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Mark
Latham
Mark
Latham was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2005
and the Leader of the Federal Opposition from December
2003 to January 2005. His most recent book is A
Conga Line of Suckholes, a book of quotations,
was published by Melbourne University Publishing in
2006. His candid and compelling account of his
parliamentary career, The Latham Diaries, was
published by MUP in October 2005. Mark Latham's previous
books are Reviving Labor's Agenda: A Program for
Local Reform , Pluto Press, 1990; Civilising
Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Labor ,
Allen and Unwin, 1998; What Did You Learn today?:
Creating
An Education Revolution , Allen &Unwin, 2001;The
Enabling State: Putting People Before Democracy,
Pluto
Press, 2001; and
From the Suburbs, Building a Nation from our Neighbourhoods,
Pluto Press Sydney, 2003
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Sylvia
Lawson
Sylvia
Lawson is a
noted journalist, critic and short story writer, her
work has appeared in The London Review of
Books, The Southern Review, The Bulletin, The Financial
Review, and The Sydney Morning Herald as
well as in a number of anthologies and collections of
essays. She is the author of the prizewinning The
Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship
(Penguin, 1987), which won the NSW Premier's Award for
Non-Fiction, 1984; the Wilke Award (Victorian Fellowship
of Australian Writers) 1984; and the Walter McCrae Russell
Award (Association for the Study of Australian
Literature), 1984. A new updated edition of The
Archibald Paradox has been released by Melbourne
University Publishing, 2006.
 How
Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia (UNSW Press,
2002), a collection of elegant and finely turned essays
by Sylvia Lawson, won the 2003 Gleebooks Award for Literary
and Cultural Criticism at the NSW Premier's Literary
Awards and the Walter McCrae Russell award. A
French language edition, Comment Simone de Beauvoir
est Morte en Australie, was published by le Fil
Invisible in March 2004.
In
2003 she publishedThe Outside Story (Hardie Grant)
a powerful and witty intellectual mystery about the
bitter controversy that surrounded the design and building
of Sydney's famed Opera House.
Her
next book, Waiting for the Resistance, will
be published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2008.
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| Kate
Legge  Kate
Legge is a multi award winning journalist who has covered
federal politics out of Canberra and US presidential
elections in Washington D.C. and now writes on social
affairs across The Australian newspaper. In
1994 she was the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist
of the Year for "the quality and variety of her
writing'' and in 2003 she won a Walkley Award for a
magazine story on a case in the life of a Family Court
judge. The story also won the Victorian Law Society's
inaugural Tony Smith Award. She edited The Australian's
Review of Books in 1997.
Her latest novel Accident of Marriage will be published in Australia and New Zealand by Penguin in April 2009.
Her first novel The Unexpected
Elements of Love was published by Penguin in August
2006 and has been long-listed for the Miles Franklin
Award.
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Colette Livermore
Colette Livermore is a general practitioner working on the Central Coast of NSW. For eleven years she was a member of Mother Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, which she left in 1983. In 1985 she commenced studying medicine at the University of Queensland – an older woman in a class of teenagers. Following graduation, she worked in rural Queensland, the Central Coast and then the Northern Territory, where the despair facing the people living in remote communities affected her deeply. In 2000 she became a medical volunteer in a rural clinic in Aileu, East Timor where she worked with local staff to overcome tuberculosis, malnutrition and infectious diseases. In 2003 family circumstances called her back to Australia where she now lives and works. After Mother Teresa’s beatification in 2003, she decided to write an account of her life within Mother Teresa’s order and her subsequent struggle to make sense of the world without the God she had hitherto dedicated her life to. Her memoir, Hope Endures: My Story of Leaving Mother, Losing Faith and My Ongoing Search for Meaning, will be published in Australia by Random House in November 2008, and in North America by Free Press in December 2008.
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Iain
McCalman
Iain
McCalman is Federation Fellow and Professor of History
at Sydney University. He is also the author/editor
of seven books, including the widely acclaimed Radical
Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers
in London, 1795-1840 and, most recently, as editor
of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age.
He
is currently at work on a new book Darwin's Armada:
How Four Voyagers to Australasia Fought and Won the
Battle over the Theory of Evolution which will
be published in 2009 in Australia and New Zealand by Penguin, in the UK by Simon and Schuster, and in the US and Canada by W.W. Norton. His
most recent book, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro
was published in June 2003 by Harper Collins Australia
and New Zealand, Random Century in the UK and in the
US by Harper Collins under the title of The Last
Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the
Age of Reason). German translation rights
have been sold to Suhrkampf Verlag, Portugese (Brazil)
rights to Editora Rocco, Spanish rights to Critica,
French rights to JC Lattès and Korean rights to Booksea
Publishing. Russian, Bulgarian and Japanese rights
have also been sold.
