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.
Aliya Bashir
Aliya Bashir is an independent journalist covering India and Indian-administered Kashmir with a focus on human rights, gender justice, women’s 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.
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.
Chris Cook
Chris Cook is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and a Chartered Engineer.
Pearls and Irritations guest M.K. Bhadrakumar
Michael Edesess is an adjunct associate professor of environment and sustainability at HKUST and author of the book The Big Investment Lie.
Karen Collier
Karen Collier holds a Masters of Peace and Conflict Studies from Sydney University. For the past 15 years, she has worked closely with individuals and vulnerable populations with experiences of trauma in contexts of war and conflict, political and religious persecution, terror, state sponsored violence and forced displacement. Her work has been primarily focused on advancing the health, wellbeing and resilience of individuals, communities and organisations in culturally diverse contexts.
Intifar Chowdhury
Dr Intifar Chowdhury is a lecturer in government at Flinders University. She is a youth researcher passionate about improving the political representation of all young Australians.
Tom Suarez
Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, his books include three works on the history of cartography, and four on Palestine, most recently “Palestine Hijacked – how Zionism forged an apartheid state from river to sea”.
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.
Jorgen Doyle
Jorgen Doyle is a freelance journalist and horticulturalist living in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs, Central Arrernte Country. He writes on the expansion of US and Australian military presence in Northern Australia, and is involved in local environmental justice and Palestine solidarity campaigns.
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.