As the inaugural lawyer of Victoria's queer law service, Elkin is quickly immersed in thorny debates around trans inclusion in sport, children's access to puberty blockers, birth certificate law ...

Rick commenced his appointment as Assistant Commissioner of Eastern Region in September 2015, and brings to this role extensive operational and corporate experience, as well as a strong focus on ...

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Michael Magazanik has worked as a journalist for the Age, Australian and ABC TV, and is now a lawyer with Slater and Gordon. He represented Lyn Rowe from 2010 until 2014. He lives in Melbourne with ...

Stephen Carroll’s The Time We Have Taken won the Commonwealth Writers and Miles Franklin prizes, and his A World of Other People was named joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for ...

Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, is currently leading the work for Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. In popular demand as a speaker on Aboriginal issues, ...

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Shane is a descendant of the Kalkadoon people from Mount Isa in North West Queensland. Shane has worked in the human services industry for over two decades, serving as the chief executive officer for ...

Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She began covering politics in the 1990s for The Australian at the NSW parliament and in the Canberra press gallery. She has worked for ...

Kate Auty is a Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She was the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability in Victoria from 2009 to 2014. During that appointment her office ...

Dr Maria Quirk is the Project Officer for Research and Acquisitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). A historian of women's and art history, she has previously held academic positions at the ...