Simon
Winchester described it as "Brilliant...utterly
absorbing, bewilderingly clever, and, like the man himself,
a charming puzzle from beginning to end.... Rich, fantastic,
devilishly romantic."
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Sandy
McCutcheon 
Author,
playwright and radio broadcaster Sandy McCutcheon is
perhaps best known as the former host of 'Australia
Talks Back', and 'Australia Talks Books' on ABC's Radio
National and as the writer of political thrillers..
In
2005 he published The Magician's Son (Penguin)
a poignant memoir of his childhood in New Zealand and
his search fror his true identity after learning he
was adopted.
In
2006
two of Sandy's books were published by Scribe Publishing
- Black Widow a thriller inspired by the real-life
story of the seige at Beslan's School Number One on
the first of September 2004 and the gripping
thriller The Cobbler's Apprentice. Sandy has
previously published six political thrillers: The
Haha Man (Harper
Collins, 2003); Delicate Indecencies (Harper
Collins, 2002); Safe Haven (Harper Collins,
2000); Poison Tree (Harper Collins, 1999);
Peace Crimes (Harper Collins, 1998) and; In
Wolf's Clothing (Harper
Collins, 1997).
For
more information on Sandy McCutcheon
you
can visit www.sandy.mccutcheon.com
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Philip
Morrissey
An
Aboriginal writer, critic, and social commentator who
teaches at the University of Melbourne, Philip Morrissey
is at work on a major work of narrative non-fiction.
Battle Mountain is about one of the most tragic
episodes in Australian history, the September 1884 final
encounter between the warriors of the Aboriginal Kalkatunga
tribe and a contingent of soldiers and white settlers
at a site near the town of Cloncurry in western Queensland.
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Donna Mulhearn
 Donna
Mulhearn, a former journalist and political advisor,
journeyed to Baghdad in March 2003 as part of the "human
shield" movement prior to the start of the Iraqi War,
returning later as an humanitarian aid worker to set
up a shelter for homeless children and families. Now
an independent writer and speaker on non-violence, spirituality
and politics, her mission was the subject of an episode
of ABC TV 's Australian Story in 2005. Her first book, The Time of Remembering and Forgetting , a memoir of
her experiences in Iraq, will be published in Australia by New Holland.
For
more information see www.pilgrimstoryteller.com
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John
Hyde Page
 John
Hyde Page was a member of the Young Liberals between
December 1997 and May 2004. From late 2001 until early
2004 he worked as an electorate officer for a NSW Member
of Parliament. He left the Liberal Party in May 2004
and is now at the University of New South Wales studying
for his graduate law degree.
His
first book The Education of a Young Liberal
tells the story of his journey from being an eastern
suburbs good kid to hardened political hack, revealing
how a chance encounter with the Young Liberal Movement
changed his life forever.
 The
Education of a Young Liberal,
was published by Melbourne University Publishing in
August 2006, it is his account of how Australia's most
successful political party is being gutted by forces
of religious and ideological partisanship. It is at
once both alarming and hilarious while being a valuable
contribution to our understanding of contemporary politics.
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| Suzanne
Rickard 
Suzanne Rickard is an historian and the editor of George
Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay: A Convict's Travel
Narrative of the 1790s (Leicester University Press,
2001). In 2003 she collaborated with James Broadbent
and Margaret Steven to write India, China, Australia
- Trade and Society 1788 - 1850 (Historic Houses
Trust of NSW, 2003). Her new project, The Blaxland
Women, is the extraordinary story of three generations
of 18th and 19th century women
- Matriarch Harriotte Blaxland, her daughters and granddaughter
- linked by birth and marriage to one of Australia's
great dynastic families.
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Peter
Sheahan
Peter
Sheahan is one of Australia's leading experts on Generation
Y - those born between 78 and 94 - in the workplace,
and in 2003 was named MBN NSW Young Entrepreneur of
the Year and MBN Australian Emerging Business of the
Year. Through his highly successful company conducting
business and personal development seminars throughout
Australia he has made over 2,500 presentations to some
200,000 people. Only 24 years old and himself a member
of Generation Y, he gives employers a unique insight
into recruiting, managing and motivating tomorrow's
leaders. He has also consulted to a wide variety of
organisations, including corporate giants Panasonic
and Woolworths Limited. Peter Beattie, the Premier of
QLD, described his input into a panel conducted with
Australian of the Year Dr Fiona Stanley on 'Does Science
Have a Soul' as "insightful, thought provoking, and
inspiring."
Peter
is the author of the best-selling book, Mastering
the HSC (Pascal Press). He has authored
two DVD learning programs Get Motivated and
Stress & Time Management (Video Education
Australasia). He has been profiled on "A Current
Affair", the "Today" programme, "Business
Sunday", "9am with David and Kim"as well
as in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald
and the Melbourne Herald Sun.
