Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer is a major cultural figure – a writer, an English critic, a literary and media star, and a feminist. Born in 1939 in Melbourne, she gained a BA honours from Melbourne University in 1959, an MA with first class honours from Sydney in …
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Dennis Altman
Dennis Altman is Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. He has written eleven books exploring sexuality and politics, and …
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Donald Horne
Donald Horne has written more than twenty books, including works of social and cultural critique, history, novels, memoirs and satire, and has contributed to or edited a further twenty. His books include The Lucky Country, Looking for Leadership, The…
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Judith Brett
Judith Brett is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. She is the author of Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge, 2003), Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (Black Inc…
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Charmian Clift
Charmian Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales, on 31 August 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus newspaper after the war, and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston.
Early in their marriage they collaborated …
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A.B. Facey
A.B. Facey was born in 1894 and grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two and he was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was …
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Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is a well-known broadcaster, critic, author and translator. He studied at Moscow University in the late 1960s and early 1970s and for almost 20 years taught Russian language and literature at ANU and UNSW. His recent works include the …
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Darleen Bungey
Originally a copywriter in Australian, American and UK advertising, Darleen Bungey worked as an associate editor and freelance journalist for a number of prestigious British-based magazines while she raised a family in London. In 1999 she began …
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Jackie Huggins
Jackie Huggins, a member of the Pitjara/Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru people, is the Deputy Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit at the University of Queensland. In popular demand as a speaker on Aboriginal issues, she is a well-known …
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