Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Claud Cockburn was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.
Alexander Cockburns_Guillotined!,A Colossal WreckandAn Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents_are available from CounterPunch.
Elmaz Asan
Elmaz Asan is a Crimean Tatar journalist, based in Kyiv (ATR. TV channel). She is also a visiting research fellow on the history of Crimea through Cambridge University.
Khushboo Razdan
Khushboo Razdan is a correspondent based in New York. Before joining the Post, she worked as a multimedia journalist in Beijing and New Delhi for over a decade. Shes a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
Guest author Ryan Manuel
Dr Ryan Manuel Bilby is Managing Director of Bilby, a HK-based company that uses AI to analyse policy.
Kevin Liston
Kevin Liston is Co Chair of Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform, both are involved in Church reform at the local and National level and have multiple contracts with international Church Reform groups.
Eleanor Flynn
Eleanor Flynnare is Co Chair of Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform, both are involved in Church reform at the local and National level and have multiple contacts with international Church Reform groups.
Mark Carter
Mark Carter has been researching aviations contribution to global warming for the last 6 years and helped set up both Flight Free Australia http://www.flightfree.net.au (a group campaigning to raise awareness of flyings warming impact, with a pledge to not fly call to action) and the No 3rd Tulla Runway coalition http://www.no3rdtullarunway.net.au campaigning agains the proposed third runway at Melbourne Airport. In 2018 I researched and wrote The elephant in the sky: the hazards of aviation emissions and how we can avoid them (https://flightfree.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-elephant-in-the-sky_online_s.pdf)
Gary Sigley
Gary Sigley is a Professor of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University. His past research has focused on the cultural heritage and heritage routes of tea in Southwest China, and in particular the Ancient Tea Horse Road. This has been expanded to include researching the growth of tea heritage across China and recent Chinese government initiatives in the field of tea diplomacy. Gary is also developing a project on analysing how China has been interpreted within Western discourse during recent times of geopolitical transformations. The focus here is on Western liberal eschatology and apocalyptic modernity.
Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith was born and educated in Britain. After obtaining an MA in Natural Sciences at Cambridge and a Diploma in Education in Singapore, he moved to Australia where he completed in 1974 a PhD on New Guinea high altitude flora at ANU, Canberra. Moving to Armidale NSW (where he still resides), he lectured in Geography at UNE before serving as Station Leader of Australian Antarctic Stations in 1996 and from 2000 to 2010.
Alexis Vassiley
Alexis Vassiley is part of the Administrative Committee for the People’s Inquiry into University Restrictions on Free Speech on Palestine. He is a writer and activist based in Perth.
Carolyn Blanden
As a principal of 20 years, Carolyn Blanden has worked in both public and independent schools. Currently, she is Principal of Warakirri College, which has campuses in Blacktown, Campbelltown and Fairfield and plans to expand further into outer western Sydney. Carolyn is an advocate for equality of opportunity believing that every young person has a right to a quality education which can be obtained from both public and independent schools.
Daniel Bleakley
Daniel Bleakley is a clean technology researcher and advocate with a background in engineering and business. He has a strong interest in electric vehicles, renewable energy, manufacturing and public policy.
Ho Lok-sang
Ho Lok-sang is director of the Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute, Lingnan University.
Susan Abulhawa
Susan Abulhawa (Arabic:: , born June 3, 1970) is aPalestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of several books, and the founder of a non-governmental organisation, Playgrounds for Palestine.She lives inPennsylvania.Her first novel,Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. Her second novel,The Blue Between Sky And Water, was sold in 19 languages before its release, and was published in English in 2015.Against the Loveless World, her third novel, was released in August 2020, also to critical acclaim.
Sara Kowal
Sara Kowal Vice-President of Capital Punishment Justice Project (formerly Reprieve Australia).
Yee-Fui Ng
Dr Yee-Fui Ng is an Associate Professor at Monash University Faculty of Law, and the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation at Monash University.
Kacee Ting Wong
Kacee Ting Wong, a barrister, is a part-time researcher at Shenzhen University Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Research Center and chairman of the Chinese Dream Think Tank.
Joseph Ho
Joseph Ho, a solicitor, is director of Sino-Australian relations for the Chinese Dream Think Tank.
Guest author Justin Catanoso
Justin Catanoso is a regular contributor to Mongabay and a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University in the United States.
Gilllian Cowlishaw
Gillian Cowlishaw, Honorary Professor, Department of Anthropology, SSPS, Building A02, Science Road, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006.