Muz grew up in the northern NSW town of Moree playing Saturday morning footy, Sunday morning cricket and hanging out with his mates. He spent 5 years at Sydney's Barker College, worked in Sydney for Amoco, then for Caltex and TNT in Tamworth before stumbling into journalism with the Northern Daly Leader after winning the inaugural Bush Poetry competition in 1987. He went full-time with his entertainment career in 1996. Through his extensive travels around Australia Muz has met a vast and varied collection of remarkable Australians. They are the inspiration for his stories. People like the late Northern Territory station-owner and legend Billy Hayes, former world champion surfer Mark Richards and The Hog Whisperer, Scotty Parker, Muz’s mate from Queensland. His story “Rain From Nowhere”, written in February, 2007, addressing the issue of rural suicide, has touched the hearts of people Australia-wide. It is already being spoken of as one of the most significant pieces of Australian verse in recent memory. Muz's diet story "A-Z", directed and animated by Zenon Kohler, made the final 16 of the 2007 Sony Tropfest short film festival. In 1999 his poem Turbulence made it into the Top 20 of Australian Country Music charts – a unique feat for a piece of Aussie verse. Muz throws great characters into a blender with funny situations, adds a big dash of poetic license and a whole lot of humour, flicks the switch and it all comes out in rhyme. It's a good recipe.

Johnny Murray is a proud Yorta Yorta / Duduroa man born and raised on Wiradjuri country in Albury. Johnny’s passion is working with community and has worked in many communities across NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Culture is what keeps him strong and outside of work Johnny loves sharing traditional dance especially with his kids so that they can grow up strong in their identity. Johnny currently works for the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service in their Social and Emotional, Wellbeing team as the Cultural programs coordinator at the Burraja Cultural Centre.

Susi Tegen has lived and worked in rural and remote Australia for most of her working life on a sheep, cattle and cropping property in the Limestone Coast South Australia, as well as in remote Northern Territory, rural New South Wales and Victoria, as well as Australian Capital Territory. She has worked in primary industries, education and health. Her interests have led to stakeholder and place led medical and health care workforce strategies, farm injury prevention, population health initiatives, mental health services, remote monitoring and telehealth initiatives, primary industries policies and funding change to support medical and health service access for rural and remote communities. She recognises the value of rural medical, nurse and allied health training (read the multidisciplinary health care team training), community development and advocacy, health literacy, as well as government and private approaches to serving communities sustainably. Why?, Because these communities deserve the same access as their urban counterparts. Ms Tegen has served in Chief Executive roles for several medical and health bodies, including in MedTech and other peak organisations together with leading RANZCO, specialist training programs for medical professionals, policy and research. Susi has been on several government and health portfolio advisory or reform committees, Medicare review panels, providing insights from a service delivery, strategic policy and consumer access lens to further the cause of rural and remote health. She is independent member of the ACRRM Federal Council and AOA Federal Training Committee, RACS SIMG and Rural Committees. She has serviced as Deputy Chair on Sight for All, FarmSafe, FarmBis. She is a keen advocate for better and more accessible health services, equitable research funding and grass roots approaches to health and medical care and workforce planning and delivery in rural, regional and remote Australia, considering these regions make a considerable contribution to the economic health of Australia.