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, where she is now Associate Provost, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, and the Foundation Chair of Aust…

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 musician and songwriter for more than 35 years. He describes his music as ‘eclectic’ and sings stories of Black …

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 to successfully teach Aboriginal students. Her current work is framed within Indigenous Knowledge and draw…

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 numerous leadership and consultancy roles in First Nations and not-for-profit organisations, including the World Council of …

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 participation in higher education. The Australian Parliament, government agencies, community organisations, scho…

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 is an Arrernte and Kalkatungu woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by the Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins and his wife Ei…

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 issues. He was also appointed a Canon and artist-in-residence of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, in 2021. In …

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 integrity and gender equality. She holds an Economics degree from Cambridge University and a Master of Sci…

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. He worked the late shift at the local petrol station, as a cleaner and on building sites while studying Law…

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 culturally and environmentally appropriate resource management strategies around Nhulunbuy. She is an enthu…

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 in 2009. He is a two-time World Boxing Federation World Junior Welterweight Champion and won a World Boxi…

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 Sydney, he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Bef…

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 government minister, and to be appointed to cabinet. He was appointed Minister for Aged Care and Minister for I…

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 Parliament. She campaigned on a platform of climate action, integrity, and inclusive communities. She currently …

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 Prime Minister Tony Abbott. She is Australia’s most successful alpine skier, winning a Bronze Medal in Slalo…

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 Australian National University, where he is also the inaugural Vice-President (First Nations). He has been instr…

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 films in Australia, the UK and the US. He is the founder of the Australian Art Orchestra and has won eigh…

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 Australia. She has worked for the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service, t…

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 Constitution Reform at the Cape York Institute. Her books are Radical Heart (MUP, 2018) and A First Nations Voic…

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 Sunday Too Far Away (1975) and The Man from Snowy River (1982). He first became involved in the Garma Festival…

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 School of Paediatrics and Childcare at the University of Western Australia. She became Founding Director of th…

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 execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures. He was educated a…