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”.
David Rosen
David Rosen is the author of Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (Skyhorse, 2015). He can be reached at drosennyc@verizon.net; check out www.DavidRosenWrites.com.
Paula Jarzabkowski
Paula Jarzabkowski Professor in Strategic Management, The University of Queensland
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is a global expert in the public-private mechanisms proliferating around the world to address the insurance protection gap. The insurance protection gap is the economic loss from catastrophic events that is not insured. In advanced economies, the burden of paying for recovery from disasters then falls upon the government and taxpayers. In low-income countries, disaster recovery sets back economic gains by decades affecting the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people.
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer and author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Paul Begley
Paul Begley has worked in public affairs roles for three decades, the most recent being 18 years as general manager of government and media relations with the Australian HR Institute.
Anton Ferreira
Anton Ferreira worked for 23 years as a correspondent and desk editor at Reuters. He started in Hong Kong and later worked long-term assignments in the Mideast, Latin America, New York City, Washington and South Africa. Ferreira is now based in South Africa.
Adam Austen Kay
Adam Austen Kay I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management at the University of Queensland Business School. I am former biotech manager, executive consultant and coach, and international arbitration lawyer. An award winning teacher for my course “Wise Leadership”, my research interests include mindfulness, virtue ethics, and corporate social responsibility. My research has been published in top management and psychology journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Academy of Management Perspectives, and in books by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Guilford Press.
Guest author Adam Austen Kay
Adam Austen Kay I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management at the University of Queensland Business School. I am former biotech manager, executive consultant and coach, and international arbitration lawyer. An award winning teacher for my course “Wise Leadership”, my research interests include mindfulness, virtue ethics, and corporate social responsibility. My research has been published in top management and psychology journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Academy of Management Perspectives, and in books by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Guilford Press.
Andy Mison
Andy Mison is the President of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA - www.aspa.asn.au), the national peak body representing the professional interests of Australia’s public secondary principals and their school communities. He is also a non-executive director of the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL).With an extensive career in NSW, the NT, and the ACT, Andy has taught in remote, regional, and metropolitan schools. He has also served as CEO of a large multi-school RTO, principal of four secondary schools, and as a system leader in the ACT Education Directorate.
Ross Fitzgerald
Ross Fitzgerald AM is Emeritus Professor of History and politics at Griffith University. His most recent books, both published by Hybrid, are a memoir, Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholics Journey and a political satire, The Ascent of Everest, co-authored by Ian McFadyen of ‘Comedy Company’ fame.
Marie Sellstrom
Marie Sellstrom AM Convenor Afghan Subcommittee Rural Australians for Refugees. Secretary RAR Mansfield Inc.
Robin Osborne
Robin Osborne is National Director Communications & Media for St Vincent de Paul Society and author of Indonesia’s Secret War: The Guerilla Struggle in Irian Jaya (Allen & Unwin 1985), and Kibaran Sampari, the book’s bahasa Indonesia translation (ELSAM Institiute for Study and Public Advocacy, Jakarta 2001).
Christopher Walker
Rev. Dr Christopher Walker an ordained minister of the Uniting Church. He currently is a sessional lecturer at the United Theological College in North Parramatta. He holds a PhD in theology from Claremont University in California and has served in a range of positions and places in the Uniting Church, including as principal of the Uniting Church theological college in South Australia, and for the Assembly as national consultant: Christian unity, doctrine and worship. Chris also taught at Murdoch University in Perth. He has written or edited over a dozen books.
Amy McQuire
Amy is a Darumbal/South Sea woman and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Occasional freelancer. Curtain Podcast. Her topics are Racism, feminism, justice, wrongful convictions.
Adam Bartley
Adam Bartleyis a Fulbright Scholar and resident fellow at the Elliot School for International Affairs, the George Washington University. In addition to this, he is a post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and program manager of the AI Trilateral Experts Group. Twitter: @AaBartley
Guest author Adam Bartley
Adam Bartleyis a Fulbright Scholar and resident fellow at the Elliot School for International Affairs, the George Washington University. In addition to this, he is a post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and program manager of the AI Trilateral Experts Group. Twitter: @AaBartley
William Yang
William Yang is a second year student at the University of Sydney, and President of the Sydney University Labor Club.
Warwick Powell
Warwick Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains. Dynamics of a Zero Trust World (Routledge 2023), and numerous peer review articles on global supply chain digitalisation. He is a frequent media contributor on issues of international geopolitical economy, digitalisation and technology, with outlets such as TI Observer (a monthly publication of Taihe Institute), Aljazeera, CGTN, Guancha.cn, South China Morning Post, China Daily and Global Times.
Julianne Schultz
Julianne Schultz was a friend of Anne Coombs. Her most recent book is The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation, Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Jonathan Rispler
Jonathan Rispler is a renewable energy engineer and a senior research consultant in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. His work focuses on modelling the transition of Australia’s energy system and developing sectoral decarbonisation pathways.
Margo Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds AC served as anAustralian Labor PartySenator forQueenslandfrom 1983 to 1999.
Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in theSenate, serving asMinister for Local Governmentfrom September 1987 to April 1990 and asMinister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women from January 1988 to April 1990.
Saori Miyake
Dr Saori Miyake is an environmental scientist and an expert in research on renewable energy and land use change in Australia and Europe. She is a senior research consultant in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.
Amy Maguire
Amy Maguire Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
A researcher and teacher in international law and human rights at the University of Newcastle Law School, Australia.
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Amad Mohamed
Amad Mohamedis a young leader of the Australian-Sudanese diaspora. He works as a Senior Policy Officer for a Canberra-based organisation. Previously, he had worked in the private sector and for a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission on international and bilateral diplomacy, trade and investment, and defence relations.
Elianor Gerrard
Dr Elianor Gerrard is an applied social researcher working in the Energy Futures team and the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. She applies her background in community development to explore solutions to complex social and technical challenges in the energy transition.
Craig Murray
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader support.Subscriptions to keep this blog going aregratefully received.
APAN/AFOPA
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) and the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA)