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Mr. Noel Pearson	Dr. Ken Henry	Prof. Marcia Langton
Ms. Tania Major	Mr. Sandy McCutcheon	Mr. Michael Meyers
Prof. Lawrence Mead	Prof. Ron Duncan	Mr Wilfred Gordon Dr. Judy Bennett
Dr. Chris Sarra	Prof. Peter Saunders	Mr. John Wenitong
Jane-Frances Kelly	Colin Rubenstein	Prof. Helen Milroy

MR. SANDY MCCUTCHEON


Sandy McCutcheon (born 1947) is a prominent Australian author, playwright, actor, journalist and broadcaster.

Sandy McCutcheon has been the host of a popular talkback radio program Australia Talks Back on ABC Radio National and still is (as of 2007). Australia Talks Back is the only whole-continent talkback radio program. It has also gathered listeners from around the world through the internet and Radio Australia shortwave broadcasts. It runs for an hour every weekday and attracts a wide variety of audiences, who discuss a particular topic every day, reviewing the week's topics on Friday. Sandy also invites experts to discuss the daily topic.

Before Radio National, Sandy has been a presenter on ABC's Double Jay, later Triple J, now an Australia-wide radio station. Before that he worked at radio stations in Townsville and Hobart.

Sandy has produced many documentaries for the radio in countries around the world, including Bosnia, China, Finland, Malaysia, Mozambique, Singapore, South Africa, Sudan (North and South) and Yugoslavia.