Australian Famous Baby Names

A singer-songwriter from Christchurch, New Zealand. While still at school in Christchurch, Moa enter

A singer-songwriter from Christchurch, New Zealand. While still at school in Christchurch, Moa entered the 'Smokefree Rockquest'.She received a record deal with Warner Music in New Zealand and Atlantic Records in New York. The record company had big commercialized plans for her - which conflicted with her brash down-to-earth personality. Overall Moa did not enjoy her time in America and returned to base herself in New Zealand. Her first album was released in 2001.She released her second album on August 1, 2005. She has collaborated with many artists including New Zealand's SJD and Bic Runga. She has also joined the band Dimmer, in a backup and touring capacity. She appears on the Greenpeace single "Anchor Me", which commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. She also DJs under the pseudonym DJ Unika.

A contemporary Indigenous Australian author.[citation needed]Anita Heiss is from the Wiradjuri peopl

A contemporary Indigenous Australian author.[citation needed]Anita Heiss is from the Wiradjuri people though she grew up in and lives in Sydney.[1] Her mother was brought up in a Catholic mission and her father is originally from Austria.[2] She grew up in the suburb of Matraville and attended St Clare's College. She is currently an associate professor at Macquarie University, a director of the Gadigal Information Services and Koori Radio and deputy chairperson of the Australian Society of Authors. Her most recent work is the novel Not Meeting Mr. Right which was published in 2007. Apart from performing her work at festivals around Australia and internationally Heiss has also recently written and directed her first short film Checkerboard Love.

Is a former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Austral

Is a former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.Huber was born in Bruchsal, Germany. She started playing tennis at the age of seven, after being introduced to the game by her father, Edgar. In junior competition, she won the under-12 German Championships in 1986, the under-14s in 1987, the under-16s in 1988, and the European Championships in 1989. She was also a semifinalist at Wimbledon's junior tournament in 1990.

An Australian writer and painter.In the 1980s Grocott published two novels for children aged 8-12 ye

An Australian writer and painter.In the 1980s Grocott published two novels for children aged 8-12 years: "Duck For Danger" and "Danni's Desperate Journey" (Angus and Robertson) a handbook "How to write for children" (AWPS) and several short stories. After this she decided to concentrate on painting. She is represented in private and public collections. In 1999 she was one of five chosen to represent Australia in the Worldwide Millennium Art Show which later became the United Nations Millennium Artshow [1]. She has had several works shown in the Salon des Refuses, Sydney, Australia in conjunction with the Archibald and Wynne Prizes, and has had many solo and group exhibitions.

An Australian politician,

An Australian politician,

Is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislat

Is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing the electorate of Oakleigh. She previously represented the electorate of Bentleigh from 1988 to 1992. She worked as a

A contemporary Australian poet and teacher.Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied a

A contemporary Australian poet and teacher.Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney, then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney. Since the 70s she has participated in feminist activism, small press publishing and has taught art, English and ESL at secondary schools. A concern with marginalised aspects of women's lives runs throughout her writing. The novel The Western Horizon was serialised in HEAT from 1996 to 2000 and is now available online [1].

Australian politician

Australian politician

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.She was included in

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.She was included in the New Zealand squad for the 2008 Summer Olympic games, featuring in the losses to Norway(0-1) and Brazil (0-4).

Is a former field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her national team at t

Is a former field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Lawrence, educated at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, moved to Christchurch in 1990. She played inside left or rig

Is a former New Zealand swimming representative. She represented New Zealand at two Olympic Games, a

Is a former New Zealand swimming representative. She represented New Zealand at two Olympic Games, at the 1992 Summer Olympics she placed 5th in the final of the women's 200m backstroke. In 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics she placed 6th in the same event.

Is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who represented her native country at

Is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who represented her native country at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She is now a seventh grade teacher at a middle school.

Is an Australian track cyclist. She has been the 500m TT world champion twice and a gold medalist at

Is an Australian track cyclist. She has been the 500m TT world champion twice and a gold medalist at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.In May 2004 at the Time Trial World Titles in Melbourne Meares claimed the title of Women's World time trial champion,

Is an Australian female cycle racer

Is an Australian female cycle racer

Is a New Zealand netballer, who captained the national team (the Silver Ferns), to win the 2003 Netb

Is a New Zealand netballer, who captained the national team (the Silver Ferns), to win the 2003 Netball World Championships in Jamaica.

Is an Australian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 495, which she reach

Is an Australian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 495, which she reached on February 9, 2009. Her career high in doubles is 472, which she reached on February 9, 2009.

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. She is a student a

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. She is a student at Auckland's Epsom Girls Grammar School and plays for the Three King's United Club.

A writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in

A writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland.

Is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legisla

Is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since September 2006, representing the electorate of Inala. Disabilities and Seniors Warren Pitt and former Minister for the Environment Dean

Is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney

Is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney

Is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in N

Is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in New Zealand. She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. In most of her work, babies or young children are dressed as fictitious characters such as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or animals like bunnies. Her subjects are extremely idealized; babies in her photographs are almost always sleeping or staring into space, as if still in utero.

Was an Australian film, soap opera, and television actress.Born in Quorn, South Australia, she is pr

Was an Australian film, soap opera, and television actress.Born in Quorn, South Australia, she is probably most famous for her role as Helen Daniels in the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours. She played this role from the very first episode in 1985 to episode 2,965 in 1997 when she was forced to give up the role due to ill health. However, that role was only one in a career that spanned half a century.

A South African poet, reviewer and editor.She was born in Germiston in 1951 in what was then the Tra

A South African poet, reviewer and editor.She was born in Germiston in 1951 in what was then the Transvaal, now Gauteng, in South Africa. Her earliest work appeared in 1968 but she began writing seriously in 1975 when she met up with a group of writers associated with Lionel Abrahams who at one stage called themselves the Circle of Eight. This group gathered around Lionel Abrahams had included at various times the writers Anne Schuster, Sinclair Beilis, Basil Du Toit, Debbie Aarons, novelist, critic and editor Ivan Vladislavic, academic and publisher Shirley Pendlebury, Michael Gardiner, Francis Faller, and others. An earlier incarnation of this group had included Robert and Eva Royston, who later moved to the UK.

An Australian country music singer. She is the daughter of country singers Slim Dusty and Joy McKean

An Australian country music singer. She is the daughter of country singers Slim Dusty and Joy McKean.Kirkpatrick has released thirteen albums. She won Golden Guitar Awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1979, 1991, and twice in 1992. She also won an ARIA Award for Best Australian Country Record in 1991.

Is a former Australian politician.She was the Labor candidate for the new fairly safe Liberal seat o

Is a former Australian politician.She was the Labor candidate for the new fairly safe Liberal seat of Ferntree Gully in the 2002 Victorian state election, and won it on the back of the Labor landslide. She was defeated in 2006 by Liberal candidate Nick Wa