Danny Haiphong
Danny Haiphong is an independent journalist and researcher in the United States. He is a contributing editor to the Black Agenda Report, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China and founding member of the No Cold War international campaign.
Mandy Chan
Mandy Chan holds a PhD in Global Korean Studies from the Academy of Korean Studies. Her research focuses on gender emancipation and identity politics in the context of modernisation within contemporary Korean society.
Stephen Stockwell
Professor Emeritus in Journalism and Communication, Griffith University. Previously journalist at 4ZZZ, JJJ and Four Corners and media officer for the Queensland Labor Party and various politicians. Author of Political Campaign Strategy and Rhetoric and Democracy and co-editor of The Secret History of Democracy. Since retiring he has experimented with retelling history in poetic form in The Voyage and the Vision and The Phoenician Sonnets. His most recent book is 1975: The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal which includes not only ten rollicking bush ballads but also an investigative essay reviewing the available evidence on the events of 1975. The book is available in-store or online at Avid Reader, Brisbane. It is also on Amazon, Booktopia and Print on Demand. Soon available at Kindle.
Jacqueline Luqman
Jacqueline “Jacquie” Luqman likes to joke that she “accidentally fell into activism,” but in the days since she was in high school protesting South Africa’s white minority government and its odious apartheid policies, activism has become an essential part of her life.
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Adjunct professor and adjunct senior lecturer in tourism management, University of South Australia. I teach and research in tourism, with a focus on the rights of host communities, justice and solidarity.
Research topics include: peace through tourism, Indigenous tourism, policy and planning issues in tourism, politics of tourism, inclusive tourism, sustainable tourism, food cultures, gender rights and critical tourism.
Felicity Deane
Professor Felicity Deane is a Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD entitled, ‘The Clean Energy Package and WTO Law: An Analysis of Compliance Issues’ was completed in August 2013. Her book ‘Emissions Trading and WTO Law: A Global Analysis’ was published internationally in March 2015. It has been published in several languages. Felicity has published extensively in areas where economics and the law intersect, in particular regarding emissions trading and other forms of market based mechanisms.
Robert Cockburn
Robert Cockburn is a Sydney writer, journalist and program maker. He reported variously for BBC, The Observer, The Guardian and Financial Times in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and Asia. He was Australia correspondent for BBC and London Times. He has contributed to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, SBS and ABC. His films are for National Geographic and Journeyman Pictures UK. He is an investigative reporter and a lead writer for the Public Library of Science Medicine. He is a drama writer fr NIDA and has worked for the Sydney Theatre Company. His work site is: tracproductions.com
Michael Breen
Michael Breen, twenty years a Jesuit, then educational psychologist (Boston College) and researcher, (Ireland) student counsellor,(Bathurst and Wollongong Unis) organisational psychologist,(private practice, mostly in W.A.) Zen practitioner Dai Boku.
Edward Curtin
Edward Curtin educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, I teach sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Vicente Navarro
Vicente Navarro is Professor of Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center.
Selwyn Cornish
Selwyn Cornish Honorary Associate Professor in the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most recent book is Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.
Robert Manne
Robert Manne AO, FASSA, is Emeritus Professor of Politics and a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University. His most recent book is A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars (La Trobe University Press).
Bob Phelps
Bob Phelps is founder (1988) and Executive Director of GeneEthics, a non-profit educational network of citizens and kindred groups. In living organisms, we want the precautionary principle, independent and rigorous scientific evidence, and the law applied to all proposed research and commercial uses of genetic manipulation (GM) techniques and their products.
Barbara Preston
Barbara Preston is an independent researcher, and a former union official and public servant. She has been researching and writing on education, workforce and public policy issues since the 1970s.
Sara Abdelmawgoud
Dr Sara Abdelmawgoud is a Gaza representative and a member of the ACT Activist Leadership Committee with Amnesty International Australia. She advocates for human rights and refugee justice, and works closely with local communities to amplify Palestinian voices.
John Doyle
John Doyle is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University. He previously held strategy and regulatory roles at Optus and was a board director of the telecommunications sector’s primary industry body, Communications Alliance.
Roya Musawi
Roya Musawi is a journalist, public communicator, and writer with extensive experience in advocacy, and public relations. For the past 8 years, she has served in different national and international organizations in support of human rights, women’s rights, youth, gender equality, IDPs, and returnees.
Miriam van den Berg
Miriam is a research fellow at Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests focus on how unfair and indecent employment conditions affect health and wellbeing. Miriam also works as a public health consultant in Tasmania and has been a long-term advocate for action on the social determinants of health.
Glenn Withers
Glenn Withers is Emeritus Professor at ANU and Adjunct Professor at UNSW Canberra. He has been Head of the Economic Planning Advisory Commission (EPAC), founding CEO of Universities Australia(UA), Past President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia(ASSA), and Chair of the Global Development Learning Network(GDLN). He is a Director of Applied Economics Pty Ltd, Chair of Blended Learning International, Board Member of Phenomics Australia, and Director of the Social Cyber Institute. Glenn was awarded an AO for development of the Australian immigration points system.
Meredith Edwards
Meredith Edwards AM, FASSA, FIPAA is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra (UC), Australia. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UC and Director of its National Institute for Governance, 1997-2004 and a senior policy adviser in the Australian Public Service involved in a range of major social policy reforms across several departments, rising to Deputy Secretary in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Meredith was a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 2010-17 and she authored Social Policy, Public Policy: from problem to practice (Routledge, 2001), and co-authored Public Sector Governance in Australia (ANU Press, 2012).
Pamela Burton
Pamela Burton, BA; LLM, is a Canberra lawyer and writer. She is the author of From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron Story (UWAP, 2010), The Waterlow Killings: A portrait of a family tragedy (MUP, 2012), A Foreign Affair (Ginninderra Press, 2016) and, with the assistance of Meredith Edwards, Persons of Interest: an intimate account of Cecily and John Burton (ANU Press, 2022).
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.
Jenny Goldie
Jenny Goldie is immediate past national president of Sustainable Population Australia and formerly on the Board, then staff, of Australian Reproductive Health Alliance.
John Fitz
Emeritus Professor John Fitz is an Australian living in the UK since 1970. He was formerly a Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Ray Champ
Ray Champ has worked in the Public Service for five years and is studying a bachelor of economics at Macquarie University.
Roger Gurr
Roger Gurr Associate Professor Gurr, MB BS DPM MRC Psych, FRANZCP is the Clinical Director of headspace Early Psychosis in Western Sydney. He also holds a Conjoint Appointment in Psychiatry, Western Sydney University Faculty of Medicine and is the Board Chair for the NSW Service for the Treatment & Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors (STARTTS). He was awarded the NSW Government Human Rights Medal in 2021. He is presenting at the NDIS and Mental Health Conference on Tuesday 21 January at the ICC in Sydney.
Wendy Hunt
Wendy Hunt is the Academic Chair of Food Science and Nutrition at Murdoch University. She has over 25 years of experience in the field of Food Science, having roles in management, research, teaching, and services to the food industry. Her research is in food and human health with particular interest in seafood, starch, grains, fibre and satiety.
Graham Pickering
Graham Pickering is a long-term resident of Taiwan. He is an educator and author. He is fluent in Chinese and getting there in Taiwanese. His interests include Education, Taiwan, China and Cross-Strait Relations.
Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann
Dr Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, School of Social Sciences. She is a Brazilian political analyst and has written extensively in this field. Her research interests include Brazilian politics, society, and policy, Latin American politics, populism and nationalism, women in the global south, gender, and politics and religion.
Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman is founder and executive director of The Global Uplift Project which builds small-scale infrastructure projects in the developing world to improve humanity’s capacity for self-development. Robert taught economics and history at Los Altos High School where he also coached the Speech and Debate team, including producing a national champion in 2006. He has traveled extensively in both the developed and developing world. He is the author of The Best One Hour History series which includes World War I (2013), The InterWar Years (2014), The Vietnam War (2013), and other titles.
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.
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.
Robert Delaney
Robert Delaney is the Post’s 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.