Roslyn Ross
Roslyn Ross is a former journalist and editor, who has been writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction for many years.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, she is now settled in the Adelaide Hills. She has spent much of her time living overseas, including Belgium; India; Angola; South Africa; Zambia; ,Canada; United Kingdom and Malawi. She has also spent extended periods in Russia, Portugal and the United States, as well as living across Australia.
She had had poetry published in a number of anthologies, mainly in the US, but also in When Anzac Day Comes Around, 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project, edited by Graeme Lindsay.
Monique Ryan
Monique Marie Ryan is an Australian paediatric neurologist and politician. She is currently the member of parliament for the federal seat of Kooyong after defeating Josh Frydenberg at the 2022 Australian federal election.
Ric Innes
Ric Innes learnt to read English 75 years ago. Since then he has learnt to read six other languages, some with non-Latin scripts. He likes to apply logical reasoning to public policy issues, but is always intrigued to follow the money.
Zoe Daniel
_Zoe Daniel is the independent federal Member for Goldstein_Elected to the House of Representatives for Goldstein, Victoria, 2022. House of Representatives Standing: Employment, Education and Training served from 1.8.2022 to present; Communications and the Arts served from 1.8.2022 to present Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served from 1.8.2022 to present.
Publications
Storyteller, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2014. Angel, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2018. Greetings from Trumpland (co-written with Roscoe Whalan), HarperCollins, Sydney, 2021.
Bruno Mascitelli
Bruno Mascitelli, Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University in International Studies. Has written extensively on the Italian political economy. Prior to entering academia was employed in the Australian Consulate in Milan during the 1980s and 1990s.
Beverly Holmes Brown
Beverly Holmes-Brown became a tireless, dedicated and creative refugee supporter after visiting a detention centre in early 2014.She has a breadth of skills and knowledge, including a wide understanding of official policies in the challenging Australian environment and experience ofwelfare needs and advocacy at individual and policy levels.
Les MacDonald
Les MacDonald has been a CEO for more than 40 years. Prior to this, he held executive positions in both the Commonwealth and NSW governments. He was previously Executive Director Uniting Care Ageing. Les has an extensive leadership history including board positions in public hospitals, health insurance, the maritime industry, public transport, cancer medicine and the Council for the Arts amongst others.
Lau Siu kai
Lau Siu kai is a professor emeritus of sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a consultant of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
Marjorie Crohn
Marjorie Cohnis professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the national advisory boards ofAssange Defenseand Veterans For Peace, and the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her books includeDrones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues. She is co-host of Law and Disorder radio.
Kumiko Nemoto
Kumiko Nemoto is Professor of Management in the School of Business Administration, Senshu University, Tokyo.
Jennifer Haines
Jennifer Haines is a Lecturer and Tutor to Nurses at the University of Western Sydney and University of Technology Sydney, and formerly a Registered Nurse, Lawyer and Trade Unionist for over 40 years in the NSW Health system.
Alan Pears
Alan Pears, AM, is one of Australias best-regarded sustainability experts. He is a senior industry fellow at RMIT University, advises a number of industry and community organisations, and works as a consultant. Alan writes a column in each issue of Renew magazine.
Anna-Karina Hermkens
Anna-Karina Hermkens research covers Cultural Anthropology, Art and Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Museum Studies, Gender Studies and Religious Studies/ Pilgrimage Studies. I have done done fieldwork in West Papua (Jayapura area), the North Moluccas (Ternate), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby, Madang, Collingwood Bay and Bougainville) and Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal-Marau area).
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.
Catholics for Justice and Peace for Palestinians
Catholics for Justice and Peace for Palestinians is a group of Australian Catholics who have come together to highlight the plight of Palestinians and encourage action. The group includes Clare Condon, Chris Sidoti, Marilyn Hatton, Francis Sullivan, Claire Victory, John Warhurst AO, Patty Fawkner and John Menadue AO.
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.