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| x Norman Kaye |
Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox.
Kaye was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School. He was an exemplary...
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| x Philip K. Chapman |
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Philip Kenyon Chapman (born 5 March 1935) was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).
Born in Melbourne, Australia, his family moved to Sydney and he was educated at Sefton High...
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| x Paul Hester |
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Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands, Split Enz and Crowded House.
Hester was the older of two children (his younger sister is Carolyn...
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Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called "Gra Gra" (pronounced "grah-grah") and "The King" of Australian television.
Kennedy was born in Camden Street, Balaclava...
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| x Harry Bridges |
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Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901–March 30, 1990) was an influential Australian-American union leader, in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska which...
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| x Craig Harper |
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Craig Anthony Harper (born 28 September 1964) is an Australian television host, radio presenter and author.
Harper appears regularly on Gold 104.3 as the Exercise Scientist. He also hosts a television program, Living Life Now, on Channel 31...
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| x Pete Smith |
Peter Philip Smith OAM (born 29 May 1939 in 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....
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| x Robert Wade |
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Robert Wade (born 1930), the distinguished Australian artist, has gained International acclaim. He has exhibited with most of the major Watercolour Societies in the World and won important awards in many countries. He conducts Workshops regularly in...
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| x Simon Austin |
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Simon Austin (born 9 October 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer and sound engineer, and the founding member of Frente, a band he formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1989 with Angie Hart on vocals, Tim O...
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| x Daniel Gardner |
Daniel 'Dann' Gardner (born 5 December, 1982) is a rising Australian writer known particularly for parody and satire. In addition to his current literary pursuits, he also played a minor role in the film Queen of the Damned , and is known to...
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| x Michael Emin Salla |
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Michael Emin Salla (September 25, 1958) is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the...
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| x Jiordan Anna Tolli |
Jiordan Anna Tolli (born 17 June 1994 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress, best known for playing the role of Louise Carpenter in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She played the role from being two months old in 1994 until 2001,...
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| x John Forbes |
John Forbes (1 September 1950 - 23 January 1998) was an Australian poet.
John Forbes was born in Melbourne, Australia, but during his childhood his family lived in northern Queensland, Malaya and New Guinea. He went to Sydney University and his...
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| x Donald Thomson |
Donald Fergusson Thomson OBE (1901 – 1970) was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who was largely responsible for turning the Caledon Bay crisis into a "decisive moment in the history of Aboriginal-European relations". He is remembered...
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| x Eric Bana |
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Eric Bana (born August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper (2000). After a decade of roles in...
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| x Diane Fahey |
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Diane Mary Fahey (born 2 January 1945) is an Australian poet. She was born Diane Mary Brotheridge in Melbourne, Australia and currently lives in the Barwon Heads area, near Geelong.
A winner of the 1985 Mattara Poetry Prize and many other awards,...
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| x Laurie Duggan |
Laurence James Duggan (born 1949) is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash...
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| x Hal Porter |
Harold Edward (Hal) Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was a Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, Victoria and worked as a journalist, teacher and...
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| x Sonya Hartnett |
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Sonya Hartnett (born 23 February 1968 in Box Hill, Victoria) is an Australian author.
Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian...
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| x Peter Costello |
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Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957) is an Australian lawyer and former politician. Elected to the seat of Higgins in 1990, he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007, and served as Treasurer of Australia from 1996 to 2007,...
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| x Judith Troeth |
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Judith Mary Troeth (born 3 August 1940) has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing the state of Victoria. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College, and later at the...
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| x Chris Mann |
Chris Mann (born 1949) is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics,, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better...
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| x Joel Deane |
Joel Deane (born 1969) is an Australian poet, novelist, and speechwriter.
Deane, born in Melbourne, Australia, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s, working as a technology journalist. He has also worked as a press secretary and...
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| x Morris Lurie |
Morris Lurie (born 30 October 1938) is an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focuses on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably...
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| x Simon Crean |
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Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is an Australian politician, and current Minister for Trade in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level, from...
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| x Peter Reith |
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Peter Keaston Reith, (born 15 July 1950), former Australian politician, was a senior Cabinet minister in the first two terms of the Howard Government.
Reith was born in Melbourne and educated at Brighton Grammar School and Monash University where he...
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| x Joan Kirner |
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Joan Elizabeth Kirner AM (born 20 June 1938), Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first woman to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.
Kirner was born Joan Hood in Essendon,...
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| x Harry Quick |
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Harry Vernon Quick (born 28 June 1941, Melbourne), is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 until 2007, representing the electorate of Franklin. He sat as an Australian Labor Party...
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| x A. Richard Newton |
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Arthur Richard Newton (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 July 1951 – 2 January 2007) was the dean of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering.
Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received a BE in 1973 and M...
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| x Tony Smith |
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Anthony David Hawthorn (Tony) Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of Casey, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne Victoria...
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| x Kylie Minogue |
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours,...
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| x Greg Hunt |
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Gregory Andrew Hunt (born 18 November 1965), an Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders, Victoria.
He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and...
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| x Darren Berry |
Darren Shane Berry (born 10 December 1969), is a former Australian cricketer who was known for his sharp skills as a wicketkeeper with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and ING Cup domestic competitions. Recently he has emerged as a media personality...
