Guest author Robert Delaney
Robert Delaney is the Posts North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.
Jon Jovanovic
An aspiring author. Studied This, that and the other, probably more of the other, than this and that at University of Tasmania. Has a stall at Salamanca Market. Went to Maribyrnong High In Melbourne.Lives in Hobart, Tasmania From Belgrade, Serbia.
Jane Goodall
Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace. 1960, began landmark study of chimpanzees in Tanzania under mentorship of Louis Leakey. Her work at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve became the foundation of future primatological research and redefined the relationship between humans and animals; 1977, established Jane Goodall Institute. In 2019 Goodall launched the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation. Currently travels an average 300 days per year speaking about threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental concerns, and about her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems facing our planet.
Richard Heggie
RichardSHeggie / SLR enviro-consultants. Ethics, social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, integrity, accountability, no war. Guringai Land, Garigal Clan, Eora Nation.
Elena Collinson
Elena Collinson is Manager, Research Analysis at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Universitys Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Natasha Mitchell
Natasha Mitchell is the host of the ABC’s popular Big Ideas program and podcast.
She is a multi-award winning ABC journalist, radio presenter, podcaster and documentary maker. Natasha founded the internationally popular radio show and one of the ABC’s first podcasts, All in the Mind, which she hosted and produced for a decade.
Pat Walsh
Former Special Adviser to the East Timor truth commission, CAVR, and its successor bodies, author, teacher of Indonesian and promoter of Australia-Indonesia people-to-people relations.
Laurel Clare Lloyd-Jones
Sister Laurel Clare Lloyd-Jones (LFSF) is a Franciscan, a social worker, author and CEO and co-founder of the charity Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust**,** founded near Tumut NSW in 1987 and now based at Dalmeny on the far-south coast NSW. (www.elmgrovetrust.org.au) Laurel has worked faithfully over forty years to closely support Aboriginal people. She has many good friends and associates within the Indigenous community.
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
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.
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 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
‘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
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 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
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) is a national coalition harnessing the passion of Australians for Palestinian human rights, justice, and equality.