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  • Sir Jack Ellerton Becker FAA

  • Professor GW Kenneth Cavil Bequest

  • Estate of the late Mr Thomas Lew Davies

  • Professor Michael Dopita AM FAA

  • Professor Michael Dopita AM FAA

  • Breakthrough Prize Foundation

  • The Estate of the late Dr Margaret Middleton

  • Estate of the late Ian Gordon Ross AO FAA

  • Estate of the late Elizabeth Jane Gray Russell

  • Professor John Shine AC FAA FRS

  • Academy Circle


  • David Anstice AO

  • Professor Michael Barber AO FAA FTSE

  • Ian Potter Foundation

  • Professor Suzanne Cory AC FAA FAHMS FRS and Professor Jerry Adams FAA

  • Professor Mahananda Dasgupta FAA

  • Dr Jon Day PSM

  • Estate of the late Lola Rachel Maude Douglas

  • Frank J Fenner AC CMG MBE FAA and Mrs Bobbie Fenner

  • The Finkel Foundation

  • Dr Beth Heyde

  • Mr Doug Hooley PSM

  • The late Professor John Jaeger FAA FRS

  • Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC FAA FREng FTSE and Dr Vidya Jagadish

  • Estate of the late Pauline Marie Johnson

  • The late Professor Raymond Le Fèvre FAA FRS

  • The late Professor Ian McDougall FAA

  • Professor John Newton FAA

  • Rod Rickards Family

  • Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS Nobel Laureate and Dr Jenny Gordon

  • Professor Terence Speed FAA FRS

  • The late Sir Frederick White KBE FAA FRS

  • SCIENCE CIRCLE


  • The late Professor Joan Anderson FAA FRS

  • Professor James Angus AO FAA FAHMS

  • Dr Eldon Ball

  • Professor Marilyn Ball

  • Dr Glenn Begley and Mrs Merrin Begley

  • Professor Michelle Coote FAA

  • Estate of the Late Professor David P Craig AO FAA FRS

  • CSIRO

  • Estate of the Late Professor David Curtis AC FAA FRA

  • Mrs Lauri Curtis

  • Professor Clifford Emmens FAA

  • Professor Sir Marc Feldmann

  • The Finkel Foundation

  • The late Professor Neville Fletcher AM FAA FTSE

  • The Late Mr Geoffrey Frew

  • Professor Joseph Gani AM FAA

  • Dr Jon Gani

  • Dr Jennifer Gordon

  • The Estate of the later Professor Alfred Gottschalk FAA

  • Dr Allan Head AO FAA FRS and Mrs Gwenneth Head

  • Dr TJ Higgins AO FAA FTSE and Dr Peggy Horn

  • Professor Andrew Holmes AC FAA FTSE FRS

  • Professor Nalini Joshi

  • Estate of Professor Paul Ivan Korner AO FAA and Mrs Jennifer Korner

  • The estate of the late Professor M.R Lemberg FAA FRS and Mrs Hanna Lemberg

  • Dr Kenneth McCracken AO FAA FTSE

  • Professor Frederick Mendelsohn AO FAA

  • Dr Louise Moran

  • Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FAA FTSE FAHMS FRS and Lady Lyn Nossal

  • Mr John Ralph AC FAA FTSE

  • Mr Barry Reardon

  • Selby Scientific Foundation

  • Professor Frank Andrew Smith FAA

  • Professor David Solomon AC FAA FTSE FRS

  • Grander's Trust

  • Professor Colin Sullivan

  • Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

  • The late Sir Ian Wark CMG CBE FAA

  • Dr Roy Woodall AO FAA FTSE

  • ACADEMY SUPPORTERS


  • Dr John Anderson FAA

  • Professor Brian Anderson AC FAA FTSE FRS and Dianne Anderson

  • Sir Noel Bayliss CBE FAA

  • Professor Samuel Berkovic AC FAA FAHMS FRS

  • Berry Family

  • Mrs Susan Berry

  • Professor John Beynon

  • Mr Charles Burleigh

  • Professor John Chalmers AC FAA FAHMS

  • Professor John Church AO FAA FTSE

  • Professor Peter Colman AC FAA FTSE FRS

  • Professor Warrick Couch FAA

  • Professor Robert Crompton AM FAA

  • Professor Graham Davies

  • Professor John Dell

  • Professor Peter Doherty AC FAA FAHMS FRS Nobel Laureate

  • Professor Denis Evans AM FAA

  • James Foundation

  • Dr W Gladstones

  • Dr Marshall Hatch AM FAA FRS

  • Professor John Hosking

  • Professor Archie Johnson

  • Professor Donald Metcalf AC FAA FRS

  • Dr Simon Morris

  • Dr Rana Munns

  • Professor Bernhard Neumann AC FAA FRS

  • Mrs PH Nicholson

  • Professor Brett Ninness

  • Mr Arthur Pulford

  • Professor Leo Radom AC FAA

  • Marion Rees

  • Professor Graham Schaffer

  • Mrs Janine Schmidt

  • Dr Rosalie Schultz

  • Professor Frieder Seible

  • Professor A Smith

  • Professor John Swan AO FAA FTSE

  • Dr Colin Ward FAA FTSE

  • Professor Peter Waterhouse FAA

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  • Professor Gordon Ada AO FAA