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| x Fergus Stewart McArthur |
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Fergus Stewart McArthur (born 27 October 1937), Australian politician, was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from February 1984, representing the Division of Corangamite, Victoria until his defeat in the...
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| x Steve Fielding |
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Steve Fielding (born 17 October 1960), is a Victorian Senator and the Federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party in Australia.
Fielding was born in Melbourne, one of 15 children, and educated at RMIT University, where he graduated in...
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| x Graham Yallop |
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Graham Neil Yallop (born 7 October 1952) is a former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia briefly during the tumultuous era of World Series Cricket (WSC) in the late 1970s. A technically correct left-handed batsman...
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| x Brian Howe |
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Brian Leslie Howe, AO (born 23 January 1936), Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating from 1991 to 1995.
Howe was born in Melbourne, spent his early childhood in Malvern, was educated at Melbourne...
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| x Gareth Evans |
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Gareth John Evans, AO, QC (born 5 September 1944), was an Australian politician from 1978 to 1999 representing the Australian Labor Party, serving in a number of ministries including attorney-general and foreign minister from 1983 to 1996 under the...
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| x Ted Hill |
Edward Fowler Hill (1915-1988), Australian communist, was Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) (CPA(ML)) from 1964 to 1986.
Hill was born into a middle-class family in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne University,...
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| x Alan Wearne |
Alan Wearne (born 1948) is an Australian poet.
Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott. Having published two collections of poetry he branched out...
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| x Matthew Park |
Matthew Park (born 22 April 1988, in Melbourne) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player, currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Heart of Midlothian.
Park, a left winger, was part of the Australia squad for the 2005 FIFA U...
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| x Shirley Abicair |
Shirley Abicair (born 26 October 1930) is an Australian-born singer, musician, TV personality, actress and author.
Shirley Abicair was born in Melbourne, Australia. Some sources show her year of birth as 1935, however a contemporary account shows...
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| x Ben Kiernan |
Benedict F. Kiernan (born 1953 in Melbourne, Australia) is the Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He is a prolific writer on the...
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| x Gerald Murnane |
Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer.
Murnane was born in Coburg, Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District. In 1956 he matriculated...
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| x Ken Meuleman |
Kenneth Douglas Meuleman (5 September 1923, Melbourne, Victoria – 10 September 2004, Nedlands, Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1946.
His cricket career started in Victoria, but after moving to Perth, Western...
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| x Andrew Peacock |
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Andrew Sharp Peacock AC (born 13 February 1939), is a former Australian Liberal politician. He was a minister in the Gorton, McMahon and Fraser governments, and was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1983–1985 and 1989–1990. He is...
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| x Janette Turner Hospital |
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Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 12 November 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer. She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing, has often been a writer-in-residence, and is the Distinguished Professor of...
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| x Germaine Greer |
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Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.
Greer's ideas have...
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| x Lyn Allison |
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Lynette Fay "Lyn" Allison (born 21 October 1946), is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria. She was the last federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats...
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| x Dannii Minogue |
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Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer, occasional actress, and TV Personality. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show, Young Talent Time and the...
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| x Bill Lawry |
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William Morris "Bill" Lawry, AM (born 11 February 1937) is a former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia in 25 Tests, winning nine, losing eight and drawing eight, and led Australia in the inaugural One Day...
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| x Emma Lew |
Emma Lew (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet.
Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993. Her work...
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| x Harry Jenkins |
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Henry Alfred "Harry" Jenkins (born 18 August 1952) is an Australian politician and current Speaker of the House of Representatives, and has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since the 1986 Scullin by-election,...
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| x Gig Ryan |
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Gig Ryan (born 5 November 1956) is an Australian poet.
Ryan was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is currently the poetry editor for The Age newspaper. She has published several volumes of poetry and performed and recorded with the groups Disband...
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| x Fay Zwicky |
Fay Zwicky (born 1933) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.
Fay Zwicky was born and grew up in Melbourne where she began writing as a student at Melbourne University. She has since been a concert pianist and lectured in American and...
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| x Sunday Reed |
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Sunday Reed (15 October 1905 - 15 December 1981) was notable for supporting and collecting Australian art and culture with her husband John Reed.
Lelda Sunday Baillieu was born into Melbourne's Baillieu family, niece of William Baillieu, one of...
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| x John Ewart |
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John Ewart (26 February 1928 – 8 March 1994) was an Australian Film Institute award winning actor.
Ewart was born in Melbourne, Australia. He began his acting career when he was cast at the age of four in a radio production of Snow White. At the age...
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| x Stephanie Carswell |
Stephanie Carswell (born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on June 1, 1985) is an Australian-born actress and lyric soprano, with a vocal range of over 3½ octaves. Also credited as Stéphanie May Carswell / Shoshanna May.
Carswell began her career...
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| x Jessica Gower |
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Jessica Gower (born 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian actress; sometimes credited as Jess Gower.
Gower's first claim to fame was as a starstruck but confused fan in a 2001 television commercial for Telstra featuring John Farnham and...
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| x Cate Blanchett |
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Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th...
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