Politics and Government
- Jacinta Allan, Victorian Government Minister
- Helen Buckingham, MP
- Phil Cleary, Former Federal Independent MP, Author, social activist, political and sports commentator, former VFL Footballer, ABC Presenter
- Jacinta Collins, Federal Senator
- Mary Delahunty, Victorian MP, former minister, former ABC TV presenter
- Martin Dixon, Victorian MP, opposition frontbencher
- Stephen Duckett former Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (1994–1996) and currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services in Canada.
- Matthew Guy, Liberal MP
- Bill Kelty, former ACTU secretary, union official, AFL Commissioner, Union icon
- Sussan Ley, Federal MP
- Brian Loughnane, Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia
- Terry Moran, Head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Head of the Federal Public Service
- Maximus Ongkili, Malaysian Cabinet minister
- Emilia Pires, Finance Minister, East Timor
- Geoff Raby Foreign Affairs secretary, Australia's most senior Trade official, World Trade Organisation negotiator and the Australian ambassador to China.
- Andrew Robb, Federal MP, Parliamentary secretary, Former Liberal Treasurer
- Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sri Lankan cabinet minister of disaster management and MP
- Tony Sheehan, Former Treasurer, deputy opposition leader
- Sharman Stone, Federal MP, Opposition frontbencher, Former Government minister
- Theo Theophanous, Victorian Government Minister
- Geoff Walsh, Former ALP National Secretary, UN official and delegate, adviser to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, Consul General to Hong Kong, Age and AFR journalist
- Don Watson, Author, academic, political commentator, former speechwriter to Paul Keating
- Ian Watt, Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance, former Treasury and cabinet official, former diplomat
- Christian Zahra, Former Federal Opposition frontbencher
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Famous quotes containing the words politics and/or government:
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation’s public school system entitled “Savage Inequalities,” Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)