Stuart Rollo
Stuart Rollo is a researcher and educator focused on imperial history, geopolitics, and US-China-Australia relations at the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. His recent book ‘Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire’ examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China.
Alex Baumann
Dr. Alex Baumann is a Degrowth Academic at Western Sydney University. His work highlights the significant role of land ownership in shaping collective reliance on economic growth. This structural analysis is gaining recognition in Degrowth scholarship, with recent publications in The Journal of Australian Political Economy and the De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth, alongside several discussion pieces. To address this structural impediment to degrowth, Alex advocates for revitalising housing and food land commons, in modern urban contexts. To this end, he is involved in practical policy development through the “Neighbourhood That Works” project, which seeks to reframe public housing initiatives to support commons-based alternatives.
Watch Alex and his Sustainable Futures students deliver a short presentation on this analysis here: https://youtu.be/zuaWj58eIvI
Char Weeks
Char Weeks is the founder of the award-winning secure digital information safe, Secure My Treasures. Way back, she championed innovation and improvement in healthcare delivery. She campaigns against job ageism, elder abuse, and domestic violence. Char has owned three strata title units, two in Melbourne and in Sydney, and has been a member of a strata committee of management.
Graham Maddox
Graham Maddox is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of New England. He is author of five editions of Australian Democracy in Theory and Practice, and more recently Stepping Up to the Plate. America, and Australian Politics.
Richard Mathews
Richard Mathews was Australia’s first Consul-General in Makassar, eastern Indonesia from 2016 – 2020. He retired from DFAT in 2021 after a 30-year career which included postings to Brunei, Greece, Taiwan and Indonesia. Since retirement he has published articles in the Canberra Times and Lowy Interpreter on climate change and is currently writing a crime-thriller set in eastern Indonesia, and short-stories about travel.
Guest author Daniel A. Bell
Daniel A. Bell Chair Professor of Political Theory with the faculty of law at the University of Hong Kong, the writer served as dean of the school of political science and public administration at Shandong University from 2017 to 2022. “He is author of_The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese__University_(Princeton, 2023)” https://press.princeton.edu/our-authors/bell-daniel-a
Richard Heydarian
Richard Heydarian is a Manila-based academic and author of Asias New Battlefield: US, China and the Struggle for Western Pacific and the forthcoming Dutertes Rise
Guest author Adriel Kasonta
Adriel Kasonta is a London-based political risk consultant and lawyer. He is an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in Moscow and former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at the oldest conservative think tank in the UK, Bow Group. Kasonta is a graduate of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). You can follow him on Twitter @Adriel_Kasonta.
Robert Reich
Robert Reich Professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of “Inequality for All” and “Saving Capitalism.” Co-founder of Inequality Media
Katie Maher
Katie Maher lectures in Education at the University of South Australia. She co-chairs the Pedagogies for Justice research group and is a Series Editor for AARE’s Local/Global Issues in Education book series.
Ben Newell
Ben Newell is a Professor in the School of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response at the University of New South Wales. His research interests include judgment and decision-making, with particular interest in the application of this work to societal issues like climate change. He is co-author of the books Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind and Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making.
Jonathan Pie
Jonathan Pie is a fictional character portrayed by British comedian Tom Walker. Pie is a liberal political correspondent who rants angrily about British, American, and Australian politics, giving his true personal opinions before or after filming a scripted news segment.
Stephen Langford
Stephen Langford born in New Zealand-Aotearoa but in reality I am a recovering Pom. I did go to Leeds University and lived with people from all over the world and somehow came out with a degree. Don’t ask me how! I came to Australia on the strength of my NZ passport and have mostly been a nurse. I take my hat off to all the overseas nurses who keep the hospitals and nursing homes running. I have been most involved in the E Timor campaign… Australian major political parties supported the illegal invasion and occupation until nearly the bitter end. In the end, we won. Inspired by the Timorese resistance, we all won. Since then I have been involved in trying to stop Australia’s racist trashing of the UN Refugee Convention, and freeing Assange. I am a Socialist Alliance member. I have two lovely children and an even lovelier grandchild! I am 65 and retired from paid work… Gott sei dank! as my late father might have said before he learned English.
Robert Reich
Professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of “Inequality for All” and “Saving Capitalism.” Co-founder of Inequality Media
Howard Lisnoff
Howard Lisnoffis a freelance writer. He is the author of_Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War Resister(2017)._
Jeff McMullen
Dr Jeff McMullen AM is a journalist, author and filmmaker. Best known from his work on television over the last fifty years, McMullen has been a foreign correspondent for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, reporter for Four Corners and Sixty Minutes, anchor of the 33-part issue series on ABC Television, Difference of Opinion and director of independent documentaries. He was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize for his trilogy of hour-long documentaries about conflicts in Central America. He made many forays behind the former USSR’s Iron Curtain including disclosure of the impacts of Russian nuclear tests in Kazakhstan.
Terry O'Leary
Terry OLeary worked at Garden Island Dockyard as Technical Officer Electronics & Communications in 1970s, then Hardware Engineer in IT industry and then Laboratory Manager. Served 6 years Army Reserve in 1970s & 1980s. Completed part time Applied Science Degree followed by Master of Applied Science.
Terrymoved to Canberra in 1990 to work in Defence as an Analyst. Then worked as Senior Professional Officer for DSTO in Navy Office. Attended Joint Services Staff College and completed Master Degree at ADFA UNSW Campus in Management. Worked in Defence Project Management and left Defence to teach at Canberra Institute of Technology till retirement.
Ruddy Gobel
Ruddy Gobel has more than 25 years of experience in the public and private sector, UN agencies, and government. He has extensive experience in working with high-level government officials not only in policy design and advocacy but also in policy implementation. He has been involved in various important issues and policies in Indonesia including the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh-Nias after the 2004 Tsunami, the Jakarta Mass Rapid Trans (MRT) project, poverty reduction, social protection, energy subsidy policy reform, and development of renewable energy.
John Lawrence
John B. Lawrence SC has been practicing in the law in Darwin since 1987. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2010. He was a Crown prosecutor in Darwin and later solicitor in charge of the Northern Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. He is a past president of the Northern Territory Bar Association and of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory. He represented one of the Don Dale youth detainees during the Royal Commission.
Angus Deaton
Angus Deatonis the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus, at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. He is the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Linda Briskman
Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Jewish Council of Australia.
Shi Jiangtao
A former diplomat, Shi Jiangtao has worked as a China reporter at the Post for more than a decade. He’s interested in political, social and environmental development in China.
Frank Formby
Frank Formby is a co-owner and member of the Common Council of New Internationalist magazine.
Guest author John Doyle
John Doyle is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University. He previously held strategy and regulatory roles at Optus and was a board director of the telecommunications sectors primary industry body, Communications Alliance.
Guest writer Gordon Peake
Gordon Peake is a writer, critic and podcaster based in Washington DC. His book on Timor-Leste won the ACT Book of the Year and Peoples’ Choice Awards 2014. His book on Bougainville will be published in December 2022.
Guest author Roya Musawi
Roya Musawi is ajournalist, public communicator, and writer with extensive experience in advocacy, and public relations. For the past 8 years, she has served in different national and international organizations in support of human rights, women’s rights, youth, gender equality, IDPs, and returnees.