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Phillip Adams AO

Philip Adams is an author, broadcaster and film-producer, whose films include "The Getting of Wisdom" and "We of the Never Never". Currently he has a column in The Australian sponsored by Rupert Murdoch and interviews on Late Night Live under the eagle eyes of Alan Jones and Donald McDonald. 

Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC, KBE

Gerard Brennan is a lawyer and judge. He was educated in catholic schools and was President of the National Union of Australian University Students. He was a High Court Judge and member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.

Janet Holmes à Court AC

Janet Holmes à Court is a businesswoman and supporter of the arts. She has been chairman of the board of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Chancellor of the University of Western Australia and a Director of Heytesbury Holdings Ltd. Janet delivered the first Manning Clark annual lecture in 2000.

Barry Jones AO

Barry Jones is a thinker, particularly about the future of science education. He was the first radio talk-back man, and a member of the Australian Film Development Corporation. Barry has been the federal minister for Science, Technology, Small business and Customs. Currently he is exploring Australia's future in relation to knowledge.

Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG

Justice Michael Kirby was appointed to the Court in February 1996. He has held numerous national and international positions including on the Board of CSIRO, as President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands, as UN Special Representative in Cambodia and as President of the International Commission of Jurists. In 1991 he was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
Justice Michael Kirby delivered the second Manning Clark annual lecture in 2001.

David Malouf AO

David Malouf is a teacher, writer and cultural commentator. He has taught English in England and at Sydney University. As a writer he has been well known with such works as Johnno, An Imaginary Life, and Remembering Babylon. His lectures are always impeccably delivered.

Ann Moyal AM

Dr Ann Moyal AM is a leading historian of Australian science and telecommunications. A former academic at the ANU Research School of Social Sciences, the New South Wales Institute of Technology and Griffith University, she is the author of thirteen books on aspects of science and technology in Australia, biography,and her autobiography 'Breakfast with Beaverbrook. Memoirs of an independent woman'. She founded the Independent Scholars Association of Australia in 1995. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Doctor of Letters ANU and HonD.Litt. Sydney University, she lives in Canberra. For several decades.Ann was a close friend of Manning and Dymphna Clark.

Jack Mundey AO

Jack Mundey is a conservationist and union leader. He has spent a considerable amount of time working towards the preservation of Australiaâs heritage and countryside, often in conjunction with his work as a union leader.

Neilma Sidney

Neilma Sidney is a writer and philanthropist. She has worked with the Myer Foundation for many years and has created the Four Winds Festival near Bermagui.

John Harms
Manning Clark House Director

John Harms is a writer, broadcaster and publisher. He has also worked as a high school teacher in Brisbane, and as a sessional teacher and occasional lecturer at UQ, Uni of Melb, QUT, and Sunshine Coast Uni. His books include Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter, Loose Men Everywhere and The Pearl. He and Paul Daffey are key contributors to, and editors of, The Footy Almanac annual. He also set up, with Paul, the very successful sportswriting website www.footyalmanac.com.au. He has had columns in The Age and The Australian and written many features and essays for publications such as The Monthly and The Journal of Australian Studies. He has worked in radio around Australia, especially at 774 ABC Melbourne. He appears regularly as a panelist on ABC TV’s Offsiders. He likes golf, red wine and the Geelong Football Club. He is married to Susan and has two children Theo and Anna both born in Geelong premiership years.

Sebastian Clark
Manning Clark House President

Sebastian has been President of MCH since 2000. His teacher's career took him to Geelong, Melbourne and England. He helped his mother get A Historian's Apprenticeship and Speaking Out of Turn ready for publication. His interests include the minutiae of history.  In 2006 Sebastian wrote an addendum to the new edition of Manning Clark's A Short History of Australia which brings the book right up-to-date, revealing many enduring parallels between the past and present.

Ingrid Moses
Manning Clark House Vice-President

Professor Ingrid Moses is the Chancellor of the University of Canberra and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England 1997-2006. She was awarded honorary doctorates from UTS and California State University, Sacramento for her contribution to higher and international education and a Centenary Medal for her contribution to rural education – higher education having been both her academic home and research area. She has done extensive international work for the UNU, UNESCO, OECD and AusAID. As a migrant from Germany she is interested in cross-cultural issues incl literature, food and travel.

Patrick Regan
Manning Clark House Secretary

A student of Manning Clark's in the 1970s. Public Servant (Defence and House of Representatives) 1965 to 2001. Interests include 20th Century history (especially the First World War), biography and literature; wine, food and travel.

Bill Gammage
Manning Clark House Treasurer

Bill is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU. He has worked on various aspects of Australian and Pacific history, and is now writing about Aboriginal land management in 1788.

Roza Faunce

Roza Passos Faunce, a member of MCH since 2004, is completing a doctoral thesis on late medieval illuminated manuscripts at the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne. She has also had a short stint studying architectural design and history. For a number of years, Roza has worked at several art galleries, her particular expertise being early book illustration and antiquarian prints.

David Headon

Peter Hislop

Peter Hislop was born and raised in Sydney. A Graphic Design graduate (Hons) of the University of Canberra, Peter works in information management in the Commonwealth public service and is studying for a Master of Information Studies. He has assisted Manning Clark House with photography and graphic design for several years, including design of its publication "Food for Thought" and maintenance of its web site.

Anne Kelly

Anne Kelly, originally from New Zealand, has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Auckland University and an LLB from the ANU. She worked as a teacher and a family lawyer before joining the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS). She recently retired after practising law for 25 years.

Nick Martin

Nick Martin is the Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party. He has worked on numerous election campaigns, including the 2007 federal election campaign. He is also the secretary of the Chifley Research Centre, a progressive think-tank. A long-time resident of Canberra he went to school and university here, and maintains a strong interest in the history and heritage of our nation's capital.

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Angela Woollacott
ANU Delegate

Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at ANU. She lectures and supervises research in Australian history, British Empire history, and feminist and postcolonial history. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (University of California Press, 1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Gender and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Currently she holds an Australian Research Council Discovery grant for a project on cultural understandings of the political changes in mid-19th century Australia in imperial context.

Andrew Clark
Clark Family Delegate

Andrew Clark is a former political correspondent of the National Times, and a former literary editor of The Age. Co-author of the book Kerr's King Hit, he has given guest lectures at Yale University, the Budapest University of Economics and the Menzies Centre in London.