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.
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).
Guest author Arif Rafiq
Arif Rafiq is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.
Joe Lauria
Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of_Consortium News_and a former U.N. correspondent for_T__he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe_, and other newspapers, including_The Montreal Gazette,_the London_Daily Mail_and_The Star_of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the_Sunday Times_of London, a financial reporter for_Bloomberg News_and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for_The New York Times.He is the author of two books,A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and_How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.
Wael Jebril
Dr Wael Jebril is a course builder and casual tutor and lecturer in Education at the University of South Australia. He has local and overseas experiences in the field of Higher Education, educational technologies and teaching English to multicultural students. Dr Jebril’s research interests have been lately more focussed on raciolinguistics and equity in higher education. For a couple of decades, he has been supporting the education of marginalised female students in Palestine'.
Chu Daye
Chu Daye is a business reporter at the Global Times focusing on general topics, trade, investment and energy.
Gao Yingshi
Gao Yingshi is a CGTN reporter in Beijing and the founder of newsletter “Inside China,” a newsletter which focuses on Chinese politics, economics, society, and culture.
Guest author Aliya Bashir
Aliya Bashir is an independent journalist covering India and Indian-administered Kashmir with a focus on human rights, gender justice, womens issues, the environment, healthcare, education and minorities. She has written and reported for The Guardian, Time, Lancet Psychiatry, The New Humanitarian, Reuters, Global Press Journal, TRT World and many more.