Nathan Hollier
Nathan Hollier is Chair of the Board of the Small Press Network, a representative body for small and independent publishers in Australia, and a former member of the Australian federal government’s Book Industry Collaborative Council and head of Monash, Melbourne and the Australian National University presses. These are his personal views.
Lana Tatour
Lana Tatour is a Lecturer in Development at the School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney. She works on settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel. Prior to joining the School of Social Sciences, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, and held visiting fellowships at the Palestinian-American Research Center, the Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law and UNSW School of Social Sciences. She is on the board of The Australian Journal of Human Rights.
University of Adelaide University of South Australia
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Mike Whitney
Mike Whitney is a journalist who lives in Washington state, USA, interested in politics and economics from a libertarian perspective.
He has written extensively on the Russiagate and COVID-19 coups. He is a contributor to the book Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Liam Prince
Liam Prince is the Director of ACICIS, the Australian Consortium of in-country Indonesian Studies, which places Australian students at Indonesian universities as part of their degree programs.
Garry Carnegie
Garry D. Carnegie is an Emeritus Professor of RMIT University and during 2010 to 2017, he was Professor of Accounting and Head, RMIT School of Accounting. His research interests are in accounting, accountability and governance in both contemporary and historical contexts. His publications appear in books and a wide array of international journals on accounting and in other fields. An Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, having served as an Editorial Board member since 1993_,_ he was Editor/Joint Editor of Accounting History for a continuous period of 25 years from 1995 to 2019.
He is Joint Editor of the EE Handbook of Accounting, Accountability and Governance, available September 2023.
Susan B. Glasser
Susan B. Glasser is a staff writer at_The New Yorker_, where she writes a weekly column on life in Washington.
Laura Clancy
Laura Clancy is a research analyst focusing on global attitudes research at Pew Research Center.
Guest author Meredith Edwards
Meredith Edwards AM, FASSA, FIPAA is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra (UC), Australia. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UC and Director of its National Institute for Governance, 1997-2004 and a senior policy adviser in the Australian Public Service involved in a range of major social policy reforms across several departments, rising to Deputy Secretary in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Meredith was a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 2010-17 and she authored Social Policy, Public Policy: from problem to practice (Routledge, 2001), and co-authored Public Sector Governance in Australia (ANU Press, 2012).
Gerry McLoughlin
Gerry McLoughlin is a registered architect and urban designer; her broad professional experience includes a range of innovative groundbreaking projects and programmes across the built environment; Gerry has recently completed a PhD investigating Land Use and Transport Planning decision making reviewed against climate change priorities.
Director, McLoughlin Archtiect & Urban Designer, B,Arch. (Hon) RMIT, MA (Plan & Des) Melb., PhD Swinburne
Ghaith Krayem
Ghaith Krayem is the National Spokesperson for Muslim Votes Matter (MVM), a grassroots political advocacy initiative mobilising the Muslim community across Australia. A long-time community activist, Ghaith has held leadership roles including President of the Islamic Council of Victoria and CEO of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. He has been a key voice in responding to the political and media scrutiny of Muslims over the past two decades, regularly engaging with government at all levels. His work is particularly focused on issues of justice, including advocacy for Palestine and against the atrocities unfolding in Gaza.
Alena Douhan
Ms Alena Douhan (Belarus) was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights by the Human Rights Council in March 2020. Ms. Douhan has extensive experience in the fields of international law and human rights as, a Professor of international law at the Belarusian State University (Minsk), a visiting Professor at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed conflict, (Bochum, Germany) and the Director of the Peace Research Centre (Minsk). She received her PhD at the Belarusian State University in 2005 and obtained Dr. hab. in International Law and European Law in 2015 (Belarus). Ms. Douhan’s academic and research interests are in the fields of international law, sanctions and human rights law, international security law, law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, and international environmental law.
Christine Huang
Christine Huang is a research associate focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center.
Daryl Guppy
Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert. He has provided weekly Shanghai Index analysis for mainland Chinese media for more than a decade. Guppy appears regularly on CNBC Asia and is known as “The Chart Man”. He is a former national board member of the Australia China Business Council. The views expressed here are his own.
