985, he won Australia's most prestigious award in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for his Four Corners report on the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. His reports The Big League and The Moonlight State both led to royal commissions that helped transform the nation. His most recent book, Uncommon Soldier, is the result of a six year immersive investigation into the modern Australian soldier. |
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Karen McCartney (Australian)
Karen McCartney has a wealth of experience in design, art and architecture. She completed an honours degree in History of Art and English from University College London, and her first job was on British magazine Art Monthly. She has written for British Elle Decoration and The World of Interiors. She edited Marie Claire Lifestyle, was founding editor of interiors magazine Inside Out and is now editorial director of online retailer Temple & Webster. Karen has published two books on iconic Australian houses and is presently working on a book about global architecture. |
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Kate McClymont (Australian)
Kate McClymont is a five-time Walkley Award winner who has survived death threats and fought off suppression attempts to cover everything from the kidnapping of dogs to salary cap rorts and serious political skulduggery. The Sydney Morning Herald super-sleuth and prolific tweeter has this year stared down some of Australia’s most colourful operators and left them quaking with daily revelations from the ICAC inquiry. |
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Alasdair McGregor (Australian)
Painter, photographer and sometime architect Alasdair McGregor is the author of The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone, Australia's Wild Islands, Mawson's Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal, Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life, and the award-winning Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. |
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Russell McGregor (Australian)
Russell McGregor is associate professor of History at James Cook University in Townsville. He has published extensively on the history of settler Australian attitudes toward Aboriginal people, including the award-winning book Imagined Destinies. His latest book Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation won the 2012 NSW Australian History Prize and was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Ministers Prize for Australian History. His other research interests are in Australian nationalism and environmental history. |
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Michaela McGuire (Australian)
Michaela McGuire is a journalist and author based in Melbourne. Her work has been published in The Monthly, Good Weekend and The Age. Her first book, Apply WIthin: Stories of career sabotage was published in 2009. She writes a weekly blog for The Monthly and is co-curator and host of the bestselling literary salon Women of Letters. |
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William McInnes (Australian)
William McInnes, author and actor, is a household name and one of Australia's most popular writers, delighting readers with his memoirs and insights into |
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Jacqueline McKenzie (Australian)
Renowned Australian actress Jacqueline McKenzie graduated from NIDA in 1990, first appearing in the 1987 release Wordplay. Her film career is |
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Maxine McKew (Australian)
Before making the switch to politics in 2007 where she removed then-Prime Minister John Howard from his prized seat of Bennelong, Maxine McKew had a 30 year career as an award-winning broadcast and print journalist, including stints hosting both The 7.30 Report and Lateline. Her book Tales from the Political Trenches, was published in late 2012. Maxine is currently a Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne. |
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Jeff McMullen (Australian)
Jeff McMullen is a journalist, author and film maker best known as an ABC foreign correspondent, Four Corners and 60 Minutes reporter. His memoir, A Life of Extremes, Journeys and Encounters discusses the Indigenous struggle in Australia and around the world. |
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Ross McMullin (Australian)
Ross McMullin is a historian and biographer. His biographies include Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius and the award-winning Pompey Elliott. He is the author of the commissioned ALP centenary history The Light on the Hill, and also So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World’s First National Labour Government. His latest book, Farewell Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation, about 10 exceptional Australians who died in the Great War, has been awarded the 2013 National Cultural Award. |
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Rick McPhee (Australian)
Rick has extensive experience across a surprising number of genres from documentary, factual, through light entertainment, to fully scripted narrative series. In 2010 he worked in Afghanistan to make three local programs for Tolo TV. In the UK, he was a founding producer of Channel 4’s Big Breakfast. He worked at FOXTEL for several years as head of production for arena. At CJZ he has produced Guerilla Gardeners, Bondi Rescue, Stupid Stupid Man, Hardliners, Sleek Geeks and the highly acclaimed Go Back To Where You Came From. |
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Gillian Mears (Australian)
Gillian Mears grew up in the northern NSW towns of Grafton and Lismore. Acclaim came early, with her short-story collections and novels winning major prizes. Her books include Ride a Cock Horse, Fineflour, The Mint Lawn, The Grass Sister, A Map of the Gardens and most recently Foal’s Bread, winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. |
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George Megalogenis (Australian)
George Megalogenis is a senior journalist and political commentator with The Australian, to which he also contributes the blog Meganomics, and is a regular guest on ABC TV's The Insiders. He spent over a decade in the Canberra press gallery, and is the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade and Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit – Leadership and the End of the Reform Era. The Australian Moment is his latest book. |
