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based in
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,
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, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the Australian and South Australian coastline in the early 19th century. Flinders' main campus at Bedford Park in Adelaide's south is set upon 156 acres of gardens and native bushland, making it a verdant university . Other campuses include Tonsley, Adelaide Central Business District, Renmark, Alice Springs, and Darwin. It is a member of the
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(IRU) Group. Academically, the university pioneered a cross-disciplinary approach to education, and its faculties of medicine and the humanities have been ranked among the nation's top 10. The 2021 Times Higher Education ranking of the world's top universities places Flinders in the 251 – 300th bracket, at 266 in the world. The Quacquarelli Symonds rating agency named Flinders University in its inaugural 2023 QS Recognition of Internationalisation awards, one of four awardees worldwide. Flinders University leads the nation in postgraduate employment outcomes according to the 2021 Graduate Outcome Survey - Longitudinal, released by the Australian Government's Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching.


History


Origins and construction

By the late 1950s, the University of Adelaide's North Terrace campus was approaching capacity. In 1960, Premier Thomas Playford announced that of state government-owned land in Burbank (now Bedford Park) would be allocated to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of a second campus.http://www.flinders.edu.au:80/about/our-university/our-history/1958---1965-from-the-ground-up.cfm Flinders University – 1958–1965: From the ground up Planning began in 1961. The principal-designate of the new campus, economist and professor
Peter Karmel Peter Henry Karmel (9 May 192230 December 2008) was an Australian economist and professor. He chaired the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission that produced the report ''Schools in Australia'' in 1973. Biography Karmel was ...
, was adamant that the new campus should operate independently from the North Terrace campus. He hoped that the Bedford Park campus would be free to innovate and not be bound by tradition. Capital works began in 1962 with a grant of £3.8 million from the Australian Universities Commission. Architect Geoff Harrison, in conjunction with architectural firm Hassell, McConnell and Partners, designed a new university that, with future expansions, could eventually accommodate up to 6000 students.


Independence and opening

In 1965, the Australian Labor Party won the state election and
Frank Walsh Francis Henry Walsh (6 July 1897 – 18 May 1968) was the 34th Premier of South Australia from 10 March 1965 to 1 June 1967, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Early life One of eight children, Walsh was b ...
became premier. The ALP wished to break up the University of Adelaide's hegemony over tertiary education in the state, and announced that they intended the Bedford Park campus to be an independent institution. On 17 March 1966, a bill was passed by state parliament officially creating the Flinders University of South Australia.http://www.flinders.edu.au:80/about/our-university/our-history/1966---1971-the-first-students.cfm Flinders University – 1966–1971: The first students Although the Labor Party had favoured the name "University of South Australia", academic staff wished that the university be named after a "distinguished but uncontroversial" person. They settled upon British navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in 1802. Its coat of arms, designed by a professor in the Fine Arts faculty, includes a reproduction of Flinders' ship ''Investigator'' and his journal ''A Voyage to Terra Australis'', open to the page in which Flinders described the coast adjacent the campus site. Flinders University was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on 25 March 1966.
Peter Karmel Peter Henry Karmel (9 May 192230 December 2008) was an Australian economist and professor. He chaired the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission that produced the report ''Schools in Australia'' in 1973. Biography Karmel was ...
was the first Vice-Chancellor and Sir Mark Mitchell the first Chancellor. The university commenced teaching on 7 March 1966 with a student enrolment of 400. A significant early initiative was the decision to build the Flinders Medical Centre on land adjacent to the campus and to base the university's Medical School within this new public hospital – the first such integration in Australia. Flinders accepted undergraduate medical students in 1974, with the FMC opening the following year.


