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John Charalambous
John Charalambous was born and educated in Melbourne. After an initial interest in painting and sculpture, he began writing in the early 1980s, and had short stories published in various small magazines. His first novel, Furies, was published by UQP in 2004, and was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book in our region. His second novel, Silent Parts, published in 2006, again by UQP, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. John lives in Glenrowan with his wife Evalyn and two sons.
Bruce Dawe
Widely recognised as Australia's most popular poet, Bruce Dawe was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, in 1930, and was educated at Northcote High School, Melbourne. After leaving school at 16, he worked in various occupations (labourer, farmhand, clerk, sawmill-hand, gardener and postman) before joining the RAAF in 1959. In 1969, after leaving the air force, he began a teaching career at Downlands College, Toowoomba. He holds four university degrees (B.A., M.Litt., M.A. and Ph.D.) - all completed by part-time study.
He was appointed as Lecturer at the DDIAE in 1971, became a Senior Lecturer in 1980, and an Associate Professor following the status change to the University of Southern Queensland. He was awarded the inaugural DDIAE Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988. He retired from full-time teaching in 1993, and was appointed as the first Honorary Professor of USQ, in recognition of his contribution to the university. He has taught U3A classes since his retirement from full-time teaching.
In 1995, Bruce Dawe was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by USQ for his services to literature. In 1996, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of New England and, in 1997, an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of New South Wales.
Bruce Dawe has published 13 books of poetry, a book of short stories and a book of essays, and has edited two other books. Many articles have been published about his writings. Adjacent Worlds: A Literary Life of Bruce Dawe, by Professor Ken Goodwin, was published by Longman Cheshire in 1988. A study of his work, written by Peter Kuch, was published in the Oxford Australian Authors series in 1995. A further study of his work, Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe, by Dennis Haskell, was published by UQP in 2002. There are also 12 study guides for students of his work written by various authors. A book on the life of Bruce Dawe is presently being written by Stephany Steggall.
Bruce Dawe has received numerous awards for his poetry, including: the Ampol Arts Award for Creative Literature (1967), the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (1978), the Braille Book of the Year (1979), the Myer Poetry Prize (1965, 1968), the Patrick White Literary Award (1980), and the Christopher Brennan Award (1984). In 1984, Dawe's collected edition, Sometimes Gladness, was named by the National Book Council as one of the 10 best books published in Australia in the previous 10 years and is presently in its fifth edition. In 1990, Bruce Dawe was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship of Rotary International. Other awards include: in 1992, the Order of Australia (AO) for his contribution to Australian literature; in 1997, the Inaugural Philip Hodgins Medal for Literary Excellence; in 2000, an Art Council Emeritus Writers Award for his long and outstanding contribution to Australian literature; and in 2003, a Centenary Medal 'for distinguished service to the arts through poetry'.
A German language edition of Dawe's poems, Hier und Anderswo (Here and Elsewhere), translated by Emeritus Professor Manfred Jurgensen, was published in 2003 by Peter Lang. Bruce Dawe wrote the lyrics for the children's theatre play Aesop's Fables, performed in the Arts Theatre, USQ, Toowoomba, in April 2000. He also wrote the lyrics for the musical play Muscle Dance, based on the life of polio crusader Sister Elizabeth Kenny. The work was performed at the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba in early August, the same year. Dawe has also written the lyrics for Invisible Rivers, a play for secondary schools.
The sixth (updated) edition of Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-2005, was published in 2006 by Pearson Education. Since 2002, five children's books by Dawe have been published by Penguin: No Cat - and That's That, The Chewing Gum Kid, Show and Tell, Luke and Lulu, with Smarty-Cat published this year.
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the author of two psychological thrillers, The Walker (Hodder, 2004) and The Visitor (Hodder, 2005). She is a winner of the Ned Kelly First Crime Novel Award, has been a guest author with the Big Book Club of South Australia, and was on the Books Alive 100 Great Reads list for 2005.
