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.
Morgan Rees
Dr Morgan Rees is a Lecturer of Policy and Politics at the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Justice. His research is primarily in US and Australian foreign policy with current projects looking to examine the future of Australia-US relations in the context of the rise of Trump and an increasingly inward looking US.
Fernando Munoz Bernal
Fernando Munoz Bernal based in Dongguan, Guangdong, Fernando Munoz is a highly respected business owner in the field of language learning and consultancy who shares his expertise and voice living in China for over 20 years.
Gunjan Singh
Gunjan Singh is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Ian Bowrey
Ian Bowrey is a retired public servant. He is a history graduate with long interest in political history.
David Price
David Price is professor of anthropology at Saint Martin’s University. His latest book is The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent, published this month by Pluto Press.
Allison Gentle
Allison Gentle M.Ed. is a Learning and Support Teacher with 30 years’ experience and is currently studying for a PhD in Literacy.
Mingyin Xie
Mingyin Xie Graduate student majoring in International Security at China Foreign Affairs University and currently an intern at Center for China and Globalisation.
Santiago Millan
Santiago Millan is a global macroeconomist and strategist with 20-plus years of experience generating alpha in active equity and fixed-income strategies with a focus on emerging markets. He has conducted extensive research into the global energy transition and the effect of climate change on financial outcomes.
Michal Fruchtman
Michal Fruchtman is an educational psychologist, a supervisor, a family and couples therapist, and a member of both PsychoActive and Parents Against Child Detention.
Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Shutdown and Crashed.
Natalie Chung Sum Yue
Natalie Chung Sum Yue is a member of the Hong Kong government’s Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development. She is a PhD candidate researching climate policy at Princeton University. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and a BSSc from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
B.Ramsden
Bevan Ramsden is an ex-telecommunications engineer and TAFE teacher and a long-time peace activist. He advocates for Australia’s independence. He is a former member of the coordinating committee of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) IPAN) and current editor of its monthly e-publication, Voice. Bevan was also a member of the IPAN led People’s Inquiry Working Group.
Erin Murphy
Erin Murphy is Senior Fellow for the Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Mario Peucker
Mario Peucker is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC) at Victoria University in Melbourne and an executive member of the Centre for Resilient Communities and Inclusive Societies (CRIS). Mario has undertaken qualitative and quantitative research on the radical right and other political movements, dissent and sociocultural inclusion-exclusion dynamics since 2003, both in Europe and Australia.
Niki Savva
Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, author, and former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello.
Roger Chao
Roger Chao is a writer based in the Dandenong Ranges, where the forest and local community inspire his writings. Passionate about social justice, Roger strives to use his writing to engage audiences to think critically about the role they can play in making a difference.
Mohammed Salamat
Mohammed Salamat delivered this anguished poem about his detention on Nauru outside Federal Parliament last Tuesday November 19, 2024.
Shir Hever
Dr. Shir Hever is the military embargo coordinator for the Boycott National Committee (BNC). He lives in Germany.
Brian Burdekin
Professor Brian Burdekin AO was the first Federal Human Rights Commissioner of Australia, from 1986-1994. He authored two landmark reports – Our Homeless Children in 1989; and Human Rights and Mental Illness in 1993.
Dan Wild
Dan Wild is a freelance author based in Sydney. He also works as a project communications advisor for government organisations, financial institutions, and not-for-profits across the environment, technology, education and infrastructure sectors.
Peter Day
Peter Day is a third-age Australian, educated at Flinders University of South Australia with an extensive working history in public and private sectors, and a long interest in foreign affairs, politics, ethics, economics, and public policy, He is concerned about unaccountable, unrepresentative governments, media bias and declining quality of life.
The EAF Editorial Board
The EAF Editorial Board is located in the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Policy and Governance, The Australian National University.
Graeme Swincer
Retired agricultural scientist, theological educator, international development programs coordinator, and cross-cultural consultant, trainer and researcher, refugee advocate and researcher. Officer of Victor harbor Refugee Support Group.
Roslyn Ross
Roslyn Ross is a former journalist and editor, who has been writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction for many years.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, she is now settled in the Adelaide Hills. She has spent much of her time living overseas, including Belgium; India; Angola; South Africa; Zambia; ,Canada; United Kingdom and Malawi. She has also spent extended periods in Russia, Portugal and the United States, as well as living across Australia.
She had had poetry published in a number of anthologies, mainly in the US, but also in When Anzac Day Comes Around, 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project, edited by Graeme Lindsay.