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Julia Baird

Julia Baird is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. She hostsThe Drumon ABC TV and writes columns for a range of publications includingThe Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and TheNew YorkTimes. Her first book, Media Tarts(2004, revised edition 2021) was based on her history PhD about the portrayal of female politicians. Her biography of Queen Victoria was published in2016 to critical acclaim and was one ofThe New York Times' top ten books of 2016. Her third book, Phosphorescence, was a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning international bestseller. Julia livesnear the sea with two children and an abnormally large dog.

Jacqueline Maley

Jacqueline Maley is a senior writer and columnist with the Sydney Morning Heraldand Age newspapers. She has won a Walkley Award and two Kennedy awards for her journalism. She is also the recipient of the NSW Council of Liberties Journalism award. In 2021 she published her debut novel, The Truth About Her.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. His other books are The Committed, a short story collection, The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. He has also published Chicken of the Sea, a children’s book written in collaboration with his son, Ellison. He is a University Professor at the University of Southern California. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, he is also the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.

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Suzie Miller

Suzie Miller is an Australian contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Prima Facie is her first novel. Her work has been produced around the world, winning multiple prestigious awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2023 for her smash hit one-woman play Prima Facie, which had a sold out season on London's West End and Broadway New York. Miller is educated in science and law with a doctorate in drama and mathematics. She practised human rights law before writing full time and is currently developing major projects in theatre, literature and screen.

Nicole Abadee

Nicole Abadee has worked in the book industry for many years after her previous career as a barrister. She writes about books for Good Weekend, and is also a regular contributor to their much loved Two of Us column. She appears regularly as a facilitator at writers' festivals and literary events. She also has a popular podcast, Books, Books, Books in which she interviews top Australian and international writers about their latest books.

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Julian Borger

Julian Borger is The Guardian's World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. He covered the Balkan wars in the 1990s. He also served as The Guardian's Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and its Washington Bureau Chief. Julian was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. I Seek A Kind Person is his second book. His first, The Butcher's Trail, was published in 2016.

Michaela Kalowski

Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, Stan Grant and Etgar Keret. She's the curator of ABC RN's on-air writers festival, Big Weekend of Books. She hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney. Michaela has conducted radio interviews for ABC RN's The Music Show, Big Ideas and The Bookshelf, ABC Classic and has presented programs across ABC radio.

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Garth Nix

Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has worked in many parts of the publishing industry. His books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series, Newt’s Emerald, A Confusion of Princes and the Keys to the Kingdom series. More than 5 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. Garth’s work has appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today, and has been translated into 42 languages. His most recent book is The Sinister Booksellers of Bath.

Shelley Parker-Chan

Shelley Parker-Chan is an Asian Australian former international development adviser who worked on human rights, gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights in Southeast Asia. Their Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling historical fantasy novels have been translated into 15 languages. Parker-Chan is a previous winner of the Astounding Award for Best Debut, and the British Fantasy Awards for Best Fantasy Novel and Best Newcomer. Their most recent book, He Who Drowned the World, came out in 2023.

Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bone Season series and the Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in London.

Aimée Lindorff

Aimée Lindorff is an Australian cultural producer, podcaster, and story editor. She's developed and produced projects for the likes of Netflix, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Universal Pictures, Discovery Channel, Supanova Expo, and Gold Coast Film Festival. She is host of the Screen Australia podcast and content producer for the agency's in-house publication Screen News.

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Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award, as well as being made into a feature film. His fourth novel, the international bestseller The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold and was also named Book of the Year for 2009 by the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Awards. His sixth novel, Damascus, won the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. In 2021, Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer.

K Patrick

K Patrick is a writer based in Scotland. Their poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Granta and Five Dials and was shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021, the same year that K was also shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize. In 2023, they were shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.

Their debut novel, Mrs S, was selected as an Observer Best Debut of the Year and K was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelists for 2023. Their debut poetry collection, Three Births, will be published by Granta Poetry in March 2024.

Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written for Meanjin, the BBC, Electric Literature, Sydney Review of Books and other publications. In 2019, she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic and, in 2021, she was a finalist for the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. She has an Masters of Studies in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester. Green Dot is her first novel.

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A.C. Grayling

A. C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil is the Principal of Northeastern University London and its Professor of Philosophy. He is a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas and essays. He was a columnist for The Guardian, The Timesand Prospect Magazine. He has twice been a judge for The Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.