Jane Goodall has also written fiction for the Australian Women's Weekly, and The Walker was an AWW book of the month choice when it first appeared.
Goodall's novels explore themes of cultural change, the supernatural and working life.
Jane Goodall is a research professor with the Writing and Society program at the University of Western Sydney. Her academic interests include theatre and dance performance, and the history of science. Her book Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin (Routledge, 2002), about science in popular performance, won the Australasian Drama Studies biennial book prize for 2002/03 and was the basis for a three-part series Goodall wrote and presented for the ABC's Science Show in 2003.
As a guest at writers festivals in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, Jane Goodall has spoken to many different kinds of audiences on a wide range of topics, but her special interests are in the creation of plots in fiction, dialogue writing, and the composition of chapters as action 'scenes'.
Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Hall (OAM) is one of Australia's best known mountaineers, whose climbing career spans thirty-six years. His high-altitude climbing career culminated in his key role in the first Australian ascent of Mount Everest in 1984 and his book White Limbo was a bestselling account of this historic climb.
The Loneliest Mountain, Lincoln's story of sailing to Antarctica in a small yacht to make the first ascent of Mount Minto, was also published internationally. He has written three biographies: First Ascent, The Life and Climbs of Greg Mortimer; Douglas Mawson: The Life of an Explorer; and Fear No Boundary (about Australian mountaineer Sue Fear).
Documentaries have been made about four of Lincoln's mountaineering expeditions, and he was involved in all of these productions in different capacities, from funding to high-altitude cinematography and script-writing. In 1999 Lincoln joined a successful Australian-American expedition to Makalu, the world's fifth-highest peak.
As well as climbing, he wrote the scripts and shot video footage for two documentaries - Sheer Will (Channel Seven), and Winds Over Makalu (Outdoor Life Network on American cable TV). He also wrote the script for Everest: the Millennium Expedition for NBC Sports in the USA, about the American expedition that re-surveyed the height of the world's highest mountain. From 1993 until 1996 Lincoln was Managing Editor of Out There, an adventure and outdoors magazine published by Paddy Pallin. He was later Editor at Large for Expanse, published by ACP Action.
More recently, he was Editor of Outdoor Australia, a bi-monthly adventure magazine published by Emap. Lincoln's involvement with the Australian Himalayan Foundation marks a new phase in his relationship with the people and environments of the Himalaya. He returned to the Tibetan side of Everest in September 2003 as a trekking guide, then again as a mountaineer in 2006, when he reached the summit. Lincoln lives with his wife, Barbara Scanlan, and their two teenage sons in Wentworth Falls, NSW.
1989 - Received the Australian Geographic Award for Excellence, Best PhotographicTreatment Of an Article,
1988, Manhaul to Mt Minto (with Jonathan Chester)
1988 - Awarded the Australian Geographic Silver Medal for Endeavour in Adventure
1987 - Granted a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to mountaineering
1984 - Presented with Keys to the City of Sydney
1985 to 1989 - Position on the Editorial Advisory Panel, Australian Geographic Magazine
2001 to present - Co-founding Director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation
2006 to present - Appointed to the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Advisory Committee
www.lincolnhall.net
Rosalie Ham
Rosalie Ham has been a check-out chick, a barmaid and a rouseabout. Her first novel, The Dressmaker (Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000), has received high praise for its representation of the best and worst of country life.
Although Rosalie Ham grew up in a small country town, the novel doesn't reflect her own experience of the country. Rather, it draws on the themes of hypocrisy, malice and bigotry, while 'running through it all are the best elements of country life'. As Ham says, 'Suspicion, malice and prejudice are three of the things I find most annoying about humans, but it's rife amongst all of us. I hate the petty, nasty, tiny mind but at the same time it can be very observant - just not a particularly nice or accurate observation. In The Dressmaker I'm attempting to show how destructive and ridiculous it can be.'
The Dressmaker was chosen as a text for VCE Literature in 2006.
