Lim Teck Ghee
Lim Teck Ghee, ANU PhD graduate, is a Malaysian economic historian and policy analyst. He has a regular column, Another Take, in The Sun, a Malaysian daily and Oriental Daily; and is the author of Challenging the Status Quo in Malaysia, and Dark Forces Changing Malaysia (with Murray Hunter).
Pam Batkin
Pam Batkin has just finished 40 years of work as a social worker in Sydney. Most recently she was CEO of a community services agency in the very culturally diverse and vibrant South Western Sydney for 12 years. She is currently travelling with her partner for a year in Europe and the UK.
Charlie Joyce
Charlie Joyce is an Anne Kantor Fellow at the Centre for Future Work’s Carmichael Centre from Melbourne, Australia
Gim Teh
Gim Teh is a retired Australian law academic and a former member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He has an interest in misinformation and imperialism and has written about US-Australia-China relationship.
Michael Walker
Dr Michael Walker works in the Justice and Peace Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. He teaches at Australian Catholic University.
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson is a Uniting Church minister (Parkville), and publishes “Faith after faith” on Substack
Nail Aykan
Nail Aykan is a respected leader within multicultural and multifaith communities with a strong record of active engagement in the social cohesion space. He served as the Executive Director of the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) for eight years.
Wang Xiangwei
Wang Xiangwei is a China watcher and a news junkie, ex-Editor in Chief of South China Morning Post.
Wong Kai Hui
Wong Kai Hui a Malaysian independent journalist currently based in Taiwan. She cares about gender, environment, identity politics, and democratic development worldwide, with a particular focus on Malaysia. She believes being multilingual help connect segregated societies and cultural groups.
Zelda Grimshaw
Zelda Grimshaw is a life long campaigner for peace, earth and human rights. She was a UN observer of the ballot for independence in East Timor in 1999 and remains connected to struggles in East Timor and West Papua. Zelda is passionate about decolonisation, dismantling patriarchy and creating climate justice.
Jeffrey St. Clair
Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.
Ian Lowe
Ian Lowe AO (born 3 November 1942) is an Australian academic and writer focused on environmental issues. A physics graduate, he is an Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society and former Head of the School of Science at Griffith University. He is also an adjunct professor at Sunshine Coast University and Flinders University. Lowe has authored or co-authored 10 books, 10 Open University books, more than 50 book chapters and over 500 other publications.
Ivo Mateus Goncalves
Ivo Mateus Gonçalves received his PhD from the Australian National University in 2024. His thesis examines Timor-Leste’s history of activism, with a focus on student movements.
Malcolm Chalmers
Former librarian at State Library of Queensland, BA (UQ) Studied political science and history.
Zhang Tong
Tong earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University and Master’s degree from the University of Washington. His major was Chemical Engineering and Data Science. He used to work as an editor of academic journals. He is enthusiastic about news writing and finding stories behind scientific research.
Xu Yi-chong
Xu Yi-chong is a professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University.
Simone Clarke
Simone has over 25 years-experience in the corporate and “for-purpose” sector in sustainability, international development, public-private partnerships, global campaigns and advocacy, working for a range of international corporations, NGO’s, United Nations agencies and not-forprofits in Australia, the US and Asia Pacific.
Simone has global experience in sustainable development, cross sector collaboration, partnerships, resource mobilisation, and digital transformation with UNICEF, Save the Children, Mission Australia, The Australian Football League, and Telstra Corporation, among others.
Tricia Yeoh
Tricia Yeoh is CEO of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and Campus Visitor at The Australian National University.
Suzanne Varrall
Suzanne Varrall is a Research Fellow at Melbourne University. She is a lawyer, academic and former policy adviser with expertise in international law and global security. Her PhD explored regulation and accountability for transnational arms transfers.
Robert Parry
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his new book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).
Debjani Ganguly
Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University Debjani Ganguly specialises in post-1945 English and global anglophone literatures. Her research is informed by postcolonial and world literary theories, new formalisms, new materialism, media ecologies, philosophies of technology and digitality, human rights discourse, and environmental concerns. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge 2005)
Joe Lauria
Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for T__he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette, the London Daily Mail and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He is the author of two books, A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.
Mainul Haque
Mainul Haque OAM is a retired Australian public servant with nearly three decades of experience in government, academia, and community leadership. A former ACT Multicultural Ambassador and President of the Canberra Muslim Community, he led the development of the Gungahlin Mosque — a symbol of inclusion and unity. Mainul continues to serve as a community leader on several government and not-for-profit boards and advisory committees. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to the Canberra communities.
Wael Jebril
Dr Wael Jebril is a course builder and casual tutor and lecturer in Education at the University of South Australia. He has local and overseas experiences in the field of Higher Education, educational technologies and teaching English to multicultural students. Dr Jebril’s research interests have been lately more focussed on raciolinguistics and equity in higher education. For a couple of decades, he has been supporting the education of marginalised female students in Palestine'.
Chu Daye
Chu Daye is a business reporter at the Global Times focusing on general topics, trade, investment and energy.
Gao Yingshi
Gao Yingshi is a CGTN reporter in Beijing and the founder of newsletter “Inside China,” a newsletter which focuses on Chinese politics, economics, society, and culture.
Aliya Bashir
Aliya Bashir is an independent journalist covering India and Indian-administered Kashmir with a focus on human rights, gender justice, women’s issues, the environment, healthcare, education and minorities. She has written and reported for The Guardian, Time, Lancet Psychiatry, The New Humanitarian, Reuters, Global Press Journal, TRT World and many more.