- Craig Reucassel
Craig Bruce Reucassel (born in 1976) is an Australian television and radio comedian. He is a member of The Chaser team. He attended Semaphore Park Primary School in Adelaide. At the University of Sydney in 2000 he competed in the Philip C. Jessup Cup international law mooting competition, his team winning the Australian rounds. He graduated from the Sydney Law School, along with Chaser colleagues Julian Morrow and Dominic Knight.
- Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television host. She was the host of Radio National's "Life Matters" program for 11 years. She received a United Nations Media Peace Prize and two Penguin Awards for her role in ABC TV's coverage of the Gulf War. She is currently the host of "Compass" on ABC TV (1998-) and "Saturday Extra" on Radio National. She is married with two children and two step-children.
- Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall AM (born 1st April 1927 in Manchester, England) is a horticulturalist and television personality in Australia. He currently lives in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and at the age of 80 continues to be a presenter of the ABC TV program "Gardening Australia". Amongst the gardeners of Australia, Peter Cundall has gained idol like popularity and is a household name.
- Richard Fidler
Richard Fidler (born November 13, 1964) is a well-known Australian Republican and Australian ABC TV and radio presenter. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS), an Australian musical comedy group also comprising Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott. The group split in 1994. Richard Fidler has since presented various TV shows, including "Race Around the World", "Aftershock", …
- David Marr
David Marr (b. 1947 in Sydney) is an Australian journalist and author. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in Arts and Law. Marr began working as an articled clerk with the legal firm Allen, Allen and Hemsley but then turned to journalism.
- 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, …
- Adam Spencer
Adam Barrington Spencer (Born in 1970 in Gladesville, New South Wales) is an Australian radio DJ and media personality. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search "Raw Comedy" in the mid 1990s. He began working at Triple J soon afterwards, on mid-dawn and drive shifts. From 1999, joined in 2000 by Wil Anderson, Spencer hosted Triple J's hugely popular breakfast show, before they both retired from the show in 2004.
- Steve Austin
Steve Austin (born August 10 1960) is an Australian television broadcaster. In 2006 and 2007, Austin presents the 7pm-10pm (9pm in summer) shift on 612 ABC Brisbane and ABC Local Radio across Queensland. In 2004 and 2005, he presented the 8.30am-midday shift on ABC Local Radio with the final hour, 11am-midday, referred to as "The Conversation Hour" and broadcast around Queensland via the ABC Local Radio network.
- John Waters
John Russell Waters (born 8 December, 1945, London, England) is a famous film, theatre and television actor, best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968. His first big break was in musicals, playing Claude in a Sydney production of "Hair" in 1969, then Judas in "Godspell".
- Myf Warhurst
Myfanwy "Myf" Warhurst (born 29 May, 1973) is an Australian radio announcer and television personality, best known for her work at Triple J and on ABC Television's music-themed quiz show "Spicks and Specks". Before her career as a radio announcer and TV personality, she was editor-in-chief of Melbourne street press "Inpress". Warhurst was born in Portland, Victoria, and as child her family moved to Donald, then to Red Cliffs in northwest Victoria, …
- Chas Licciardello
Chas John Licciardello (born in 1977) is a comedian and satirist from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A former student of Sydney Grammar School and a law graduate of The University of Sydney, Licciardello is part of The Chaser team, and has helped to write and produce their newspaper and television shows. He currently appears on ABC television as part of "The Chaser's War on Everything". In the opening credits of the first season, …
- Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues as homelessness (e.g., "Cathy Come Home") and poverty (e.g., "Riff-Raff").
- Robbie Buck
Robbie Buck (Robert Sebastian Buck or "The Buckwit") is an Australian radio announcer best known for his work at the national youth broadcaster Triple J. Over the years he has hosted various shows including Lunch and Weekend Lunch up until 2002. Now does the the drive timeslot from 3 till 5.30pm called topshelf radio. Buck's radio experience began in his home town of Lismore where he took up a late night shift on the local radio station.