Rosalie Ham's follow-up novel, Summer at Mount Hope, is about a young woman living on a small farm near Geelong in the 1890s who is pushed towards the world of men and money.
Steven Herrick
Steven Herrick is a poet and author for children and young adults. He has written 15 books and has pioneered the verse-novel genre for young adults in Australia. He has performed his work in many countries over the past 17 years, including New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Singapore. His verse-novels have been released internationally in the US and the UK, and are soon to be released in Italy and the Netherlands.
Steven Herrick's books have been short-listed for, and won, numerous literary awards, including:
- 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Award for young adult literature for By the River
- 2005 Honour Book - Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year (Older Readers) for By the River
- 2006 Book of the Year - Australian Speech Pathologists Award (Upper Primary Children) for Naked Bunyip Dancing
- 2004 Honour Book - Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year (Younger Readers) for Do-wrong Ron
- 2003 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Shortlist (Younger Readers) for Tom Jones Saves the World
- 2000 NSW Premier's Literary Award for children's literature for The Spangled Drongo
Steven Herrick's two latest books are Lonesome Howl, a verse-novel for young adults, and Naked Bunyip Dancing, a verse-novel for children.
Acclaimed Australian author Ruth Starke says of his work: 'What gives Steven Herrick's verse novels their particular power and appeal? I know I'm not alone in finding it difficult to answer that question: many other critics have had a go, most notably judges who have heaped on Herrick just about every youth literature gong going. Adjectives like subtle, eloquent, beguiling, simple, economical, poignant, and understated re-occur in appraisals of his titles, and the strength of his characterisation is often singled out for praise. I go along with all this, but would add one other ingredient: emotion. How you generate it and how you write it to make it deliver a punch I'm not at all sure - I know I can't teach it - but you certainly know when you read it.' Viewpoint, 2006.
Steven Herrick's website: www.acay.com.au/~sherrick
Nang Ho
After a substantial time spent working in design studios, Melbourne-based Nang Ho branched out to pursue a freelance career as an illustrator, and graphic and web designer/developer. Some key projects have included interactive CDs, HTML/Flash-based websites, HTML email blasts, annual reports, magazine layouts, billboards, posters, point-of-sale materials, direct marketing, corporate ID and various press advertisements.
Phil Kettle
Phil Kettle's profile as told by TooCool:
'My creator's name is Phil Kettle. He's pretty cool; almost as cool as me! Son of a vineyard grower, he grew up in a small town called Cardross, which is just outside Mildura in Northern Victoria.
When Phil was growing up, he was a lot like me. He spent lots of time playing sport and was a member of most sporting teams. He stills plays cricket - not as good as me, though.
Phil has always liked writing, but it is only since he started to write about me that he has made a career out of it. Phil told me that there is a TooCool inside every person. I find it hard to imagine that there is anyone as good as me!
TooCool thinks it's cool to be a good reader and a creative thinker.'
The TooCool series (Scholastic) is proving a great success in schools all over Australia.
Although the books are geared to boy readers, they are also welcomed by parents and teachers of reluctant readers, and appeal to readers generally. The stories encourage individuality, freedom of thought, and positive feelings of self-worth. The stories are enhanced by the humorous illustrations of well-known illustrator, Craig Smith.
The TooCool series was extended to include series two and three, with 16 new titles. The series was short-listed for the Younger Readers section of the 2003 YABBA Awards.
Phil Kettle has also teamed up with author Felice Arena to create the Boyz Rule series. This 24-book series is published by Pan Macmillan.
He has also written an eight-book series, The Xtreme World of Billy Kool, including books on snowboarding, rock climbing and whitewater rafting.
"Phil Kettle visited our school and read some of the TooCool books to the students. The students and teachers loved the books! The series is humourous and quite different and has enormous appeal and educational merit at various age levels. For those of us with sporting heroes, the TooCool character is irresistible."