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Julian Borger

Julian Borger is The Guardian's World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. He covered the Balkan wars in the 1990s. He also served as The Guardian's Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and its Washington Bureau Chief. Julian was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. I Seek A Kind Person is his second book. His first, The Butcher's Trail, was published in 2016.

Alisa Sopova

Alisa Sopova is a journalist and an anthropologist whose work focuses on civilian experiences of the war in Ukraine. Having experienced military violence first-hand, she has devoted her career to exploring storytelling as a means to convey the true-to-life experiences of daily life during the war. Alisa's reporting from Ukraine has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and NPR. She is a co-author and co-founder of the #5KFromTheFrontline project.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a British/Swedish photojournalist and a poet.

For the past decade Anastasia has collaborated with Alisa Sopova, a journalist and an anthropologist from the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. In 2023, she received the Canon Female Photojournalist Award for her long-term reporting from eastern Ukraine.

Anastasia is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard university. Her first book Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square, about the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, was published the same year. Her debut poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022.

Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is host of The Project on Paramount/Ten and a host of Global Roaming on ABC RN. Outside of Australia he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English and America's ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent. He has won numerous awards including a Walkley for current affairs journalism and was named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain's Royal Television Society. In 2016 he became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise(shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), The Last Gift, Gravel Heart and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books: Always Another Country: a memoir of exile and home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018). She also has written for a range of publications including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and Newsweek.

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Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books: Always Another Country: a memoir of exile and home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018). She also has written for a range of publications including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and Newsweek.

Hannah Ferguson

Hannah Ferguson is the Chief Executive Officer of independent news commentary platform Cheek Media Co., the co-host of news and culture podcast Big Small Talk and the author of Bite Back. Hannah has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing from The University of Queensland. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and more.

Jo Dyer

Jo Dyer is a writer, literary curator, producer of theatre and film, former Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week and former CEO of Sydney Writers’ Festival. She is a regular contributor to The Shot and her writing has appeared in other publications including Guardian Australia and Meanjin. Her first book, Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics, was published in 2022.

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Alisa Sopova

Alisa Sopova is a journalist and an anthropologist whose work focuses on civilian experiences of the war in Ukraine. Having experienced military violence first-hand, she has devoted her career to exploring storytelling as a means to convey the true-to-life experiences of daily life during the war. Alisa's reporting from Ukraine has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and NPR. She is a co-author and co-founder of the #5KFromTheFrontline project.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a British/Swedish photojournalist and a poet.

For the past decade Anastasia has collaborated with Alisa Sopova, a journalist and an anthropologist from the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. In 2023, she received the Canon Female Photojournalist Award for her long-term reporting from eastern Ukraine.

Anastasia is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard university. Her first book Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square, about the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, was published the same year. Her debut poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022.

Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is host of The Project on Paramount/Ten and a host of Global Roaming on ABC RN. Outside of Australia he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English and America's ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent. He has won numerous awards including a Walkley for current affairs journalism and was named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain's Royal Television Society. In 2016 he became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS.

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Maeve Marsden

Maeve Marsden is the Creative Director of Varuna the National Writers' House and the Blue Mountains Writers' Festival. A writer and theatremaker in her own right, she is perhaps best known for producing national storytelling project Queerstories for the last eight years.

J.M. Field

Dr JM Field (Spearim) is a Gamilaraay mari from Moree way, but grew up on Darug land in a small town along the Great Dividing Range. He studied maths and French literature at the University of Sydney, before completing a doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently a McKenzie Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. JM is the author of Etta and the Shadow Taboo as well as a forthcoming collection on Gamilaraay kinship and philosophy.

George Haddad

Dr George Haddad is an award-winning writer, artist and academic practising on Gadigal land. His novella, Populate and Perish, was the winner of the 2016 Viva La Novella competition and his short story, ‘Kátharsis’, was awarded the 2018 Neilma Sidney Prize. George's novel, Losing Face, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Small Press Network's Book of the Year, and The Readings Prize. In 2023, he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University.

Bebe Oliver

Bebe Oliver is a descendant of the Bardi Jawi people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and an award-winning writer based in Naarm.

A leader in Aboriginal advancement, he is Chairperson of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival, and a Board Director of Magabala Books, Australia's leading Indigenous publishing house.

A writer, poet, illustrator, speaker, and facilitator living on unceded Kulin land, Bebe's widely published work encompasses love, loss, identity, Aboriginal and gay existence, place, and Country.

Bebe's debut solo poetry collection is more than these bones (Magabala, 2023).

