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.
Wael Sabri
Wael Sabri is originally from Palestine and has a deep passion for addressing social justice issues. Over the past 40 years, he has made Sydney his home. He is passionate about social justice issues, dedicating his time and energy advocating for fairness and equality.
Edward Curtin
Edward Curtin educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, I teach sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain
Fionnuala Ni Aolain is a commissioner on the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
Mahalakshmi Shivashankar
Ms Mahalakshmi Shivashankar is a health information technology professional with over 15 yrs experience working in health sector in United States and Australia. She is a database design architect, with lived experience in cancers. She is currently project manager and technology expert for an AI for NCDs project at Flinders University, Adelaide.
Kevin Foster
Kevin Foster is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is the author of Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative and National Identity (1999); Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire (2009), and Don’t Mention the War: The Australian Defence Force, the Government and the Afghan Conflict (2013). His latest book is Anti-Social Media: Conventional Militaries in the Digital Battlespace (2021).
Robert C. Koehler
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Koehler has been the recipient of multiple awards for writing and journalism from organisations including the National Newspaper Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, and the Chicago Headline Club. He’s a regular contributor to such high-profile websites as Common Dreams and the Huffington Post.