Mubashar Hasan
Mubashar Hasan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. His research was funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Jennifer Hsu
Jennifer Hsu is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW and is the author of Being Chinese in Australia: Public Opinion in Chinese Communities and was previously the Project Director of the Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project at the Lowy Institute.
Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a journalist and author and calls Tasmania home. He is the co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics (Springer, 2022). And is a former newspaper journalist and lawyer. He is currently writing a book on population issues in Australia and has done paid work for Sustainable Population Australia. He is the convenor of Voices of Franklin (Tas).
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults.
Kevin Hewison
Kevin Hewison is Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and resides in Perth. He is the editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Glenn Withers
Glenn Withers is Emeritus Professor at ANU and Adjunct Professor at UNSW Canberra. He has been Head of the Economic Planning Advisory Commission (EPAC), founding CEO of Universities Australia(UA), Past President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia(ASSA), and Chair of the Global Development Learning Network(GDLN). He is a Director of Applied Economics Pty Ltd, Chair of Blended Learning International, Board Member of Phenomics Australia, and Director of the Social Cyber Institute. Glenn was awarded an AO for development of the Australian immigration points system.
Humphrey McQueen
Humphrey McQueen is a Canberra-based writer Humphrey is the author of 19 books that cover history, the media, politics and the visual arts. His articles appear regularly in the Bulletin and his two classic books of Australian history A New Britannia and Social Sketches of Australia were reissued in 2004. Humphrey McQueen is the author of ‘Framework of Flesh Builder’s Labourers Battle for Health and Safety’ (2009).
When Humphrey McQueen published an obituary of Menzies in Nation-Review in 1978, the Liberal party room wanted him charged with lese majeste.
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
University of Adelaide
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Trish Bolton
Trish Bolton’s debut novel, Whenever You’re Ready, is published by Allen & Unwin. She has been a media adviser to the federal leader of a political party, and, in the past, lectured in Media and Communications at Swinburne University.
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.
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 ground‐breaking 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 founder and principal of Hikmah Consulting, where he works with organisations and communities to build systems and cultures grounded in ethical leadership, inclusion, and justice. His practice spans strategic planning, cultural and faith competence, and sector reform, particularly in community services and public institutions. He is also the national spokesperson for Muslim Votes Matter, a grassroots initiative advocating for political engagement and voice within the Australian Muslim community. Ghaith has held senior leadership roles in Muslim community organisations and continues to contribute to national conversations on equity, representation, and the right to dissent, especially in the context of Palestine and the ongoing atrocities 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.
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.
Ng Kang-chung
Ng Kang-chung joined the South China Morning Post in 2013, and is a reporter for the Hong Kong desk covering general daily news and politics.