Sue Wittenoom
Sue Wittenoom is a Perth born architect who lives and works on Gadigal land in Sydney. She is the founder of The Soft Build.
Tegan Cohen
Tegan Cohen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
John Quelch
John Quelch, teacher, community development worker, secretary of IPAN Geelong, Victoria South West Group.
Ainsley Barton
Ainsley Barton is an alias, he is a former political adviser to the Liberal Party and mainstream media journalist, presently engaged in consulting work in Canberra.
Lisa Singh
Lisa Singh is the CEO of the Australia India Institute, and a Cricket Australia Multicultural Ambassador.
Judah Tana
Judah Tana is the Australian founder-director of Global Advance Projects which has rescued hundreds of trafficking victims who arrived in Myanmar from more than 60 countries as far-flung as Uganda and Morocco.
John H Howard
Dr John H Howard is a distinguished policy analyst and adviser specialising in science research and innovation. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at UTS and Director of the Acton Institute for Policy Research and Innovation.
Guest author Graham Pickering
Graham Pickering is a long-term resident of Taiwan. He is an educator and author. He is fluent in Chinese and getting there in Taiwanese. His interests include Education, Taiwan, China and Cross-Strait Relations.
Zoltan Nemeth
Zoltan Nemeth lives in Budapest, is a member of the Ohel Avraham Neolog Jewish Congregation, and writes for Hungarian Jewish publications.
Michelle Riedlinger
Michelle Riedlinger is an Associate Professor in the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Communication.
Walther Bücklers
Walther earned a B.A. in Media Management from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Germany and an MBA from the University of Oregon in the United States. For the last 12 years, he has has been living and working in China. Previous articles of his were published on Nachdenkseiten and Telepolis in Germany, and China Daily in China.
Doctors for the Environment Australia
The oped was co-authored by members of the Business and Divestment Committee of DEA South Australia: Dr David Everett, Dr Rob Ferris, Ms Bora Hyoung (medical student),Dr Graeme McLeay, Dr Douglas Shaw, Dr Nicolas Wickham and Emeritus Prof John Willoughby, with expert ethical investment advice fromMr Andrew Gaston (Adv.Dip FS (FP); FIPA; SA.Fin). Enquiries to Dr Rob Ferris, Chair, DEA(SA) Healthy Investment Special Interest Group at dea_sa@dea.org.au
Ned Watt
Ned Watt is a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre.
Guangyi Pan
Guangyi Pan, a teaching fellow and PhD in International Politics at UNSW. Guangyi.pan@unsw.edu.au
Sylvia Hale
Sylvia Hale is a Co-Convenor of the Greens NSW Peace and Anti-AUKUS Campaign (GPAAC). She was, from 2003 until 2010, a Greens member of the Upper House of the NSW Parliament.
Neil Hauxwell
Neil is a former TAFE teacher and Language Literacy and Numeracy Specialist. He has worked on a range of youth, adult community, prison and workplace programs.
Philip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
Guest author Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann
Dr Flavia Bellieni Zimmermannis a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, School of Social Sciences. She is a Brazilian political analyst and has written extensively in this field. Her research interests include Brazilian politics, society, and policy, Latin American politics, populism and nationalism, women in the global south, gender, and politics and religion.
Orange Wang
Orange Wang covers the Chinese macroeconomy, and has many years of experience with China’s monetary and fiscal policy moves. He also covered global market and financial news for a long time, with a particular focus on new technologies and their influences on economic growth and society. Before joining the South China Morning Post, Orange worked as a Shanghai Correspondent for ET Net, a Hong Kong financial news agency.
Guest author Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman is founder and executive director of The Global Uplift Project which builds small-scale infrastructure projects in the developing world to improve humanitys capacity for self-development. Robert taught economics and history at Los Altos High School where he also coached the Speech and Debate team, including producing a national champion in 2006. He has traveled extensively in both the developed and developing world. He is the author of_The Best One Hour History_series which includes_World War I_(2013),The InterWar Years(2014),The Vietnam War(2013), and other titles.
Geoffrey Holland
Geoffrey Holland is the lead author of_The Hydrogen Age_, Gibbs-Smith Publishing, 2007. He is a veteran writer/producer of long and short-form videos focused on clean energy and the environment. He also happens to be the coordinator for the MAHB Dialogue series.
He has also signed and pledged his commitment to the Earth Systems Treaty. You can do the same by going here.
Andreea Lachsz
PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
Andreea has a particular interest in the rights of detained people, having completed her Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and previously volunteered as a humanitarian observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program (visiting facilities in Australia, PNG and Nauru). She is Head of Policy,
Katie Howe
Katie Howe, the owner of Wellington-based agency Jacaranda Communications, was based in mainland China for over a decade. She advises SMEs, entrepreneurs and startups on corporate communications, including media relations, CEO profiling, B2B comms, social media and stakeholder engagement.
Phillip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
James Purtill
James Purtill is the ABC’s award-winning online technology reporter, covering stories from social media to solar panels, and artificial intelligence to electric vehicles. Prior to joining ABC Science he worked as a reporter at triple j Hack and ABC News.
Emma Russell
Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice & Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Dr Emma Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice in the School of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.
Chris Breen
Chris Breen is involved with Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, he is writing in a personal capacity.
Lim Teck Ghee
Lim Teck Ghee, ANU PhD graduate, is a Malaysian economic historian andpolicy analyst. He has a regular column, Another Take, in The Sun, a Malaysian daily and Oriental Daily; and is the author of Challenging the Status Quo in Malaysia, and Dark Forces Changing Malaysia (with Murray Hunter).
Pam Batkin
Pam Batkin has just finished 40 years of work as a social worker in Sydney. Most recently she was CEO of a community services agency in the very culturally diverse and vibrant South Western Sydney for 12 years. She is currently travelling with her partner for a year in Europe and the UK.