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  • Annette Zou and Richard Dear

    Annette Zou and Richard Dear

    Curios­ity requires breadth as well as depth. As under­grad­u­ates in a world of career-driven spe­cial­i­sa­tion, Annette and Richard are try­ing to catal­yse curios­ity from the inside.

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  • Ash Donaldson

    Ash Donaldson

    Think you know what you think? Ash Don­ald­son will show you you have no idea what you know or think.

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  • Boho

    Boho

    Sci­ence, art, the­atre and big com­plex prob­lems col­lide when Boho appear. They help to bring sci­ence edu­ca­tion and under­stand­ing to the wider community.

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  • Dawn O’Neil

    Dawn O’Neil

    Dawn O’Neil has a pas­sion­ate inter­est in evolv­ing and improv­ing Australia’s men­tal health and sui­cide pre­ven­tion services.

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  • Ed Bosworth

    Ed Bosworth

    Ed Bosworth is look­ing to ensure we don’t crash under another GFC: impor­tant stuff in a com­pli­cated finan­cial world.

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  • Emma Davidson

    Emma Davidson

    Emma David­son works with women in refugee and indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties on under­stand­ing their per­cep­tions of need and the lan­guage they use to describe them.

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  • Emma Magenta

    Emma Magenta

    Author and artist, Emma Magenta uses her alter-ego Phillipa Finch to touch on the core of human­ity and blend emo­tion with tech­nol­ogy to help us deal with big questions.

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  • Francis Owusu

    Francis Owusu

    With Kul­ture Break, Fran­cis Owusu is start­ing a move­ment that will break down bar­ri­ers and neg­a­tive views.

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  • Julie Posetti

    Julie Posetti

    While she’s attempt­ing to think grand thoughts about the media in pur­suit of a PhD, Julie Posetti secretly prefers to tweet them.

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  • Kristin Alford

    Kristin Alford

    Kristin Alford explores the role of emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies in broader social con­texts, com­mu­ni­cat­ing their value to the wider community.

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  • Marco Ostini

    Marco Ostini

    Marco Ostini want us in space; there are big ques­tions there that need answering.

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  • Mark Pesce

    Mark Pesce

    Mark Pesce will get you think­ing about what our hyper­con­nected future means… for all of us.

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  • Mary-Anne Waldren

    Mary-Anne Waldren

    Mary-Anne Wal­dren is known in some cir­cles as “Canberra’s Chief Con­nec­tion Offi­cer”, in oth­ers as “the fast and the furi­ous Mary-Anne”. Busi­ness is in her blood and her pas­sion is in mak­ing connections.

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  • Matt Noffs

    Matt Noffs

    Matt Noffs is fol­low­ing in his grandfather’s foot­steps — help­ing unem­ployed youth with inno­v­a­tive and dif­fer­ent ideas in social enterprise.

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  • Michael Engemann and Damien Tonkin

    Michael Engemann and Damien Tonkin

    Damien and Michael are year 12 stu­dents from Dick­son Col­lege in Can­berra. They are design­ing, build­ing and fly­ing UAVs to deliver life-saving res­cue sup­plies to lost tourists stranded in the outback.

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  • Miriam Lyons

    Miriam Lyons

    Miriam Lyons takes a look at remak­ing Aus­tralian cul­ture, for want of a smaller topic.

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  • Mitchell Whitelaw

    Mitchell Whitelaw

    Dig­i­tal preser­va­tion of visual cul­tural assets in new ways makes Mitchell Whitelaw’s work very interesting.

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  • Nick Ritar

    Nick Ritar

    You can live a life in bal­ance with Nature. Nick Ritar, per­ma­cul­ture farmer and edu­ca­tor can teach us how.

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  • Pat McGorry

    Pat McGorry

    Pro­fes­sor Patrick McGorry is a lead­ing inter­na­tional researcher, clin­i­cian and advo­cate for men­tal health reform.

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  • Pete Williams

    Pete Williams

    Pete Williams wants to change the way we think — cre­ativ­ity for the bet­ter­ment of society.

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  • Pierre Johannessen

    Pierre Johannessen

    Pierre Johan­nessen is show­ing young peo­ple from the slums of Bangladesh to the peaks of Nepal how incred­i­bly able they are as indi­vid­u­als, and how immensely pow­er­ful they are together.

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  • Rafe Morris

    Rafe Morris

    Rafe shares his pos­i­tive and unique per­spec­tive on life through lyri­cally rich songs, rang­ing from laugh-out-loud funny to those that some­how man­age to be as poignant as they are gen­tly amusing.

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  • Rebecca Scott

    Rebecca Scott

    Rebecca Scott believes that most intractable social prob­lems aren’t actu­ally intractable — we just need to be far more cre­ative with our solutions.

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  • Sally Webster

    Sally Webster

    Sally believes emphat­i­cally that the edu­cated tourist is a respect­ful tourist and that chil­dren want to learn about things dif­fer­ent to their own expe­ri­ences and absorb other cultures

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  • Sam Perry

    Sam Perry

    Sam Perry works with some of Australia’s most dis­ad­van­taged — our indige­nous com­mu­nity — focussing on get­ting them through school and into fur­ther education.

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  • Sam Prince

    Sam Prince

    By apply­ing busi­ness rigour to devel­op­ment and health­care, Sam Prince intends to advance edu­ca­tion and erad­i­cate dis­ease across the globe.

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  • Simon Taylor

    Simon Taylor

    Belief. Dis­be­lief. What’s real. Why? Simon Tay­lor explains the psy­chol­ogy of illusion.

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  • Stephen Coleman

    Stephen Coleman

    In exam­in­ing the ethics of force mul­ti­plier tech­nol­ogy, Stephen Cole­man is bet­ter­ing our under­stand­ing of the con­duct of con­flict and what non-lethal weaponry can mean.

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  • Sunny Forsyth

    Sunny Forsyth

    Work­ing to bring clean water to the world, Sunny Forsyth helps bring the skills and tools needed to the com­mu­ni­ties he works with.

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  • Thomas Pogge

    Thomas Pogge

    By reform­ing harm­ful supra­na­tional reg­u­la­tions, Thomas Pogge is devel­op­ing a com­ple­ment to the patent sys­tem to stim­u­late phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal inno­va­tions that would be acces­si­ble, with­out delay, to poor and afflu­ent patients alike around the world.

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  • Will Steffen

    Will Steffen

    Cli­mate change is rapidly becom­ing the defin­ing chal­lenge for human­ity in the 21st century.

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  • William DeJean

    William DeJean

    William believes edu­ca­tion can birth new con­scious­ness for human­ity and hopes you do too…

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