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joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1993 after completing a PhD in history at Monash University and has served as Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi and High Commissioner to Solomon Islands. One female student of the late 1960s, who must remain anonymous was an agent with Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation. In the world of business, the Smorgons have built a large empire encompassing meat, paper, steel and electronics.28 Victor Smorgon, the doyen of the family, only attended Princes Hill for a few months, while Simon Smorgon stayed longer. John Polglaze, a student and a founding member of the Princes Hill High School Advisory Council, was a senior executive with Australian Paper Mills. Walkley Award winning photographer Les O'Rourke attended Princes Hill and recorded the images of the aftermath of the 1970 fire which destroyed the 1889 building. Neil Comrie AO, APM, was Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 1993 to 2001. Tony Birch is a well known Indigenous Australian author, academic and activist. He was head of the Honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015. In 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. George Apostolidis won acclaim as the Professional Photographer of the Year in 1983. Andrew Panna and Manny Garantziotis are highly regarded QCs at the Victorian Bar. Co-founder of Hardie Grant Publishing, Sandy Grant has a distinguished career in book publishing and media. He was formerly MD of Heinemann, Octopus and Reed Australia, and CEO of Reed Books UK.
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