- Warren Boland
Warren James Boland (born Sydney, February 11, 1955), is a former science teacher and professional footballer (rugby league) who now presents weekend radio shows on ABC Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 ABC Brisbane. Boland was captain of New South Wales rugby league team "Wests Magpies" (now part of the NRL 2005 premiership-winning joint-venture club "Wests Tigers").
- Georgie Parker
Georgina Parker (born December 16, 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian television and film actress. She grew up in the suburb of St. Ives. Her favourite drink is malted milk. Parker first became famous, through her role as nurse Lucy Gardiner in "A Country Practice". More recently, from 1998 until 2005, Parker played Sister Teresa (Terri) Sullivan, a nurse and former nun, on the Australian medical drama series "All Saints", …
- Glenn Mitchell
Glenn Mitchell is a sports broadcaster and writer for ABC Radio's Grandstand program and is based in Perth. He joined ABC Radio Sport in January 1990 and his voice has become familiar to listeners around Australia with his commentaries on Australian rules football and international and state cricket. At the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, Glenn was the cycling commentator for ABC Radio and at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, …
- Pete Smith
Peter Philip Smith OAM (born 29 May 1939, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian radio and television voice-over artist. He is primarily known for his work with GTV-9 Melbourne as their announcer, as well as the announcer on "Sale of the Century".
- Curtis Stone
Curtis P. Stone (b. 4 November 1975, Melbourne, Australia) is a chef and television personality.
- Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards (July 9, 1928- March 11, 1996) was an American actor, director, and singer.
- Jonathan Biggins
Jonathan Biggins (born September 16, 1960 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia), is an Australian actor, singer, writer and comedian. He has appeared on film, stage and television, as well as in satirical sketch comedy television programs. Stage appearances include "The Importance of Being Earnest" (in which he appeared as "John Worthing", inheriting the role from Geoffrey Rush) - also appearing in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", …
- Wilson Cruz
Wilson Cruz (born December 27, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York) is an openly gay Puerto Rican-American actor. Cruz has in both his acting roles and community work served as a model and mentor to gay youth, especially gay youth of color.
- Ronnie Burns
Ronnie Burns (born Ronald Leslie Burns on 8 September 1946 in Melbourne), is an Australian pop singer. He began singing with the beat group, The Flies, in 1964. The Flies drew heavily on The Beatles' musical and fashion influences. They supported The Rolling Stones in January 1965. During this time he befriended Australian music guru Ian 'Molly' Meldrum. The two were famously ejected from The Beatles' 1964 Australian tour for being 'too enthusiastic'.
- Alice Garner
Alice Garner (born 1969) is an Australian actress, musician and historian. She is the daughter of Australian writer Helen Garner and writer and actor Bill Garner. Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film "Monkey Grip" adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name. She was nominated for an AFI Award for her role. She starred in "Love And Other Catastrophes" in 1996, …
- Deane Hutton
Dr Deane Hutton is one of Australia's best-known Science Communicators and Futurists. For more than 25 years, he has been sharing his enthusiasm for science and technology with others through nation-wide television programs. Also, he has used books, radio and the internet in science communication. His work on television has included 18 years as a writer-presenter of the award-winning Curiosity Show, …
- Simon Townsend
Simon Townsend (born 1945) is an Australian journalist who became a popular television presenter during the 1980s. He is currently a tutor in journalism. He gained national prominence in the mid-1960s when he was jailed as a conscientious objector against the Vietnam War, but he is best remembered in Australia as the host and producer of the popular children's show, "Simon Townsend's Wonder World". In recent years Townsend has suffered three strokes.
- Liam Bartlett
Liam Bartlett is a journalist from Perth, Western Australia. He currently works on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes current affairs program. Bartlett has had a 15 year career in multimedia journalism. In July 2006 he announced that he was leaving Perth radio station 6PR, after only nine weeks on air, to join 60 Minutes, replacing the late Richard Carleton. Bartlett previously had a six year stint with ABC radio station 720 ABC Perth, presenting the morning program.
- Patricia Lovell
Patricia Lovell is an Australian film producer whose work within the that country's film industry led her to receive the Longford Life Achievement Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute (AFI). One of her productions, "Gallipoli", received an AFI Award in 1982 as best film. Two of her earlier films, "Break of Day" and "Monkey Grip", were AFI Best Film nominees.
