Jeff Schubert
Jeff Schubert began his career as a junior manufacturing executive in Adelaide before moving to the Treasury in Canberra, and then Chief Economist of HSBC and a tax policy adviser in Sydney. He later became a business and foreign policy analyst in Russia and China.
My BIO: You can say that, amongst other things, I spent 3 years teaching high-tech business management to Chinese students in Russia!
My book PUTIN and his Lieutenants: compared to Mao, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Ataturk is now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0DBGYB3RR
Kushneel Prakash
Kushneel Prakash is Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
Murray Hunter
Murray Hunter is a former entrepreneur, academic and policy advisor, and is now an independent researcher. Murray has a regular column at My Sin Chew and Free Malaysia Today (FMT) in Malaysia, and regular commentator on RT. Murray has published several books and writes in his own Substack at murrayhunter.substack.com.
John Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Guest author Yose Rizal Damuri
Yose Rizal Damuri is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and Economic Studies (CSIS) Indonesia.
Xinlu Liang
Reporter, China Xinlu Liang joined the Post as a Graduate Trainee in 2021. Previously, she wrote obituaries for lives lost in California as a Covid-19 reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times and interned at Reuters Shenzhen Newsroom. She graduated with a Master’s in journalism from University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s in English from Sun Yat-sen University.
Alicia Vrajlal
Founder@drawyourbox. Editorial & Partnerships Lead@missingperspectives. Former Senior Culture Editor@refinery29auand Editor@huffpostau
Guest author Quinta Jurecic
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at_Lawfare_. She previously served as_Lawfare’s_managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Andrew Dodd
Andrew has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, working in radio, TV, print and on-line. He has worked with ABC radio and television, Radio Netherlands and numerous other publications. He was a media and business writer with The Australian and a broadcaster with ABC Radio National, where he presented many of the network’s programs and founded the Media Report. He was also a media writer for crikey.com.au.
Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His 27 years as a CIA analyst included leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and conducting the morning briefings of the President’s Daily Brief. In retirement he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Toan Nguyen
Toan Nguyen is Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University, and lecturer at the School of Business and Public Policy, The University of Papua New Guinea.
Owen Podger
Owen Podger is an Australian living in Indonesia. Since March 1998 when Soeharto was elected for the final time, he has concentrated on assisting Indonesian reforms , mainly in two areas: (1) policies to improve performance of government in Indonesia’s new democratic and decentralised system, and (2) sustainable urbanisation considering climate change and disasters.
Oliver Yates
Oliver Yates was the inaugural CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (2012-2017) and is now the country head of Gaw Capital.
Ann Villiers
Dr Ann Villiers is a career coach and advocate for increasing the accuracy of skills language. Ann is a Life Member of the Career Development Association Australia (CDAA).
Terry OLeary
Terry OLeary worked at Garden Island Dockyard as Technical Officer Electronics & Communications in 1970s, then Hardware Engineer in IT industry and then Laboratory Manager. Served 6 years Army Reserve in 1970s & 1980s. Completed part time Applied Science Degree followed by Master of Applied Science.
Moved to Canberra in 1990 to work in Defence as an Analyst. Then worked as Senior Professional Officer for DSTO in Navy Office. Attended Joint Services Staff College and completed Master Degree at ADFA UNSW Campus in Management. Worked in Defence Project Managment and left Defence to teach at Canberra Institute of Technology till retirement.
Neryssa Azlan
Neryssa Azlan worked as a digital producer with ABC News Digital since 2018 and is currently a social media producer for ABC’s Q+A and ABC News. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Masters degree in International Relations. You can follow her on Twitter:@NeryssaAzlan
John Coulter
John Coulter has been active in a range of environmental causes and organisations since the mid-1950s. He was a medical research scientist for over 20 years, became a Democrat Senator for South Australia in 1987. He was leader of the Australian Democrats 1991-93.
Michael John Paton
Dr Michael Paton is an associate of the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Sydney. He was previously the Teaching Quality Fellow in the Faculty of Economics and Business, co-founder of the research group Sustainable Management of Organisations Group (SMOG), and Vice President (Asia) of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.
Gerard Gill
Gerard Gill is a postdoctoral researcher in Australia focusing on violent extremism, particularly the far right and conspiracism.
Winston Mok
Winston Mok, a private investor, was previously a private equity investor. He held senior regional positions with EMP Global and GE Capital, and was a McKinsey consultant and initiated its China practice. Winston obtained his bachelor and master degrees from MIT.
