Macquarie University Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

BA (or similar)

N/A

Lauren Jackson

Australian basketball legend

N/A

N/A

Ian Thorpe

Champion swimmer, Olympian

N/A

N/A

The Wiggles (Cook, Field, Page)

Founding members of children’s musical group

N/A

N/A

Hugh Riminton

Australian journalist & BBC presenter

N/A

N/A

Yalda Hakim

International journalist and BBC presenter

N/A

N/A

Greg Coffey

Hedge fund manager, “Wizard of Oz”, philanthropist

BEcon

1995

Catherine Livingstone

Business leader and chairperson

N/A

N/A

Matt Barrie

Founder & CEO of Freelancer.com

N/A

N/A

Napoleon Perdis

Makeup artist and business entrepreneur

N/A

N/A

David Leckie

Former CEO of Seven West Media

N/A

N/A

Barry Brook

Scientist

N/A

N/A

Frank Duarte

Physicist and author

N/A

N/A

Christine Nixon

First female Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police

N/A

N/A

John Faulkner

Australian Senator and cabinet minister

N/A

N/A

Kerry Bartlett

Member of Australian Parliament (Macquarie seat), teacher turned politician

MA (Economics)

N/A

Jemma Brownlow

Olympic water polo goalkeeper (Australia)

N/A

N/A

Michael Kirby (honorary)

Eminent jurist, UN commission head (honoris causa)

LLD (honoris causa)

1994

Andrew Scipione

Commissioner of NSW Police (APM), Master of Management

MMgt

1998

Liane Moriarty

Best-selling author (e.g. Big Little Lies)

MA (Creative Writing)

2003