Peter's
book, The Y Factor: Thriving (and Surviving) with
Generation Y in the Workforce is a 'must have'
for human resource managers, line managers and supervisors
who deal with Generation Y, as well as for marketers,
educators and business managers. It was published in
June 2005 by Hardie Grant Publishing.
His
latest book FLIP! How counter-intuitive thinking is changing everything - from branding and strategy to technology and talent was published in Australia by Random
House in September 2007, and in the US by William Morrow in April 2008.
For
more information on Peter visit his website www.petersheahan.com.
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| Anne
Summers
Anne
Summers is one of Australia's most prominent journalists,
authors, and public figures. She is a former editor
of Ms Magazine, was senior advisor to Prime Minister
Paul Keating and is the former Chair of the board of
Greenpeace International. She is currently a columnist
for The Sydney Morning Herald. Her previous
books include the ground-breaking study of the place
of women in Australian society, Damned Whores and
God's Police, and, more recently, a memoir, Ducks
on the Pond (Penguin, 1999). 
Anne
Summers' latest book, The End of Equality:
Work, Babies, and Women's Choices in 21st
Century Australia, published by Random House in
November 2003, addresses one of the most contentious
domestic issues Australia faces in the first decade
of the 21st century - the status and role
of women.
The
End of Equality has been short listed for the Nita
B Kibble Literary Awards for women writers.
For
more information on Anne you can visit her website www.annesummers.com.au
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| Susan
Temby 
Sydney-based
author Susan Temby has a background in theatre in London
and Australia. Her first novel, The Bread with
Seven Crusts, was published by HarperCollins in
Australia in May 2002. Set during World War II,
it is the story of an Italian prisoner of war who is
sent to work on a remote property in Western Australia
where he falls in love with the owner's daughter.
Published to critical acclaim The Australian Review
listed it as a 'Hot Book - the best of the new releases
for 2002' calling it 'moody and multi-layered.'
Caroline Baum from Good Reading said of it:
"What
an impressive and assured debut. Rarely does a first
novel pull together plot and characters so convincingly..
a slow burning love story set against a backdrop of
cultural conflict, handled with deft sensitivity and
dramatic assurance."
Susan Temby is currently at work on a new novel.
For more information on Susan you can visit her website.
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Martin Thomas
Martin Thomas is Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Sydney. He made his first radio documentary in 1991 based on the life stories of homeless New Yorkers. Home Front Manhattan was described by The Age as 'unforgettable'. His other radio productions include This is Jimmy Barker, 2000, winner of the NSW Premier's Audio/Visual History Prize. He is author of The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains, published by Melbourne University Press in 2003, and winner of the Gleebooks Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
In 2002 Martin Thomas was Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia, where he studied the unpublished papers of ethnologist R.H. Matthews. This formed the basis of his current work The Search for R.H. Matthews.
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Angus
Trumble
Angus
Trumble is curator of painting and sculpture at the
Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
Educated at the University of Melbourne and the Institute
of Fine Art at New York University, he was formerly
curator of European art at the Art Gallery of South
Australia in Adelaide. His first book for general
readers, A Brief History of the Smile, was published
by Basic Books in the US and the UK in 2004 and by Allen
& Unwin in Australia and New Zealand. Korean,
German, Russian and Chinese (simplified) language rights
have also been sold.
Angus
Trumble is currently organizing several major touring
exhibitions in conjunction with partner institutions
in Europe and America. The first, British Art
and Naples, will culminate in a room full of late eighteenth-century
views inspired by the 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The second, currently scheduled for 2010, will be The
Edwardian Era, a survey of the visual arts in Britain,
1901-10. He is also working on a collaborative
project with Helen Cooper and Mark Aronson of the Yale
University Art Gallery, which relates to the Americal
loyalist painter and second president of the Royal Academy,
Benjamin West, and the so-called 'Venetian Secret' affair
- a late eighteenth-century art-world fraud turned scandal.
He is also preparing critical editions of Thomas Woolner's
1852-54 Goldfields journal (a Pre-Raphaelite in the
Australian landscape); the 'Autobiography and Reminiscences'
of the Victorian painter William Powell Frith, as well
as articles on George Stubbs' paintings of the kangaroo
and the dingo, and the Pre-Raphaelite wombat obsession.
Angus
Trumble is the author
of innumerable articles and seven books on art history
including: Love & Death: Art in the Age of Queen
Victoria (Art Gallery Board of South Australia,
2001), and Edwardian Melbourne in Picture
Postcards (with Alexandra Bertram, and a foreword
by Barry Humphries) (Melbourne University Press - The
Miegunyah Press, 1995).
