Ainsley Barton
Ainsley Barton is an alias, he is a former political adviser to the Liberal Party and mainstream media journalist, presently engaged in consulting work in Canberra.
Lisa Singh
Lisa Singh is the CEO of the Australia India Institute, and a Cricket Australia Multicultural Ambassador.
Jeremiah Kenner
Jeremy Kenner is a public servant, employed by an Australian government agency. An American by birth and rearing and an educator and lawyer by training, his professional interests lie at the juncture of research, clinical care, public health, policy making and regulation of science and technology. He also draws on a reservoir of Jewish learning received earlier in life at the feet of his father and grandfather.
Judah Tana
Judah Tana is the Australian founder-director of Global Advance Projects which has rescued hundreds of trafficking victims who arrived in Myanmar from more than 60 countries as far-flung as Uganda and Morocco.
John H Howard
John is a researcher, policy analyst, management adviser, and author with three decades of experience advising governments, universities, and industry on science, research, and innovation policy and strategy.
John Howard
John is a researcher, policy analyst, management adviser, and author with three decades of experience advising governments, universities, and industry on science, research, and innovation policy and strategy.
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.
Keith Bryant
After working at the stock exchanges in London and Johannesburg in the 1980s, Keith was appointed a partner of Bain and Company in 1989, and subsequently a Director at Deutsche Bank Australia for a decade. Keith previously held leadership positions at Wentworth Community Housing, the Constellation Project, and the Benevolent Society. He is Chair of the Board for the Foyer Foundation, and CEO of the Open Dialogue Centre.
Peter Layton
Peter Layton is a visiting fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and the author of Grand Strategy.
Zoltan Nemeth
Zoltan Nemeth lives in Budapest, is a member of the Ohel Avraham Neolog Jewish Congregation, and writes for Hungarian Jewish publications.
Michelle Riedlinger
Michelle Riedlinger is an Associate Professor in the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Communication.
Walther Bücklers
Walther earned a B.A. in Media Management from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Germany and an MBA from the University of Oregon in the United States. For the last 12 years, he has has been living and working in China. Previous articles of his were published on Nachdenkseiten and Telepolis in Germany, and China Daily in China.
Charissa Suli
Reverend Charissa Suli is the 17th President of the Uniting Church in Australia. Her election to this position in 2024 marked a historic milestone as she became the youngest person, the first person of non-Anglo-Celtic background, and the first of Pacifica heritage to hold this esteemed position. Reverend Suli’s leadership is deeply rooted in her unwavering commitment to inclusivity, community building, and transformative ministry.
Doctors for the Environment Australia
The oped was co-authored by members of the Business and Divestment Committee of DEA South Australia: Dr David Everett, Dr Rob Ferris, Ms Bora Hyoung (medical student), Dr Graeme McLeay, Dr Douglas Shaw, Dr Nicolas Wickham and Emeritus Prof John Willoughby, with expert ethical investment advice from Mr Andrew Gaston (Adv.Dip FS (FP); FIPA; SA.Fin). Enquiries to Dr Rob Ferris, Chair, DEA(SA) Healthy Investment Special Interest Group at dea_sa@dea.org.au
Ned Watt
Ned Watt is a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre.
Simon English
Simon English has been a business journalist in London for nearly 30 years. He has held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The London Evening Standard and The Sun.
Guangyi Pan
Guangyi Pan, a teaching fellow and PhD in International Politics at UNSW. Guangyi.pan@unsw.edu.au
Sylvia Hale
Sylvia Hale is a Co-Convenor of the Greens NSW Peace and Anti-AUKUS Campaign (GPAAC). She was, from 2003 until 2010, a Greens member of the Upper House of the NSW Parliament.
Neil Hauxwell
Neil Hauxwell had TAFE jobs in student support and adult literacy and numeracy over forty years. He worked in prisons, in industry and in projects for specific groups using TAFE toward better futures. He worked in China at a vocational college for a period. He is currently owner-building a modest house.
Philip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
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.
Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies, and is a co-editor of Inequality.org.
Orange Wang
Orange Wang covers the Chinese macroeconomy, and has many years of experience with China’s monetary and fiscal policy moves. He also covered global market and financial news for a long time, with a particular focus on new technologies and their influences on economic growth and society. Before joining the South China Morning Post, Orange worked as a Shanghai Correspondent for ET Net, a Hong Kong financial news agency.
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.
Geoffrey Holland
Geoffrey Holland is the lead author of The Hydrogen Age, Gibbs-Smith Publishing, 2007. He is a veteran writer/producer of long and short-form videos focused on clean energy and the environment. He also happens to be the coordinator for the MAHB Dialogue series.
He has also signed and pledged his commitment to the Earth Systems Treaty. You can do the same by going here.
Andreea Lachsz
PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
Andreea has a particular interest in the rights of detained people, having completed her Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and previously volunteered as a humanitarian observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program (visiting facilities in Australia, PNG and Nauru). She is Head of Policy,
Katie Howe
Katie Howe, the owner of Wellington-based agency Jacaranda Communications, was based in mainland China for over a decade. She advises SMEs, entrepreneurs and startups on corporate communications, including media relations, CEO profiling, B2B comms, social media and stakeholder engagement.
Phillip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
James Purtill
James Purtill is the ABC’s award-winning online technology reporter, covering stories from social media to solar panels, and artificial intelligence to electric vehicles. Prior to joining ABC Science he worked as a reporter at triple j Hack and ABC News.
Emma Russell
Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice & Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Dr Emma Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice in the School of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.
Chris Breen
Chris Breen is involved with Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, he is writing in a personal capacity.