Dr Don Edgar and Dr Patricia Edgar
Dr Don Edgar and Dr Patricia Edgar are both Ambassadors for NARI (the National Aging Research Institute) and have written extensively on ageing policy. Don was founding Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies and Patricia was founding Director of the Australian Childrens Television Foundation.
Douglas McCarty
Douglas McCarty, now retired, was formerly a Civil Engineer in Structural Design and Construction, a Secondary School Teacher of Physics, General Science and Mathematics, and a University Tutor in Education at Flinders University. He is a rank-and-file member of the Australian Labor Party.
Kaswar Klasra
Kaswar Klasra is an Islamabad-based journalist, currently freelancing forChina Daily andNBC from Pakistan.Klasra has been a journalist for two decades. Hiswork has been published by leading British publications and news agencies, including the International News Service, Daily Mail, News of the World (London), and ACCA ’ A&B Magazine. He also has bylinesin News Service, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, The Nation (Pakistan), Los Angeles Times ( USA), India Today and Brunei Times, among other publications.
Lynda Ng
Lynda Ng Lecturer in World Literature (including Australian literature), The University of Melbourne
Ashley Craig
Dr Ashley Craig is a Senior Lecturer in economics, and a John Mitchell Research Fellow at The Australian National University. His research spans public economics and labour economics, with a particular focus on education, taxation and inequality.
Angela Smith
Angela Smith is a former lawyer with broad legal experience including in refugee law and the university sector. Her writing has been published widely and can be found in such places as The Guardian (online), Griffith Review, Meanjin, New Philosopher and Overland.
Paul Cleary
Paul Cleary works in Aboriginal development in the Pilbara region. He has written several books on the resources sector and Aboriginal rights, including Title Fight and Too Much Luck.
Geoff Dornan
Geoff Dornan is a clergyman of the Uniting Church. His work has been balanced between, academia, congregational life, and policy development with both the NSW/ACT Synod and National Assembly of the Uniting Church. This has included endeavours in the promotion of social justice through both the negotiation of international aid agreements and the advancement of bioethical thought and practice through the NSW Governments Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs). Geoffs interest in Christian identity in the social and political world, was sparked by the rise of liberation theology in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, and his involvement in that movement during the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile and the civil war in El Salvador.
This essay about grief arises from his personal experience of the loss of his son Andrew, killed with his friend Akaash, in an agricultural accident on Christmas Eve, 2021.
Mark Pinkstone
Mark Pinkstone is a former chief information officer of the Hong Kong government, a PR and media consultant, and a veteran journalist.
Chloe Heiniger
Chloe Heiniger holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and is in the final year of a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. She works as a research assistant at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at The Australian National University and has a strong interest in taxation and development economics.
BA Hamzah
Hamzah BA writes regularly under on geopolitics, Asean and maritime security and law.
Professor, National Defence University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
BA Hamzah was formerly Director General of Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA).
Nicolas J. S. Davies
Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK and the author ofBlood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Alan Morris
Professor Alan Morris is an urban and housing studies scholar in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney.
Guest writer Omar Ahmed
Omar Ahmed is a UK-based analyst and journalist focused on the political and religious affairs of West Asia. He holds an MSc in International Security and Global Governance from Birkbeck, University of London.
Joey Moloney
Joey Moloney is a Senior Associate in Grattan Institutes Economic Policy program. He is an economist with experience in public policy research and implementation.
He has worked at the Productivity Commission and the Commonwealth Treasury, with a focus on the superannuation system and retirement income policy.
Joey holds a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Politics and Media from La Trobe University, and a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Economics from the University of Melbourne.
Terry Su
Terry Su is president of Lulu Derivation Data Ltd, a Hong Kong-based online publishing house and think tank specialising in geopolitics.
Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose is a Wellington based journalist. He spent a decade as a producer on RNZ’s Mediawatch, Ideas, and Sunday programmes. He is a member of Alternative Jewish Voices.
Wenwen Wang
Chief reporter of the Global Times. She is also a commentator on US politics and Asian security.
Norman Saadi Nikro
Norman Saadi Nikro has Australian and Lebanese backgrounds. He is a former Australian Volunteer Abroad, serving in the West Bank of Palestine in 1998-99. His books include The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style,and Civil War in Lebanon (2012); Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, andVoice (2019); and Nafssiya: Edward Said’s Affective Phenomenology of Racism (2024). Since July 2024 he resides in Sydney as an independent scholar and writer.
Zhou Xin
Zhou Xin is Tech Editor of the Post, following stints as Political Economy Editor and Deputy China Editor. He has previously worked for Reuters and Bloomberg in Beijing.
Mubashar Hasan
Mubashar Hasan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. His research was funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Jennifer Hsu
Jennifer Hsu is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW and is the author ofBeing Chinese in Australia: Public Opinion in Chinese Communities and was previouslythe Project Director of the Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project at the Lowy Institute.
Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a journalist and author and calls Tasmania home. He is the co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics (Springer, 2022). And is a former newspaper journalist and lawyer. He is currently writing a book on population issues in Australia and has done paid work for Sustainable Population Australia. He is the convenor of Voices of Franklin (Tas).
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults.
Kevin Hewison
Kevin Hewison is Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and resides in Perth. He is the editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Humphrey McQueen
Humphrey McQueen is a Canberra-based writer Humphrey is the author of 19 books that cover history, the media, politics and the visual arts. His articles appear regularly in the_Bulletin_and his two classic books of Australian history_A New BritanniaandSocial Sketches of Australia_were reissued in 2004. Humphrey McQueen is the author of Framework of Flesh Builders Labourers Battle for Health and Safety (2009).
When Humphrey McQueen published an obituary of Menzies in Nation-Review in 1978, the Liberal party room wanted him charged with lese majeste.