Expansion and restructuring

In 1990, the biggest building project on campus since the mid-1970s saw work commence on three new buildings – Law and Commerce; Engineering; and Information Science and Technology. Approval for the establishment of a School of Engineering was given in 1991 and degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering were established shortly afterwards. In 1991, as part of a restructuring of higher education in South Australia, Flinders merged with the adjacent Sturt Campus of the former South Australian College of Advanced Education. In 1992 a four-faculty structure was adopted. In 1998, the Centre for Remote Health, a rural teaching hospital based in Alice Springs, was established jointly with the
Northern Territory University Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with a main campus in Darwin and eight satellite campuses in some metropolitan and regional areas. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University, ...
(now
Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with a main campus in Darwin and eight satellite campuses in some metropolitan and regional areas. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University ...
). This was expanded further in 2011 with the establishment of the Northern Territory Medical Program. Since 2000 the university has established new disciplines in areas including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and more disciplines of Engineering. In 2011, the bacteria genus
Flindersiella ''Flindersiella endophytica'' is an endophytic bacterium from the genus '' Flindersiella'' which has been isolated from the tree '' Eucalyptus microcarpa'' in Adelaide in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, i ...
was named after the university after the strain was found on a tree on campus grounds. In 2015, the university opened a new campus at Tonsley, the former site of the Mitsubishi Motors Australia plant in Southern Adelaide. This campus houses the university's School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, along with the Medical Device Research Institute, the Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology (now known as the Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology) and Flinders technology start-up company Re-Timer. In 2016, the university celebrated its 50th anniversary with a calendar of public events, and a publication summarising the highlights of the university's history, research, and alumni achievements over the last 50 years. 2016 also saw the opening of the award-winning student hub and plaza, transforming the central campus. On 1 July 2017, the university restructured from a two-tier academic system of four faculties and 14 schools, to a single-tier structure consisting of six colleges. The university's strategic plan ''Making a Difference - The 2025 Agenda'' released in 2016 set an ambitious vision for the coming decade for Flinders to reach the top ten of Australian Universities, and the top one per cent in the world. In 2019 the university announced an additional $100 million investment in research and a further $100 million in education over a five-year period to support it to meet its strategic goals. The university also in 2019 announced plans for a substantial development on a tract on land on the northern portion of the Bedford Park Campus adjacent to the Flinders hospitals precinct. Known as ''Flinders Village'' the decade-long development will deliver research facilities, student accommodation, commercial premises and amenities. The catalyst for the initiative was the extension of the Clovelly Park rail line to the Flinders precinct. The $141m rail line and Flinders Station project began operation in December 2020. Stage one of the ''Flinders Village'' development is the construction of a Health and Medical Research Building. Construction began in December 2021 and the building, which will be home to Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, is scheduled for completion in 2024. In 2021 the University announced it would be expanding its Central Business District presence, establishing a vertical campus as the anchor tenant in Festival Tower, a major development scheduled for completion in 2024 adjacent to Parliament House and the Adelaide Railway Station on North Terrace. In 2022, the newly elected state Labor government led by
Peter Malinauskas Peter Bryden Malinauskas ( ; born 14 August 1980) is an Australian politician, serving as the 47th and current premier of South Australia since March 2022. He has been the leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party (AL ...
proposed setting up a commission to investigate the possibility of a merger of South Australia's three public universities
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,
University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public research university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on N ...
and Flinders University.


Campuses

The university's main campus is in the Adelaide inner southern suburb of Bedford Park, about 12 km south of the
Adelaide city centre Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Ad ...
. The university also has a presence in Victoria Square in the centre of the city, and Tonsley. It also maintains a number of external teaching facilities in regional
South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
, south-west
Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...
and the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
. As of 2020 international students made up 19.5% of the on-campus student population and a number of offshore programmes are also offered, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.


Organisation

Flinders University offers more than 160 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as higher degree research supervision across all disciplines. Many courses use new information and communication technologies to supplement face-to-face teaching and provide flexible options.


