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

Peter Ghijben

Peter Ghijben Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University

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.

Ying Xue

Ying Xue is a researcher in the Xinhua Institute.

David Lockwood

David Lockwood

David Lockwood is an adjunct associate professor of history at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include colonial and post-colonial India. His most recent publication is The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948 (National University of Singapore Press, 2024). He is a member of the Australian Labor Party.

Sylvia Ma

Sylvia Ma joined the Post in 2023 and covers China economy. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in English from Fudan University.

Scott Vella

Scott Vella Part-time Researcher at CAP Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

Romain Fathi

Romain Fathi Lecturer, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National University

Andrew Hammond

Andrew Hammond

Andrew Hammond is a historian at the University of Oxford and visiting fellow at the Centre of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. He is the author Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought, Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, and The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia.

Amanuel Elias

Dr Amanuel Elias is an economist and research fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. He focuses on racism and anti-racism.

L Thanh Trc

L Thanh Trc

‘Thanh Trc is a writer & proof reader at the Burning Spear for the African People’s Socialist Party. She founded the political news site pristine.press and also writes on her personal political website at lethanhtruc.com '

Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Williams Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University

Henry Chan

Henry Chan

Dr Henry Chan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Cambodia Institute for Cooperation & Peace. His research focuses are Development Economics, Chinas Economic Development, ASEAN and China, the 4th Industrial Revolution, Monetary Economics, Digital Transformation and Climate Change.

Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim the historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In June his Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew was published by Oneworld

Denise Tsang

News Editor, Hong Kong An award-winning journalist, Denise has spent more than 20 years in the industry and specialises in macro-economic and political-economic news in Hong Kong. As well as being a team leader, writer and forum moderator, Denise is a coach and mentor of young reporters. She was awarded Professional Journalism Fellow by the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Yuan Yang

Yuan Yang is at once a reporter, a consummate storyteller, a self-appointed anthropologist and most importantly, a friend to the people she writes about.

Mike Fogarty

Mike Fogarty, a former naval officer, served as a diplomat in the Australian Embassy Hanoi, Vietnam in 1980-1981. In 2016 he graduated MA (Military History) from UNSW at ADFA. His views are his own and need no official endorsement. See also Richard Broinowski, Vietnam: the advantages of a flexible foreign policy, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 27 January, 2023.

Emad Moussa

Dr Emad Moussa is a Palestinian-British researcher and writer specialising in the political psychology of intergroup and conflict dynamics, focusing on MENA with a special interest in Israel/Palestine. He has a background in human rights and journalism, and is currently a frequent contributor to multiple academic and media outlets, in addition to being a consultant for a US-based think tank.

Jesse Boylan

Jesse Boylan

Jesse Boylan is an artist and writer who lives on Djaara country in Central Victoria. Jesse is a mentor with We Are Not Numbers and travelled to Gaza in 2009 with the international feminist peace organisation, CODEPINK. They are a PhD candidate at RMIT University.

Jing Jing Li

Jing Jing Li Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead for Health Technology Assessment, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University

APAN

APAN

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) is a national coalition harnessing the passion of Australians for Palestinian human rights, justice, and equality.

Anne-Marie Grisogono

Anne-Marie Grisogono Adjunct professor, Flinders University

Peter Greste

Peter Greste Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University

Reese Halter

Reese Halter is a distinguished Earth System scientist. His latest book is Unearthly Wails.

Arhama Siddiqa

Arhama Siddiqa is a Middle East analyst, is a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad in Pakistan.

Willa Wu

Correspondent, City Willa joined the SCMP in 2023 and she previously worked for China Daily Hong Kong, covering news related to Hong Kong-mainland affairs.

Peter McMillan

Peter McMillan

Peter McMillan is the Chief Executive Officer at NT Shelter. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of NT Shelter and its members.

Yaakov Aharon

Yaakov Aharon is a secular Jewish-Australian. He was raised in the pro-Israel and ultra-orthodox Chabad sect.

Roger Bradbury

Roger Bradbury

Roger Bradbury is Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is a complex systems scientist. His research interests lie in the modelling and simulation of the dynamics of social and natural systems. He worked for many years in the Australian Intelligence Community on the strategic analysis of international science and technology issues. For the general reader, he writes on the scientific bases of policy issues.

Jo Holder

Jo Holder is from The Cross Art Projects in Kings Cross.

Margaret O'Connor

Margaret O'Connor

Margaret OConnor grew up in Eastern Maar Country (the Western District of Victoria) and has been based in Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) for the last 26 years. She is a semi-professional musician and is passionate about history and sustainable living. She is a coordinator and administrator of a Canberra sustainability group with almost 6,000 members, and writes about her many interests for Pearls & Irritations, Crikey, Honest History and No Fibs.

Amar Bendjama

Amar Bendjama is Algerias permanent representative to the United Nations.

Guest author Amjad Ayman

Amjad Ayman Yaghi is a journalist based in Gaza.

Kahon Chan

Correspondent, Hong Kong Kahon joined the Post’s Hong Kong Desk in 2022. He had previously covered politics and other current affairs topics in Hong Kong and Macau.

David Suzuki

David Suzuki, an award-winning geneticist and broadcaster, co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and is currently professor emeritus. Suzuki is widely recognised as a world leader in sustainable ecology and has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science and a United Nations Environment Program medal.

Jeanie Lucas

Jeanie Lucas

Jeanie Lucas is a retired Adelaide Social Worker, a long time peace activist and the Secretary of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA).