Mandy Chan
Mandy Chan holds a PhD in Global Korean Studies from the Academy of Korean Studies. Her research focuses on gender emancipation and identity politics in the context of modernisation within contemporary Korean society.
Michael Sullivan
Dr Michael Sullivan Adjunct Lecturer, International Relations (International Political Economy; China’s political economy and foreign and defence policies; Indo-Pacific Regionalism; ANZUS+AUKUS), College of Business, Government and Law (BGL), Flinders University. I retired in December 2024.
Emma Dawson
Emma Dawson is Executive Director of Per Capita. She has worked as a researcher at Monash University and the University of Melbourne; in policy and public affairs for SBS and Telstra; and as a senior policy adviser in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.
Bruce Hardy
Bruce Hardy is Executive Director of Energy Futures Foundation and formerly General Manager - Emerging Business for AGL
Fergus McGinley
Fergus McGinley is an Adelaide writer, teacher, lay preacher, with a background in science, philosophy, education and theology. He is the author of many essays, articles and sermons, and is the founder of the Anti-Theology Project, an initiative you can follow through the website antitheologia.com. Fergus’s new book, The God Who Doesn’t Exist (ATF Press), is available now through online bookstores.
Zeng Yan
Zeng Yan is an editor at China’s Xinhua News Agency. He was previously a UN-accredited journalist based in Geneva, covering health, climate, science, and technology-related affairs of the UN Office in Geneva and other international organisations.
Shannon Brincat
Dr. Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast. His research focuses on critical international relations theory, climate change adaptation, dialectics, recognition, and the imagination in the context of global politics. He has published 10 volumes and over 50 papers in international journals and books. He is also a co-editor of Global Discourse. For more information see: shannonbrincat.com
Stephen Stockwell
Professor Emeritus in Journalism and Communication, Griffith University. Previously journalist at 4ZZZ, JJJ and Four Corners and media officer for the Queensland Labor Party and various politicians. Author of Political Campaign Strategy and Rhetoric and Democracy and co-editor of The Secret History of Democracy. Since retiring he has experimented with retelling history in poetic form in The Voyage and the Vision and The Phoenician Sonnets. His most recent book is 1975: The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal which includes not only ten rollicking bush ballads but also an investigative essay reviewing the available evidence on the events of 1975. The book is available in-store or online at Avid Reader, Brisbane. It is also on Amazon, Booktopia and Print on Demand. Soon available at Kindle.
John Stace
John Stace is a retired country doctor. He is shocked by the mistreatment of Palestinians by Israel.
Yuri Koszarycz
Yuri Koszarycz was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Theology, Brisbane Campus, Australian Catholic University. He has degrees in philosophy, theology and education and lectured in bioethics, ethics and church history. He has now retired.
Amy Hume
Amy Hume is Senior Lecturer in Theatre (Specialist in Voice) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne, and a voice and dialect coach for theatre and screen. She previously taught at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). Amy is a Designated Linklater Teacher and Regional Representative (Australia) for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, the international organisation for voice and dialect practitioners.
Susan Glover
Susan Glover law graduate from Melbourne University with an interest in human rights. For several years I lived in Israel, amongst both Jews and Arabs, and could see that if left to their own devices they could live in harmony. But extreme elements on both sides have refused to share the land, leading to today’s impasse. So I was interested to explore the background to the initial land grant to the Jews by the British which stipulated that Arabs were not to be disadvantaged. Why did it fail so badly?
Jessica Allen
Jessica Allen Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Newcastle
Jacqueline Luqman
Jacqueline “Jacquie” Luqman likes to joke that she “accidentally fell into activism,” but in the days since she was in high school protesting South Africa’s white minority government and its odious apartheid policies, activism has become an essential part of her life.
Raghid Nahhas
Raghid Nahhas is a retired scientist/public servant. He is a bilingual writer, editor, translator and publisher. www.raghidnahhas.com
Richard Bruggemann
Richard was the Chief Executive Officer, of the Intellectual Disability Services Council (IDSC) from 1984 until 2006. On retirement he was appointed as Professorial Fellow in the Disability and Community Inclusion Unit of Flinders University where he developed and ran the Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies (Leadership). From 2013 to 2018, he was appointed as South Australia’s senior practitioner to reduce the use of restrictive practices in South Australia. In 2020, he was appointed as Authorising Officer under the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 to consider applications to detain people who lack capacity and whose actions were putting themselves or other at risk of infection.
