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.
Nic Maclellan
Nic Maclellan is a correspondent for Islands Business magazine (Fiji). He has published widely on French policy in the Pacific islands and is co-author of La France dans le Pacifique – de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris) and After Moruroa – France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne).
Adrian Rosenfeldt
Dr Adrian Rosenfeldt teaches at Melbourne University. He is a journalist, public speaker and the author of The God Debaters: New Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium (2022).
Katie Meissner
Currently, Katie is completing a three year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Strategy and Entrepreneurship cluster of The University of Queensland’s Business School, looking at the role of reinsurance pools in alleviating the damage caused by natural disasters. Katie teaches Corporate Sustainability within The University of Queensland’s Business School and is a member of the Business Sustainability Initiative.
Mary Crock
Professor Mary Crock is Professor of Public Law and member of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. Her expertise spans immigration, citizenship and refugee law, disability rights, administrative and constitutional law, public international law, particularly human rights and international refugee law, and comparative law. Her publications include leading texts on Australian immigration and refugee law and ground-breaking work on the intersections between disability, migration and human rights which she has presented to the United Nations. Her research has been cited frequently in Australia’s Federal Courts and High Court and she has given evidence before many parliamentary hearings in Australia, serving as adviser to the Australian Senate (Inquiry into Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, 2000); consultant to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (on immigration detention); and consultant to the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse (on children in immigration detention). She has made frequent contributions to national and international media.She has made frequent contributions to national and international media.
Tabe Bergman
Tabe Bergman is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. With Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman he recently published the edited volume Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine with Routledge.
Corinne Unger
Corinne Unger Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Corinne completed her PhD in social science at the University of Queensland Business School in 2021. Her study of insidious risk management (IRM) explains how slow growing inconspicuous risks can grow to become catastrophic so a catastrophe in the making can be recognised and intervened upon. While her research explored mining environmental insidious risks of land disturbance and mine affected water, her novel findings about IRM have wider applicability.
What's In Blue
About What’s In Blue When the Security Council approaches the final stage of negotiating a draft resolution, the text is printed in blue. What’s In Blue is a series of insights on evolving Security Council actions designed to help interested UN readers keep up with what might soon be “in blue”.
David Rosen
David Rosen is the author of Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (Skyhorse, 2015). He can be reached at drosennyc@verizon.net; check out www.DavidRosenWrites.com.
Paula Jarzabkowski
Paula Jarzabkowski Professor in Strategic Management, The University of Queensland
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is a global expert in the public-private mechanisms proliferating around the world to address the insurance protection gap. The insurance protection gap is the economic loss from catastrophic events that is not insured. In advanced economies, the burden of paying for recovery from disasters then falls upon the government and taxpayers. In low-income countries, disaster recovery sets back economic gains by decades affecting the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people.
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer and author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Paul Begley
Paul Begley has been working in public affairs roles for three decades, most recently as general manager of government and media relations with the Australian HR Institute.
Robin Brown
Robin Brown is Deputy Chair of Fairer Future. He has advised Australian and overseas governments, businesses and NGOs on consumer protection, competition policy and regulatory accountability. Formerly head of the Consumers’ Federation of Australia, he helped secure the landmark court ruling that enabled bans on second‑hand tobacco smoke and spearheaded creation of both the Consumers’ Health Forum and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.
Anton Ferreira
Anton Ferreira worked for 23 years as a correspondent and desk editor at Reuters. He started in Hong Kong and later worked long-term assignments in the Mideast, Latin America, New York City, Washington and South Africa. Ferreira is now based in South Africa.
Adam Austen Kay
Adam Austen Kay I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management at the University of Queensland Business School. I am former biotech manager, executive consultant and coach, and international arbitration lawyer. An award winning teacher for my course “Wise Leadership”, my research interests include mindfulness, virtue ethics, and corporate social responsibility. My research has been published in top management and psychology journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Academy of Management Perspectives, and in books by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Guilford Press.
Andy Mison
Andy Mison is the President of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA - www.aspa.asn.au), the national peak body representing the professional interests of Australia’s public secondary principals and their school communities. He is also a non-executive director of the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL).With an extensive career in NSW, the NT, and the ACT, Andy has taught in remote, regional, and metropolitan schools. He has also served as CEO of a large multi-school RTO, principal of four secondary schools, and as a system leader in the ACT Education Directorate.
Ross Fitzgerald
Ross Fitzgerald AM is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University. His most recent books, all published by Hybrid, are a memoir, Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey; a four pack of Grafton Everest political satires, The Ascent of Everest; and Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication co-authored with Ian McFadyen.
Robin Osborne
Robin Osborne is National Director Communications & Media for St Vincent de Paul Society and author of Indonesia’s Secret War: The Guerilla Struggle in Irian Jaya (Allen & Unwin 1985), and Kibaran Sampari, the book’s bahasa Indonesia translation (ELSAM Institiute for Study and Public Advocacy, Jakarta 2001).