KATE LANGBROEK

* Born 1965, Brisbane, Queensland.

* Full name: Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Beuving Langbroek.

* Brother: John-Paul Langbroek, Queensland's Liberal National Party deputy opposition leader.

* The Langbroeks were raised as strict Jehovah's Witnesses.

* Kate started her career as an actor, appearing on the steamy Channel Nine soap Chances. She also worked as a scriptwriter for Neighbours.

* Quote: "There was some madness involving ghosts [in one Neighbours storyline]. It's all a divine blur. I think we realised that with the entire afterlife at your disposal, you'd be very unlikely to haunt Lassiter's." – M magazine, The Sunday Age, 2011.

DAVE HUGHES

* Born 1970, Warrnambool, Victoria.

* Dux of his high school.

* Hughes is a teetotaller, a vegetarian and meditates regularly.

* He once asked the Dalai Lama to bless his beloved Carlton Football Club. His Holiness complied but added: "It probably won't do much."

* Quote: "Until I was about 11, if Carlton lost, I would actually cry. I remember the first time I didn't cry was in a car with some friends driving along and my father knew that Carlton had just lost and I held it together. I was proud of myself and my dad congratulated me for not crying."