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Miles Merrill (Australian)
Miles Merrill writes and performs poems, monologues and stories for venues and festivals internationally. His productions The Night Words Festival and Slamming won outstanding critical acclaim. Merrill directs the international performing writers program Australian Poetry Slam. He is also creative director of the literary arts company Word Travels. He publishes on CD, DVD, online and in print, including The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, but is best experienced live. |
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Claire Messud (International)
Claire Messud is the author of five novels and a book of novellas. Her novel The Emperor's Children was a New York Times Best Book of the Year and long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize. An international bestseller, it was translated into over 20 languages. She writes articles and reviews for The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. She lives in Massachusetts, USA with her family. Her latest work is The Woman Upstairs and which has been published to wide acclaim. |
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Angela Meyer (Australian)
Angela Meyer is a Melbourne-based writer and reviewer. Her work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Australian, The Big Issue and many others. Her blog LiteraryMinded has been running for six years, including three years on crikey.com. She is a former acting editor of Books+Publishing. A chapbook of her flash fiction is to be published by Inkerman & Blunt in early 2014, and she’s currently editing an anthology of creepy short stories for Spineless Wonders. |
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David Michôd (Australian)
In 2010, David Michôd's debut feature film Animal Kingdom was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Animal Kingdom went on to win 10 Australian Film Institute awards from a record 18 nominations and was named Best First Film by the New York Film Critics Circle. It also earned 2011 Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for supporting actress Jacki Weaver. David has just completed shooting his next feature film The Rover, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, in SA. |
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Kate Middleton (Australian)
Kate Middleton is the author of Five Seasons, which won the WA Premier’s Award for Poetry. From September 2011 to September 2012, she was the inaugural Sydney City Poet. |
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Richard Miles (Australian)
Dr Richard Miles teaches ancient history at the University of Sydney. His books on the ancient world include Carthage Must be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Mediterranean Super-Power . He has written and presented numerous BBC documentaries, including the 6-part series Ancient Worlds. His new BBC series The Secret History of Archaeology will screen in 2013. Richard has also presented on the BBC's flagship The Culture Show. His forthcoming book examines the Romans’ fixation with predicting their empire’s demise. |
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Claire Miller (Australian)
Claire Miller was the marketing assistant for Lothian Press before relocating to the Netherlands where she worked for the country’s first satellite company – NewSkies International – during the ISP boom in the 90’s. Upon her return to Australia, Claire worked for a number of years as an international events manager and publicist for Tourism WA and the University of WA. She landed her dream job as the media and promotions manager at Fremantle Press in 2008. |
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Tim Miller (Australian)
Tim is a fartaholic. He has dedicated his wonderful way with words to finding as many farting adjectives as humanly possible. By day Tim is the children’s marketing executive at one of Australia’s leading publishers. There Is A Monster Under My Bed Who Farts is his autobiography. |
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Kate Miller-Heidke (Australian)
Kate Miller-Heidke has released 3 critically-acclaimed albums, including 2012’s Nightflight, which debuted at #2 on the ARIA chart, and the double-platinum Curiouser, which featured the hits Last Day On Earth and Caught In The Crowd (winner of the grand prize in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition). In the last year Kate has toured the USA with Ben Folds Five and performed principle roles for the English National Opera in The Death Of Klinghoffer in 2012 and the world premiere of Sunken Garden in 2013. |
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Christine Milne (Australian)
Christine Milne, Senator for Tasmania and Leader of the Australian Greens, is one of Australia's most experienced and respected environmental and community activists, with a career spanning 30 years. She was elected to Federal Senate in 2004 and became leader in 2012. Prior to entering politics Christine taught English, History and Social Science in high schools in Burnie and Davenport. She was elected to the Tasmanian parliament in 1989, and became the first woman to lead a political party in Tasmania in 1993. In 1990, Christine was appointed to the United Nations Global Roll 500 of Honour for her conservation work, and The Bulletin named her one of Australia’s Smart 100 in 2003. |
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Peter Minter (Australian)
Dr Peter Minter is a leading contemporary Australian poet, editor and scholar. He is coordinator of the Indigenous Australian studies major at the University of Sydney and is an ARC chief investigator on the AustLit: The Australian literature resource consortium, contributing to the national BlackWords Aboriginal literature digital humanities infrastructure project. Peter was the co-editor of The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and is currently the poetry editor of Overland journal. His latest book of poetry is Blue Grass. |
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Pankaj Mishra (International)
Pankaj Mishra is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, The Romantics, An End to Suffering and Temptations of the West. He writes principally for the Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books. He lives in London and Shimla. |
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Natasha Mitchell (Australian)
Natasha Mitchell hosts the national, daily morning radio show, Life Matters, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National. |
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Anis Mojgani (International)
Anis Mojgani is a two time U.S. Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker, Anis has performed for audiences as varied as the House of Blues and the United Nations. Anis has three poetry collections, all published by Write Bloody Publishing: Over the Anvil We Stretch, The Feather Room, and Songs From Under The River. Originally from New Orleans, he currently lives in Texas with his wife and their dog Trudy. |
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Tony Moore (Australian)
Dr Tony Moore is a writer, historian and academic. He has a PhD in Australian history from the University of Sydney and is a senior lecturer at and director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. Tony’s career has spanned political activism, documentary making at the ABC, journalism and book publishing. He is the author of the Barry McKenzie Movies, Death or Liberty and Dancing with Empty Pockets. |
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Matthew Moore (Australian)
In 2011, after a decade as an actor, Matthew made his debut as writer/director/producer with his short film Julian. Julian premiered at The 62nd International Berlin Film Festival and won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film. Since then, Julian has become a festival favourite world wide, most recently winning Best Short Fiction Film 2012 at the AACTAʼs. |
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Daniel Morden (International)
Daniel Morden is one of the UK’s greatest storytellers. For23 years he has made his living telling traditional stories all over the world, and his repertoire ranges from haunting gypsy tales to the Iliad. Morden has performed at the National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, on Broadway, at the Getty Villa, in supermarkets, schools, churches, universities and village halls. His tales are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio. He combines the skills of the troubadour, the actor, the bard, the stand-up comedian and the preacher. |
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Mark Mordue (Australian)
Mark Mordue is a Sydney writer, journalist and editor. He is the winner of the 2010 Pascall Prize ‘Australian Critic of the Year’ and is currently at work on a biography of Nick Cave. |
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Linda Morris (Australian)
Linda Morris has been a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald for two decades, and was a political reporter for half those years before turning her sights to religion, arts and books. Linda considers the craft of author profiles ‘the best job in the world' because, with few exceptions, writers are wonderfully open to talking about the mysteries of fiction writing. |
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Grahame Morris (Australian)
Grahame Morris is the Federal Director of Barton Deakin Government Relations. He was chief of staff to former Prime Minister John Howard and an adviser to many other Liberal Leaders. As a State Director and Deputy Federal Director of the Liberal Party he helped run 26 election campaigns. Grahame is a former journalist with The Australian, a former chairman of PwC’s Office of Federal Government Services and has lectured in political communications at Penn State University. He is a regular political commentator across the Australian media. Appearing at... |
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Julian Morrow (Australian)
Julian Morrow is a co-founder of The Chaser, a satirical media empire which rivals Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in all fields except power, influence, popularity and profitability. He spends one day a week experimenting with being boring and middle-aged as host of the Friday edition of RN Drive and regularly resents the ABC consumer affairs show The Checkout. |
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Tara Moss (Australian)
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter and journalist. Since 1999 she has written and published nine bestselling novels – Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, Assassin, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess and The Skeleton Key, and been published in 18 countries in 12 languages. Her writing has appeared in Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald News Review, The Age, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian and more. She has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. |
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Kate Mosse (International)
Kate Mosse is the author of the international phenomenon Labyrinth, which was followed by Sepulchre and most recently Citadel. Her other writing includes three non-fiction books, two further novels and three plays. Labyrinth, has been translated into 35 languages and published in 40 countries. The co-founder and honorary director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Kate was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Chichester in 2006. Kate lives with her family in West Sussex and Carcassonne. |
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Linda Mottram (Australian)
Linda Mottram is a Walkley Award winning Journalist and has worked in many of the world’s hotspots. Linda has travelled with Australian Prime Ministers, covered peace, war, reported on assassinations and elections. Now home, Linda is delighted to be presenting 702 ABC Sydney Mornings program from 0830, covering the stories that matter to Sydney listeners. |
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Peter Mould (Australian)
Peter Mould is the former NSW Government Architect and a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. He sits on numerous design advisory panels in Sydney and interstate, and has served on the Heritage Council of NSW, the Central Sydney Planning Committee, the NSW Architects Registration Board, and was a Visiting Professor to UNSW. Peter has designed and delivered major public projects, and has received numerous awards for architecture and urban design. He writes and lectures on architecture, with a particular interest in Islamic architecture. |
