Dennis Altman is the son of Jewish refugees, who published his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. Recent books are Death in the Sauna and Righting My World. Altman is Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at LaTrobe University. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-2005).

Susie Anderson’s poetry and prose are rooted in her Wergaia and Wemba Wemba heritage. Her acclaimed debut, the body country (Hachette, 2023), affirms writing as a form of return. She recently completed a fellowship in Rome to work on a novel, and an extract, ‘the claimant’, won the 2025 Overland Nakata Brophy Short Story competition.

Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri writer/poet, and Editor-in-Chief of The Suburban Review. She has appeared at several Australian writers festivals, and facilitated events at European universities and art institutions. She works on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. Her poetry collection, Not Telling, was published by Puncher and Wattmann.

Jill Blee is a writer and historian. She has written historical fiction for both adults and children. Her biography of her trans sister was recently published under the title Champagne at Three – the story of a trans mining engineer. She teaches history at the University of the Third Age, Ballarat.

Bob Brown is an environmental and social justice campaigner and former senator. A founding member of the Wilderness Society, he led the successful campaign against the construction of the Franklin Dam. He served in Tasmanian state parliament, was leader of the Australian Greens, and in 1996 was elected to the federal Senate.

Dennis Altman is the son of Jewish refugees, who published his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. Recent books are Death in the Sauna and Righting My World. Altman is Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at LaTrobe University. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-2005).

Mary Anne Butler writes about resilience and courage. Her plays have won The Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Drama Award, Shane and Cathryn Brennan Playwriting Prize, an AWGIE and two NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year Awards. She’s a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, Winston Churchill Fellow and Regional Arts Fellow.

Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. Her research as a dress historian draws on the materiality of museum objects to investigate clothing’s connections with gender and class, to explore consumer preference, and to interrogate fashion as a worn experience.

Rhett Davis is from the Wadawurrung Country of Geelong. His debut novel, Hovering, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction. Rhett lives in Geelong with his partner.

Olivia De Zilva is an author based in Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide, South Australia). She is the author of two books, Plastic Budgie and Eggshell, with essays, poetry and prose in The Griffith Review, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, SBS, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and many others. She has been shortlisted for numerous prizes.

Mel Fulton is a writer, editor and broadcaster. She hosts Triple R’s flagship books program, Literati Glitterati, on Wednesdays at midday, and is the deputy editor of The Big Issue Australia.

Paula Gerber is a law professor at Monash University, and an internationally renowned expert on human rights law and LGBTIQA+ people. Paula has written and edited numerous books, journal articles and book chapters on human rights issues, including most recently Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia (2025).