AUNTY SILVIA SCOTT is a Wiradjuri woman who is a respected elder in Sydney's Aboriginal Community and is also involved with the Mac Silva Centre, a support service for Aboriginal people with alcohol related problems. Aunty Silvia is also a member of the board from Tranby Aboriginal College

VANESSA WAGNER is one of Australia's most colourful and entertaining identities. Vanessa started as a dedicated housewife and part-time hostess, then realising her immense social skills, Vanessa moved to throw a series of notorious 'Patio Parties'. Vanessa was crowned Miss Fair Day and hosts the annual Grad Race Meet at Bondi Beach for the Sydney Fringe Festival. She is director of her own dance company, Crystal Stepz Dance Company and co-hosted the 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Telecast.

TOBIN SAUNDERS is a freelance performer, choreographer, DJ and events coordinator/producer. Combining elements of contempory dance, expressive movement, popular culture and satire, Tobin's work could best be described as Pastiche.

DAVID MARR is a journalist who has worked for the Bulletin, the National Times and ABC Radio and television. Over the past twenty years he has slos written biographies of both Garfield Barwick and Patrick White. His 1985 Four Corners on the deaths of Aboriginals in custody in Western Australia, 'Black Death', helped the push for the Royal Commission that followed. David Marr now writes for the Sydney Morning Herald on race, sex justice and other issues.

LINDA BURNEY grew up in Whitton, a small farming community near Leeton, NSW, where she won a NSW government scholarship and became the first Aboriginal student to complete a Diploma of Teaching at the then Mitchel CAE. Linda has recently given up the presidency of the NSW Aboriginal ducation Consultative Group to accept the position of Chair of the NSW State Reconciliation Committee. Linda's other current commitments include membership of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, the Board of SBS, the NSW Historic Houses Trust, the NSW Centenary of Federation Committee and the Chair of the Board of the Vocational Education and Training Equity Advisory Committee.

SENATOR BOB BROWN, 52, a former medical practitioner, was the Director of the Wilderness Society which organised the blockade of the damworks on Tasmania's wild Franklin river in 1982/3. After Federal government intervention, the Franklin river was protected in 1983. As a State MP, Bob Brown introduced a wide range of private member's initiatives, including Freedom of Information, Death with Dignity, gay law reform. Some succeeded, others not. Bob Brown has been a life long activist.

ADEN RIDGEWAY is a member of the Gumbayyngirr Aboriginal people of nothern NSW and until recently was the Executive Director of the NSW Lands Council. He was previously Lands Policy Manager, providing advice to the Aboriginal community on such matters as native title, cultural property issues, community planning, land rights and land management. Aden has been a member of the Sydney Regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coucil, an Aboriginal assessor at the NSW Land and Environment Court and helped develop a regional plan for the soci-economic conditions of the Aboriginal people in the Sydney region. He is currently a candidate for the Australian Democratic Party, a member of the geographical Names Board of NSW and the Australian Museum Trust, Director of the NSW Public Service Staff Credit Union and Chairperson of the Bangarra Dance Theatre Company.

REV DOROTHY McCRAE-McMAHON was a minister with the Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney for ten years and then for the last five years on the national staff of the Uniting Church. She resigned from this position after announcing publicly that she is a lesbian and is now mostly a writer and a speaker. The community has recognised her work over the years with a Jubilee Medal from the Queen for work with women in NSW (1977), an Australian Government Peace Award (1986), the Australian Human Rights Medal (1988) and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Macquarie University for work with minorities and contribution to the spiritual life of the community (1992).