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.
Chris Cook
Chris Cook is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and a Chartered Engineer.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Michael Edesess is an adjunct associate professor of environment and sustainability at HKUST and author of the book The Big Investment Lie.
Karen Collier
Karen Collier holds a Masters of Peace and Conflict Studies from Sydney University. For the past 15 years, she has worked closely with individuals and vulnerable populations with experiences of trauma in contexts of war and conflict, political and religious persecution, terror, state sponsored violence and forced displacement. Her work has been primarily focused on advancing the health, wellbeing and resilience of individuals, communities and organisations in culturally diverse contexts.
Intifar Chowdhury
Dr Intifar Chowdhury is a lecturer in government at Flinders University. She is a youth researcher passionate about improving the political representation of all young Australians.
Tom Suarez
Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, his books include three works on the history of cartography, and four on Palestine, most recently “Palestine Hijacked – how Zionism forged an apartheid state from river to sea”.
Li Binian
Li Binian has been working for the Xinhua News Agency for 8 years. He has been a journalist in Egypt and Palestine for three and half years and working as an editor in the international news department at the Xinhua headquarters for more than four years.
Xu Keyue
Xu Keyue Global Times reporter following Australian and Japanese issues, also with a focus on social issues and overseas studies.
Damian Secen
Damian Secen is a Melbourne born Australian citizen. He was a senior member of Macquarie’s global infrastructure investment business, and spent three years based in Moscow between 2009 and 2012 running Macquarie’s Russian and CIS infrastructure fund. He was Chairman and CEO of Russia, Ukraine and the CIS for Macquarie Group from 2009-2012.
Shi Xue Dou
Shi Xue Dou AM is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and former Director and founder of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials within the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the University of Wollongong. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.