- Ken McIndoe, Assistant Principal, Alphington PS
Hilarie Lindsay
In her long and distinguished career as an author, Hilarie Lindsay has published across all genres, including short stories, poetry, fiction, children's, non-fiction and a full-length play. She is patron of the Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts and a past president of the Society of Women Writers. She was awarded the MBE for services to literature in 1975 and an OAM last year. As well as her writing career, Hilarie Lindsay has run her family's toy company, A.L. Lindsay & Co, in Leichhardt, Sydney, for more than 40 years and was the first woman president of the Toy & Games Manufacturers of Australia.
Bernie Matthews
Bernie Matthews began his journalism career in prison when he was serving 18 years for armed robbery and prison escapes (1969-80). He was classed as an intractable prisoner and confined inside special security sections at Grafton and Katingal prisons from 1970 to 1978. He was first commissioned by Anne Summers to write a book review for the National Times when he was in Parramatta Jail in 1979.
In 1991, Bernie Matthews was extradited to Queensland and wrongfully imprisoned for an armoured van robbery. During his time in Queensland prisons, he took a freelance journalist course and wrote an award-winning play. In October 1991, the two men responsible for a string of armoured van robberies carried out from 1985 to 1991, including the one for which Matthews had been extradited and wrongfully imprisoned, were arrested.
When Bernie Matthews was released from prison, the Walkley award-winning journalist David Halpin became one of his journalism mentors. Matthews began writing freelance feature articles for the Gold Coast Bulletin, the Courier Mail and the Sydney Sun-Herald (1992-95).
In 1993, Bernie Matthews became the first Australian ex-prisoner to be admitted into the Australian Journalists Association (Freelance Journalist section) of the Queensland Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, without tertiary qualifications or conventional work experience in journalism. His admission was based upon the quality and quantity of his published work from 1979 to 1993.
In August 1996, Matthews' claims for compensation against the NSW and Queensland governments for wrongful imprisonment were refused. The following month, he robbed a bank in Brisbane and was returned to prison for 10 years. During his prison sentence, he commenced a degree in journalism as an external student with the University of Southern Queensland.
Matthews was released from prison on parole in 2000 and returned to New South Wales, where he began writing feature articles for Ralph magazine, Australian Penthouse, the Sydney Sun-Herald, Bulletin-Newsweek and www.onlineopinion.com.au.
In 2004, he became the first Australian ex-prisoner/freelance journalist to be short-listed for three awards in that year's Queensland Media Awards. He won two of those awards.
Also in 2004, Matthews wrote a feature article concerning the use and abuse of DNA evidence in the Australian criminal justice system. The article was published in the award-winning 2004 winter edition of The Griffith Review.
On 22 April 2006, Matthews graduated from USQ as a Bachelor of Mass Communication majoring in journalism.
In 2006, Bernie Matthews' autobiographical/historical account of the NSW prison system during the 1970s, Intractable, was published by Pan Macmillan.
Matthews has a unique insider's perspective on the prison-criminal justice system and has turned his prison experience into a positive asset in his pursuit of a journalism career. It has enabled him to write stories that would otherwise remain buried and never see the light of day.
David Miller
David Miller and his brother's bedroom doubled as their father's sculpture and calligraphy studio. The boys were always surrounded by art materials and were encouraged to use them. David Miller studied graphic design and worked for several years in advertising before starting his own studio.
Miller continues to illustrate picture books using his colourful, three-dimensional paper sculptures. Where There's Smoke is his latest book, following Refugees and the CBC short-listed Snap Went Chester, written by Tania Cox.
His other picture books are Boo to a Goose, by Mem Fox; Over the Hill and Around the Bend with Granny and Bert and Me, by Helen Lunn; Ringle Tingle Tiger, by Mark Austin; and What's for Lunch?, Just Like You and Me and Carousel, which he has written as well as illustrated.
'I make illustrations simple in concept but rich in details. By making them three-dimensional, they have the reality and life of photography, with the expression and creativity of drawing and painting.'
