Guest author Roger McKenzie
Roger McKenzie is a reporter for theMorning Star. He is the general secretary ofLiberation, one of the oldest UK human rights organisations.
Gwenda Beed Davey
Dr Gwenda Beed Davey AM PhD (Monash)
Gwenda Beed Davey has taught in cultural studies at both Monash and Deakin Universities. She was made a Member in the Order of Australia for services to the protection and preservation of folklore and folklife in Australia. She has been a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia. She is also a Honorary Associate of Museum Victoria.
Andrew Saniga
Andrew Saniga is a registered landscape architect and a teacher and researcher at The University of Melbourne. His book, Making Landscape Architecture in Australia (UNSW Press, 2012), explains the history of the profession in Australia. His current ARC-funded research projects include: ‘Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities’ (DP160100364) and ‘Architecture and Industry: The Migrant Contribution to Nation Building’ (DP190101531).
: Michael Dillon
Michael Dillon is a former public servant and ministerial adviser. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the ANU. His personal blog is A Walking Shadow: Observations on Indigenous Public Policy and Institutional Transparency can be read at www.refragabledelusions.blogspot.com
Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where he teaches into the Master of Social Justice program. A former journalist and BBC TV newsreader, he is the most cited author in the field of Peace Journalism, with seven books and over 60 refereed articles and book chapters to his credit. For his contributions to Peace Journalism theory and practice, Jake was honoured with the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2017. His debut novel, Blood on the Stone, an historical mystery thriller set in Oxford of the 17th Century, appeared in 2019. His collection of poetry, Pommy Granita: progressive comic verse for Boundless Plains and Old Sod, was published last month by Insight Horizon Books.
Braham Dabscheck
Braham Dabscheck is a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne who writes on industrial relations, sport and other things.
Barry Trembath
Barry Trembath is a retired hydropower engineer living in Sydney who spent about 45 years working in developing countries living in five before joining the World Bank where he worked for 17 years. He worked in 24 provinces and province level cities in China.
Tony Webb
Dr Tony Webb, MSc, PhD an active campaigner on the health effects of ionising radiation since the late 1970s. With two colleagues in 1978 I founded the UK based Radiation and Health Information Service that highlighted the evidence showing the risk estimates from radiation exposure, on which the national and international occupational and public exposure limits were based.
Andrew Wilkie MP
My concern with governance has its origins in my decision to resign from the Office of National Assessments (ONA) on 11 March 2003 in protest over the Iraq war. I was the only serving intelligence official in Australia, the UK and US to resign publicly before the invasion. I subsequently ran against Prime Minister John Howard at the 2004 federal election and wrote an account of my experience, Axis of Deceit.
I am active across a range of issues including health, housing, climate change and jobs, as well as the issues that the major parties ignore including animal welfare, gambling reform, asylum seekers, protections for whistleblowers and foreign and security policy. I have served on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and was Chairperson of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform. My qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma of Management and Graduate Diploma of Defence Studies.
Christine Williams,
The Director of the writing and publishing firm, Sydney School of Arts & Humanities, www.ssoa.com.au, Dr Christine Williams is herself the author of four major biographical works. She wrote the first biography of novelist Christina Stead, and has been published in Australia, England and India.
Hannah Lewi
Prof Hannah Lewi’s areas of expertise lie in architectural design, history and theory. Her research interests include Australian and modern history, heritage and place-making, and new media for publishing history. She teaches 19th- and 20th-century history and design; architectural, heritage and urban theory; and research supervision.
Benjamin T. Jones
Dr Benjamin T. Jones is a senior lecturer in History at Central Queensland University with expertise Australian political history, especially republicanism and national identity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Studies Institute, and has served as Secretary of the Australian Historical Association. His most recent books are Australia on the World Stage (Routledge, 2022), History in a Post-Truth World, (Routledge, 2020) and This Time: Australia’s Republican Past and Future (Redback, 2018).
