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).
Laurence McCook
Prof. Laurence McCook works in science-based policy for conservation and sustainability. He is a Professorial Research Fellow (Adjunct) at James Cook University, Visiting Professor at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia, and Scientific Adviser to Seneca Impact Advisers in Hong Kong. He has worked in government, academic, non-government and private sectors, in Australia, Indonesia, China and Hong Kong.
Christopher Walker
Rev. Dr Christopher Walker an ordained minister of the Uniting Church. He currently is a sessional lecturer at the United Theological College in North Parramatta. He holds a PhD in theology from Claremont University in California and has served in a range of positions and places in the Uniting Church, including as principal of the Uniting Church theological college in South Australia, and for the Assembly as national consultant: Christian unity, doctrine and worship. Chris also taught at Murdoch University in Perth. He has written or edited over a dozen books.
Amy McQuire
Amy is a Darumbal/South Sea woman and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Occasional freelancer. Curtain Podcast. Her topics are Racism, feminism, justice, wrongful convictions.
Adam Bartley
Adam Bartleyis a Fulbright Scholar and resident fellow at the Elliot School for International Affairs, the George Washington University. In addition to this, he is a post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and program manager of the AI Trilateral Experts Group. Twitter: @AaBartley
William Yang
William Yang is a second year student at the University of Sydney, and President of the Sydney University Labor Club.
Warwick Powell
Warwick Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains. Dynamics of a Zero Trust World (Routledge 2023), and numerous peer review articles on global supply chain digitalisation. He is a frequent media contributor on issues of international geopolitical economy, digitalisation and technology, with outlets such as TI Observer (a monthly publication of Taihe Institute), Aljazeera, CGTN, Guancha.cn, South China Morning Post, China Daily and Global Times.
Julianne Schultz
Julianne Schultz was a friend of Anne Coombs. Her most recent book is The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation, Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Jonathan Rispler
Jonathan Rispler is a renewable energy engineer and a senior research consultant in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. His work focuses on modelling the transition of Australia’s energy system and developing sectoral decarbonisation pathways.
Margo Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds AC served as an Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999.
Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in the Senate, serving as Minister for Local Government from September 1987 to April 1990 and as Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women from January 1988 to April 1990.
Saori Miyake
Dr Saori Miyake is an environmental scientist and an expert in research on renewable energy and land use change in Australia and Europe. She is a senior research consultant in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.
Amy Maguire
Amy Maguire Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
A researcher and teacher in international law and human rights at the University of Newcastle Law School, Australia.
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Amy Maguire does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Amad Mohamed
Amad Mohamed is a young leader of the Australian-Sudanese diaspora. He works as a Senior Policy Officer for a Canberra-based organisation. Previously, he had worked in the private sector and for a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission on international and bilateral diplomacy, trade and investment, and defence relations.
George Williams
Professor George Williams AO is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Western Sydney University. He previously served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean of Law and Anthony Mason Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is a leading constitutional lawyer, co-author with Professor Megan Davis of Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and author and editor of dozens more books. He has appeared as a barrister in the High Court and led major public inquiries. His book Vantage Point, Aiming Higher: Universities and the future of Australian democracy is published by the Australia Institute.
Elianor Gerrard
Dr Elianor Gerrard is an applied social researcher working in the Energy Futures team and the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. She applies her background in community development to explore solutions to complex social and technical challenges in the energy transition.
Craig Murray
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader support. Subscriptions to keep this blog going are gratefully received.
APAN/AFOPA
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) and the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA)
Jim McMorrow
Dr Jim McMorrow as held a senior position in education at both the national level and in NSW.
In 2015, he co-authored with Lyndsay Connors AO.
Imperatives in Schools Funding: Equity, sustainability and achievement.
Chris Douglas
Chris Douglas served for 31 years with the AFP. He is the owner of Malkara Consulting, a consultancy firm that specialises in the provision of training and advice in relation to financial crime including money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption and bribery in Australia, Asia, and Africa. He is not affiliated with any political party. He may be contacted at Chris.douglas@malkaraconsulting.com.
Anne Hurley
CEO and founder of James & Co business of women’s sustainable clothing and accessories. In keeping with her earlier career experiences in the telco/ IT sector and as a lawyer which included involvement in and commentary on relevant policy areas, Anne advocates for changes required in and by the fashion industry and by Government to address the known challenges to the future of the planet.
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