- Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, the Washington Post, "Sydney Morning Herald", "The Australian", Sydney’s "Sun-Herald", "The Bulletin", Znet, "The Big Issue", "Crikey", "Counterpunch" and others. Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, "Not Happy, … - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - Steven Schwartz
Steven Schwartz (born 1946) became the Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia on February 10 2006. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Schwartz is a trained psychologist and a university corporate manager by experience. He has publicly stated that he wishes universities to be more market-oriented, research-focused, accountable, transparent and held to higher standards, … - Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. - Anthony Field
Anthony Field (born May 8, 1963 in Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the children's group The Wiggles. Field is the youngest of eight children. Before forming The Wiggles, Field was in the 1980s Australian pop/rock band, The Cockroaches alongside his brothers, Paul and John and another future Wiggle, Jeff Fatt. Following the breakup of The Cockroaches in the 1980s, … - Naguib Kanawati
Naguib Kanawati <small>AM</small>, <small>MA</small>, <small>PhD</small>, is an Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. - Josef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He collaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function. - Naren Chitty
Professor Naren Chitty, MA in International Communication, PhD in International Relations (American University) is Foundation Chair in International Communication, Head of the Department of International Communication at Macquarie University, Deputy Dean of the Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy and a former Head of the Media Department. - Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report (previously The Mackay Report). He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He is a regular columnist in The Age and regularly commentator appearing on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. He is one of the founders of the St James Ethics Centre. - Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Marnie T. E. Hughes-Warrington is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney. Marnie is by training a historiographer, a person who is interested in the questions 'What is history?', and 'What is history for?'. She has written two books, one describing the views of fifty different historians ("Fifty Key Thinkers on History") and one on R. G. Collingwood's views of history and history education ("'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?': R. G. Collingwood, … - Tanya Plibersek
Tanya Joan Plibersek (born 2 December, 1969), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Sydney, New South Wales. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the daughter of migrants from Slovenia, and was educated at the University of Technology, Sydney and Macquarie University, where she gained a master's degree in politics and public policy. - Peter Doyle
Dr. Peter Doyle, BA, Phd is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production, as well as being a part-time as a curator of Sydney’s Justice and Police Museum. - David Christian
Dr. David Gilbert Christian (born 1946) is an Anglo-American historian. Christian was born in Brooklyn, New York, of British and American parents. He grew up in Africa and in England, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Oxford University. Subsequently he taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia for thirty years before moving to San Diego State University in 2002. Originally an historian of Russia who wrote several books on that subject, … - Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the "systemic functional grammar" (which also goes by the name of "systemic functional linguistics" ["SFL"]). In addition to English, the model has been applied to other languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. Halliday was born and grew up in England. - Drew Fraser
Andrew William Fraser (also known as Drew Fraser) (born in 1944) is a Canadian-born academic and was latterly an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Fraser holds a BA (Hons) and an LLB from Queen's University, an LLM from Harvard University, and an MA from the University of North Carolina. - Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman (born 1954) is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Reunion Island. - John Faulkner
John Philip Faulkner (born 12 April 1954), has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1989, representing the state of New South Wales. Faulkner was born in Leeton, New South Wales, and was educated at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he graduated in arts and education. He worked as a teacher in government schools before entering politics. He was Assistant General Secretary of the NSW ALP 1980-89, … - Christine Nixon
Christine Nixon , Margaret Douglas and Naomi Simpson Christine Nixon Chief Commissioner, - Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine is an Australian columnist and writer, noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. Devine's column is printed weekly in the "The Sydney Morning Herald". Her writing style is always provocative and intended to polarise her audience, often inspiring hundreds of fiery emails from readers. Her political commentary has been described as "right-wing" by Frank Sartor, … - Ann Henderson-Sellers
Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers is the Director of the World Climate Research Programme and was the Director of the Environment Division at ANSTO from 1998 to 2005. She was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Development) of The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1996-1998. Prior to this she was the founding director of the Climatic Impacts Centre at Macquarie University where she continues to hold a Professorship in Physical Geography. - Maurice Newman
Maurice Newman is the current Chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as chair of the board of the Australian Stock Exchange. He is currently Chancellor of Macquarie University. He is a close personal friend of Australian Prime Minister John Howard. - Lyndall Ryan
Lyndall Ryan (1943 -) is an Australian academic. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and is currently Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in 1975, her thesis was titled "Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800-1974 and their problems with the Europeans". - Thea Astley
