* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian artist, historian, and author ( d. 2009 )

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Geelong had always been particularly subject to what Geoffrey Blainey, a notable Australian historian, author of A Game of Our Own, and Geelong supporter, termed the " tyranny of distance ".

Cricket historian David Frith believed it is possible that the abrasive Australian captain Warwick Armstrong could have addressed sarcastic comments to Jardine but Wisden believed his slow approach cost him his century.

Australian historian Robert Manne suggests " approximately 20, 000 to 25, 000 " were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane " made an enormous impact on Australian social life ".

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

* September 20 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( b. 1897 )

* March 16 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( d. 1956 )

Australian historian David McKnight wrote that the IWW was controlled by the Comintern.

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

Paul John Kelly ( born 11 October 1947 ) is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney.

The significance of Fischer's discovery, as the Australian historian John Moses has noted, is that the goal of winning Lebensraum was already in German thinking long before 1933 and thus cannot be seen, as some German historians have argued, as solely Adolf Hitler's personal brain-child.

* Henry Reynolds, Australian historian

Australian architectural historian John James, who made a detailed study of the cathedral, has estimated that there were about 300 men working on the site at any one time, although it has to be acknowledged that our knowledge of working practices at this time is somewhat limited.

Some confusion has been caused by a letter that Popkin wrote, in 1935, to an Australian official historian.

* John Cyril Cato ( born 1889, died 1971 ), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography, known also as Jack Cato

* Allan Bromley ( historian ) ( 1947 – 2002 ), an Australian historian of computing

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.

A team of scientists at the Australian National University led by Professor Andrei Rode claims to have created a device similar to a tractor beam to move small particles 1. 5 meters through the air.

* Professor D W Greig, former Professor of Law at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT ; now retired

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

* Bruce Kapferer, Australian social anthropologist, Foundation Professor, 1996 – 1999

In 1926 a British anthropologist specialising in Australian Aboriginal ethnology and ethnography, Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, noted many Aboriginal groups widely distributed across the Australian continent all appeared to share variations of a single ( common ) myth telling of an unusually powerful, often creative, often dangerous snake or serpent of sometimes enormous size closely associated with the rainbows, rain, rivers, and deep waterholes.

ABC News reported on 17 June 2009 that a study has been carried out by environmental scientist Professor Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University which identified that mountain ash forests in Victoria ’ s Central Highlands as the best in the world at locking up carbon.

In 1999, with the Australian Government refusing to give details to an Australian Senate committee on treaties, Intelligence expert Professor Des Ball from the Australian National University was called to give an outline of Pine Gap.

According to Professor Ball, since 9 December 1966 when the Australian and United States governments signed the Pine Gap treaty, Pine Gap had grown from the original two antennas to about eighteen in 1999.

According to The Mayo Clinic and Australian Professor Bruce Neal, the health consequences of ingesting sea salt or regular table salt are the same, as the content of sea salt is still mainly sodium chloride.

Professor Graeme Clark A. C., then Foundation Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne in 1970, led the team that developed the Australian prototype bionic ear, which was implanted into the first patient, Rod Saunders, in 1978.

Swinburne University ’ s world-class photonics researcher Professor Min Gu was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Federal Government in July 2010.

He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.

Chalmers was born and raised in Australia, and since 2004 has been Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Centre for Consciousness, and an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University.

The Japanese army also set up brothels in Rabaul where " perhaps 2, 000 or more women were deceived and forced into prostitution of a most demanding kind ," according to Emeritus Professor Hank Nelson from the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies ( RSPAS ).

Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA ( born 12 March 1953 ) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics ( CAPPE ) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University.

Narrated by X-Men co-creator Stan Lee, Pryde of the X-Men stars Professor X and the X-Men ( Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, who speaks with an Australian accent despite being Canadian in the comics, Kitty Pryde, and Dazzler ) saving the world from Magneto and his " Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists " ( Toad, the Blob, Pyro, who was identified as Australian, Juggernaut, and the White Queen, who in addition to her telepathic abilities, displays the ability to create " psy-bolts " – sometimes called " psionic energy spears " or " psychic harpoons " – that can damage physical objects, similar to her character's abilities in early comics ).

* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1976 – David Lyons, Australian actor

Naturalistic dualism comes from Australian Philosopher, David Chalmers ( born 1966 ) who argues there is an explanatory gap between objective and subjective experience that cannot be bridged by reductionism because consciousness is, at least, logically autonomous of the physical properties upon which it supervenes.

In his 1995 book Darwinian Fairytales, Australian philosopher David Stove used the term " Darwinism " in a different sense than the above examples.

* 1890 – David Drummond, Australian politician ( d. 1965 )

* David Fairleigh – Former Rugby League forward, 1994 Rothman's Medal winner, NSW & Australian representative player, North Sydney Bears " Team Of The Century " second-rower, current coach of the Central Coast Bears

In June Holt travelled to London via Canada, where on 6 June he opened the Australian Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal ; on the return journey the Holts stayed with the Johnsons at the presidential summer resort, Camp David, in Maryland.

The Australian philosopher David Stove harshly criticized philosophical idealism, arguing that it rests on what he called " the worst argument in the world ".

David Usher, a British Unitarian minister of Australian origin who had proposed the original motion eight years previously, became the ICUU's first President.

* 1959 – David Brown, Australian meteorologist

* 1907 – David Fleay, Australian naturalist ( d. 1993 )

In April 2007, citing the reduced sentence for the Australian prisoner David Matthew Hicks, Lindh's attorneys made a public plea for a Presidential commutation to lower his 20-year sentence.

* 1955 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer ( d. 2004 )

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

Australian philosopher David Stove claimed in 1991 that it was unknown what was wrong with numerology.

* 1954 – David Worrall, Australian composer and polymedia artist

* 1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer

The Australian philosopher David Malet Armstrong has been one of the leading realists in the twentieth century, and has used a concept of universals to build a naturalistic and scientifically realist ontology upon.

Peter Albert David Singer AC ( born 6 July 1946 ) is an Australian moral philosopher.

Keating at age 35, second from left, with other ALP figures ( from left ) Colin Jamieson, Peter Walsh ( Australian politician ) | Peter Walsh and David Combe

* David Seal ( born 1972 ), Australian soccer player

* 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor

* 1967 – Tony David, Australian darts player