Professor Ien Ang
Professor Ien Ang, the founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, is a leading figure in cultural studies worldwide and a prominent public commentator in Australia. She focuses on media and cultural consumption, identity politics, the changing new world (dis)order, migration and ethnicity, and issues of representation and inclusion in our cultural institutions. Books include 2001's On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World (1996) and Desperately Seeking the Audience (1991), all published by Routledge.

Neil Armfield
One of Australia's foremost directors, Neil Armfield is the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Company B, at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, and Director of the feature film, Candy.

Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink, indomitable producer of feature films including The Removalists, My Brilliant Career, For Love Alone and Candy, and television's 3 part drama Edens Lost. She also kick-started the careers of Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving and Gillian Armstrong among others.

John Harding
John Harding (Kuku/Erub) is a founding member and current President of Ilbijerri Aboriginal /TSI Theatre Company and has worked tirelessly in the pursuit of Indigenous artistic expression in the arts and particularly theatre. He also developed the first Aboriginal current affairs program on ABC TV, Blackout, in 1989, and in 1996 wrote the first Aboriginal vignette sit-com series, The Masters, for SBS TV as part of ICAM Series 1 & 2.
John directed his last three plays, Second Helping in 2005, Enuff in 2002 for the Blak Inside season at the Playbox, and No Parking in 2001 for the Bless Your Big Blak Arts Festival.

Professor David Throsby
David Throsby is Professor of Economics at Macquarie University and is internationally known for his work in the economics of the arts and culture. His book The Economics of the Performing Arts, co-authored with Glenn Withers, has become a standard reference work in the field. His most recent book, Economics and Culture, was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press and earlier this year Currency House published his much discussed Platform Paper, Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy?