Bob Beadman
Bob Beadman has worked in Canberra, Brisbane, Townsville, Thursday Island, Darwin, Alice Springs, Geneva and the Federal Ministers Office. He has worked for both sides of politics in both the Australian and Northern Territory Governments.
Since retirement in 2001 after 43 years service, he has taken on the roles of Chairman of the Northern Territory Grants Commission, Chairman of the Swimming Pool Safety Review Committee, Coordinator General of Remote Services, Director for Cyclone Reconstruction and Community Development, Member of the Red Cross Committee for Children, and Public Officer and Treasurer of the Tiwi Bombers Football Club.
He has been closely involved in Indigenous Affairs for the last 50 years.
Guillaume Lafortune
Guillaume Lafortune is vice president and head of the Paris office at the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)the largest global network of scientists and practitioners mobilized for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Previously, he served as an economist at the OECD in Paris and at the Ministry of Economic Development in the Government of Quebec. Guillaume is the author of 50+ scientific publications, book chapters, policy briefs, and international reports on sustainable development, economic policy, and good governance.
Hans Hendrischke
Hans Hendrischke is Professor of Chinese business and management, University of Sydney.
Adrian Ford
Dr Adrian Ford is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The University of Melbourne and is affiliated with Melbourne Climate Futures. Adrian’s research interests include community renewable energy groups and projects, and the political economy of sustainable energy transitions. He completed his PhD in sustainable energy transitions at the University of Melbourne in 2020.
Supriya Mathew
Dr Supriya Mathew is a multi-disciplinary researcher whose research interests’ focus on assessing the impacts of extreme environmental conditions on various communities and devising potential adaptive responses. She is currently a research fellow at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University and based in Alice Springs.
Peter Gearin
Peter Gearin is editor of The Mandarin. He was previously The Mandarin’s Special Reports Editor and a former assistant editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
John Minns
John Minns is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University and a member of the Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew researches the causes and consequences of population changes for the Northern Territory of Australia and northern regions more broadly. He undertakes both quantitative and qualitative research to understand impacts from policy, economic and structural changes for communities. In his PhD he investigated policy and theoretical implications from changing migration practices for Indigenous Territorians. Prior to academia, Andrew worked for a decade with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Ross Fox
Ross Fox has been the Director of Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn since 2016. Previously, Ross was the Executive Director of the National Catholic Education Commission. Before that, he held senior roles in the Catholic Education Office for the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Ross is married to Joanne and they are raising their three children.
Kristy Walters
Kristy Walters became heavily involved in the Australian Student Environment Network from 2005 to 2011 organising around climate change and food co-ops. From 2008 she was involved in creating Six Degrees, the coal and climate collective of Friends of the Earth Brisbane. In 2017 she started with Solar Citizens as the NSW Community Organiser where she worked on engaging and training our supporters to become more active in campaigns. Walters is also an executive director of the Community Power Agency, and the chairperson of the Haystacks Solar Garden Cooperative.
Michael Stanton
Michael Stanton is Senior Counsel for the State of Victoria and the Immediate Past President of Liberty Victoria (the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties). Barrister at Brian Bourke Chambers. He has written widely on human rights and civil liberties, and given evidence to both State and Federal Parliamentary Inquiries on a range of law reform issues including the re-emergence of far-right extremism.
Guest author Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson studied at the ANU, Moscow State and Leningrad State universities. He worked in DFAT from 1981 to 2004. His postings for DFAT included four years in Moscow 1988-92; and five in Beijing, 1995-99, including a year at the Beijing Institute for Economic Management. From 2000-2004 he worked on China and Mongolia in DFATs North Asia Division. From 2004 to 2013 he was the Senior Analyst for Russia and Central Asia at ONA and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies at the ANU.
Shamikh Badra
Shamikh Badra holds a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney and is a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong where he researches Palestinian resistance, diplomacy and settler colonialism. His publications in professional journals cover appraisals of academic theory and activism to advance global solidarity for Palestine. His non-violent work includes a theoretical framework for the Great March of Return and leadership (2015) to foster Palestinian unity.'
Pearls and Irritations guest John P Ruehl
John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several other foreign affairs publications. He is currently finishing a book on Russia to be published in 2022.
Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich, a_TomDispatch_regular, is chairman and co-founder of theQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new Dispatch book,On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century, has just been published_._ He is the author of Americas War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House_._
Mark Dodgson
Mark Dodgson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Executive-in-Residence at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.
David Salter
David Salter has been a journalist, broadcaster and author for more than 50 years. He was a member of the team that founded “This Day Tonight”, Australia’s first nightly current affairs program. He worked in the Canberra gallery, at the BBC, and for the Nine and Seven networks. Salter was Executive Producer of “Media Watch” for 200 episodes with Stuart Littlemore QC.
Phil Miller
Phil Miller is Declassified UK’s chief reporter. He is the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away With War Crimes. Follow him on Twitter at @pmillerinfo
Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan Holmes is a former presenter of the ABCs Media Watch, and chair of ABC Alumni.
Sybil Fares
Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN
Shojaa al-Safadi
Shojaa al-Safadi is a Palestinian writer and poet, a member of the Palestinian Writers Union, and a founder and director of the Friendship Cultural Forum from 2004 to 2014.
Edith Lin
Edith joined the Post as a reporter in 2022 and covers Hong Kong’s housing, land and development. Prior to joining the Post, she was a reporter at Radio Television Hong Kong.