Marcia Langton, AO, PhD, FASSA, is an anthropologist and geographer of Yiman descent form Queensland. She is one of Australia’s most eminent policy advisors and public intellectuals. She has worked at the University of Melbourne since 2000, whe...

Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. She is a Gamilaraay woman who became vision impaired after having measles as a child. Her PhD of 2016 investigated how ...

Robbie Bundle is CEO of the Songlines Music Aboriginal Corporation in Melbourne, which produces some of Victoria’s largest Indigenous music events and runs a dedicated youth program to nurture tomorrow’s Indigenous artists. He has been a musici...

 Anne Pattel-Gray, PhD DD, is Professor of Indigenous Studies and inaugural Head of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity. She is a descendant of the Bidjara Karikari people of Queensland. She has held numer...

Asmi Wood is a Professor and the Sub-Dean (Indigenous) in the College of Law at the Australian National University. His research and publications mainly concern constitutional recognition for Indigenous people in Australia and Indigenous partic...

Rachel Perkins is an Australian film-and-television director, producer, and screenwriter. She directed the films Radiance (1998), One Night the Moon (2001), Bran Nue Dae (2010), and Jasper Jones (2017). She i...

Allegra Spender MP is the sitting Member for Wentworth in the Australian House of Representatives. She was elected to this previously Liberal seat in Sydney in 2022 after campaigning as an Independent on a platform of climate action, political ...

Glenn Loughrey is a Wiradjuri man and a Reverend in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has served as the Vicar of St Oswald’s, Glen Iris, in Melbourne since 2016. He is also an artist and author, who holds a special interest in Indigenous iss...

Peter Khalil MP is the sitting Labor Member for Wills in the Australian House of Representatives. He is the son of Egyptian migrant parents and grew up in housing commission in Melbourne. He has held the seat of Wills in Melbourne since 2016. H...

Mayatili Marika is a Yolŋu woman of the Rirratjiŋu clan. She is the University of Melbourne’s Cultural Advisor and Partnerships Officer based in Northeast Arnhem Land and Chair of Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, which develops and implements c...

Joe Williams is a Wiradjuri and Wolgalu man born in Cowra and raised in Wagga Wagga, Australia. He played in the National Rugby League for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bulldogs before moving to professional boxing...

 Eddie Cubillo, PhD, is an Aboriginal man of Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente descent with strong family links into urban and rural areas of Australia’s Northern Territory. Before gaining his PhD from the University of Technology of ...

Ken Wyatt, AM, is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Hasluck in the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022. He was the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, to serve as a gover...

Kate Chaney MP is the sitting Member for Curtin in the Australian House of Representatives. She was elected to this previously ultra-safe Liberal seat in Perth in 2022 and is Western Australia’s first female Independent Member of Federal Parlia...

Zali Steggall, OAM, MP is the sitting Member for Warringah in the Australian House of Representatives. She has been the Independent member for this previously ultra-safe Liberal seat in Sydney since 2019, when she defeated the then incumbent Pr...

Peter Yu, AM, is a Yawuru man from Broome in the Kimberley region in Northwest Australia with more than 40 years' experience in Indigenous development and advocacy at the state, national and international levels. He is a Professor at the Austra...

Paul Grabowsky, AO, is Executive Director of the Monash University Performing Arts Centres. As a pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, he is one of Australia’s most distinguished artists, and has written the scores for more than 20 feature...

Anne Twomey, AO, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She has practised as a solicitor and is admitted to practice in New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, and the High Court of Aus...

Shireen Morris, PhD, is Director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab and a Senior Lecturer in Law at Macquarie University. Formerly, she was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the University of Melbourne and a Senior Policy Advisor in Consti...

Fiona Stanley, AC FAA FASSA, is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work and research into child and maternal health, as well as birth disorders such as cerebral palsy. She is a Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Scho...

Jack Thompson, AM, is a highly claimed Australian actor. He is a major figure in Australian cinema, including the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s. He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including ...

Barry Jones, AC FAA FAHA FTSE FASSA FACE FRSA, is an Australian polymath, writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the exec...