- 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.
- Rohan Connolly
Rohan Connolly (born 1965) is an Australian journalist specialising in Australian rules football writing for "The Age" newspaper in Melbourne. Connolly began his media career writing for "The Sun News Pictorial" in 1983 before moving to The Age in 1987. He has been with the paper ever since, and is currently a football writer. Connolly also appears on 3AW's AFL coverage as a boundary rider and in other on-air roles with the radio station.
- Martin Flanagan
Martin Flanagan is an Australian journalist who writes a column in the Sport section of the Saturday edition of The Age newspaper. His opinion pieces also include examinations of Australian culture and the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Martin Flanagan has written ten books, including "The Game in the Time of War" on Australian rules football. He co-authored "The Line" with his father Arch Flanagan and "The Fight" with Tom Uren.
- Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson (born 1960) is an Australian sports journalist. Wilson began covering football in 1982 and she has been chief football writer for Melbourne's "The Age" newspaper since 1999. The first woman to cover Australian rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award, …
- Alan Kohler
Alan is one of Australia's most experienced financial journalists and commentators. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian Financial Review and Editor of the AFR. Alan has also served as Editor of The Age and for the past seven years he has been dividing his time between television, at the ABC's Inside Business and ABC News, and writing for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Tim Blair
Tim Blair is a journalist, commentator and blogger working in Sydney, Australia. His columns and blog are generally written in a humorous style, from a conservative viewpoint. He was born in Werribee, Victoria. In 2004, the "Sydney Morning Herald" described Blair thus: "Blair, 39, is top dog among the new Australian digerati. He is a conservative political commentator.
- Greg Baum
Gregory Martin Baum (born 14th December 1959) is an Australian sports journalist and football writer. He was born in Boronia, Melbourne, Victoria, to Joan and Martin Baum, as the first of five children. He attended St Joseph's Primary School, Boronia, and later St Joseph's High School, Ferntree Gully, graduating in 1975. He began work on the local paper, the Boronia Advertiser, as a politics and sports correspondent, in 1976, …
- Jake Niall
Jake Niall is a sports journalist at The Age in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in covering the Australian Football League, as well as having an interest in tennis and various American sports. He also appears on radio stations Triple M and SEN.
- James Smith
James Smith was an Australian journalist. Smith was born near Maidstone, Kent, England, in 1820 and was educated for the church. However, he took up journalism and at the age of 20 was editing a country newspaper. In 1845 he published 'Rural Records or Glimpses of Village Life', which was followed by 'Oracles from the British Poets' (1849), 'Wilton and its Associations' (1851), and 'Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character' (1853).
- James Bradley
James Bradley (born 1967) is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer. His books include three novels and a book of poetry. His novels have been published internationally and won or been shortlisted for a number of major Australian literary awards, including "The Age" Fiction Book of the Year, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, …
- Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig (born 2 June, 1945), often referred to as "Leunig", is a noted Australian cartoonist. His best known works include "The Adventures of Vasco Pajama" and the "Curly Flats" series. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999, and he currently lives in central Victoria, Australia.
- Mia Rose
Mia Rose (born January 26, 1988 in Wimbledon Village, London) is the stage name of Maria Antonia Sampaio Rosa, a singer-songwriter who rose to fame through the popular video sharing website YouTube, on which she uses the username Miaarose. With over 65,000 subscribers as of July 2007, Mia Rose is the most subscribed musician of all time on YouTube, and the third most subscribed channel of all time, behind only Smosh and Lonelygirl15.
- Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Albrechtsen commenced writing part-time in 1999, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , the Australian Financial Review and Quadrant , and became a weekly contributor to The Australian in 2002. After receiving her law degree from the University of Adelaide, she moved to Sydney and worked as a commercial lawyer. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Sydney law school and has taught as an academic. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Council.
- Catherine Deveny
Catherine Deveny is a comedy writer, stand-up comedian, and a regular and sometimes controversial columnist in the Age newspaper since 2001. She also writes frequently for other Australian and overseas publications. She has performed on most Australian TV networks, Australian premier comedy venues and on radio. Deveny's television work has included Network Seven's Tonight Live, Full Frontal, The Eric Bana Show, All Star Squares, Channel 9's The Midday Show, …
- Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes , one of Australia's foremost political commentators, has had a distinguished career in journalism that spans more than 30 years. His incisive political commentary - such as the Oakes Report - and news-breaking ability has earned him the respect of peers and politicians alike and in 1998 he won the Walkley Award for Journalistic Leadership. Oakes is renowned for his probing interviews and Canberra-shaking scoops.
- Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith (born 19??) is an Australian sports journalist. He is noted for his opinionated pieces in "The Australian" newspapers' sports section. He also appears on "Hungry for Sport" with Kevin Bartlett on SEN 1116 with his views on sporting issues, often causing friction. He previously worked for "The Age" in the 1990s. He writes pieces on political issues in sport mainly, …
- David Dale
David Dale is an Australian author and journalist. He contributes a popular culture column called The Tribal Mind to "The Sydney Morning Herald", and a column called 'Who We Are' to "The Sun-Herald". David Dale graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, and then pursued journalism. He has been a political reporter for "The Australian", a sub-editor for "General Practitioner" (London), features editor of "The Sun-Herald", …
- John Carr
Captain John Carr is a lawyer, and an officer in the United States military. Carr, Major Robert Preston and USAF Captain Carrie Wolf were among the military lawyers tasked to serve as prosecutors of the suspected terrorists imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. Carr, Preston and Wolf all requested transfers to other assignments because they had concerns that the proceedings would be innately unjust.
- James Harrison
James Harrison (April 1816 - September 3 1893 was a Scottish newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.
- Terry Lane
Terry Lane is a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in South Australia and educated at Gawler High School. After studying for the ministry at the Churches of Christ College of the Bible in Melbourne, Lane was a minister for six years before working in the Methodist Department of Christian Education and the ABC's religious department. He began a radio talk-back program for the ABC in Melbourne in 1977, …
- Jill Jones
Jill Jones is a poet and writer living in Sydney, Australia. In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, "The Mask and the Jagged Star" (Hazard Press). Her third book, "The Book of Possibilities" (Hale & Iremonger), was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards. Her fourth book, "Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems", …
- Robert Russell
Robert Russell was an architect and surveyor, active in Australia. Russell was the son of Robert Russell, merchant, and his wife Margaret, née Leslie and was born in London. At the age of 16 he was articled to the architect and surveyor William Burn at Edinburgh, and in 1832 moved to Sydney where he was given a position in the survey office. In September 1836 he was sent to Port Phillip (now Melbourne) with instructions to survey the bay and its surroundings.
- Gideon Haigh
Born in London of a Yorkshire father, raised in Australia by a Tasmanian mother, Gideon Haigh lives in Melbourne with a cat, Trumper. He has written 19 books and edited a further seven. He is also a life member and perennial vice-president of the South Yarra CC.
- Samantha Lane
Samantha Jane Lane (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian television personality, sports reporter, and daughter of Football journalist and commentator Tim Lane. She began writing about Australian Rules Football while completing a Bachelor of Arts and language degree in French at Melbourne University. She now has broadcasting experience in print, television, and radio, and writing reports for the AFL website. She currently writes full-time for the Sunday Age, …
- Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda is an Australian journalist and was editor of "The Age" from 1997 to 2004. He was born in a refugee camp in Austria just after the end of the Second World War. His family moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1949, where he attended a state school. He studied economics and politics at a university. He started his career in 1970, joining "The Age" as a cadet journalist. In 1997 he became an editor and in 2003 the editor-in-chief.
- Robert Preston
Major Robert Preston is a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Air Force. Preston, Captain John Carr and USAF Captain Carrie Wolf were among the military lawyers tasked to serve as prosecutors of the suspected terrorists imprisoned at the American Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. Carr, Preston and Wolf all requested transfers to other assignments because they had concerns that the proceedings would be innately unjust.
