Bruce Armstrong – sculptor, painter

Stephen Armstrong – producer

Ron Barassi AM – Australian

Football Legend in the Sport

Australia Hall of Fame

Jonathan Biggins – theatre director

and writer

Gay Bilson – writer, chef

Nancy Black – theatre director

Polly Borland – artist

Julian Burnside AO QC – barrister

Peter Carey – novelist

Nick Cave – musician, writer

Betty Churcher AO – former

Director of the National Gallery of

Australia

J M Coetzee – writer

Stefano de Pieri – celebrity chef

Robert Doyle – Lord Mayor of

Melbourne

Adam Elliot – animation writer,

director, producer

Tony Ellwood – Director,

Queensland Art Gallery

Saul Eslake – economist; Director,

Australian Business Arts

Foundation and former Chair of the

Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board

Helen Garner – writer

Richard Gill OAM – Music Director,

Victorian Opera

Paul Grabowsky – Artistic Director,

Adelaide Festival of Arts

John Hillcoat – film director

Janet Holmes à Court AC, HFAIB –

businesswoman and arts

philanthropist

Chloe Hooper – writer

Lindy Hume – festival Director,

Sydney Festival

Hon Dr Barry Jones AO, FAA,

FAHA, FSTE, FASSA – former

Minister and writer

Michael Kantor – theatre director

and actor

Lally Katz – playwright

Tom Keneally - writer

Barrie Kosky – theatre and opera

director

Nam Le – writer

Michael Leunig – artist

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE –

Director, Museum of Contemporary

Art

Shane Maloney – novelist

David Malouf – writer

Dr Richard Mills AM – composer

Jonathan Mills AO – Composer &

Director, Edinburgh International

Festival

Harold Mitchell AC – Executive

Director, Aegis Media

Vera Moeller and Phillip Hunter –

visual artists

Simon Mordant – Chairman,

Museum of Contemporary Art and

arts philanthropist

Graeme Murphy AM – director and

choreographer

Ralph Myers – Artistic Director,

Belvoir

Robyn Nevin - actress

Sir Gustav Nossal AC, CBE, FRS,

FAA – medical scientist

Hetti Perkins – Senior Curator,

Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Art, Art Gallery of NSW

Hon Mike Rann MP – Premier of

South Australia and Minister for the

Arts

David Risstrom – President,

Friends of the ABC (Vic)

Peter Robb – author

Geoffrey Rush – actor

Patricia Sabine – Design Director,

Design Forum Tasmania

Anna Schwartz – gallery owner

Emeritus Prof Margaret Seares AO

– Former Chair, Australia Council

for the Arts and former Senior

Deputy Vice Chancellor, The

University of Western Australia

Stephen Sewell – writer

Michael Shrimpton – former head

of ABC TV Arts and Entertainment

Anne Summers – author and

journalist

John Wardle – Principal, John

Wardle Architects

David Williamson – playwright and

screenwriter

Tamara Winikoff – Executive

Director, National Association for

the Visual Arts

Tim Winton – writer

Philip Wolfhagen – visual artist

John Wolseley – artist