Adrian Lipscomb OAM  is a retired lawyer, travel-writer, academic, and political observer. During the 1980s he worked in policy areas with the Australian Department of Defence in Canberra and with the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO, later renamed as the Defence Intelligence Organisation [DIO]). In the mid-1990s he volunteered in the Solomon Islands, and was the co-ordinating author of the 1998 edition of the Lonely Planet Guide to PNG