Jersey Lee
Jersey Lee is an international affairs analyst, founder of the Indo-Pacific geopolitics dialogue platform Pacific Polarity, and regional research associate at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center. He worked in China as a journalist and on track two diplomacy. He has written on Chinese, Australian and American domestic and foreign policies in international publications including Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter, South China Morning Post, Canberra Times, Australian Outlook and UK National Committee on China.
David Marr
Over the years David Marr has written about politics, society and the arts for the National Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Guardian. At the ABC he reported for Four Corners in the 1980s, presented Arts Today on Radio National in the 1990s, presented Media Watch in the early 2000s and for years appeared regularly on Q&A and Insiders.
His books include Patrick White, A Life (1991) and Dark Victory written with Marian Wilkinson (2003) plus half a dozen Quarterly Essays on political leaders from John Howard via Bill Shorten to George Pell. Lately his essays, stories and speeches exploring Australia over the last 45 years have been collected in My Country.
Peter Sprivulis
Harkness fellow, geeky doc, Expertise in Health policy/strategy, digital health & emergency medicine. Trying to understand complex interplay between geopolitics, economics, climate and the environment. Blog these topics at www.thisnannuplife.net
Rohim Ullah
My name is Rohim Ullah, and I’m a Rohingya refugee documentary photographer, storyteller and human rights activist from the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. My works have been published by various international organisations and media outlets.
Charles Glass
Charles Glass is a writer, journalist and broadcaster, who has written on conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Europe for the past 50 years. He was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in Lebanon, Syria, Eritrea, Rhodesia, Somalia, Iraq, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His many books have dealt with the First and Second World Wars as well as contemporary Middle East history.
Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of fourteen books, including his most recent: “Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival” (2021). Previous books include: “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy” (2016), “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels” (2015), and “Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines” (2010).
Tim Deere-Jones
Tim Deere-Jones has a B.Sc. degree in Maritime Studies and has operated a Marine Pollution Research Consultancy since the 1980s focusing on the behaviour and fate of marine anthropogenic radioactivity, causes/outcomes of hazardous cargos and shipping accidents, marine hydrocarbon, radioactivity and chemical spills.
Chris Helms
Chris is a Registered Nurse and endorsed Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience across the regulatory, educational, and clinical spheres of the health sector. His private practice is based in Canberra, where he provides primary healthcare and outreach services to marginalised and/or vulnerable populations across the ACT and NSW.
Siwage Dharma Negara
Siwage Dharma Negara is Senior Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a science teacher from Khan Younis in Gaza who since the outbreak of the present conflict has written widely about its devastating effects on people of all ages. She has powerfully described the experiences of women and children, the terror evoked by constant Israeli bombardments and, as here, the emptiness and despair associated with starvation. Despite the bleakness of the events to which she bears witness her commitment to her people and culture, to the education of children, to overcoming violence and hunger, offer poignant sources of hope in the midst of the darkness.
The Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) is a group of former senior defence and security leaders concerned that there is a lack of understanding of how climate disruption will impact on human and regional security. ASLCG aims to reframe the climate narrative, making climate an immediate security priority by assessing risks and building resilience, and acting to secure local and global protection.
The Australian Security Leaders Climate Group
The Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG) is a group of former senior defence and security leaders concerned that there is a lack of understanding of how climate disruption will impact on human and regional security. ASLCG aims to reframe the climate narrative, making climate an immediate security priority by assessing risks and building resilience, and acting to secure local and global protection.
James A. Fok
James A. Fok is a veteran financial and strategic adviser to corporations and governments, who served as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing during a decade of rapid internationalisation in China’s capital markets. He is the author of the book Financial Cold War.
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun is a senior legislative policy advisor at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan. He currently works with legislator Ching-hui Chen and previously advised former Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee Chair Charles I-hsin Chen. He is also a practising attorney and a non-resident research fellow at the Institute for Taiwan-America Studies in Washington, DC.
Anoma Pieris
Anoma Pieris is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean Research at the Melbourne School of Design. Her recent books include the multi-authored Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (Berghahn 2024); with Lynne Horiuchi, The Architecture of Confinement: incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022); and the anthology: Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (Architext 2019). In 2022, she was guest curator for the Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonisation in South Asia 1947-1985. Anoma’s recent work is on war cemeteries across the Indo Pacific region.
Zhou Bo
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret) is a senior fellow of the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a China Forum expert. He was director of Centre for Security Cooperation of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of National Defence of China.
Chheng Kimlong
Dr Kimlong is President of the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) in Phnom Penh. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, a Master in Economics from Kobe University, and a Master in Business Administration from Preston University. He was economic-commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Phnom Penh from 2008 to 2012. Before that, he was research consultant at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), research assistant at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and socio-economic specialist for aid-funded rural community-development projects.
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.
Helen Jarvis
Helen Jarvis, PhD University of Sydney, BA (Hons) Australian National University and former Head, School of Information, Library and Archive Studies, University of New South Wales. Since the mid-1990s, Helen has worked in Cambodia on cultural heritage and documentation and justice for genocide. Helen is currently active in UNESCO’s World Heritage and Memory of the World committees, a Vice-President of the Permanent People’s Tribunal and a Patron of the Australian People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech. She holds both Australian and Cambodian nationality and is an Adviser to the Royal Government of Cambodia.
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.
Richard Bruggemann
Richard was the Chief Executive Officer, of the Intellectual Disability Services Council (IDSC) from 1984 until 2006. On retirement he was appointed as Professorial Fellow in the Disability and Community Inclusion Unit of Flinders University where he developed and ran the Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies (Leadership). From 2013 to 2018, he was appointed as South Australia’s senior practitioner to reduce the use of restrictive practices in South Australia. In 2020, he was appointed as Authorising Officer under the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 to consider applications to detain people who lack capacity and whose actions were putting themselves or other at risk of infection.
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.
Kesaia Tabunakawai
Kesaia Tabunakawai is a Governor at WWF-Australia and has previously served as the WWF Pacific Representative.
Bronwen Dalton
Professor Bronwen Dalton AM was the former Deputy Director of the National Korean Studies Centre under Adrian Buzo. Currently, she is the Head of the Department of Management at the UTS Business School. After finishing her DPhil in Korean Studies at Oxford she failed to secure a full-time position in Korean Studies. Despite reinventing herself and joining a business faculty, she continues to write journal articles and provide media and social media commentary about North Korea.
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.