  • Professor Colin Austin FAA

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  • Professor Max Bennett AO FAA

  • Professor Martin Bennett FAA FRS

  • The Royal Institution of Australia

  • Professor Louis Birch AM FAA

  • Professor Peter Bishop AO FAA FRS

  • Professor Bob Blanden FAA

  • Dr William Blevin AM FAA FTSE

  • Dr Norman Boardman AO FAA FTSE FRS

  • Professor Maxwell Brennan AO FAA

  • Professor Richard Brent

  • Dr Martin Butler

  • Professor Kenton Campbell FAA

  • Professor John Carver AM FAA FTSE

  • Professor David Catcheside FAA FRS

  • Professor Max Crossley FAA

  • Dr Maxwell Frank Cooper Day AO FAA

  • Professor Ross Day FAA FASSA

  • Professor Bob Delbourgo FAA

  • Professor Derek Denton AC FAA FRS

  • Ms Eleanor Ellis

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  • Professor William Levick FAA FRS

  • Professor Anthony Linnane AM FAA FTSE FRS

  • Professor John Lovering AO FAA FTSE

  • Professor Lewis Mander AC FAA FRS

  • Professor Bruce McKellar AC FAA

  • Professor John McKenzie

  • Estate of the Late Walter S Robinson FAA

  • Professor Barry Osmond FAA FRS ML

  • Dr William Peacock AC FAA FRS FTSE

  • Professor Eugene Seneta

  • In memory of Sarah (Sally) Smith FAA

  • Professor Richard Stanton AO FAA

  • Professor Xu-Jia Wang FAA

  • Professor Ole Warnaar FAA

  • Professor Rachel Webster AO FAA

  • Professor John White AO CMG FAA FRS

  • Emeritus Professor James Williams AO FAA FTSE

  • Mr Dominic Xavier

  • ACADEMY ASSOCIATE


  • Dr Ian Allison AO FAA

  • Professor Michael Alpers AO FAA FRS

  • Professor Marilyn Anderson AO FAA FTSE

  • Professor Benjamin Andrews FAA

  • Professor Stephen Angyal OBE FAA

  • Dr Cyril Appleby

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  • Emeritus Professor Hans Bachor AM FAA

  • Professor Tony Bacic FAA

  • Professor Perry Bartlett AO FAA

  • Professor Antony Basten AO FAA FTSE

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  • Professor Athelstan Beckwith AO FAA FRS

  • Dr Fraser Bergersen AM FAA FRS

  • Professor Debra Bernhardt FAA

  • Professor Arthur Birch AC FAA FRS

  • Professor Linda Blackall FAA

  • Professor Alan Bond FAA

  • David Brown

  • Mr Bill Bryan

  • Professor Henry Burger AO FAA FAHMS

  • Sir Frank Burnet OM AK KBE FAA FRS Nobel Laureate

  • Professor Maria Byrne FAA

  • Mr D Carruthers

  • Professor John Carter AM FAA FTSE

  • Dr Mary Carver

  • Professor Steven Chown FAA

  • Professor Arthur Christopoulos FAA FAHMS

  • Emeritus Professor Ian Chubb AC FAA FTSE

  • Dr Leo Clarebrough OAM FAA

  • Dr Gregory Clark AC FAA FTSE

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  • Professor John Cowley FAA FRS

  • Professor Michael Cowling FAA

  • Professor David Craik AO FAA FRS

  • Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie FAA FRSN

  • Ms Cathy Crompton

  • Professor David Day FAA

  • Professor David de Kretser AC FAA FTSE FAHMS

  • Dr Elizabeth Dennis

  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

  • Professor Robert Dewar FAA

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  • Professor Joanne Etheridge FAA

  • Professor John Evans FAA

  • Professor Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS

  • Mrs Eleanor Finucane

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  • Dr Catherine Foley AO FAA FTSE

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  • Professor Julian Gale FAA

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  • Professor Andrew Gleadow AO FAA

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  • Professor Jennifer Graves AC FAA

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  • Ms Isobel Griffin

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  • Professor Peter Hall AO FAA FRS

  • Mrs Jeannie Hall

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  • Mrs Irene Hannan

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  • Professor Gustav Lehrer AM FAA

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  • Dr Richard Manchester FAA

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  • Professor Barry Marshall AC FAA FAHMS FRS Nobel Laureate

  • Professor Jennifer Martin AC FAA

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  • Kelly McMahon

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  • Professor Suzanne O'Reilly AM FAA

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  • Emeritus Professor Harry Poulos AM FAA FTSE

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  • Mr J Ralph

  • Professor Mark Randolph AO FAA FTSE FRS

  • Professor Colin Raston AO FAA

  • Professor Roger Reddel AO FAA FAHMS

  • Professor Marilyn Renfree AO FAA FRS

  • Professor Linda Richards AO FAA FAHMS

  • Dr Richard Richards FAA FTSE

  • Dr Stephen Rintoul AO FAA

  • Dr Ezio Rizzardo

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