Ryan Edwards
Ryan Edwards is Deputy Director of the Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University.
Mona Ali Khalil
Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognised public international lawyer with 30 years of UN and other experience, including as a former senior legal officer in the UN and the IAEA, with expertise in peacekeeping, peace enforcement, disarmament and counterterrorism. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from Harvard University and a master’s in foreign service and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
Su Dharmapala
Su Dharmapala is the CEO & Founder of polipedia.com.au - an AI backed political data start-up. With both expertise in politics, AI and data.
Laurent Dauré
Laurent Dauré is journalist and founder of the French Committee of Support for Julian Assange (Comité de soutien Assange).
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a professor and senior fellow of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn Universitys Faculty of Political Science, he earned a PhD from the London School of Economics with a top dissertation prize in 2002. Recognised for excellence in opinion writing from Society of Publishers in Asia, his views and articles have been published widely by local and international media.
Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb
Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb is a dentistry student, poet, oud player, translator, and community activist in the local community. She was a participant in the Hult Prize, an annual competition for ideas solving pressing social issues, such as food security, water access, energy, and education. She works as a writer and makes videos, producing content about Palestine.
Current as of June 2024
Andrea Mazzarino
Andrea Mazzarino, a_T__omDispa__tch_regular, co-founded Brown UniversitysCosts of War Project. She has held various clinical, research, and advocacy positions, including at a Veterans Affairs PTSD Outpatient Clinic, with Human Rights Watch, and at a community mental health agency. She is the co-editor of_War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan_.
Rakesh Ahuja
Rakesh Ahuja, a former Australian diplomat, is a Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Consultant. Professional Background: RakeshAhuja.DownloadingMyMind.com
Guest author Ian Anderson
Professor Ian Anderson is Palawa & Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) for the University of Tasmania.
Erin Wen Ai Chew
Ms Erin Wen Ai Chew is a social activist, freelance writer, entrepreneur and thought leader who has dedicated a good part of the last 10 years in addressing social issues impacting on the Asian Australian community. In 2013, Ms Chew founded the Asian Australian Alliance which is a network that focuses on empowering and advancing the voices of the Asian Australian community and advocate on relevant common issues. With the leadership of Ms Chew, the Asian Australian Alliance has been leading the conversation on issues of racism and representation, Asian Australian LGBTIQ issues, issues around domestic violence against Asian Australian women and mentoring the Asian Australian youth.
Michelle Berkon
Michelle Berkon is a Jewish Australian, aspiring mosaic artist, and former teacher. She has always been committed to social justice, environmental sustainability, and animal rights. As a member of Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 for a decade, she has repudiated Zionism and become active in the struggle for Palestinian rights.
Patricia Weston
Patricia Weston, aka Patriciawa.
I am a well-trained fact checker from BBC overseas news room in London some sixty years ago. I also spent time with the CBC in Toronto on my first overseas trip, 1960, before going north to Alaska. After marriage and very happy motherhood in the midst of Mau Mau terrorism I became a successful high school language teacher by default before assisted migration to Australia.
Here I continued as a married temp in low socio-economic area schools. Finally I had a brief, but enjoyable, four years running an Australian wheatbelt DHS, where success retaining black students was not popular with local pastoralists. After 1985, though technically very generously retired I ran a Fremantle charitable organisation, Walyalup Craft Enterprises helping Noongah and various other day release prisoners. From 1993 I developed and managed two Sydney centres for the Australian Scholarships Group, meeting thousands of local and migrant families
Guest author Joseph Gerson
Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy and Vice President of the International Peace Bureau. His books include Empire and the Bomb, and With Hiroshima Eyes.
Mick Hall
Mick Hall is an independent journalist based in New Zealand. He is aformer digital journalist at Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and formerAustralian Associated Press (AAP) staffer, having also writteninvestigative stories for various newspapers, including the_New__Zealand Herald._
Ro Naulu Mataitini
Ro Naulu Mataitini is a founding member of the People’s Alliance Party (PAP). He resigned from his political post as Senior Vice President of the PAP to become an apolitical member of the 2023 reconstituted Great Council of Chief. Ro Naulu is a high chief of Rewa Province; whose paramount Chief is the Roko Tui Dreketi, Ro Teimumu Kepa.
Ronald C. Keith
Ronald C. Keith, formerly Professor and Head of Political Science, University of Calgary, Canada, retired in 2015 as Professor of China Studies, Griffith University. His latest book, China Change and “Benevolence”, on the influence of culture and ideology on contemporary Chinese foreign policy, was published by World Scientific Publications in 2023.