The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction: Judges 2003

Nathan Hollier (Convenor)

Nathan Holier is the Associate Editor of Overland magazine. He works in the Department of Communication, Language and Cultural Studies at Victoria University where he is also writing a PhD about the cultural history of the Whitlam period in Australia.

Peter Browne

Peter Browne is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University, where he also edits Australian Policy Online (www.apo.org.au). A former editor of the monthly magazine Australian Society and a former humanities publisher with UNSW Press, he has produced broadcasts for Radio Australia, ABC Local Radio and Radio National. He has contributed articles and reviews to The Age, Eureka Street, the New Statesman, the Guardian Weekly and the Australian Financial Review.

Lyn McCredden

Lyn McCredden teaches literary and cultural studies at Deakin University. She is the author of James McAuley, co-author of Bridgings: Reading Australian Women's Poetry and co-editor of Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions.

Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall is the author of three award-winning biographies. The most recent, The Boyds, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction in 2002. She recently taught in the English Department of Monash University. Brenda now writes full time and is a regular reviewer for The Age and other literary periodicals.

Ceridwen Spark

Ceridwen Spark is a research associate in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University and a Melbourne reviewer and writer.