Zhao Bochao
Zhao Bochao is a senior research fellow at Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency, and a senior editor at International News Department of Xinhua News Agency. He used to work as a correspondent in Kuala Lumpur for two years.
kiji noh
K J Noh is a journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Kiriloi M. Ingram
Kiriloi M. Ingram Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Queensland
Kevin Murray
Dr Kevin Murray is the editor of Garland Magazine. He is also Vice-President of World Crafts Council - International, coordinating editor of the Online Encyclopedia of Crafts in the Asia Pacific Region and the Encyclopedia of Crafts in Latin America (the next volume about African crafts is in development). He is the co-founder of the Knowledge House for Craft, Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University and International Adviser for the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2023. In 2000-2007, he was Director of Craft Victoria, where he developed the Scarf Festival and the South Project, a four-year program of exchange involving Melbourne, Wellington, Santiago and Johannesburg. He has curated many exhibitions, including ‘Symmetry: Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions’; ‘Water Medicine: Precious Works for an Arid Continent’; and ‘Seven Sisters: Fibre Works from the West’. His books include Craft Unbound: Make the Common Precious (Thames & Hudson, 2005) and, with Damian Skinner, Place and Adornment: A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand (Bateman, 2014).
Perri Campbell
Perri Campbell, a research fellow in the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne, is a youth, disability, and gender studies scholar oriented towards the inclusion of people with experiences of marginalisation. You can find her on LinkedIn.
Catherine Hartung
Catherine Hartung is a senior lecturer in education, also at Swinburne, is an educational sociologist with expertise in children and young people’s citizenship, participation, rights, diversity, and wellbeing. She’s on LinkedIn.
Lara Alqudah
Lara Alqudah is a PhD candidate in education at Swinburne University of Technology exploring the ways in which Muslim teachers navigate the Australian education system. She’s on LinkedIn.
Prachi Bansal
Prachi Bansal is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Namesh Killemsetty
Namesh Killemsetty is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Ling Xin
Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio. She mainly covers physics, astronomy and space. Her writing has appeared in Science, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review and other English and Chinese outlets. She was a visiting journalist at Science magazine in Washington, and has a master’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Steph Cousins
Steph Cousins is the founder and CEO of Skill Path Australia, a non-profit organisation supporting refugees to access education, vocational training, and professional licensing pathways. She previously served as Global CEO of Talent Beyond Boundaries, leading international efforts to open skilled migration pathways for displaced people. For 20 years Steph has worked in senior roles across the human rights, refugee and international development sectors, including at Amnesty International and Oxfam. She holds degrees in arts and public policy, and a Master’s in Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne. She is based in Melbourne with her family.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph-cousins-27508827/
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה [iˈlanpaˈpe ]; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian, political scientist, and former politician. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Pappé was also a board member of the Israeli political party Hadash, and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 Israeli legislative elections.
Mike Hutchinson
Mike Hutchinson is a retired senior public servant, non-executive company director, and consultant. His view on the monarchy was prompted as a child forced to stand in the freezing rain in the UK to wave at a fast-passing car during the late queen’s 1953 post-coronation tour.
Jenny Gordon
Dr Jenny Gordon is an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Social Research and Methods, at the Australian National University and a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute. Jenny was the Chief Economist at DFAT from 2019 to 2021, establishing the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) to bring together trade and investment economics with development economics.
Chris Atmore
Dr Chris Atmore is Senior Advisor, Policy and Advocacy with Allied Health Professions Australia where she specialises in aged care.
Andrew Fullarton
Andrew Fullarton is a retired factory worker from Naarm/Melbourne. Since the 1970’s he has been involved in various anti-war and progressive campaigns and is an occasional co-presenter on Community Radio 3CR of news-commentary items from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.
Goeun Shin
Goeun Shin is an Associate Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. Her primary areas of research include South Korea–ASEAN political, economic and security cooperation, diaspora and demographic change, education and social inequality in East Asia.
David Leitch
David Leitch is a regular contributor to Renew Economy and co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. He is principal at ITK, specialising in analysis of electricity, gas and decarbonisation drawn from 33 years experience in stockbroking research & analysis for UBS, JPMorgan and predecessor firms.
Thalia Anthony
Professor Thalia Anthony’s research examines the role of criminal laws and procedures in reproducing social relations and enforcing dispossession. She also has expertise in relation to First Nations Stolen Wages claims, legal redress for the Stolen Generations, the harms of carceral systems, and coercive controls of First Nations homelands, housing and mobility. Grounded in a critical examination of legal institutions; emancipatory fieldwork with First Nations people, organisations and communities; legal history and theory; and activist struggles, Professor Anthony’s research identifies law enforcement as a key device in the colonial project in Australia and overseas and explores sites of resistance.
Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia is a movement of over 1,000 Jews nationwide. We’re ramping up pressure on Albanese to act—and working side by side with our Palestinian allies to demand that our government pressure Israel to stop killing Palestinians. We are a bold and growing Jewish movement that won’t stay silent in the face of genocide. This government will hear us—and we won’t let them look away.
Liam Gammon
Liam Gammon is a Research Fellow in the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at The Australian National University.
Michael Breen
Michael Breen, twenty years a Jesuit, then educational psychologist (Boston College) and researcher, (Ireland) student counsellor,(Bathurst and Wollongong Unis) organisational psychologist,(private practice, mostly in W.A.) Zen practitioner Dai Boku.
Kesaia Tabunakawai
Kesaia Tabunakawai is a Governor at WWF-Australia and has previously served as the WWF Pacific Representative.
Michelle Hamadache
Michelle is the Director of Creative Writing at Macquarie University. Her research interests span literature, creative writing and Algerian history and politics. Michelle also co-hosts the podcast From the Lighthouse.
Richard Medhurst
Richard Medhurst is an independent journalist from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on US politics, international relations and the Middle East.
Bronwen Dalton
Professor Bronwen Dalton AM was the former Deputy Director of the National Korean Studies Centre under Adrian Buzo. Currently, she is the Head of the Department of Management at the UTS Business School. After finishing her DPhil in Korean Studies at Oxford she failed to secure a full-time position in Korean Studies. Despite reinventing herself and joining a business faculty, she continues to write journal articles and provide media and social media commentary about North Korea.