Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched on March 9, 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand model, actress and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar. She has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice; in 1994 and in 2006.
Shirley Hazzard was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held U.S. citizenship.
Go-Set was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. Widely described as a pop music "bible",
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger is a 2008 Australian independent teen film written and directed by Cathy Randall. It stars Danielle Catanzariti, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Toni Collette. The film follows Jewish 15-year-old Esther (Catanzariti), an outcast at her posh school, where she has no friends. That changes when she meets nonconformist Sunni (Castle-Hughes) from the local public school.
Estelle Asmodelle, formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is a polymath. She is an Australian model, actress, belly dancer, musician, activist, abstract artist and physicist. She became Australia's first legally recognised transgender person registered with the Births, Deaths and Marriages Department of New South Wales on the 13th October 1987. In 1986, she was labelled "Australia’s First Sex-Change Pin-up Girl". She was said to be the most photographed transgender person in Australia. Estelle was a controversial figure in the 1980s and as such her story has also appeared in books as well.
Brook Maurio, known professionally by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (2005). Cody received critical acclaim for her screenwriting debut film, Juno (2007), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson is an Australian actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. After graduating from the Australian Theatre for Young People in 2003, Wilson began appearing as Toula in the SBS comedy series Pizza and later appeared in the sketch comedy show The Wedge (2006–2007). She wrote, produced and starred in the musical comedy series Bogan Pride (2008). Shortly after moving to the United States, Wilson appeared in the comedy films Bridesmaids and A Few Best Men, both in 2011.
Catherine Ruth Jennings was an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.
Arabella Edge is a writer and novelist whose first work, The Company, received a 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.
Rahni Sadler, is an Australian television reporter.
Charlotte Elise Best is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for her role in the show Home and Away as the young girl in the Campbell family, Annie Campbell.
Marcella Polain is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.
Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic.
Germany Kent is an American print and broadcast journalist, television personality, former beauty queen, actor, businesswoman, producer, philanthropist, and author. Her work has appeared in INC. Magazine, Fast Company, Forbes, Bloomberg Business, MSN South Africa, Yahoo Canada, Cosmopolitan (UK), and The Dallas Morning News. Her media appearances include NPR, AOL.com, and ABC.
Beau Dunn is an American actress, model, visual artist and entrepreneur. based in Los Angeles, California. Dunn’s work consists primarily of mixed media works including neon, paint, photography and sculpture. Next to tackling social and autobiographical issues, Dunn speaks to the contemporary art tradition of using toys and the concept of play as a means to reflect societies’ stereotypes, tastes, and desires. She is best known for her series of Barbie portraits, titled "Plastic", in addition to her appearances in modeling campaigns for Smashbox Cosmetics and as well as her roles in American television series Entourage, Up All Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Melissa & Joey.
Dara Kristen Hayes, known as Tigerlily, is an Australian DJ and record producer born in Sydney.
LuckyChap Entertainment is an American production company based in Los Angeles, founded in 2014 by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr. The company describes their focal point as female-focused film and television productions.
Barbie Kjar is an Australian artist and educator, specialising in printmaking and drawing. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
Gabé Hirschowitz is an Australian-American art dealer, philanthropist, and lifestyle journalist.