Colleges

*College of Business, Government and Law *College of Education, Psychology and Social Work *College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences *College of Medicine and Public Health *College of Nursing and Health Sciences *College of Science and Engineering


Chancellory

Flinders University has been served by six Chancellors and eight Vice Chancellors since its establishment in 1966. They are:


Affiliates

*
Australian Science and Mathematics School The Australian Science and Mathematics School (ASMS) is a coeducational public senior high school for Years 10 - 12 located on the Sturt campus of Flinders University in Bedford Park, a southern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Austral ...
*
Flinders Medical Centre Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is a major public tertiary hospital and teaching school, co-located with Flinders University and the 130 bed Flinders Private Hospital located at Bedford Park, South Australia. It opened in 1976. It serves as the t ...
*The Adelaide Theological Centre Brooklyn Park (comprising the Catholic Theological College and the
Uniting College for Leadership and Theology The Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in South Australia is a Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) theological college for the education and training of both lay people and those for specified ministries including the diaconate and yout ...
replacing the
Adelaide College of Divinity Adelaide College of Divinity (ACD) is an accredited higher education provider offering diploma, associate and bachelor's degrees, graduate diplomas, master and doctoral degrees in ministry, it is also a Registered Training Organisation offer ...
) * Helpmann Academy


Academic profile


Rankings

Flinders University is amongst the world's top 300 institutions at 266 according to the 2022 Times Higher Education rankings.


Student life


Housing

Flinders has two options regarding on-campus accommodation: *University Hall (catered) *Deirdre Jordan Village (self-catered). For off-campus accommodation, Flinders Housing run a free, up-to-date accommodation service which lists private accommodation available on the rental market.


Media

''Empire Times'' was published by the Students' Association of Flinders University (SAFU) from 1969 to 2006. The founder and first editor of the newspaper was
Martin Fabinyi Martin Fabinyi is an Australian film and television producer and director, songwriter and music label owner and has written books on the local rock music scene. He was the chief executive officer of Mushroom Pictures from its formation in 1993 ...
, and the newspaper was originally printed in the back of his house by fellow student
Rod Boswell Roderick William (Rod) Boswell AM FAA FTSE (born 1933 in `YackandandahRod W. ...
. ''Empire Times'' had a history of controversial humour and anti-establishment discussion. Notable former editors and contributors included
Martin Armiger John Martin Armiger (10 June 1949 – 27 November 2019) was an Australian musician, record producer and composer. He was one of the singer-songwriters and guitarists with Melbourne-based rock band the Sports from August 1978 to late 1981, which ...
and Greig (HG Nelson) Pickhaver, Steph Key and Kate Ellis. ''Empire Times'' ceased publication in 2006 as a result of
voluntary student unionism Voluntary student unionism (VSU), as it is known in Australia, or voluntary student membership (VSM), as it is known in New Zealand, is a policy under which membership of – and payment of membership fees to – university student organisations i ...
, but resumed in 2013.


Sports

Flinders University has many sports teams that compete in social and competitive competitions. Flinders University has 22 affiliated sporting clubs including Aikido, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, CrossFit, Football, Hockey, Kendo, Korfball, Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Muay Thai, Netball, Quidditch Squash, Ultimate Frisbee, Underwater, Volleyball, Wing Chun and Women's Soccer. Additionally, Flinders University students have the capacity to go away to annual university games events and compete in a range of sports while representing the university.