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Stephen Muecke (Australian)
Stephen Muecke is professor of Writing at UNSW. He works with Indigenous groups in Broome (a new book is Butcher Joe, Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern) and on the Indian Ocean; Contingency in Madagascar, with photographer Max Pam, appeared in 2012 in Intellect Books’ Critical Photography Series. |
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Stephen Muller (International)
Stephen Muller is vice president of Strategy at Blue State Digital and was the online video director for Obama for America. On the campaign, Muller managed a 30-person team of producers, editors, cinematographers and motiongraphic artists who were responsible for crafting and distributing the campaign’s video messages online, producing more than 1,300 videos with over 130 million views. Supported by the US Consulate General. |
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Kate Mulvany (Australian)
Kate Mulvany is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor. She has written over 20 plays including The Danger Age, The Web, and her autobiographical piece The Seed which is now being developed as a feature film. Recently, she has been focusing on stage adaptations including Julius Caesar andMacbeth which she also performed in for Bell Shakespeare, and her latest play, a retelling of Medea was a hit for Belvoir Theatre Company. As an actor Kate has performed on stage and screen and will soon be seen in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. |
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Lorna Munro (Australian)
Lorna Munro is a proud Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi woman. She has been strongly influenced and nurtured by her activist parents, and mentored by many other members of the Black Power Movement, who she affectionately refers to as her Aunties and Uncles. In addition to her current work with the Red Room Company, Lorna has had work published in the Southerly literary journal and is currently writing her own script that is yet entitled. |
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Tommy Murphy (Australian)
Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding formed part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Other plays include Gwen in Purgatory (WA Premier’s Award for Best Play, The Richard Burton Prize), Troy’s House, Strangers in Between (NSW Premier’s Literary Award Winner) and Holding the Man (Australian Writers’ Guild Award AWGIE, Philip Parsons Award, AussieTheatre.com People’s Choice, NSW Premier’s Award and an ACON Arts and Media Community Award). Since its premiere at Griffin in 2006, Holding the Man has had productions in Adelaide (STCSA), Melbourne (MTC), Sydney (Griffin, Belvoir St, Sydney Opera House), the US, New Zealand and London’s West End. Murphy is a graduate of NIDA (Director's Course), a past president of SUDS, and an Honorary Associate for the Faculty of Education & Social Work at the University of Sydney. He has been writer-in-residence at Griffin and Belvoir St– where he adapted Peter Pan for the company’s recent hit production. He is currently writing for Belvoir St Theatre and Black Swan as well as the Matchbox/Foxtel mini-series Return to the Devil’s Playground and developing Holding the Man as a feature film. |
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Lisa Murray (Australian)
Dr Lisa Murray @SydneyClio is the City Historian and heads up the City of Sydney Council’s History Unit. She is a professional historian with more than 15 years’ experience in the field of public history, and is passionate about making history accessible to the public. The Chair of the Dictionary of Sydney and a Councillor of the History Council of NSW, Lisa is also an award-winning author and a regular speaker on Sydney’s history. |
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Joanna Murray-Smith (Australian)
Joanna Murray-Smith’s plays include Honour, Rapture, Nightfall, Love Child, Songs For Nobodies, Redemption, Rockabye, The Female of the Species, Ninety, The Gift, Day One, A Hotel, Evening, Bombshells and the adaptation of Scenes From a Marriage for Sir Trevor Nunn. Many have been performed around the world, have been translated into dozens of languages and adapted for Australian and BBC radio. Several of her plays have appeared on Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre and on the West End, including Honour, The Female of the Species which was nominated for an Olivier Award, and Bombshells. Honour had its first public reading in New York with Meryl Streep. Rapture, Honour and The Gift have all won Premier’s Literary Awards. She has been awarded the Commonwealth Medal for Services to Playwriting and has been nominated for many awards. US Variety described her as ‘Australia’s foremost female playwright’. |
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David Musgrave (Australian)
David Musgrave is a poet, novelist, critic and publisher who lives in Sydney. His first novel Glissando: A Melodrama was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and for the UTS Glenda Adams New Writing Award. His poetry collection Phantom Limb was awarded the Grace Leven prize for Poetry in 2011. He has won the Newcastle Poetry Prize (twice), and the Josephine Ulrick and the Alec Bolton Poetry Prizes. His other poetry books include To Thalia (Five Islands, 2004), On Reflection (Interactive, 2005) and Concrete Tuesday (Island, 2011). |
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Wangechi Mutu (International)
Wangechi Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and has trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist. Her work explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity and makes reference to colonial history, contemporary African politics and the international fashion industry. She has exhibited at major institutions such as Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien Museum, Vienna; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Wangechi Mutu was the recipient of Deutsche Bank’s first Artist of the Year award in 2010. |