- Virginia Trioli
Virginia Frances Trioli (born August 16 1964) is an Australian journalist and author. Born in Bendigo, she attended Donvale High School and graduated from Latrobe University in the 1980s, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Fine Arts major in cinema. She worked as a publicist for a book publisher, then at the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission prior to starting at The Age in 1990. For three years she was President of The Age's chapter of the union, …
- Piers Akerman
Piers Akerman is a conservative columnist for the Australian News Limited newspaper "The Daily Telegraph". He was born in New Guinea, but raised in Perth, in Western Australia, by his parents John and Eve Akerman. The third son in a family of four children, Akerman attended Guildford Grammar School, then became a boarder at Christ Church Grammar School, where he remained until the end of his schooling. According to a "Sunday Age" profile on Akerman, …
- Peter Robb
Peter Robb is an Australian author. He was born in Toorak, Melbourne in 1946 and spent his formative years in both Australia and New Zealand. Between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. At the end of 1992 he returned to Sydney. His first book, "Midnight in Sicily", was published in Australia in October 1996. It won the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for non-fiction in 1997 His second book, …
- Ed O'Loughlin
Ed O'Loughlin is a journalist for John Fairfax Holdings, an Australian media group. His reporting appears in the Australian newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Born in Toronto in 1966, he studied liberal arts at the Trinity College, Dublin. His career began as a freelance journalist in the Belgian Congo in the Democratic Rebublic of the Congo. He began work for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, first in South Africa, …
- Robin Boyd
Robin Boyd (1917 - 1971) was an influential Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement in Australian architecture. Boyd was born into the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, with many relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. He was the younger son of the painter Penleigh Boyd, and his own son, …
- Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy (born 26 May, 1976) is an Australian writer, television producer and former television actress. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is the granddaughter of Frank Hardy, author of "Power Without Glory" and the grand niece of comedian Mary Hardy. Hardy was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne. In 2003, she won an Australian Writers' Guild Award for her 26-part children's television show "Short Cuts".
- Helen Razer
Helen Razer is a Melbourne-born radio presenter and writer. She is the author of four non-fiction books, and is a columnist with the Australian chapter of "The Big Issue" and Melbourne newspaper The Age
- John Silvester
John Silvester (AKA: Sly of the Underworld on 2GB 693 Melbourne AM Radio) is an Australian journalist and crime writer. He has written for major Melbourne based newspapers such as The Age, the Sunday Herald Sun and others. Silvester has also co-written a number of bestselling books with Andrew Rule, based on crime in Melbourne. Silvester received a Bachelor of Arts in politics and law at La Trobe University in 1978, …
- Red Symons
Red Symons (born 13 June, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", segment of the long-running "Hey Hey It's Saturday" variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne's breakfast show. Born in England, he emigrated to Australia (on the same boat as the members of the Bee Gees) at the age of 9, in 1958.
- Leonie Wood
Leonie Wood (born 18 December, 1961) is an Australian journalist who is one of the most senior editorial staff at "The Age" newspaper, in Melbourne. She worked as a business reporter for "The Age" for over ten years before being moved to general news by editor Andrew Jaspan, where she focused on court reporting and features for the Saturday edition.
- Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter (born 1954) is an Australian poet. Her awards include The Age Book of the Year for Poetry, the National Book Council Award for "The Monkey's Mask" and the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry. Two of her verse novels have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: "What a Piece of Work" in 2000 and "Wild Surmise" in 2003.
- Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd was elected secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council on May 5, 2005, succeeding Leigh Hubbard in this position, one of Australia's most powerful trade union roles. He is longstanding member of Birds Australia. Mr Boyd worked for the Builders Labourers Federation in the 1980s before the BLF was deregistered. He has also coordinated Victoria's building unions, and worked as an industrial and campaigns officer with Melbourne Trades Hall.
- Adrian Martin
Dr. Adrian Martin is an Australian film critic from Melbourne. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, Monash University (Australia). Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC Radio National. He is currently co-editor of online international scholarly film journal "Rouge". He also recently completed a PhD on film style, …
- Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett (born 23 February 1968 in Melbourne) is an Australian author. Sonya Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, "Trouble All the Way", at the age of 13 and had it published when she was 15. Her books have also been published in Europe and North America.