He is currently completing his latest project, The
Finger: A Handbook, which will be published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Jonathan
Walker
Jonathan
Walker was born near Liverpool in England in 1969, and
was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge.
His interests include card games, photography, comic
books, cinema and contemporary music, along with the
history of Venice, which he has studied, researched,
lectured and written on for ten years. In the process,
he has published many articles in academic journals
on topics such as gambling and espionage. From 2000-2002,
he held a prestigious British Academy Post-doctoral
Fellowship at Cambridge. In 2003, he moved to Australia
to take up a fellowship at the University of Sydney,
where he has recently been promoted to a position as
International Research Fellow. He has also worked as
a volunteer in a community for homeless men, a security
guard, a postman, a census taker, a billposter, and
(for one evening only) a theatre usher. His first book
Pistols! Treason! Murder! - the illustrated
biography of a Venetian spy - was published by Melbourne
University Press in February 2007. He has also recently
completed an illustrated novel Five Wounds , which is
inspired by the work of writers such as Italo Calvino
and Jeanette Winterson. He is currently working on a
number of projects, including a photographic essay on
modern Venice and a comic strip 'prequel' to Pistols!
entitled Reverse Garbage .
For
more information on Jonathan and his books you can visit
his website.
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Ian
Kennedy Williams
Ian
Kennedy Williams is a prize-winning poet, short story
writer, playwright and novelist. He has published two
collections of short stories - Infidelities and
Other Accidents (Penguin, 1986) and Friday's
Child (Penguin, 1990) and three novels including
- Stopping Over and Malarky Dry
(Hale & Iremonger, 1988 and 1990). His plays have
been broadcast on the ABC and produced in leading regional
theatres. His most recent novel, Regret (Penguin
Australia, 2002), is a gripping and menacing tale of
the darker side of life. He is currently at work on
a new novel, a psychological thriller, At the Violet
Hour .
Ian
Kennedy Williams currently has two film projects in
development. The first, a short film adaptation of his
short story Breakfast with Ezra, which comes
from his collection Friday's Child, is expected
to go into production with the Pacific Film and Television
Commission (PFTC) before the end of 2006. The second,
a feature film, Come to Me, which he's developing
with filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos, has received development
funding from the Australian Film Commission. His play
Burn was a finalist in the Monash Student Association
2005 National Playwrights' Conmpetition.
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Junee
Waites and Helen Swinbourne
Journalist,
photographer and writer Helen Swinbourne collaborated
with Junee Waites to write Smiling at Shadows,
the story of Junee, her husband Rod and their son Dane.
Judy Brewer Fischer and former Deputy Prime Minister
Tim Fischer said of the book "Smiling at Shadows
is a remarkable book. It is an insightful and
honest account of the often difficult path to adulthood
that a child who is 'on the spectrum (of autism)' must
face. But most importantly, for the general community,
it reveals something of the heartache and of the joy
that comes with living with autism."
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David
Whish-Wilson 
David
Whish-Wilson is currently a lecturer in the Centre for
Aboriginal Studies, at Curtin University who has also
taught creative writing in a number of other venues,
including to prisoners. He holds a doctorate in English
and Comparative Literature from Murdoch University and
an MA, English from University of Western Australia.
His
first novel The Summons will be published by
Random House, Australia in January 2006. He has
had a number of short stories published, one of which,
Under Slow Fans was anthologised in Australian
Short Story Anthology (Pascoe Publishing). He has
been short-listed for the Vogel/Australian award twice
and has been awarded Australia Council and ARTSWA grants.
In
January he will be taking up a teaching position at
the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.
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Carolinda
Witt
Carolinda
Witt has led an adventurous life. Born and raised
in Africa, she sailed throughout the Caribbean at 18
and became a hot air balloon pilot at the age of twenty.
In 1988 she piloted Sir Richard Branson's jumbo jet-shaped
balloon in the Trans-Australia balloon race, sailing
it, tethered to a barge, under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Carolinda's
first book is on a unique exercise technique she teaches
in Sydney. Titled T5T:The Five Tibetan Exercise
Rites (Penguin, Australia, 2006 and Clarkson Potter,
USA, 2007) offers a revolutionary 10-minute-a-day exercise
program that will lead to age reversal, increased energy
and health. T5T™ is Carolinda's unique, life-changing,
interpretation of this ancient Tibetan wisdom.
 John
Gray, author of Men are from Mars Women are from
Venus, and avid follower of the Tibetan Rites says:
"T5T
is an incredible and powerful program. It turns
back the clock. It increases your energy, mental
clarity and focus. It reduces stress, and improves
strength and flexibility. It is capable of restoring
your passion and zest for life if you let it.
I highly recommend it for anyone willing to improve
their life"
T5T
was published by Clarkson Potter in the USA in early
2007. For more information on Carolinda and T5T
you can visit her website.
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