Stuart Murray
Stuart Murray Associate Professor, International Relations and Diplomacy, Bond University
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).
Colin Bradford
Colin Bradford is the lead co-chair of the China–West Dialogue consisting of thought leaders from Europe, China, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea and the United States seeking to ‘pluralise’ the bipolar US–China 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.
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/.
Hall Greenland
Hall Greenland is a journalist, author and historian. He was production editor on Filmnews from 1980-1995.
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.
Silvia Menegazzi
Silvia Menegazzi is Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, LUISS University Rome.
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.
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.
Anastasia Radiewska
Anastasia Radievska is a Ukrainian-born writer and community organiser currently living on Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal, and the Red Room Poetry ‘Writing Water’ anthology. A zine she coproduced with staff and students participating in the University of Sydney 2022 strikes recently appeared in Axon: Creative Explorations journal. Anastasia is a policy researcher and law student. She is interested in the interweaving of personal and collective histories in poetry, and the way these can open up new spaces of freedom.
Matthew Ricketson
I am an academic and journalist. Presently the professor of communication at Deakin University, I was previously inaugural journalism professor at the University of Canberra between 2009 and 2017. I have also run the journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. I have worked on staff at The Australian and Time Australia magazine: my last job in the news media industry was Media and Communications Editor at The Age. I have written three books and edited two.
James Anthony
Jim Anthony earned his PhD at the Australian National University. He worked for then Senator Lionel Murphy as a member of his staff. When the second Whitlam government was elected in 1972 Jim Anthony was appointed Private and Press Secretary to John Wheeldon, Minister for Repatriation and National Compensation. From the mid 1970s Jim has, for the most part worked as an international consultant in Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the Pacific. From the mid 80’s until he retired in 2010 he was the CEO of a non-profit in Hawaii working on global climate change, potable water and ocean acidification. At 88 he is retired and lives in Hawaii.
Sylvie Zhuang
Reporter, China Sylvie joined the Post as a reporter in 2023. She graduated from the University of Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois. Previously, she worked as a researcher for multilateral international organisations, including the World Bank and ADB.
Don Scott-Kemmis
Don Scott-Kemmis is a consultant specialising in industry and innovation policy. Previously an Associate Professor at the Australian National University, where he led the Innovation Management and Policy Program, and a research fellow at the University of Sussex and University of Wollongong. He has been a consultant to many national and international organisations, including the FAO, ILO, UNESCO, EU and GIZ. He was a manager in research and innovation policy branches in the public sector in Australia and a Ministerial Adviser. He holds degrees from the University of Sydney and University of Sussex.
F.M. Shakil
F.M. Shakil is a Pakistani writer covering political, environmental, and economic issues, and is a regular contributor at Akhbar Al-Aan in Dubai and Asia Times in Hong Kong. He writes extensively about China-Pakistan strategic relations, particularly Beijing’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Sumitra Vignaendra
Sumitra Vignaendra is a research scientist and is undertaking a PHD in philosophy of science on the topic of Big Data. She has been a social activist for 40 years and has written about race, social class, sexuality, gender, higher education and the flawed criminal justice systems in Australia. Born in Malaysia of Tamil heritage, she immigrated to Australia with her family, aged 8.