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Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first novel, Gracious Living, was published in 1989. This was followed by Modern Interiors, Facing the Music, Under the Knife, and The Prosperous Thief, which was short-listed for the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Reunion was published in 2009, and The Memory Trap was awarded the 2015 Melbourne Prize. Her literary essays have appeared in Meanjin, Australian…
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Mario Sabino
Mario Sabino was born in São Paulo in 1962. He is deputy managing…
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Kjetil Saeter
Kjetil Saeter has worked as a journalist for the broadsheets…
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Felicita Sala
Felicita is a self-taught illustrator and painter. She graduated in…
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Bethany Saltman
Bethany Saltman lives and writes in the Catskills of New York with her…
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Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade has degrees in law and mass media, and writes…
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David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger is national security correspondent for The New York…
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Eliza Sarlos
Eliza Sarlos is a writer, broadcaster, and creative producer based in…
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Niki Savva
Niki Savva is one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra…
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Dr David Schnarch
Dr David Schnarch is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified sex…
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John Schoeffel
John Schoeffel is a public defender in New York.
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Tom Schuller
Tom Schuller is an independent social and educational researcher. He…
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Juliette Scott
Juliette Scott has been a translation and language specialist for over…
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Harold Scruby
Harold ‘Haitch’ Scruby was born in Singapore and educated in Sydney.…
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Jamie Lee Searle
Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator from German.
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Damion Searls
Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and…
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Meryle Secrest
Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and lives in…
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Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler was born in 1963 in Gera, Thuringia, and today lives in…
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David Servan-Schreiber
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, was clinical professor of psychiatry…
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Nigel Shadbolt
Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the UK’s foremost computer scientists. He…
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Alom Shaha
Alom Shaha was born in Bangladesh but grew up in London. A parent,…
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Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. Born in Rehovot,…
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David Shaw
David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany’s international…
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Trevor Shearston
Trevor Shearston is the author of Something in the Blood, Sticks That…
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Alexa Shoen
Alexa Shoen, born in 1989, is the internet’s leading confidant for…
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Liad Shoham
Liad Shoham is Israel’s leading crime writer and a practising attorney…
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Antony Shugaar
Antony Shugaar is a writer and literary translator working from Italian…
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Daniel J. Siegel
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, received his medical degree from Harvard…
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Craig Simons
Craig Simons has reported on the environment from a dozen Asian nations…
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Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is a freelance journalist and author and director of…
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Emile Simpson
Emile Simpson served in the British Army from 2006 to 2012 as an…
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Tom Slee
Tom Slee writes about technology, politics, and economics, and in the…
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Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public…
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Jeremy N. Smith
Jeremy N. Smith has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and…
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Ken Smith
Ken Smith managed Joe Bageant’s website from the time it was launched…
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Rachel Louise Snyder
Rachel Louise Snyder’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New…
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Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 and is arguably Korea’s most renowned…
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Carolin Sommer
Born in Germany, Carolin Sommer spent a year in California and studied…
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Heidi Sopinka
Heidi Sopinka has worked as a bush cook in the Yukon, a travel writer…
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David Sornig
David Sornig is the author of the novel Spiel (UWAP, 2009). His fiction…
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George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC and founder of…
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Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a regular…
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John Spooner
John Spooner is a multiple Walkley Award-winning artist, formerly at…
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David Spratt
David Spratt is a Melbourne businessman, climate-policy analyst, and…
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Megan K. Stack
Megan K. Stack is the author of Every Man in This Village Is a Liar,…
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Bettina Stangneth
Bettina Stangneth wrote her dissertation on Immanuel Kant and the…
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Peter Stanley
Dr Peter Stanley is a professor of history at the University of New…
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Jill Stark
Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist and author with a career…
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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice…
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Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books,…
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Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for…
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Tom Stranger
Thomas Stranger is based in Sydney, Australia. He has worked in both…
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G.J. Stroud
G.J. (Gabrielle) Stroud is a primary school teacher who loves reading…
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Nicholas Stuart
Nicholas Stuart joined the ABC in 1985, worked in Radio News, ABC Radio…
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Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for…
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Philip Sutton
Philip Sutton is the convener of the Greenleap Strategic Institute, a…
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Sydney Child Holocaust Survivors Group
The contributors to this book are all members of the Sydney Child…
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Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi is a reporter for First Look Media. He has been a…
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Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, a…
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Stephan Talty
Stephan Talty is a widely published journalist who has contributed to…
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Jürgen Tampke
Jürgen Tampke was born 1944 in Brandenburg, Germany, and migrated to…
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Lindsay Tanner
Lindsay Tanner was the minister for finance and deregulation in the…
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Nina Teicholz
Nina Teicholz wrote on food and nutrition science for Gourmet and Men’s…
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Cristovao Tezza
Cristovão Tezza, one of Brazil’s foremost contemporary novelists, was…
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Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as…
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James Thornton
James Thornton is an environmental lawyer and writer. He is the…
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Robert Tickner