Guest author Pamela Burton
Pamela Burton, BA; LLM,is a Canberra lawyer and writer. She is the author of From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron Story (UWAP, 2010), The Waterlow Killings: A portrait of a family tragedy (MUP, 2012), A Foreign Affair (Ginninderra Press, 2016) and, with the assistance of Meredith Edwards, Persons of Interest: an intimate account of Cecily and John Burton (ANU Press, 2022).
Laura Silver
Laura Silver is an associate director at Pew Research Center. She is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, including media usage and partisanship in Europe, Chinese public opinion, and global attitudes toward China. She is involved in all aspects of the research process, including designing survey questionnaires and sample designs, managing fieldwork, processing and analysing data, and writing reports.
Chen Hong
Professor Chen Hong, President of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and Director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University on Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia and the promising signs of recovery in the relationship between Australia and China.
Zhao Ying
Zhao Ying is a China commentator and the host of CGTN Radio’s “World Today” program. She fell in love with the job because it not only takes her to different parts of the world but also brings her to a deeper understanding of what’s shaping the world every day.
Ramon Das
Ramon Das is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. He has taught and written for many years on issues related to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Erik W. Aslaksen
Erik is a physicist and engineer, with experience, gained in the US, Switzerland and Australia, covering fields as diverse as microwave components, power electronics, quantum electronics, communications, transport infrastructure, and industrial plant, and ranging from basic research to corporate management. In recent years his main interest has been in the area of the evolution of society and the interaction between technology and society. He is the author of ten books (one with W.R. Belcher), six book chapters, and over ninety articles.
Trisha Drioli
Trisha Drioli is a retired Senior Sustainability Practitioner and University Lecturer, with over 30 years experience in government policy and strategy before moving to teaching role at the University of South Australia until her retirement in 2020. Trisha is currently actively engaged in monitoring geopolitical activity abroad, and exploring western philosophical thought as a way of unravelling the complexity of our 21st century world. You can follow Trisha on Twitter at Tee@EasternTrisha.
Roy Drew
Roy Drew is a retired nurse and lives in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales.
He is active with the group Northern Rivers NSW 4Assange who work to keep Julian Assange’s name in the public eye with the focus of securing his freedom without further delay in the cause of decency, justice and human rights.
Nic Maclellan
Nic Maclellan is a correspondent for Islands Business magazine (Fiji). He has published widely on French policy in the Pacific islands and is co-author of La France dans le Pacifique – de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris) and After Moruroa – France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne).
Katie Meissner
Currently, Katie is completing a three year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Strategy and Entrepreneurship cluster of The University of Queensland’s Business School, looking at the role of reinsurance pools in alleviating the damage caused by natural disasters. Katie teaches Corporate Sustainability within The University of Queensland’s Business School and is a member of the Business Sustainability Initiative.
Mary Crock
Professor Mary Crock is Professor of Public Law and member of theSydney Centre for International Lawat the University of Sydney. Her expertise spans immigration, citizenship and refugee law, disability rights, administrative and constitutional law, public international law, particularly human rights and international refugee law, and comparative law. Her publications include leading texts on Australian immigration and refugee law and ground-breaking work on the intersections between disability, migration and human rights which she has presented to the United Nations. Her research has been cited frequently in Australias Federal Courts and High Court and she has given evidence before many parliamentary hearings in Australia, serving as adviser to the Australian Senate (Inquiry into Australias Refugee and Humanitarian Program, 2000);consultant to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission(on immigration detention); and consultant to theRoyal Commission into Child Sex Abuse(on children in immigration detention). She has made frequent contributions to national and international media.She has made frequent contributions to national and international media.
Tabe Bergman
Tabe Bergman is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. With Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman he recently published the edited volume Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine with Routledge.
Corinne Unger
Corinne Unger Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Corinne completed her PhD in social science at the University of Queensland Business School in 2021. Her study of insidious risk management (IRM) explains how slow growing inconspicuous risks can grow to become catastrophic so a catastrophe in the making can be recognised and intervened upon. While her research explored mining environmental insidious risks of land disturbance and mine affected water, her novel findings about IRM have wider applicability.
What's In Blue
About What’s In Blue When the Security Council approaches the final stage of negotiating a draft resolution, the text is printed in blue. What’s In Blue is a series of insights on evolving Security Council actions designed to help interested UN readers keep up with what might soon be “in blue”.