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Anna Maria Dell’oso is a well-known Australian writer, journalist and critic. Her acclaimed book Songs of the Suitcase won the Steele Rudd Award. Anna’s fiction has been published in many anthologies and reviews including Meanjin and the Griffith Review. Anna’s first book was Cats, Cradles & Chamomile Tea, a collection from her popular column in the SMH’s Good Weekend. Anna has studied playwriting at NIDA and has worked as a librettist to several Australian composers. Her opera, Bride of Fortune, was performed at the Perth Festival in 1991 and won a Pater Award for best libretto for an Australian musical.

Anna is currently writing a novel, Beating Time, and a memoir of her Italian poet mother, And Yet I Would Like to Relive Those Years.

Anna has lectured in creative writing at the University of Newcastle and run writing workshops in schools and libraries throughout NSW.

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Mary Demovic has an MA in Egyptology and has taught hieroglyphs for Sydney University’s Continuing Education since 1995. She has participated in three excavations with Macquarie University, working on Old and New Kingdom tomb sites in Lower and Upper Egypt. Mary provides consultation in hieroglyphic transliteration and translation to public and private institutions. She has been Education Officer and Acting Manage of the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University. Mary is currently Head Teacher of HSIE (Human Society and its Environment) at an inner city high school in Sydney.

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Peter Denman is a Career Coach with a background in strategic marketing, including over 11 years corporate experience in leading global organisations in Australia and the UK. He provides career management services to individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds.

Peter uses his strategic marketing expertise in coaching clients of all levels to market themselves effectively in their careers. An accomplished and dynamic presenter, Peter is skilled at working with teams. He has presented the career management program at QANTAS and has facilitated resume and interviewing workshops at organisations including Amcor and QANTAS Engineering.

Offering a unique mix of commercial and people skills, Peter holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Communications from the Australian College of Applied Psychology to complement his Bachelor of Commerce degree. Peter also holds a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment and is certified in the use of Hogan Assessment Systems psychometric inventory and the Majors PTI psychological type instrument.

Peter maintains professional development through membership of the Australian Institute of Management.

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Kelly-Ann Denton is an image maker who holds a masters degree in Art, majoring in PhotoMedia. For almost a decade Kelly-Ann has been involved in lecturing both the historical and contemporary practices of photography and including the technical components; holding the position of lecturer at The Australian Centre for Photography, a leading photographic institution in Sydney and Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney. Kelly-Ann also practices as an independent photographer nurturing her own interest in photography from a philosophical, cultural and historical context. Her personal work have received finalist standing in the most significant Photographic Prizes in Australia. In recent years Kelly-Ann Denton has been asked to present her portraiture for Albury Art Gallery, The Australian Centre for Photography, Head-On Photo Festival, & The City of Sydney “Art & About” Public Art Festival.

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Department of Defence. Tutor of CCE

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James has published widely across the across the fields of international security, science and technology, and media studies, including a book and several articles on the geopolitical, societal and ethical impact of quantum innovation.  He has designed and taught over twenty different courses, at Oxford University, Columbia University, University of Massachusetts, University of Southern California, Brown University, The University of Sydney and the state prison systems of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  He has produced five documentary films, most recently, Project Q: War, Peace and Quantum Mechanics.

James received a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University (Joint First Class Honours) and a M. Phil and D. Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently Director of the Centre for International Security Studies and Michael Hintze Chair of International Security at The University of Sydney.

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Thomas Derwin. Tutor of CCE

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Peter brings deep experience and expertise, acquired over an extensive career in the Banking and Finance sector. His most recent position was with Westpac Banking Corporation, where he served as an Executive Director, responsible for the leadership of the global Asset Finance business.

Peter has broad International Executive leadership acumen across all major aspects of having responsibility for a large business within a financial institution including finance (profit & Loss, balance sheet and shareholder returns), risk governance, sustainability and ESG. He is skilled in strategy planning, creation, and execution, as well as people leadership, including workplace culture, mentoring, succession, and well-being.

Peter has developed strong customer relationships across various industries, including the public and private sectors and all levels of executive leadership. He is also experienced in change management and business transformation.

In addition to his industry experience, Peter undertakes workplace consulting, business training, coaching and mentoring. He helps individuals and teams create change, achieve their goals, and reach their potential.

Peter is also a Casual Academic with both the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Technology (UTS) in their respective business schools.

Peter holds a Master of Business and Finance from UTS, a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Government) from the University of Sydney, and a Graduate Diploma in Leadership from UNSW. He is an accredited business coach and a member of the International Coaching Federation.

Peter is an enthusiastic teacher who combines his technical knowledge with hands-on industry experience. He has an engaging, authentic, and informed approach and seeks to inspire the people he works with.

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I hold the following qualifications: ATCL (Lon); BA, LLB (Syd); BEc (Macq); LLM (Syd); GradCertEdStudies(Higher Education).

I have worked in private legal practices and for twenty years lectured at Sydney University and University of Western Sydney in a range of subjects including Commercial Law, Corporations Law, Banking and Securities Law, and Consumer Law.

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Pip Deveson has a long-standing interest in Yolngu culture developed though a long involvement with the Yolngu community at Yirrkala, work on the Yirrkala Film Project (1981-1984) and subsequent research on Yolngu art and knowledge systems. With Howard Morphy and Katie Hayne, she co-authored The Art of Narritjin Maymuru, a multi-media biography of a major Yolngu artist. More recently she and Hayne have produced the Living Knowledge Website as part of an ARC funded linkage project titled Indigenous knowledge and western science pedagogy: a comparative approach. The website was part of an investigation of the potential for using networked curriculum materials to introduce aspects of Indigenous knowledge into the NSW school science curriculum.