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Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate: Judges 2009
| Morag Fraser (convenor)Morag Fraser has, since 2004, been Adjunct Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. From 1991 until 2003 she was the editor of Eureka Street magazine. She graduated with honours from Melbourne University and took her MA and DipEd from La Trobe University. Her career encompasses journalism, teaching, writing, tutoring, publishing, literary judging, reviewing, music and the dramatic arts. Her journalism spans 35 years and includes editing Melbourne University’s Farrago and contributing features, opinion pieces and literary reviews to most of Australia’s metropolitan newspapers and many of its journals and magazines. She is one of the judges of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, chair of Australian Book Review, the John Button Prize judging panel and of Victoria’s oldest artists’ colony, Montsalvat. She was a member of the advisory board of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, 1999–2007. In 2004 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for services to journalism. |
| Jim CarltonJim Carlton was Minister for Health in the Fraser Government, and for seven years was Secretary General of the Australian Red Cross. He is currently a senior adviser to the public sector practice of the Boston Consulting Group, a director of PNG Sustainable Development Limited, and a director of the Cranlana Programme. He has previously chaired the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council and was a professorial fellow at the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne. He also served for some years on the board of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and the council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. |
| Peter MaresPeter Mares has been a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for more than 20 years and presents the weekly public policy discussion program The National Interest on ABC Radio National. Peter is also an adjunct research fellow with the Institute of Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology and has written extensively on migration issues, including an award-winning book on Australia's policies towards asylum seekers and refugees (Borderline, UNSW Press). Peter is a member of the advisory board of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and a contributor to Inside Story. | |
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