
Mary Donaldson
Crown Princess of Denmark
Crown Princess of Denmark
Author The Genesis Flaw, Thirst
Sky News Australia presenter and author of Good Man Hunting
Sun-Herald columnist, Script Editor of White Collar Blue, Water Rats, Author of No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty, The Lost Boys,
Elizabeth is a writer and script editor with credits including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Secret Life of Us, McLeod’s Daughters,
Radio host, actor, singer and Rockwiz presenter
‘Carl Barron Live’ is the highest selling stand-up comedy DVD in Australian history
Journalist, author: Carole King is an Alien and All the Rage
Actress, writer, producer, Spirited, Love My Way, Paperback Hero
Author, It’s My Party and I’ll Knit if I Want To, Being Married
Writer/producer of feature film The Bet, starring Matthew Newton, Aden Young and Sibylla Budd
Award winning classical pianist and musician
Screenwriter & Director. The Well, The Killing Field, Carlotta
Actor – House Husbands, Winners & Losers, Neighbours, All Saints
Author and freelance journalist for SMH, Australian Telegraph
Scriptwriter, film and television Satisfaction, Tangle, Love My Way, The Surgeon
Actor Wild Boys, All Saints, Rescue Special Ops, Shappelle
Actor and director/writer of the feature film Beautiful Kate starring Sophie Lowe, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rachel Griffiths.
Denise is one of Australia’s best loved comedian & actors appearing in TV shows such as Spicks & Specks, The Project and
Author of crime novels ‘Sinister Intent’ & ‘Deadly Obsession’, both published by Simon & Schuster
Author, architecture critic, essayist and columnist for The Sydney Morninng Herald.
Journalist/author, Good Girls Do Swallow, Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better
ARIA award wining Australian musician
Author of Star Attraction, published by Penguin 2013
The Book Show/ABC
Actor – Wolf Creek, Wonderland, Underbelly
Author, The Paper House published by Pan McMillian
Co-writer of the feature film Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro
Director, The Slap, Rake, Spirited, Tangle, All Saints, Love My Way
Journalist, Channel 10 presenter
Award winning actress, Wildside, Rake, Lantana, Sleeping Beauty
Feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. Author of Blubberland and Caro Was Here
Writer and director of the feature film The Hard Word, starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths and Joel Edgerton
Creative Director, TV Producer including Andy & Ben Do Mexico, Andy & Ben Eat the World, Network 10
Award winning Australian actor
Actor, Muriel’s Wedding, Romper Stomper, Love My Way, Underbelly
Actor, Underbelly, House Husbands
Australian comedian, radio and television presenter
Radio announcer, NOVA, 20 to 1, The 7pm Project, Thank God You’re Here
Journalist/author, The Body in the Clouds, The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabelle Milbanke & Lord Byron
Assistant director, Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, The Punisher, La Spagnola
Actor, City Homicide, Cops: LAC, Rescue Special Ops, McLeod’s Daughters
Author and photographer, Paris Tango, Italian Joy, Chasing a Dream
Journalist, ABC foreign correspondent, author, non-fiction, Baby Daze, fiction, Water from the Moon, Lilia’s Secret
Academy Award Winner Film Editing – Mad Max Fury Road. Also Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City
Ex-NSW Minister and Member of Macquarie University Council
Australian public intellectual & Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair
Reporter/presenter CNN International, Today Tonight
Broadway choreographer, Tarzan the Musical
Actor, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Australia, All Saints
Former managing editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, the Hoopla and the Barrossa Living Magazine (Rest in Peace C)
Model, poet, author, Poems
Professional comedian
CNN correspondent, Ten News presenter, Meet the Press, 6:30 with George Negus
Author: How to Say I Do: Make Your Civil Marriage Ceremony Your Own
Author, Executive Producer of RPA
Columnist, author, blogger and feature writer for The Australian
Director, Gangs of Oz, All Saints, Who Do You Think You Are?, McLeod’s Daughters
Journalist and author of seven books, including Guilty Secrets, Bob Hawke: A Portrait and Bob Ansett: An Autobiography
Former State MP and Speaker, author Gavel to Gavel – An Insider’s View of Parliament
Actor, writer, producer
Award-winning director and writer, Behind Mansion Walls, Deadly Women, Earthpulse, Tropfest finalist
Former FFC Investment Manager, Documentaries and producer Shark Island Productions: Stories of Me, Paul Kelly
Editor, journalist and author The Golden Age of the Argonauts and Boom-Boom! A Century of Australian Comedy
Radio and TV broadcaster/author Making the Most of It, DJ Max, Meg Banana, Boycott
Author, The Glass Heart
Animator, Animal Logic, Happy Feet, Teen Wolf, Puss in Boots
Documentary film maker, Emmy Award winner, National Geographic Taboo, How Beer Saved the World, Prototype This!, Monster Bug Wars, If
Documentary film maker, producer, Tibet: Murder in the Snow, Rising Stars
Actor, Packed to the Rafters, Crownies, All Saints, Babe, Frauds, The Beast
Actor, Director, Writer, Hunt Angels, Beautiful Bondi, Our Century, Dusty Hearts,
Actor, dramaturg, writer, Kennedy Miller Productions
Television reporter, presenter and producer and author of Making Babies
Actor, Home and Away, City Homicide, Rescue Special Ops, The Alice, Stingers, Water Rats
Linguist, author, Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language and columnist for SMH
Director, Writer, Producer, Guru Greg
Wednesday Sisters
Secret Samurai
Author of 12 books in the Bindi Wildlife Adventure Series, 3 in the RSPCA Animal Tales series and 2 books
Sleeping Beauty and The Waiting City. Voted the Australian producer most worth watching at the Melbourne International Film Festival 37º
Bollywood Dreams
Gangsters of Shanghai
Author of Devil’s Harbor, published Tor/Forge NY.
Journalist and author. King of the Road published by Random House, 2015
Varuna Scholarship recipient. ‘Promising Azra’ published by Allen & Unwin, July 2016.
Shannon Garner’s first book Labour of Love published by Simon & Schuster, July 2016
Author of the Fortunes of Ruby White, published by Simon and Schuster and the upcoming – Those Pleasant Girls published by
Author of Bill Murdoch Mystery series – Headland published 2018
Award winning journalist, columnist and author of Barefoot Surgeon published by Allen & Unwin, 2018
Maya Linnell, author, lives in regional Victoria. Her novel Wildflower Ridge is published by Allen & Unwin.
Cait is a lawyer and author. Her debut novel The Last Balfour is published by Harper Collins.
Sarah was an award winning lawyer, and now a full-time author. Her first novel ‘Lapse’ is published by Text Publishing.