Robert Tickner grew up a country boy on the New South Wales mid-north…
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Kelly Tieger
The daughter of two Personality Type experts and authors, Kelly Tieger…
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Paul D. Tieger
Paul D. Tieger is the founder and CEO of SpeedReading People, LLC, a…
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Jurgen Todenhofer
Jurgen Todenhofer, born in 1940, was a member of the German Bundestag…
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Nick Toscano
Nick Toscano is a multi-award-winning journalist based in Melbourne,…
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Spiri Tsintziras
Spiri Tsintziras, along with her tribe of young and not-so-young…
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Stuart Tudball
Stuart Tudball is an experienced translator of Swedish, with works…
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Aviva Tuffield
Aviva Tuffield is Associate Publisher for Fiction at Scribe…
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Heather Turgeon
Heather Turgeon, MFT, is a psychotherapist who writes about child…
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Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, but lived in various places in…
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Oliver Uberti
Oliver Uberti is an award-winning graphic designer and was Senior…
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Vivienne Ulman
Vivienne Ulman is a prize-winning short-story writer, a freelance…
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George Vaillant
George E. Vaillant, MD, is a widely respected researcher, psychiatrist,…
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Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson…
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Adri van der Heijden
Adri van der Heijden (b. 1951) is one of Holland’s greatest and most…
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Ernest van der Kwast
Ernest van der Kwast is a Dutch author born in Mumbai, India, in 1981.…
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Christopher Vaughan
Christopher Vaughan has been a journalist for more than 20 years. He…
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Eben Venter
Eben Venter is the critically acclaimed author of Wolf, Wolf (Scribe,…
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Paul Verhaeghe
Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe is head of the…
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David Vogel
David Vogel was born in 1891 in Satanov, Podolia (now Ukraine), and…
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Saskia Vogel
Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German. Her…
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Johannes Hinrich von Borstel
Johannes Hinrich von Borstel is studying to be a cardiologist, and is…
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Diana von Kopp
As a psychologist, Diana Von Kopp has taught leadership competence,…
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Laura Vroomen
Laura Vroomen was born in the Netherlands and now lives and works in…
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Manny Waks
Manny Waks was raised in Melbourne, the second oldest of 17 children in…
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Lamar Waldron
Lamar Waldron’s historical research and nonfiction books, including…
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Hilary Walker
Hilary is a Melbourne based photographer working in Brunswick East.…
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Nicholas Wapshott
Nicholas Wapshott is a prominent British journalist and writer. He was…
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Cat Warren
Cat Warren is a professor and former journalist with a somewhat…
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Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is the senior senator from Massachusetts. A former…
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Joby Warrick
Joby Warrick covers intelligence for The Washington Post, where he has…
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Richard Watson
Richard Watson is a writer, speaker, and strategist who works with…
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Ethan Watters
Ethan Watters is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The…
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Chris Wayment
Chris Wayment has been translating professionally since 1998, with…
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James Owen Weatherall
James Owen Weatherall is a physicist, philosopher, and mathematician.…
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Caroline Welch
Caroline Welch is the co-founder and CEO of the Mindsight Institute, a…
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Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer is a professor of transformation design at the University…
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Anna Westbrook
Anna Westbrook is a Sydney-based writer and critic. She holds a PhD in…
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Rudi Westendorp
Professor Rudi Westendorp was trained at the Leiden University Medical…
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Ben Westhoff
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered…
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Maike Wetzel
Maike Wetzel was born in 1974 and works as a writer and screenwriter in…
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Kayla Rae Whitaker
Kayla Rae Whitaker was born and raised in Kentucky. She is a graduate…
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Shaun Whiteside
Shaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch,…
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Bill Whitfield
Experts in the field of private protection, Bill Whitfield and Javon…
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Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa was born in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands,…
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Kate Wild
Kate Wild is an investigative journalist whose work with distinguished…
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Jincy Willett
Jincy Willett is an author and writing teacher currently living in San…
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Caroline Williams
Caroline Williams is a science journalist and editor. A consultant for,…
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Paige Williams
Paige Williams is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Mississippi…
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Rachel Willson-Broyles
Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator specialising in…
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Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the owner and founder…
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Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson, known for his frank style and controversial turn from…
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W. Chris Winter
W. Chris Winter is a neurologist and internationally recognised sleep…
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Agnes Wold
Dr Agnes Wold, PhD, is a professor and senior consultant in…
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Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley’s debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award…
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Sally Percival Wood
Sally Percival Wood is a Melbourne-based historian and author. Her…
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western…
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Julie Wright
Julie Wright, MFT, is one of Los Angeles’ best-known parenting group…
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Derek F. Wrigley
Derek F. Wrigley, OAM, LFDIA, FRAIA, ARIBA, DA, studied architecture…
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Larry Writer
Larry Writer is a Sydney-based author whose books include Dangerous…
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Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne is among the English language’s greatest living translators…
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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford…
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Jeffrey E. Young
Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, serves on the faculty of the Department of…
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus, born in Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University…
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Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, novelist, and human-rights…
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Daniel Ziffer
Daniel Ziffer covered the Hayne royal commission for ABC radio, TV, and…
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Jörg Zittlau
Jörg Zittlau is a freelance journalist and writes about science,…
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Anna Zobel
Anna Zobel is an illustrator, writer and teacher from Melbourne,…
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John Zubrzycki
John Zubrzycki has worked in India as a diplomat, consultant, tour…
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