Julia Gillard AC is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. Megan Lilly is executive director of the Australian Industry Group’ s Centre for Education and Training and is a leading figure in education and training policy. She was a member of the Australian Qualifications Review Panel chaired by Peter Noonan in 2019. Peter Dawkins was Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 2011 to 2020, where he introduced the revolutionary ‘ block model’ of teaching and learning. In 2014 he wrote Reconceptualising Tertiary Education, an influential paper that resulted in a program of work at the Mitchell Institute led by Peter Noonan. In 2021 Dawkins jointly led a federal government review of University-Industry Collaboration in Teaching and Learning, which argued for reforms and initiatives to strengthen connections between industries and tertiary education. Robert Pascoe is a well-known author and history professor at Victoria University, who teaches and researches world history, history of transport and Australian social history. He has written extensively about education.