Guest author Colin Bradford
Colin Bradford is the lead co-chair of the ChinaWest Dialogue consisting of thought leaders from Europe, China, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea and the United States seeking to pluralise the bipolar USChina relationship. He is also a global fellow of the Berlin Global Solutions Initiative and a non-resident senior fellow working on the G20 and global governance at the Brookings Institution.
John Braithwaite
John Braithwaite is an Emeritus Professor in the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, which he founded with Valerie Braithwaite. He leads a comparative study of all major armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War called Peacebuilding Compared. For Open Access publications, see johnbraithwaite.com. He is best known for work on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice.
Mohid Iftikhar
The author is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author contributed this article to China Watch, a think tank powered by China Daily.
Anne Irfan
Anne Irfan is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialising in Palestinian refugee history. Her work focuses on colonial legacies in displacement, internationalism, and bordering practices. She is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System (Columbia University Press, 2023). Anne has spoken in the UK Parliament and at the UN Headquarters in New York on the situation of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, focusing on the plight of those fleeing the Syrian war.
Iola Mathews
Iola Mathews is an author, co-founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, and a former journalist at the Age
Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People’s Academy of International Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She sits on the national advisory boards of Veterans For Peace and Assange Defense, and is the U.S. representative to the continental advisory council of the Association of American Jurists. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.
James Beattie
James Beattie is a philosopher and writer with a particular interest in the ethical dimensions of politics and policies in relation to climate change and the environment. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Melbourne (1996).
He publishes at https://changetracks.substack.com/.
Sam Bahour
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian American living in his ancestral home in Al-Bireh, Palestine, eating from the same fig, almond and olive trees that his father and Grandmother Badia ate from before leaving Palestine. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Visit his blog: www.epalestine.com.
Heather Wrathall
Heather Wrathall is Senior Policy Analyst at the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue (AP4D).
Mitchell Plitnick
Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. He is the co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Mitchell’s previous positions include vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Director of the US Office of B’Tselem, and Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace.
You can find him on Twitter @MJPlitnick.
Robert Wolfgramm
Robert Wolfgramm (PhD Sociology and Anthropology, LaTrobe University 1994) is a Fijian-born Australian citizen who lives in Ringwood, east of Melbourne. He completed a an MA in sociology on the Seventh-Day Adventisms American founder, Ellen White and his doctoral dissertation examined the Fijian ethnic self. He taught for 24 years at university level and in 2004 returned to Fiji to be editor of the English-language Fiji Daily Post. The newspaper ceased publication in 2009 as a consequence of the 2006 military coup. Since then he has returned to Australia, continued to write and maintain involvement in various civic projects, including the publication of Prisoner 302 the memoire of Laisenia Qarase (1941-2020), the Fijian Prime Minister from 2000-2006.
Dan Steinbock
Dan Steinbock is an internationally recognised strategist of the multipolar world and the founder of Difference Group. He has served at the India, China and America Institute (USA), Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and the EU Center (Singapore).
Samantha Helps
Samantha Helps is a writer and a teacher with a particular concern for youth and education, climate change and intersectionality. She has a degree in education from Denmark where group work and preparing young people for the capacity for togetherness in society are of primary importance.
Guest author Michael Callanan
Michael Callanan is a retired teacher of Logic and History, with an interest in international relations and contemporary history.
Neil Hooley
Dr Neil Hooley is Honorary Fellow, College of Arts and Education, Victoria University Melbourne. He is an experienced secondary school teacher, university educator and researcher with interests in progressive approaches to teaching, learning and assessment and the philosophy of education. He has published widely in academic journals, teacher magazines and newspapers. His latest, co-authored book is Making Sense of the World: Living, Learning and Teaching with Radical Philosophy of Education (Brill, 2024). Dr Hooley has worked with Aboriginal communities in Victoria and is a strong supporter of Uluru Statement from the Heart.