Notable people


Entertainment and the arts

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Mario Andreacchio Mario Andreacchio (born 1 January 1955) is an Australian film producer/director. Born in Leigh Creek, South Australia to Italians, Italian parents, Andreacchio graduated from Flinders University with a degree in Psychology (after originally go ...
– film director and producer * Benedict Andrews – theatre director *
Donald Brook Donald Brook (8 January 1927 – 17 December 2018) was an Australian artist, art critic, philosopher, and theorist, whose research and publications centre on the philosophy of art, non-verbal representation and cultural evolution. He initiated ...
– Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts *Matt Crook - actor *
Alex Frayne Alex Frayne is an Adelaide-based Australian photo artist whose images have received attention locally and abroad. He studied Film at the Flinders University of South Australia, where he met long-time collaborator and cinematographer Nick Remy ...
– film director *
Noni Hazlehurst Leonie Elva "Noni" Hazlehurst , (born 17 August 1953) is an Australian actress, director, writer, presenter and broadcaster who has appeared on television and radio, in dramas, mini-series and made for television films, as well also on stag ...
– actress *
Scott Hicks Scott Hicks may refer to: * Scott Hicks (basketball) (born 1966), American former college basketball coach * Scott Hicks (director) Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953), known as Scott, is an Australian film director, producer and screenwrit ...
– film director *
Victoria Hill Victoria Hill (born 18 February 1971 in Adelaide) is an Australian actress, writer and producer. She is now based between Los Angeles, New York City and Sydney. Early life and career Victoria Hill is the daughter of Robert Hill, a former ...
– actress, writer and producer * Aimee Horne – actress and singer *
Craig Lahiff Craig Lahiff (23 April 1947 – 2 February 2014) was an Australian film director. He grew up in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park, South Australia, Somerton Park and studied science at Adelaide University, then trained as a systems consultan ...
– film director *
Nina Landis Nina Landis is an Australian stage and screen actress, who trained in Australia and New York. Her feature film credits include the title role (Rikky) in ''Rikky and Pete'', '' Komodo'', '' Four of a Kind'', '' Handle with Care'', and '' Blackj ...
– actress *
Caleb Lewis Caleb Lewis is an Australian playwright and game designer. He is known for his play '' Dogfall'', first produced in 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia. Early life and education Lewis' father was a diver, whose job at one time was to retrieve bo ...
– playwright *
Sam Mac Sam "Sam Mac" McMillan is an Australian television host, weather presenter, and entertainer. He was a 2019 Gold Logie Nominee and is currently the weather presenter on Seven Network's breakfast show ''Sunrise''. Career TV In 2010, Sam beca ...
– radio and television personality *
Anthony Maras Anthony Maras is a multi award-winning Greek-Australian film director, writer and producer born in Adelaide, South Australia. Maras' debut feature film ''Hotel Mumbai'' explores the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and stars Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, ...
– film director, writer and producer *Louisa Mignone - actress *
Doc Neeson Bernard Patrick "Doc" Neeson OAM (4 January 1947 – 4 June 2014) was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 through to 1999. The band then split ...
– singer, songwriter and front man of The Angels *Gian Carlo Petraccaro – film director *
Greig Pickhaver Greig Pickhaver Order of Australia, AM (born 1948) is an actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the Australian satirical sports comedy duo ''Roy and HG'' as the excitable sports announcer H.G Nelson. The Roy and HG#Awards and nominati ...
(also known as H.G. Nelson) – actor, comedian and writer *Dario Russo - film director and writer *
Xavier Samuel Xavier Samuel (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian film and theatre actor. He has appeared in leading roles in the feature films '' Adore'', ''September'', ''Further We Search'', ''Newcastle'', '' The Loved Ones'', ''Frankenstein'', ''A Fe ...
– actor *
John Schumann John Lewis Schumann (born 18 May 1953) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide. He is best known as the lead singer for the folk group Redgum, with their chart-topping hit " I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)", a so ...
– Michael Atkinson, Verity Truman, Chris Timms (founding members of
Redgum Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals, Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were later joined by Hugh McDonald on fiddle and Ch ...
) *
Wendy Strehlow Wendy Strehlow ( 1958) is an Australian actress, particularly in soap opera and theatre, she has appeared in numerous TV series and tele-dramas but is probably best known for her role as the much loved nurse sister Judy Loveday in the televisio ...
– actress * Eddie White – animation writer and director


Humanities

* Jack Barbalet – professor of sociology * Carl Bridge – professor of history at King's College, London *
Marion Maddox Marion Maddox is an Australian author, academic and political commentator. She is a Professor in the department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. Maddox is a regular commentator on issues of religi ...
– author and professor of history at Macquarie University *
Haydon Manning Haydon Manning is an Australian political scientist and Adjunct Professor with the College of Business, Government and Law at The Flinders University of South Australia. Early life and education Manning is the son of historian Geoff Manning, ...
– political scientist *
Wesley Wildman Wesley J. Wildman (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian-American philosopher, theologian, and ethicist. Currently, he is a full professor at the Boston University School of Theology, founding member of the faculty of Computing and Data Scien ...
– professor of theology at Boston University *
Graham Hill Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and team owner, who was the Formula One World Champion twice, winning in and as well as being runner up on three occasions (1963, 1964 and 1965). Despite ...
– associate professor of missiology and World Christianity at the University of Divinity