Christopher Burke
Christopher Burke is the Senior Advisor WMC Africa and an Australian national drawing on over 30 years of experience in conflict transformation and governance across Africa and Asia including work with The Carter Center on the implementation of the 1999 Nairobi Peace Agreement between Sudan and Uganda.
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Adjunct professor and adjunct senior lecturer in tourism management, University of South Australia. I teach and research in tourism, with a focus on the rights of host communities, justice and solidarity.
Research topics include: peace through tourism, Indigenous tourism, policy and planning issues in tourism, politics of tourism, inclusive tourism, sustainable tourism, food cultures, gender rights and critical tourism.
Felicity Deane
Professor Felicity Deane is a Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD entitled, ‘The Clean Energy Package and WTO Law: An Analysis of Compliance Issues’ was completed in August 2013. Her book ‘Emissions Trading and WTO Law: A Global Analysis’ was published internationally in March 2015. It has been published in several languages. Felicity has published extensively in areas where economics and the law intersect, in particular regarding emissions trading and other forms of market based mechanisms.
Wang Nan
Wang Nan is a journalist at the International News Department of Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, China.
Yumiko Shimabukuro
Dr Yumiko Shimabukuro is a faculty member and director at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her work focuses on social welfare policy, poverty and inequality, East Asian studies and global leadership development.
Arvid Lukauskas
Dr Arvid Lukauskas is Executive Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education and the Master of Public Administration in Economic Policy Management program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Paul McDonald
Paul McDonald is the Chair of the Home Stretch, a national alliance of more than 200 organisations who succeeded in committing every state and territory government in Australia to extend support to foster children to the age of 21 years. Paul is also the CEO of Anglicare Victoria.
Matthew Bowes
Matthew Bowes is a Senior Associate in Grattan’s Housing and Economic Security Program. He has previously worked at the Parliamentary Budget Office and Commonwealth Treasury in various roles analysing personal income tax, budgets, and social policy.
Matt’s research interests include housing policy, planning reform, and public trust in government. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University.
Abang Anade Othow
Abang Anade Othow is a refugee advocate, educator, speaker, writer, and leader.
She is the founder of Buckets of Hope, an initiative that uses visualisation and mindfulness to help individuals and communities not only survive but thrive.
Abang serves as the Deputy Chair of the Asylum Seekers Centre and was named National Ambassador for the NSW Department of Education.
Her upcoming book, to be published by HarperCollins in 2026, draws on her life journey and introduces the Buckets of Hope method, offering a framework for resilience and hope.
Robert Cockburn
Robert Cockburn is a Sydney writer, journalist and program maker. He reported variously for BBC, The Observer, The Guardian and Financial Times in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and Asia. He was Australia correspondent for BBC and London Times. He has contributed to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, SBS and ABC. His films are for National Geographic and Journeyman Pictures UK. He is an investigative reporter and a lead writer for the Public Library of Science Medicine. He is a drama writer fr NIDA and has worked for the Sydney Theatre Company. His work site is: tracproductions.com
Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler is finance presenter and columnist on ABC News and he also writes for Intelligent Investor.
Christopher M. Johnson
Chris is a retired specialist paediatric anaesthetist from Perth WA with a longstanding interest in renewable energy and electrification. He is an active member of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA). He and his partner regularly drive an electric vehicle across Australia to visit family.
Katrina Raynor
Dr Kate Raynor is a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne, where she is affiliated with the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (the Life Course Centre). She is also the Director of Per Capita’s Centre for Equitable Housing. She has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and a career spanning academia, consulting, think tanks and tech start-ups.
Nikos Mohammadi
Nikos Mohammadi is a student at Columbia University, freelance writer and reporter, staff writer for the Columbia Political Review, and associate staff writer for the Columbia Sundial.