- Paul Provenza
Paul Provenza (born July 31, 1957 in New York City) is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. Provenza grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx and graduated in 1975 from the Bronx High School of Science. He then graduated in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania, with the first Theatre Arts degree ever awarded by that Ivy League school. At Penn, he wrote for the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl and was a cast member of The Mask and Wig Club.
- Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The English-born former teacher is best known for presenting the weekday evening news bulletin on ABC TV throughout the state of Queensland. He also reads the news on the 612 ABC Brisbane radio station on weekday afternoons.
- Paul Livingston
Paul Livingston, (born 1956) popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including Good News Week, "The Sandman and Flacco Special", The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, The Money or the Gun, The Fat and The Sideshow. He also was on Triple J Breakfast from 1994 to 1997 and is presently on ABC Radio National. He has also acted on stage and in film.
- Adam Lamberg
Adam Matthew Lamberg (born September 14, 1984) is an American actor, perhaps best known playing David "Gordo" Gordon in the Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" from 2001 to 2004. Lamberg was born in New York City to Suzanne, a public high school teacher, and Marc Lamberg. He attended P.S. 183 on the upper east side. His father is Jewish and his mother is French Canadian; Lamberg considers himself a "cultural Jew".
- Rosemary Church
Rosemary Church Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Church has lived in England and various parts of Australia. She has a bachelor of arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in media and law. Church is currently studying French. Church won the New York Festival's TV programming award for coverage of the Hong Kong Handover to China in 1997(Silver).
- Mary Schneider
Mary Schneider is an Australian performer, renowned for yodelling works of classic composers. Her daughter Melinda Schneider is also an Australian country music singer and yodeller. She has appeared on the The Howard Stern Show in the USA, Spicks and Specks on ABC TV and Eurotrash in the UK.
- Jacqueline Hill
Jacqueline Hill was a British actress best known for her role as Barbara Wright in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". As the teacher of Susan Foreman, the granddaughter of the Doctor, she was one of the first companions to appear in the show in 1963. She continued to play the role for nearly two years, leaving the show in 1965 but returning for an appearance in the 1980 "Doctor Who" story "Meglos", as the priestess Lexa.
- Terri Garber
Terri Garber (born December 281960 in Miami, Florida) is an American actress. Her acting debut was in 1982, when she played "Allison Linden" on the soap opera "Texas". After several other, more minor roles, in 1985 Garber landed the role of her lifetime in the miniseries "North and South" based on the novel by John Jakes. The 6-part serial, with a running time of 90 minutes each, …
- Leigh McClusky
Leigh McClusky is an Australian journalist and presenter who works for Channel 7 in Adelaide. She currently anchors Today Tonight South Australia. She started her career as a cadet reporter for the Melbourne Herald in 1979. Since then she has worked throughout the Australian media. Leigh was also a feature writer for the Australian Associated Press, as well as a researcher and reporter for the ABC program The Investigators.
- Michael Craze
Michael Craze (Born in Cornwall, November 29, 1942 - December 8, 1998) was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. Craze got into acting by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice.
- Rosanna Mangiarelli
Rosanna Mangiarelli is an Australian journalist and presenter who works for Channel 7 in Adelaide. She currently works as a reporter for Seven News but also is a fill-in presenter for Seven News Adelaide, Seven 4:30 News and Today Tonight South Australia. She completed her journalism degree at the University of South Australia, then began her career on television in Port Pirie, working for Central Television.
- Mark Trenwith
Mark Trenwith is an Adelaide based Australian comedian and actor. He played "Bounce Back Man" in the ABC television series "Being Me" and starred alongside fellow Adelaide comedian Big Al in comedy show "Give Us A Hug" in the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
- Will Ferguson
Will Ferguson is a Canadian writer and novelist who is best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture. His success as a writer can be attributed to an innate ability to view Canada much the same way an outsider would. Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former trading post of Fort Vermilion, Alberta approximately 800 km north of Edmonton. His parents split up when he was 6 during a brief interlude in Regina.