K Patrick

K Patrick is a writer based in Scotland. Their poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Granta and Five Dials and was shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021, the same year that K was also shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize. In 2023, they were shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.

Their debut novel, Mrs S, was selected as an Observer Best Debut of the Year and K was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelists for 2023. Their debut poetry collection, Three Births, will be published by Granta Poetry in March 2024.

Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bone Season series and the Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in London.

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Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has been published in over thirty languages.

Claire Nichols

Claire Nichols is the presenter of The Book Show, bringing you interviews with the best authors from Australia and around the world.

Claire has spent more than a decade at the ABC, with roles in television and radio news, current affairs, ABC Local Radio and at Radio National.

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Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Lola in the Mirror, Love Stories and All Our Shimmering Skies. His books have sold over 1.3 million copies in Australia alone. The adaptation of his debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, became Australia’s most watched Netflix TV show within three days of release and broke Top 10 lists in 60 countries across the world. He lives in Brisbane with his wife and two daughters.

Cassie McCullagh

Cassie McCullagh co-hosts The Bookshelf with Kate Evans on ABC Radio National, a weekly review of the latest Australian and international fiction, and presents RN’s The Weekend. Cassie has also presented ABC Sydney’s Focusprogram, and RN’s flagship social affairs program Life Matters, and reported on books, arts and popular culture. Prior to joining the ABC, Cassie worked in print journalism as a feature writer, news reporter and columnist.

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Leigh Sales

Leigh Sales AM is one of Australia’s most respected journalists. As the new presenter of Australian Story and the recent host of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, she has interviewed dozens of world leaders and celebrities, including Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Bill Gates. She has interviewed every living Australian Prime Minister, as well as the late Bob Hawke, and has anchored the last three federal elections for the ABC. Leigh is the winner of three Walkley Awards, Australia’s highest journalism honour; the author of the books Detainee 002, On Doubt, Well Hello and the bestselling Any Ordinary Day; and the co-host of the popular podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 with Annabel Crabb. In 2023, her service to journalism and the community was recognised with an honorary doctorate from Edith Cowan University.

Lisa Millar

Lisa Millar is the co-host of ABC News Breakfast and a regular guest presenter on the ABC's Back Roads program. She's the voice of the smash hit show Muster Dogs. Lisa was an ABC foreign correspondent for 12 years in the US and Europe. She grew up in country Queensland. Her childhood in the small town of Kilkivan features in her best-selling memoir, Daring To Fly. Her book, Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros, was released in January.

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Francesca de Tores

Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. Saltbloodis her first historical novel. She grew up in Lutruwita/Tasmania and, after fifteen years in England, is now living in Naarm/Melbourne.

Mirandi Riwoe

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds. Her book, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella, The Fish Girl, won Seizure's Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her short fiction and novellas can be found in the collection The Burnished Sun. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).

Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of books including My Own Country and The Tennis Partner. His most recent novel, The Covenant of Water, was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and has spent six months on The New York Times bestseller list. His 2009 novel, Cutting for Stone, sold more than 1.5 million copies in the US alone. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Abraham was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees and lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Kate Evans

Kate Evans presents The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National (with co-host Cassie McCullagh). She has a PhD in history, too many books, and a tendency to over use post-it notes for fear of forgetting a beautifully-turned phrase.

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Nadine J. Cohen

Nadine J. Cohen is a Sydney-based writer and refugee advocate working across media, screen, and literature. She has contributed widely to publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, SMH, The Age, ABC, SBS, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire and more. Her debut novel, Everyone and Everything, was named Booktopia's Best Debut Book of 2023.

Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written for Meanjin, the BBC, Electric Literature, Sydney Review of Books and other publications. In 2019, she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic and, in 2021, she was a finalist for the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. She has an Masters of Studies in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester. Green Dot is her first novel.

Jessie Stephens

Jessie Stephens is an author, podcaster, broadcaster and screenwriter. She is the author of the internationally best-selling book, Heartsick, which was short-listed for an ABIA. Her second book and first work of fiction, Something Bad is Going to Happen, was released in 2023 and was a number one bestseller. In the same year she was a writer and producer on the hit Binge dramedy, Strife.

She co-hosts one of Australia's biggest podcasts, Mamamia Out Loud, and comedy podcast Cancelled. She is also a regular on Network Ten's The Project and ABC TV and radio. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, The Good Weekend, The Age, LitHub and Mamamia.

Steph Harmon

Steph Harmon is culture editor of Guardian Australia. Prior to that she was founding editor of youth pop culture and politics site Junkee.com.

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018–21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008) and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.

Kate Evans

Kate Evans presents The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National (with co-host Cassie McCullagh). She has a PhD in history, too many books, and a tendency to over use post-it notes for fear of forgetting a beautifully-turned phrase.

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Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy is one of Australia's most experienced political correspondents and analysts. He was the creator of Insiders on the ABC, a program he hosted for 18 years.

Amy Remeikis

Amy Remeikis is a political reporter with Guardian Australia and regular contributor to Insiders, The Drum, The Project and ABC Radio. Her book, On Reckoning, covers how uncomfortable Australia is in dealing with sexual abuse and the fallout from the government's failure to act.

Niki Savva

Niki Savva is an author and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She is a regular panellist on ABC's Insiders. She has written four books, beginning with So Greek. Her other three books, chronicling the coups and chaos which beset the Liberal Government – The Road to Ruin, which was awarded Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Australian Book Industry Awards, Plots and Prayers and Bulldozed – have all been best sellers.

Laura Tingle

Laura Tingle has reported on Australian politics for more than 40 years. She joined the ABC in 2018 as Chief Political Correspondent for 7.30 after a long career in print, notably for The Australian Financial Review. She has written four Quarterly Essays and a book about the recession of the early 1990s and she has won two Walkley Awards. Laura is President of the National Press Club of Australia

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Chloe Dalton

Chloe Dalton is one of Australia’s few triple sport elite athletes – initially playing basketball in the WNBL with the Sydney Flames, before transitioning to rugby 7s. At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Chloe won gold with the Australian 7s team. She then crossed codes again to Aussie rules, debuting for Carlton in 2019. During a 2020 lockdown, Chloe created The Female Athlete Project to address gender inequalities within the sports media space. Chloe is currently playing AFLW with GWS.

Anna Meares

Anna Meares is Australia’s most successful track cyclist after having won 11 World Championships and six Olympic Medals including two gold over a 14-year illustrious cycling career. She is the only Australian to win individual medals at four consecutive Olympic Games. Anna made her debut at Athens in 2004 where she won gold in the 500m Time Trial and bronze in the sprint. Four years later she won silver in the sprint at Beijing 2008, followed by sprint gold in London in 2012, where she also won bronze in the team sprint before finishing her storied career with bronze in the Keirin in Rio 2016. With extensive Olympic success Anna has been appointed the Chef de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team.

Jana Pittman

Two-time World Champion and four-time Commonwealth Champion, Jana Pittman was the first woman to represent Australia in both a summer (2000, 2004) and winter (2014) Olympic Games. Off the track, Jana completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Western Sydney University in 2019 (First Class Honours/university medal) and is now a junior doctor in women's health. She completed a Masters of Reproductive Medicine at The University of NSW Sydney in 2020 and has initiated her PhD in Obstetrics focusing on aspects of uterus transplantation. This busy woman is also a proud mum to six children. In her book, Enough, Jana writes just as she speaks, making her path to self-acceptance relatable for all.

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David Wengrow

David Wengrow is an archaeologist and co-author, with David Graeber, of the New York Times and international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

Richard Fidler

Richard Fidler is the author of several books that blend history with travel memoir and mythology. His most recent book, The Book of Roads & Kingdoms, is a compendium of stories from travellers who journeyed out from medieval Baghdad to the furthest reaches of the known world. Richard also presents Conversationson ABC Radio, an in-depth interview program, which attracts a large listening audience around the nation and is the most popular podcast in Australia.

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Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best-selling author, filmmaker and co-founder of Declassified Australia. He's written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and many others. His books include Pills, Powder and Smoke, Disaster Capitalism and My Israel Question. His documentary films include Disaster Capitalismand the Al Jazeera English films West Africa's Opioid Crisis and Under the Cover of Covid. He was based in East Jerusalem 2016–2020.

Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist of UNSW.AI, University of NSW's new AI Institute. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many others on this topic. This advocacy has led to him being "banned indefinitely" from Russia. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. He has written four books on AI for a general audience, the most recent is Faking It! Artificial Intelligence in A Human World.

Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson is a writer, researcher and teacher living and working on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. An Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney and an Associate Investigator with ADM+S, his research examines how technology, power and culture shape knowledge in war, security and surveillance. His latest book is Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Climate, and Data After the End of the World.

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Kate Manne

Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT, and works in moral, social, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of three books, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, and Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, which came out earlier this year. She writes a newsletter, More to Hate, canvassing misogyny, fatphobia, their intersection, and more.