Medicine

*
Nazira Abdula Nazira Karimo Vali Abdula (born 1969) is a pediatrician and politician from Mozambique. She has served as Minister of Health in the government of Filipe Nyusi since January 19, 2015. Biography Abdula was born in the city of Nampula, Portuguese ...
, pediatrician and Mozambican Minister of Health *Jamie Cooper - professor of intensive care medicine * Richard "Harry" Harris - anaesthetist and 2019 Australian of the Year *Graeme Young - gastroenterologist, developer of the national bowel cancer screening programme * Sally Goold - First Indigenous nurse in New South Wales and 2006 Senior Nurse of the Year * Marcello Costa AO - neuroscientist,understanding of gut neuronal structure and function.


Politics

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John Bannon John Charles Bannon (7 May 1943 – 13 December 2015) was an Australian politician and academic. He was the 39th Premier of South Australia, leading the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from a single term in opposition ba ...
– former South Australian Premier *
Zoe Bettison Zoe Lee Bettison is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Electoral district of Ramsay, Ramsay for the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), South Australian Branch of the Australian La ...
– South Australian state politician and Minister *
Susan Close Susan Elizabeth Close (born 12 November 1967) is an Australian politician, who is currently the Deputy Premier of South Australia since March 2022. She also holds the ministerial portfolios of Minister for Climate, Environment and Water, Minist ...
– South Australian state politician, Minister and Deputy Premier * David Cox – Member of the
Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the ...
* Kate Ellis – Member of the
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and Minister * Bronwyn Halfpenny – Member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...
* Ian Hunter – South Australian state politician and Minister *
Tom Kenyon Thomas Richard Kenyon (born 26 February 1972) is a former Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Newland for the Labor Party from the 2006 election until his defeat in 2018. Kenyon left the Labor ...
– South Australian state politician and Minister * Stephanie Key – South Australian state politician and Minister *
Jenny Leong Jenny Leong (born 1977), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Newtown for the Greens since 2015. Leong is the first person to represent Newtown in its current form, as it was created ...
– Member of the
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*
Brendan Nelson Brendan John Nelson (born 19 August 1958) is a business leader and former Australian politician. He served as the federal Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2008, going on to serve as Australia's senior diplomat to the European Union and NA ...
– former Australian Leader of the Opposition *
Chris Picton Christopher James Picton (born 13 January 1983) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Electoral district of Kaurna, Kaurna for the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), South Austral ...
– South Australian state politician and Minister *
Mike Rann Michael David Rann, , (born 5 January 1953) is an Australian former politician who was the 44th premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. He was later Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014, and Australian am ...
– former Premier, appointed as a Flinders University professor *
Amanda Rishworth Amanda Louise Rishworth (born 10 July 1978) is an Australian politician who has served as the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Kingston in South Australia since the 2007 election. Rishworth was appointed ...
– Member of the
Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the ...
*
Don Russell Dr Donald Russell is a former senior Australian public servant and administrator. He is currently the Chairman of AustralianSuper, Australia's largest superannuation fund. Education Don Russell has a PhD from the London School of Economics, a ...
– former
Australian Ambassador to the United States The Ambassador of Australia to the United States is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the director of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States of America. The embassy is located ...
* Robert Simms
Australian Senator The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. There are a ...
*
Andrew Southcott Andrew John Southcott (born 15 October 1967) is an Australian politician and medical practitioner. He was the Liberal member for the House of Representatives seat of Boothby from the 1996 election until he stood down at the 2016 election. ...
– Member of the
Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the ...
* Gayle Tierney – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council * Sialeʻataonga Tuʻivakanō – Prime Minister of
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* Lynne Walker – Northern Territory Deputy Leader of the Opposition *
Pratikno Pratikno (born 13 February 1962) is an Indonesian politician and academician. He is currently the Minister of State Secretariat of Indonesia in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet, the cabinet appointed by President Joko Widodo for his second term in ...
– Minister of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia *
Nicolle Flint Nicolle Jane Flint (born 15 July 1978) is an Australian politician. She was the member for Boothby in South Australia in the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and succeeded ...
– Member of the
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Science and mathematics

