Victorian College of the Arts Alumni: Phillip Adams, Azlan McLennan, Van Thanh Rudd, Adam Elliot, Bill Henson, Isabel Lucas, Pamela Irving

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Phillip Adams, Azlan McLennan, Van Thanh Rudd, Adam Elliot, Bill Henson, Isabel Lucas, Pamela Irving, Liza Lim, Timothy James Webb, Vince Colosimo, Anastasia Klose, Steve Cox, Tania de Jong, Andrew Taylor, Gillian Armstrong, Cheryl Barker, John Dahlsen, Robert Luketic, Rebecca Chambers, Hannie Rayson, Diana Doherty, Patricia Piccinini, Sibylla Budd, Ricky Swallow, Lewis Miller, Christopher Beaumont, Basil Eliades, Jonny Pasvolsky, Marcus Wills, Hugh Davies. Excerpt: Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. Adams is (or was) on the Advisory Board of Wikileaks. Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of Congregational Church minister the Reverend Charles Adams. His parents separated when he was young. He has written: "Mother dumped in favour of a rather sleazy businessman... - a sociopath who tried to murder me... I spent my latter part of my childhood trying to protect my mother from this psycho." Of his education he has said: "I was forced to leave school before completing my secondary education and the only job I could get was working in advertising." Adams joined the Communist Party at age 16, whilst employed in advertising, but left at age 19. He has often compared dogmatic belief in Communism with dogmatic belief in Roman Catholicism. Adams began his advertising career with Foote Cone & Belding and later with Brian Monahan and Lyle Dayman became a partner in the agency Monahan Dayman Adams. They took that company to a successful public listing and Adams became a millionaire in the process. He developed such succes...