Li Binian
Li Binian has been working for the Xinhua News Agency for 8 years. He has been a journalist in Egypt and Palestine for three and half years and working as an editor in the international news department at the Xinhua headquarters for more than four years.
Xu Keyue
Xu Keyue Global Times reporter following Australian and Japanese issues, also with a focus on social issues and overseas studies.
Damian Secen
Damian Secen is a Melbourne born Australian citizen. He was a senior member of Macquaries global infrastructure investment business, and spent three years based in Moscow between 2009 and 2012 running Macquaries Russian and CIS infrastructure fund. He was Chairman and CEO of Russia, Ukraine and the CIS for Macquarie Group from 2009-2012.
Shi Xue Dou
Shi Xue Dou AM is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and former Director and founder of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials within the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the University of Wollongong.He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Doug Taylor
Doug Taylor is CEO of the childrens education charity The Smith Family and a member of the National School Reform Agreement Ministerial Reference Group providing advice to the Expert Panel set up to review the Agreement.
Debbie Kilroy
Debbie Kilroy OAM was first criminalised at the age of 13 and spent over two decades in and out of women’s and children’s prisons. Driven to end the criminalisation and imprisonment of girls and women, Debbie established Sisters Inside, as well as her law firm, Kilroy & Callaghan Lawyers. An unapologetic abolitionist, Debbie’s activism work centres on dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex and all forms of carceral control and exile. With a firm belief that there should be ‘nothing about us without us’, Debbie established the National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls to centre the voices, experiences and aspirations of criminalisation and imprisonment women and girls in order to change the face of justice in this country.
Truth Not War
Truth Not War
Australian grassroots campaign for Whistleblowers & WikiLeaks www.truthnotwar.com #freejuliansassange #mission4mcbride #mcbride4defenceminister
Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University.
Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese is theSpecial Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.
Jan Kabatek
Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
Naomi Klien
Naomi Klien award-winning author, journalist and academic. She is professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia and the founding co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice.
Guest author David Dodwell
David Dodwell is CEO of the trade policy and international relations consultancy Strategic Access, focused on developments and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific over the past four decades**.**
David Dodwell is the executive director of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group, a trade policy think tank.
Shi Xue
Shi Xue Dou AM is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and former Director and founder of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials within the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the University of Wollongong.He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Guest author Robert Delaney
Robert Delaney is the Posts North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.
Jon Jovanovic
An aspiring author. Studied This, that and the other, probably more of the other, than this and that at University of Tasmania. Has a stall at Salamanca Market. Went to Maribyrnong High In Melbourne.Lives in Hobart, Tasmania From Belgrade, Serbia.
Jane Goodall
Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace. 1960, began landmark study of chimpanzees in Tanzania under mentorship of Louis Leakey. Her work at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve became the foundation of future primatological research and redefined the relationship between humans and animals; 1977, established Jane Goodall Institute. In 2019 Goodall launched the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation. Currently travels an average 300 days per year speaking about threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental concerns, and about her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems facing our planet.
Richard Heggie
RichardSHeggie / SLR enviro-consultants. Ethics, social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, integrity, accountability, no war. Guringai Land, Garigal Clan, Eora Nation.
Elena Collinson
Elena Collinson is Manager, Research Analysis at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Universitys Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Natasha Mitchell
Natasha Mitchell is the host of the ABC’s popular Big Ideas program and podcast.
She is a multi-award winning ABC journalist, radio presenter, podcaster and documentary maker. Natasha founded the internationally popular radio show and one of the ABC’s first podcasts, All in the Mind, which she hosted and produced for a decade.
Pat Walsh
Former Special Adviser to the East Timor truth commission, CAVR, and its successor bodies, author, teacher of Indonesian and promoter of Australia-Indonesia people-to-people relations.
Laurel Clare Lloyd-Jones
Sister Laurel Clare Lloyd-Jones (LFSF) is a Franciscan, a social worker, author and CEO and co-founder of the charity Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust**,** founded near Tumut NSW in 1987 and now based at Dalmeny on the far-south coast NSW. (www.elmgrovetrust.org.au) Laurel has worked faithfully over forty years to closely support Aboriginal people. She has many good friends and associates within the Indigenous community.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honoured Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award
Ji Siqi
Ji Siqi joined the Post in 2020 and covers China economy. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School and the University of Hong Kong.