Lê Thanh Trúc
‘Thanh Trúc is a writer & proof reader at the Burning Spear for the African People’s Socialist Party. She founded the political news site pristine.press and also writes on her personal political website at lethanhtruc.com '
Elizabeth Williams
Elizabeth Williams Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Henry Chan
Dr Henry Chan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Cambodia Institute for Cooperation & Peace. His research focuses are Development Economics, China’s Economic Development, ASEAN and China, the 4th Industrial Revolution, Monetary Economics, Digital Transformation and Climate Change.
Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim the historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In June his Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew was published by Oneworld
Denise Tsang
News Editor, Hong Kong An award-winning journalist, Denise has spent more than 20 years in the industry and specialises in macro-economic and political-economic news in Hong Kong. As well as being a team leader, writer and forum moderator, Denise is a coach and mentor of young reporters. She was awarded Professional Journalism Fellow by the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang is at once a reporter, a consummate storyteller, a self-appointed anthropologist and most importantly, a friend to the people she writes about.
Mike Fogarty
Mike Fogarty, a former naval officer, served as a diplomat in the Australian Embassy Hanoi, Vietnam in 1980-1981. In 2016 he graduated MA (Military History) from UNSW at ADFA. His views are his own and need no official endorsement. See also Richard Broinowski, “Vietnam: the advantages of a flexible foreign policy”, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 27 January, 2023.
Emad Moussa
Dr Emad Moussa is a Palestinian-British researcher and writer specialising in the political psychology of intergroup and conflict dynamics, focusing on MENA with a special interest in Israel/Palestine. He has a background in human rights and journalism, and is currently a frequent contributor to multiple academic and media outlets, in addition to being a consultant for a US-based think tank.
Jesse Boylan
Jesse Boylan is an artist and writer who lives on Djaara country in Central Victoria. Jesse is a mentor with We Are Not Numbers and travelled to Gaza in 2009 with the international feminist peace organisation, CODEPINK. They are a PhD candidate at RMIT University.
Jing Jing Li
Jing Jing Li Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead for Health Technology Assessment, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
APAN
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) is a national coalition harnessing the passion of Australians for Palestinian human rights, justice, and equality.
Manish Vaid
Manish Vaid is a Junior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation.
He analyses energy trends and geopolitical factors, focusing on the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy systems. His expertise spans oil, gas and renewable energies, including biofuels and green hydrogen.
Reese Halter
Reese Halter is a distinguished Earth System scientist. His latest book is Unearthly Wails.
Arhama Siddiqa
Arhama Siddiqa is a Middle East analyst, is a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad in Pakistan.
Willa Wu
Correspondent, City Willa joined the SCMP in 2023 and she previously worked for China Daily Hong Kong, covering news related to Hong Kong-mainland affairs.
Peter McMillan
Peter McMillan is the Chief Executive Officer at NT Shelter. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of NT Shelter and its members.
Yaakov Aharon
Yaakov Aharon is a secular Jewish-Australian. He was raised in the pro-Israel and ultra-orthodox Chabad sect.
Roger Bradbury
Roger Bradbury is Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is a complex systems scientist. His research interests lie in the modelling and simulation of the dynamics of social and natural systems. He worked for many years in the Australian Intelligence Community on the strategic analysis of international science and technology issues. For the general reader, he writes on the scientific bases of policy issues.
Ray Wills
Professor Ray Wills has more than 40 years experience in a wide-ranging career at different times as a researcher, academic, planner, consultant, adviser, manager, executive, business owner, author, commentator, entrepreneur and futurist and has worked in private enterprise and for government, Parliament, industry bodies, NGOs and educational institutions.
Joey T. McFadden
Joey T. McFadden is a writer & commentator with Young Voices, host of “In Response…,” and Blue Co-Chair of the Braver Angels NYC Alliance. See his paintings on Instagram.
William J Jones
William J Jones is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Mahidol University International College in Thailand.
Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman emeritus professor of public health at the University of Sydney. He was honoured to be named in 2014 by the Institute of Public Affairs as one of Australia’s all time Dirty Dozen Opponents of Freedom. His most recent book for Sydney University Press is Quit smoking weapons of mass distraction (2022)
Margaret O'Connor
Margaret O’Connor grew up in Eastern Maar Country (the Western District of Victoria) and has been based in Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) for the last 26 years. She is a semi-professional musician and is passionate about history and sustainable living. She is a coordinator and administrator of a Canberra sustainability group with almost 6,000 members, and writes about her many interests for Pearls & Irritations, Crikey, Honest History and No Fibs.
Carol Bennett
Over the last two decades, Carol has worked at senior executive levels in national health and aged care organisations and has served on national and international boards and advisory groups.
Carol has been National CEO of Alzheimer’s Australia, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, Rural Health Workforce Australia, the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association and Painaustralia. Board and advisory roles have included: Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency Paramedicine Board, National Health and Medical Research Council, Trustee of the Southcare Rescue Helicopter Fund Pty Ltd, Aged Care Sector Committee, National Aged Care Alliance, Aged Care Quality Council, Lifeline Canberra, Medicines Australia Advisory Council and the International Alliance of Patients Organisations.
Peter Newman
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and works in CUSP which has 95 PhD students working on all aspects of the green economy. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councillor, an advisor to three WA State Premiers and was on the Board of Infrastructure Australia from 2010 to 2014. He was a Lead Author for Transport on the IPCC. He has written 17 books and 286 refereed articles.
Kahon Chan
Correspondent, Hong Kong Kahon joined the Post’s Hong Kong Desk in 2022. He had previously covered politics and other current affairs topics in Hong Kong and Macau.
David Suzuki
David Suzuki, an award-winning geneticist and broadcaster, co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and is currently professor emeritus. Suzuki is widely recognised as a world leader in sustainable ecology and has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science and a United Nations Environment Program medal.
Jeanie Lucas
Jeanie Lucas is a retired Adelaide Social Worker, a long time peace activist and the Secretary of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA).
Vidya Krishnan
Vidya Krishnan is an investigative journalist who writes about social justice. Her first book Phantom Plague was published in 2021.
David Pocock
David migrated from Zimbabwe with his family as a teenager and went on to captain the Wallabies and Vice-Captain the Brumbies as part of a stellar rugby career in which he has been awarded for leadership on and off the field. Holding a Masters in Sustainable Agriculture, David also has a track record as a powerful advocate on issues relating to climate. David has been involved in multiple small businesses and co-founded numerous not-for-profit community initiatives in Australia and overseas, including with his wife Emma. In 2021, David attended the COP26 climate summit and led The Cool Down campaign that saw over 470 Australian athletes from 40+ sports call on the Australian Government to lift its ambition on climate change. Upon returning home, he announced his run as the community-endorsed Independent Senate candidate for the ACT. After campaigning on a platform of integrity, doing politics differently and making Canberra count, David was successfully elected at the 21 May 2022 Federal Election.
Fethi Mansouri
Deakin Distinguished Professor Fethi Mansouri holds the UNESCO Chair for Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice (2013-) and is the founding Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University (2015-). His recent scholarly books include: “The Global Politics of Forced Migration” (2023), and “Racism in Australia Today” (2021).
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Professor (Practice) in Leadership and Executive Education (LEE) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School at University of Melbourne. Kate also holds an affiliated research appointment with the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool (UK). Kate’s qualifications include a Phd in Criminology (2012), Masters of Human Rights Law (2019), Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (2013) and she is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.