Carolyn Blanden
As a principal of 20 years, Carolyn Blanden has worked in both public and independent schools. Currently, she is Principal of Warakirri College, which has campuses in Blacktown, Campbelltown and Fairfield and plans to expand further into outer western Sydney. Carolyn is an advocate for equality of opportunity believing that every young person has a right to a quality education which can be obtained from both public and independent schools.
Stephen Kentwell
Stephen Kentwell is a former diplomat who served in Paris, Tokyo and Washington and was a Senior Analyst 1997-2001 in the Office of National Assessments. He is currently finalising a detailed jointly written biography of the Chinese entrepreneur C.Y. Tung for publication by Hong Kong University Press.
Daniel Bleakley
Daniel Bleakley is a clean technology researcher and advocate with a background in engineering and business. He has a strong interest in electric vehicles, renewable energy, manufacturing and public policy.
Ho Lok-sang
Ho Lok-sang is director of the Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute, Lingnan University.
Susan Abulhawa
Susan Abulhawa (Arabic:: , born June 3, 1970) is aPalestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of several books, and the founder of a non-governmental organisation, Playgrounds for Palestine.She lives inPennsylvania.Her first novel,Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. Her second novel,The Blue Between Sky And Water, was sold in 19 languages before its release, and was published in English in 2015.Against the Loveless World, her third novel, was released in August 2020, also to critical acclaim.
Sara Kowal
Sara Kowal Vice-President of Capital Punishment Justice Project (formerly Reprieve Australia).
Yee-Fui Ng
Dr Yee-Fui Ng is an Associate Professor at Monash University Faculty of Law, and the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation at Monash University.
Kacee Ting Wong
Kacee Ting Wong, a barrister, is a part-time researcher at Shenzhen University Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Research Center and chairman of the Chinese Dream Think Tank.
Joseph Ho
Joseph Ho, a solicitor, is director of Sino-Australian relations for the Chinese Dream Think Tank.
Guest author Justin Catanoso
Justin Catanoso is a regular contributor to Mongabay and a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University in the United States.
Gilllian Cowlishaw
Gillian Cowlishaw, Honorary Professor, Department of Anthropology, SSPS, Building A02, Science Road, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006.
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.
Duygu Yengin
Dr Duygu Yengin is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Adelaide. She earned her Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the London School of Economics and her PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester, USA.
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.