Doctors for the Environment Australia
The oped was co-authored by members of the Business and Divestment Committee of DEA South Australia: Dr David Everett, Dr Rob Ferris, Ms Bora Hyoung (medical student), Dr Graeme McLeay, Dr Douglas Shaw, Dr Nicolas Wickham and Emeritus Prof John Willoughby, with expert ethical investment advice from Mr Andrew Gaston (Adv.Dip FS (FP); FIPA; SA.Fin). Enquiries to Dr Rob Ferris, Chair, DEA(SA) Healthy Investment Special Interest Group at dea_sa@dea.org.au
Ned Watt
Ned Watt is a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre.
Simon English
Simon English has been a business journalist in London for nearly 30 years. He has held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The London Evening Standard and The Sun.
Guangyi Pan
Guangyi Pan, a teaching fellow and PhD in International Politics at UNSW. Guangyi.pan@unsw.edu.au
Sylvia Hale
Sylvia Hale is a Co-Convenor of the Greens NSW Peace and Anti-AUKUS Campaign (GPAAC). She was, from 2003 until 2010, a Greens member of the Upper House of the NSW Parliament.
Neil Hauxwell
Neil Hauxwell had TAFE jobs in student support and adult literacy and numeracy over forty years. He worked in prisons, in industry and in projects for specific groups using TAFE toward better futures. He worked in China at a vocational college for a period. He is currently owner-building a modest house.
Philip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann
Dr Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, School of Social Sciences. She is a Brazilian political analyst and has written extensively in this field. Her research interests include Brazilian politics, society, and policy, Latin American politics, populism and nationalism, women in the global south, gender, and politics and religion.
Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies, and is a co-editor of Inequality.org.
Orange Wang
Orange Wang covers the Chinese macroeconomy, and has many years of experience with China’s monetary and fiscal policy moves. He also covered global market and financial news for a long time, with a particular focus on new technologies and their influences on economic growth and society. Before joining the South China Morning Post, Orange worked as a Shanghai Correspondent for ET Net, a Hong Kong financial news agency.
Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman is founder and executive director of The Global Uplift Project which builds small-scale infrastructure projects in the developing world to improve humanity’s capacity for self-development. Robert taught economics and history at Los Altos High School where he also coached the Speech and Debate team, including producing a national champion in 2006. He has traveled extensively in both the developed and developing world. He is the author of The Best One Hour History series which includes World War I (2013), The InterWar Years (2014), The Vietnam War (2013), and other titles.
Geoffrey Holland
Geoffrey Holland is the lead author of The Hydrogen Age, Gibbs-Smith Publishing, 2007. He is a veteran writer/producer of long and short-form videos focused on clean energy and the environment. He also happens to be the coordinator for the MAHB Dialogue series.
He has also signed and pledged his commitment to the Earth Systems Treaty. You can do the same by going here.
Andreea Lachsz
PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
Andreea has a particular interest in the rights of detained people, having completed her Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and previously volunteered as a humanitarian observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program (visiting facilities in Australia, PNG and Nauru). She is Head of Policy,
Katie Howe
Katie Howe, the owner of Wellington-based agency Jacaranda Communications, was based in mainland China for over a decade. She advises SMEs, entrepreneurs and startups on corporate communications, including media relations, CEO profiling, B2B comms, social media and stakeholder engagement.
Phillip Walker
Philip Walker is a human rights and anti-racism campaigner. In the early 1980s he formed the Wollongong branch of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He travelled through the Middle East just prior to the outbreak of the first intifada. Phillip worked in humanitarian aid for two decades in Africa, witnessing the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
James Purtill
James Purtill is the ABC’s award-winning online technology reporter, covering stories from social media to solar panels, and artificial intelligence to electric vehicles. Prior to joining ABC Science he worked as a reporter at triple j Hack and ABC News.
Emma Russell
Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice & Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Dr Emma Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice in the School of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.
Chris Breen
Chris Breen is involved with Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, he is writing in a personal capacity.
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.