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11 February 2013

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Kirsty Sangster
- Kirsty Sangster
- 17 May 2007
Kirsty Sangster is a Melbourne poet whose first collection, Midden Places, will be published in 2006 by Black Pepper Press. She submitted two articles to win equal second and highly commended in the inaugural Margaret Dooley Young Writers’ Award.
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Shahram Akbarzadeh
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 17 May 2007
Associate Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh researches the politics of Central Asia and the Middle East, political Islam, and US relations with the Muslim world. He is Deputy Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne.
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Sebastien de Robillard
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 17 May 2007
Sebastien de Robillard is a freelance writer. He is currently recovering from a month on his couch watching the World Cup, after spending the last six months travelling through Italy.
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Kylie Baxter
- Kylie Baxter
- 31 January 2008
Dr Kylie Baxter works in the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne. She is co-author of the forthcoming US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: the rise of anti-Americanism and is currently in Beirut researching the situation of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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Kirstyn McDermott
- Kirstyn McDermott
- 24 January 2008
Kirstyn McDermott is Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association. Her short fiction has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Shadowed Realms, Redsine, Southern Blood, Island and GUD.
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Matthew Dobson
- Matthew Dobson
- 24 January 2008
Matthew Dobson is a freelance writer. He was Dux of Xavier College in 2006 and is currently studying Medicine at the University of Melbourne.
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Robin Koning SJ
- Robin Koning
- 16 January 2008
Robin Koning SJ lectures in Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Jesuit Theological College. He worked for five years in the Kutjungka Catholic Parish based at Wirrumanu (Balgo).
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Ashlea Scicluna
- Ashlea Scicluna
- 13 December 2007
Ashlea Scicluna is a freelance writer in her third year of a Bachelor of International Relations at La Trobe University. She is currently based in the Netherlands on a study scholarship. The time abroad has provided Ashlea with opportunities to further explore her passion for international affairs.
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Susan Metcalfe
- Susan Metcalfe
- 13 December 2007
Susan Metcalfe is a writer and a long term advocate for refugees and asylum seekers in Nauru. Susan has made numerous visits to Nauru over the past few years to support refugees and conduct research for a yet to be completed PHD in Politics.
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Michelle Coram
- Michelle Coram
- 13 December 2007
Michelle Coram is an Adelaide lawyer. She has had a number of articles published in Australian Catholics based on travel and her experiences as a volunteer overseas with the Iona and Taize communities and at a reconciliation centre in Northern Ireland.
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Sophie Rudolph
- Sophie Rudolph
- 12 December 2007
In 2006-2007 Sophie Rudolph spent 20 months working, volunteering and traveling in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. In 2008 she will be teaching at Collingwood College in Melbourne.
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Rochelle Siemienowicz
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 29 November 2007
Rochelle Siemienowicz is the films editor for The Big Issue Australia. She has a PhD in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry with a focus on Australian cinema and globalisation. Rochelle blogs at www.itsbetterinthedark.blogspot.com.
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Michael Mehr
- Michael Mehr
- 29 November 2007
Michael Mehr is a Sydney-based writer. He studied al-Jazeera as part of his Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University.
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David Rosen
- David Rosen
- 29 November 2007
David Rosen is an author and commentator based in New York City.
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Alexandra Coghlan
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 29 November 2007
Alexandra Coghlan graduated from Oxford University in 2006 with BAs in English Literature and Music, and completed an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at Trinity College, Cambridge. She currently lives in Sydney, where she works as a teacher and freelance journalist prior to returning to Oxford for a DPhil in October 2008.
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Abe Ata
- Abe Ata
- 29 November 2007
Professor Abe W. Ata was a temporary delegate to the UN in 1970 and has lived and worked in the Middle East, America and Australia. Dr Ata is a ninth-generation Christian Palestinian academic born in Bethlehem, and currently works at the Australian Catholic University.