When David Miller visits schools, he talks to students about his books and the process of creating them. He answers as many questions as the students can ask, and then introduces them to the art of making paper sculpture using sculptures he has designed. Each student will have the opportunity to make a paper sculpture.
Bruce Pennay
Bruce Pennay is a local historian who has been writing about the local experience of postwar immigration and the Bonegilla Migrant Centre for some time. He is currently exploring the ways in which the Centre was used to sell immigration. He is preparing a series of what he calls 'chap books' (interpretative pamphlets) under the general title AT BONEGILLA. They deal with migrant groups - the Displaced Persons and the Dutch - as well as topics such as Working at Bonegilla, Growing Up at Bonegilla and Food at Bonegilla. The series should be ready by the time of the 60th anniversary of the opening of Bonegilla in December.
Gordon Reece
Gordon Reece was born in England in 1963 and emigrated to Australia in 2005. He studied English literature at Keble College, Oxford and was a teacher for several years before requalifying as a lawyer. In 1999, he moved to Spain and became a full-time author and illustrator of books for children. Gordon Reece has had eight books published in Australia and/or Spain:
- The Crocodile and the Zebra (Spain), 2002
- Cedric's Masterpiece (Spain), 2004
- The Runaway Circus (Australia), 2005
- Nog the Nag Bird (Australia), 2006
- Pepe in England - The Arrival (Spain), 2007
- Pepe in England - Going Shopping (Spain), 2007
- Pepe in England - At the Zoo (Spain), 2007
- Pepe in England - Going to School (Spain), 2007
Celeste Walters
Celeste Walters (who has also been published under the name Celeste Sowden) has been a schoolteacher, children's theatre actor/manager, and lecturer in child drama at Canberra College of Advanced Education and in language and literature at Deakin University.
Her publications include play scripts and novels for younger readers, texts on using drama to develop language and literacy, and books of verse for young people and adults. She enjoys helping young writers to develop a 'writing voice'.
The Killing of Mud-eye (University of Queensland Press, 1997), for Young Adult readers, was short-listed for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Celeste Walters' 2007 publications include Only a Donkey (Penguin), Shadows on the Sand (UQP), Treading the Boards (Little Hare Books) and The Paradise Rose.
 Charles Waterstreet
Charles Waterstreet gained Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees from Sydney University between 1975 and 2001, and has been a practising barrister-at-law at the Sydney Bar since 1974. He has taught law at the University of New South Wales.
Between 1979 and 1981, Waterstreet was a theatrical and film producer with Graham Bond, whose credits include a television film production of the stage play Boys' Own Macbeth, which ran for two-and-a-half years in Australia and toured the United States.
In 1986, Waterstreet produced the film Howling III - The Marsupials, with Philippe Mora as director. The film has become a cult classic.
In 1990, he produced Blood Oath, which starred Bryan Brown, Russell Crowe and Deborah Kara Unger. The film was successfully released in Japanese theatres in April 1991, and in the United States in June of that year. It was shown at the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention on 12 August 1999 in Moscow to highlight aspects of international humanitarian law.
Charles Waterstreet has been a member of the Aspen FilmFest Advisory Committee since 1993.
In 1996, he produced Next to Nothing with TCN9 and Mushroom Pictures.
He is the author of Precious Bodily Fluids (Hodder Headline Australia and UK, 1998) and its sequel, Repeating the Leaving (Hodder Headline Australia, 2001).
Charles Waterstreet's law publications include:
- 'Tricks of Memory' - for the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales, 12 June 1996.
- 'Inner child is at the mercy of the memory "therapists"' - review of Richard Guilliatt's book, Talk of the Devil - Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 1996.
- 'Down False Memory Lane - Aspects of Current Law in New South Wales' - Crown Prosecutor's Annual Conference, 15 April 1998.
- 'Recovered Memory Syndrome - Remembrance of Things Past' -
- LAAMS Seminar: 'States of Mind: Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology for Family & Criminal Lawyers', 1 July 1998.
- Law For the Public (contributor) - published by Penguin.
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