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Rod Boswell Roderick William (Rod) Boswell AM FAA FTSE (born 1933 in `YackandandahRod W. ...
– professor, Plasma Research Laboratory, ANU *
Philip Bourne Philip Eric Bourne (born 1953) is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and businessman. He is currently Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and was the ...
– professor of pharmacology at UCSD *
Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Profes ...
– professor of robotics at MIT * Sabine Dittmann – marine biologist *
Mohammad Kaykobad Mohammad Kaykobad ( bn, মোহাম্মদ কায়কোবাদ) is a computer scientist, educator, author, and columnist from Bangladesh. Along with Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, he started the national mathematics olympiad. He was a profess ...
– Computer Scientist, Professor of CSE,
BUET Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, commonly known by the acronym BUET, is a public technological research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1876 as the Dacca Survey School, it is the oldest institution for the study ...
*
Mamoru Mohri , AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions. He is the first Japanese astronaut who was part of an official Japanese space program. The first Japanese person in space, Toyohiro Akiy ...
– retired astronaut, scientist and engineer *
Colin Raston Colin Llewellyn Raston (born 1950) is a Professor of Chemistry of Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and the Premier's Professorial Fellow in Clean Technology. In 2015, he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in "for inventing a chemi ...
- professor of green chemistry, SA Scientist of the Year inventor of the Vortex Fluidic Device *
Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...
– Fields Medalist, professor of mathematics at UCLA * Tony Thomas – professor of physics at the University of Adelaide


Sport

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Matthew Liptak Matthew Liptak (born 30 April 1970) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is also an orthopaedic surgeon, receiving his medical degree from Fli ...
– Adelaide Crows footballer * Agnes Milowka – technical diver and author *
Nigel Smart Nigel James Smart (born 21 May 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Smart played most of his career in defence and became a crowd favourite, easily ide ...
– Adelaide Crows footballer


Writers

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Mem Fox Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox, AM (born Merrion Frances Partridge; 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but she still gives seminars and l ...
- children's author *
Hannah Kent Hannah Kent (born 1985) is an Australian writer, known for two novels – ''Burial Rites'' (2013) and ''The Good People'' (2016). Her third novel, ''Devotion'', was published in 2021. Early life and education Kent was born in 1985 grew up in t ...
- author, winner of the Stella Prize * Sean Williams - multi awarded author of novels and short stories for adults, young people and children * Peter Martin – economics journalist and commentator (Distinguished Alumnus 2016) *
Sudesh Mishra Sudesh Mishra is a contemporary Fijian- Australian poet and academic. Career Sudesh Mishra was born in Fiji into an Indo-Fijian family. Coming to Australia to study he studied at The University of Wollongong and went on to complete a Ph.D. in ...
– poet * Christopher Pearson – journalist, founder of the
Adelaide Review ''The Adelaide Review'' (AR) was a monthly print arts magazine and dynamic website in Adelaide, South Australia. It was first published in 1984, but gained standing after one of its writers, Christopher Pearson, took it over in 1985. In March ...
and speechwriter for Prime Minister
John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...
* Mark Peel – Australian historian * Petar Pjesivac – Serbian poet and essayist To date, Flinders has produced one
Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Governmentowned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the State and Territo ...
in Richard Harris, one Fields Medalist in Terry Tao, five
Rhodes scholars The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
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Fulbright The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...
scholars.


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AusStage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ...
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Flinders University AusStage Prize The Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA), formerly the Australian Drama Studies Association, is an academic association promoting the study of theatre in New Zealand and Australia. History The Australian ...
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List of universities in Australia There are 43 universities in Australia: 40 Australian universities (36 public and 4 private) and 3 international private universities. The Commonwealth Higher Education Support Act 2003 sets out three groups of Australian higher education provi ...


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