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Rocky Wood
- Rocky Wood
- 27 November 2007
Rocky Wood is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. His new book is Stephen King: The Non-Fiction.
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Luke Fraser
- Luke Fraser
- 14 November 2007
Luke Fraser is an industry executive with an interest in sound public policy who has worked as a chief of staff in a previous Federal Government. He lives and works in Canberra.
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Vacy Vlazna
- Vacy Vlazna
- 14 November 2007
Dr Vacy Vlazna is the coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters. She was convenor of Australia East Timor Association and East Timor Justice Lobby and served in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET.
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Malcolm King
- Malcolm King
- 08 November 2007
Malcolm King is an Adelaide writer. He runs an educational PR business and teaches Sudanese children literacy and numeracy. He was the former head of the RMIT creative writing programs.
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Peter Hodge
- Peter Hodge
- 01 November 2007
Peter Hodge works as a teacher and freelance journalist. He is the author of Volunteer Work Overseas for Australians and New Zealanders.
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Patrick Barrow
- Patrick Barrow
- 01 November 2007
Patrick Barrow teaches English overseas and has worked as a tour guide in Europe. He has travelled extensively in China, Poland, Thailand and Germany, and currently resides in Russia, in the Ural mountains on the western edge of Siberia.
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Val Yule
- Val Yule
- 28 October 2007
Val Yule is a writer on social issues and researcher on imagination and literacy. In the 1970s she was schools psychologist for disadvantaged Catholic schools with the Commonwealth Disadvantaged Schools Program.
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Braham Dabscheck
- Braham Dabscheck
- 28 October 2007
Braham Dabscheck taught industrial relations at the University of New South Wales for 33 years. He has acted as a consultant or advisory board member to various player and sports associations in Australia, and has written extensively on the economic and legal aspects of sports.
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Carol Ransley
- Carol Ransley
- 18 October 2007
Carol Ransley is a human rights advocate who has monitored the situation in Burma for 15 years.
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Bill Calcutt
- Bill Calcutt
- 18 October 2007
Bill Calcutt worked in a range of intelligence roles in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the National Crime Authority for more than 20 years. He now works in regional development and retains a strong interest in governance and public accountability.
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Richard Flynn
- Richard Flynn
- 18 October 2007
Richard Flynn is a former teacher of senior English and drama at St Ignatius College, Adelaide. He has an online business specialising in copy editing.
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David Holdcroft
- David Holdcroft
- 18 October 2007
David Holdcroft SJ is director of the Jesuit Refugee Service.
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Tony Kevin
- Tony Kevin
- 18 October 2007
Tony Kevin retired from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1998, after a 30-year public service career in DFAT and Prime Minister's Department. He was Australia's ambassador to Poland (1991–94) and Cambodia (1994–97).
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Trish McNamara
- Trish McNamara
- 18 October 2007
Trish McNamara is Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.
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Toe Zaw Latt
- Toe Zaw Latt
- 18 October 2007
Toe Zaw Latt, a former 1988 student activist, is the Thailand Bureau Chief of Democratic Voice of Burma.
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Joel Burstyner
- Joel Burstyner
- 04 October 2007
Joel Burstyner is a Melbourne lawyer and writer based in Berlin.
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Robyn Williams
- Robyn Williams
- 03 October 2007
Robyn Williams has presented The Science Show on ABC Radio National since 1975. He recently published Future Perfect: What Next? And Other Impossible Questions (Allen & Unwin)
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Neil Ormerod
- Neil Ormerod
- 03 October 2007
Dr Neil Ormerod, Professor of Theology, is Director of the Institute of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education at Australian Catholic University, Mount St Mary Campus.
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Maurice Rickard
- Maurice Rickard
- 19 September 2007
Dr Maurice Rickard is a Canberra researcher and former Australian Parliamentary Fellow. Further elaboration of the issues mentioned here can be found in the paper "Is it medically legitimate to provide assisted reproductive treatments to fertile lesbians and single women?" Australian Parliamentary Library.
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