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R.A. Spratt

R.A. Spratt is the bestselling author of the Friday Barnes, Girl Detective series, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins series, The Peski Kids series, Romeo v Juliet, Epically Awesome Odyssey and many more. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt, has had over 9 million downloads and connects R.A. with story-lovers across the globe. She lives in Bowral, NSW, with her incredibly needy dog, three chickens, two goldfish, a very large number of tadpoles, as well as two daughters and a husband.
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Raelene Frances

Raelene Frances is an award-winning social and cultural historian. She has published widely on the history of gender, work, women and war. Her most recent book is a biography of a forgotten Australian Federation feminist, Mary Booth: the Woman who shaped the Anzac Legend, co-authored with Bruce Scates. She is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University.
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Rebecca Higgie

Rebecca Higgie is a writer from Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. Her debut novel, The History of Mischief, won the Fogarty Literary Award and was published by Fremantle Press in 2020. She has a PhD in cultural studies and politics, and has formerly worked as an academic at Curtin University and Brunel University London. She is passionate about the climate, history and the intricacies of storytelling during times of crisis. Her newest novel, The Book of the After, is out now.
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Richard Cooke

Richard Cooke is an author and reporter. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, WIRED, and the Paris Review, and has been selected for the Best of Longform and Best Australian Essays. He is a two-time Walkley winner, a former Columnist of the Year, and contributing editor to The Monthly magazine. His latest book, The Last Best Place on the Internet, is a cultural history of Wikipedia.
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Richard Denniss

Dr Richard Denniss is the co-Chief Executive Officer at The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator. He has published numerous books, including Econobabble, Curing Affluenza, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?, Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy, Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us and More Fool Me: How the Gas Industry Tricked Australia.
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Rosalind Dixon

Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney, and former assistant professor at the University of Chicago, and visiting professor at Harvard Law, Columbia Law and Chicago Law Schools. She is the author of Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy (with David Landau) and Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age. She is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and her latest book is The People’s Guide to the Australian Constitution, co-authored with William Partlett.
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Royce Kurmelovs

Royce Kurmelovs is an Australian journalist and author of five books, including The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick (2024). His work has appeared in Drilled, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and other publications.

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