Teesta Prakash
Dr Teesta Prakashis a policy analyst with expertise in strategic and foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific. She has a PhD in Australias strategic foreign policy during the Cold War and has worked at the Lowy Institute and Australian Strategic Policy Institute previously.
Dr Tamara Wood
Dr Tamara Wood is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney; Postdoctoral Researcher (external) at the Hertie School, Berlin; and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the founding Co-Chair and current Steering Group member of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN). In 2022, she acted as Deputy Lead for the technical team commissioned to draft the Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility.
John Hendry
John Hendry OAM (Education & Cricket)
Educator for 55 yrs and still involved with schools through his Relationship based Education, a joint project with Parents Victoria. Life Member of the Careers Development Association of Australia.
Consultant to Primary and Secondary Schools across all systems in Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and a consultant to UNESCO on Bullying and school violence. John has been a cricket coach at Junior and elite levels for over 45 yrs. Coached and played at Premier Grade level and State level and spent 40yrs coaching school cricket. He believes sport does influence culture.
Professor Jane McAdam AO
Professor Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. In 2022, she was commissioned to lead the drafting of the worlds first regional framework on climate mobility for Pacific governments. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people.
Guest author Sarah Kendall
Sarah Kendall is a PhD candidate and Sessional Academic at the University of Queensland. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in criminal law and procedure, evidence law, and national security. Currently, she is researching the nature, effectiveness and appropriateness of measures used to prevent emerging (often cyber) national security threats, including espionage, sabotage and foreign interference. She is also researching domestic violence law and trials, with a focus on the treatment of vulnerable victim-witnesses.
Garritt Van Dyk
Dr Garritt (Chip) Van Dyk is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato. Current research includes forthcoming publications on botanical imperialism and the first sugar grown in Australia, a bibliography of culinary ephemera, and a book on digital history. Wider research interests extend to the history of empire, early modern economic history, and European patterns of consumption in the Enlightenment.
Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter.
M. K. Bhadrakumar
M. K. Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat by profession. For someone growing up in the 1960s in a remote town at the southern tip of India, diplomacy was an improbable profession. My passion was for the world of literature, writing and politics roughly in that order.
Luke Slawomirski
Luke Slawomirski is a health economist, most recently with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He lectures in health policy at Imperial College London and is currently a PhD candidate with the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTAS. A former clinician, he has worked with remote Indigenous communities in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia.
Rick Sterling
Rick Sterlingis a retired Canadian American electronics engineer. Over the past decade, Rick has researched and written exposes of western media misinformation about international conflicts, especially Syria, as well as the politicisation of international sports and doping. His writing is published at sites such as AntiWar.com, LA Progressive and Sports Integrity Initiative.
Carla Wilshire
Carla Wilshire, is a published Author and the founding CEO of the Social Policy Group. Her background is in political strategy and policy.
Kellie Tranter
Kellie Tranter is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights advocate. She tweets from @KellieTranter
Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Professor in International Relations at the National University of Malaysia and concurrently a non-resident scholar at Carnegie China.
Edmond Chiu
Edmond Chiu A.M. is an Emeritus Professor of The University of Melbourne. He arrived in Australia from Hong Kong in 1952 and experienced the bureaucratic discrimination of the White Australian Policy. Since 2010 he has been a Volunteer Researcher with the Museum of Chinese Australian History (The Chinese Museum) in Melbourne, undertaking research into Chinese Australians who served in two World Wars. He co-authored the book, For Honour and Country- Victorian Chinese Australians in World War Two (Museum of Chinese Australian History, 2021)
David Meredith
David Meredith is co-author of Australia in the global economy: continuity and change (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn 2012). He has written extensively on British and Australian economic history, and British social history and imperialism. Formerly at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and more recently the University of Oxford, he now lives in regional New South Wales. David is currently researching the history of unjust enrichment in colonial Australia.
Joseph G. Davis
Joseph G. Davis is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Computer Science, the University of Sydney.
Rachel Ong ViforJ
Rachel Ong ViforJ is John Curtin Distinguished Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University. Her research interests include intra- and intergenerational housing inequalities, housing affordability dynamics, and the links between housing and the economy.
Guest author Douglas Newton
Douglas Newton is a retired academic and historian. His latest book is Private Ryan and the Lost Peace: A Defiant Soldier and the Struggle Against the Great War (Sydney: Longueville Media, 2021).
Shiro Armstrong
Shiro Armstrong is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Yvonne Patterson
Yvonne Patterson lives in Perth WA, is retired from clinical psychology and has extensive experience in government human services policy.
Oliver Vodeb
Dr Oliver Vodeb is a sociologist looking closely at design and communication. He is an academic at the RMIT School of Design in Melbourne. Oliver is the principal curator of Memefest and Lipstick+Bread and a founding member of Academics for Public Universities and Public Universities Australia. He has published extensively, lectures internationally, and has designed and directed public campaigns and interventions in various parts of the world. His latest books are Food Democracy and Radical Intimacies (Intellect) and also What is Post-Branding? (Set Margins).
Huw Watkin
Huw began his career in journalism in Australia in the mid-1980’s before moving to Asia where he has lived and worked in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He is currently the principal of Drakon Associates, a research and investigation consultancy that focuses on the Asia Pacific, and continues to travel widely and write on a range of subjects and issues throughout the region.
Geetanjali Dhar
Geetanjali Dhar is the founder and CEO of Sanskriti Global Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting multiculturalism.
Ariadne Vromen
Ariadne Vromen is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. She has a longstanding interest in citizen engagement and political inequality. Her new co-authored book Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy will be published soon.
Momoko Fujita
Momoko Fujita is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra.
Malcolm Spry
Malcolm Spry B.Econ, now retired, was an international marketing executive specialising in communications and research. Residing in Sydney he has served on several public company Boards and was a co-founder of E*TRADE Australia and a founding member of Human Rights Watch Australia.
Momoko Fujita
Momoko Fujita is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra.
Peter Tregear
Professor Peter Tregear is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne, and a former Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Cambridge. Active internationally as a scholar and performer, he held the post of Executive Director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University and more recently Professor and Head of the ANU School of Music from 20122015. Peter is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Charles Mackerras Conducting Scholarship, a ‘Green Room’ award for ‘best conductor, opera’, and a Medal of the Order of Australia. He is the co-founder of The Consort of Melbourne and IOpera, and a regular contributor to arts pages of The Australian Book Review. In 2020 Peter was appointed the inaugural Director of Little Hall and holds honorary professorships in music at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
