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.
Charlie Joyce
Charlie Joyce is an Anne Kantor Fellow at the Centre for Future Works Carmichael Centre from Melbourne, Australia
Gim Teh
Gim Teh is aretired Australian law academic and a former member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He has an interest in misinformation and imperialism and has written about US-Australia-China relationship.
Michael Walker
Dr Michael Walker works in the Justice and Peace Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. He teaches at Australian Catholic University.
Nail Aykan
Nail Aykan is a respected leader within multicultural and multifaith communities with a strong record of active engagement in the social cohesion space. He served as the Executive Director of the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) for eight years.
Wang Xiangwei
Wang Xiangwei is a China watcher and a news junkie, ex-Editor in Chief of South China Morning Post.
Wong Kai Hui
Wong Kai Hui a Malaysian independent journalist currently based in Taiwan. She cares about gender, environment, identity politics, and democratic development worldwide, with a particular focus on Malaysia. She believes being multilingual help connect segregated societies and cultural groups.
Zelda Grimshaw
Zelda Grimshaw is a life long campaigner for peace, earth and human rights. She was a UN observer of the ballot for independence in East Timor in 1999 and remains connected to struggles in East Timor and West Papua. Zelda is passionate about decolonisation, dismantling patriarchy and creating climate justice.
Jeffrey St. Clair
Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.
Ian Lowe
Ian LoweAO(born 3 November 1942) is an Australian academic and writer focused onenvironmental issues. Aphysicsgraduate, he is an Emeritus Professor ofScience, Technology and Societyand former Head of the School of Science atGriffith University. He is also an adjunct professor atSunshine Coast UniversityandFlinders University. Lowe has authored or co-authored 10 books, 10 Open University books, more than 50 book chapters and over 500 other publications.
Malcolm Chalmers
Former librarian at State Library of Queensland, BA (UQ) Studied political science and history.
Zhang Tong
Tong earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University and Master’s degree from the University of Washington. His major was Chemical Engineering and Data Science. He used to work as an editor of academic journals. He is enthusiastic about news writing and finding stories behind scientific research.
Xu Yi-chong
Xu Yi-chong is a professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University.
Simone Clarke
Simone has over 25 years-experience in the corporate and “for-purpose” sector in sustainability, international development, public-private partnerships, global campaigns and advocacy, working for a range of international corporations, NGO’s, United Nations agencies and not-forprofits in Australia, the US and Asia Pacific.
Simone has global experience in sustainable development, cross sector collaboration, partnerships, resource mobilisation, and digital transformation with UNICEF, Save the Children, Mission Australia, The Australian Football League, and Telstra Corporation, among others.
Tricia Yeoh
Tricia Yeoh is CEO of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and Campus Visitor at The Australian National University.
Robert Parry
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his new book,Americas Stolen Narrative, either as an e-book (fromAmazonandbarnesandnoble.com).