Thea Astley (August 25 1925 - August 17 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer. As well as being a writer, she taught at all levels of education - primary, secondary and tertiary. - Peter Debnam
Peter Debnam (born 21 April 1954), is an Australian politician and member for the New South Wales seat of Vaucluse. He is a former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Western Sydney, Redfern/Waterloo and Citizenship. Currently, he holds the shadow portfolios of Infrastructure and Energy. - Carl Scully
Patrick Carl Scully (born 4 April 1957), is a former Australian politician and minister in the New South Wales state government, until his forced resignation on October 25 2006. Scully was born in Sydney and educated at state schools. He graduated in law from Macquarie University, Sydney, and has been active in the Australian Labor Party since his student days. - Boyo Ockinga
Boyo Ockinga PhD, is an Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. A graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, … - Adam Hills
Adam Hills (born in Sydney in 1970) is an Australian comedian. He began his career in 1989 as a stand-up comedian at the Sydney Comedy Store, however, he did not become well-known until moving to England and working there. It was later that be became well known in Australia after his successful appearances at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hills studied a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) at Macquarie University, graduating in 1991. - Eric Roozendaal
Eric Roozendaal (born 16 March 1962), Australian politician, was born in Sydney and educated at Macquarie University. His family is of Dutch-Jewish descent. He became an organiser for the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party in 1987, Assistant General Secretary in 1995 and General Secretary in 1999. This made him the organisation head of the dominant Labor Right faction of the party's largest state branch, a powerful position. - Victor Ma
Victor Ma is a former student politician at Macquarie University who was forced to resign in 2007 following fraud allegations. He previously held the positions of president of the student union, … - Peter Goodall
Peter Goodall (born 1949) is currently Acting Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University in the absence of Dean Christina Slade. His substantive position is Deputy Dean of Humanities and Acting Head of the Politics and International Relations Department. Goodall specialises in the study of medieval literature especially Chaucer and twentieth-century literature especially George Orwell. - Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough AO (born 1 June, 1937) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in various Sydney and United Kingdom hospitals before settling to ten years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. In the late 1970s she settled on Norfolk Island, where she lives with her husband, … - Mig Ayesa
Miguel Alfonso Ramon Legarda "MiG" Ayesa (born January 12, 1970) is an Australian rock vocalist of Filipino origin. - David Leckie
David Leckie (b.14 February 1956) is the Chief Executive Officer of the Seven Media Group. David Leckie was educated at Newington College and is an Economics graduate of Macquarie University. Prior to his appointment by Kerry Stokes to Seven, he was associated with the Nine Network for 23 years. Having joined GTV-9 (Melbourne) as a sales executive, he was promoted to National Sales Manager, then Nine Network Sales Director in 1982 at TCN-9 (Sydney). - Rachael Carpani
Rachael Ann Carpani (born August 24, 1980 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress. Carpani grew up on a property near Dural, in Sydney's Hills district. She studied acting at the Australian College of Entertainment at Macquarie University and at the Drama Works Drama Company. She is most famous for her role as Jodi Fountain McLeod on the Australian TV drama "McLeod's Daughters". Carpani also had a role in the film "Hating Alison Ashley", … - Frank Howarth
Frank Howarth is an Australian geologist, and has been the Director of the Australian Museum since February 2004. He was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College before gaining a geology degree from Macquarie University and a Master of Science and Society from the University of New South Wales. In 1981 he joined the New South Wales public service and has held positions with the Department of Industrial Development and Decentralisation, … - Peter Andren
Peter James Andren (born 28 August 1946), is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the electorate of Calare in New South Wales. He was born in Gulargambone, New South Wales, and was educated at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was a teacher, television producer and radio and television news editor before entering politics. He is based in Orange, New South Wales. - Mark Vos
Mark Vos, also known as 'pokerbok', is a young professional poker player from Australia. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Vos permanently deferred his actuarial studies at Macquarie University, to play poker full time. Starting out online with limit hold'em in mid 2004, Vos soon turned his attention to no-limit games, and in short time, earned a reputation as being one of the world's top online poker players, … - Brad Hazzard
Bradley (Brad) Ronald Hazzard is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Hazzard has represented the electorate of Wakehurst since 1991. Hazzard is shadow Minister for Education and shadow Minister for Redfern-Waterloo. Previous offices include shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (1996 - 2007) and shadow Minister for Planning (2005 - 2007). - Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz, AM, is an Australian film critic and television personality. She was born in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the newly opened Macquarie University, and the Playwright's Studio at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Together with David Stratton, she has hosted the long-running SBS TV programme, "The Movie Show". She now appears on the ABC version of the programme, … - Miriam Hyde
Miriam Hyde AO OBE (January 15, 1913 - January 11, 2005) was an Australian composer, pianist, poet and music educator. She composed many works for piano, songs and other instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a pianist with eminent conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Bernard Heinze and Geoffrey Simon.
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