There were twenty-four Fellows elected in 2006:

Professor Frances Baum
Professor and Head, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University

Professor Larissa Behrendt
Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney; and Director of Ngiya, the National Institute of Indigenous Law, Policy and Practice

Professor Michael Bittman
Professorial Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of New England

Professor Allan Borowski
Professor and Chair in Social Work and Social Policy, School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University

Professor Stephen Crain
ARC Federation Fellow and Deputy Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

Professor Margaret Davies
Professor, School of Law, Flinders University

Professor Sidney Gray
Professor of International Business and Head, School of Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney

Professor Neil Gunningham
Professor and Director, National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, Australian National University

Professor Jane Kenway
Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University

Professor Gavin Kitching
Professor, Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Gerry Higgins
Professor of Irish Studies, History Department, University of Melbourne

Professor Ngaire Naffine
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Adelaide

Professor Jan Pakulski
Professor of Sociology and Dean of Arts, University of Tasmania

Professor Ken Pearson
Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University

Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu
Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Flinders University

Professor Darrell Turkington
Professor of Economics, School of Economics and commerce, University of Western Australia

Professor Simon Ville
Professor, School of Economics and Information Systems, University of Wollongong

Professor John Wanna
Inaugural Professor, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australia and New Zealand School of Government and Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; and Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University

Professor Richard Waterhouse
Bicentennial Professor of Australian History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, The University of Sydney

Dr Donald Weatherburn
Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; and Adjunct Professor of Social Science and Social Policy, University of New South Wales

Professor Kevin Wheldall
Professor of Education, Australian Centre for Educational Studies, Macquarie University

Professor Robert Wood
Professor, Accelerated Learning Laboratory, University of New South Wales

Professor Angela Woollacott
Professor of Modern History, Department of Modern History, Macquarie University