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.
Mark Christensen
Mark Christensen is Professor, Management Control, at ESSEC Business School in Singapore. He has previously been a business academic in Australian and Danish tertiary institutions with a research interest in accounting as a socio-technical construction, especially in public sector reform.
Fiona McDonald
Fiona is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Fiona is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada. Fionas research encompasses issues related to health governance and has four broad themes:
Dally Messenger III
Dally R. Messenger STB, LCP, BEd, DipLib, GDCel, ALAA. Foundation Secretary of the Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Australia (1975-1980). Foundation President of the Australian Association of Funeral Celebrants (1978). Foundation President and administrator of the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants (1994-1999). Life Member of the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants (1996). Life Member of the Celebrants and Celebrations Network (2014). Principal of the International College of Celebrancy (current). Celebrant Books: Ceremonies & Celebrations (Hachette),Murphy’s Law And The Pursuit Of Happiness: A History Of The Civil Celebrant Movement (Spectrum).
Greg Bean
Greg Bean has 50 years experience in software development and in the last 18 months has undertaken a deep analysis of information available from the Australian Electoral Commission. All but 5 years self-employed, and has worked in Canada, Europe and Australia. Latest, 30,000 hours Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence. His employers/customers include Macquarie Bank, Bankers Trust, Reserve Bank Aus, BHP, Sony, AstraZeneca, Pirelli, many SAP sites. Greg is a free speech advocate.
Jee Young Lee
Jee Young Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.
Peter Cook
Peter Cook, PhD, is vice-president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). He is co-author, with Jonathan Sobels, Sandra Kanck and Jane O’Sullivan, of the discussion paper Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability (2024), published by SPA.
Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes is a Melbourne writer and journalist. His debut novel The Hands of Pianists was among five (of 105) shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2022. Several of his short stories have been shortlisted and longlisted in the best UK short-fiction prizes. Last Meal won the 2020 Fiction Factory award. He covered a Middle-East war for Agence France-Presse, and a Pacific insurrection for The Age.
Stephen Downes’s new novel Mural was published by Transit Lounge in September 2024. The criminal narrator of Mural wrestles with the knowledge that Australia’s most prominent public artist Napier Waller painted erotic watercolours years before the religious and military stained-glass windows for which he is best-known. [https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/mural/]
Caroline Fisher
Caroline Fisher is an Associate Professor of Communication and a core member of the News & Media Research Centre.
Carla Treloar
Carla Treloaris Scientia Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Australia. She is a leading international expert in social research in health in marginalised groups with a focus on stigma and trust in health and social care systems.
Haneen Abo Soad
Haneen, a Palestinian from Gaza, currently resides in Portugal. She is a writer, community organiser, and activist advocating for the Palestinian cause. Haneen is dedicated to promoting peace.
Justin OConnor
Justin OConnor is Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia and visiting Chair in the School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University. He has held professorships at Monash University, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Leeds, and is a former Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University. He also helped establish and was first chair of Manchesters Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS), the UKs first dedicated local economic development agency for the creative industries. Justin led the team which established Manchesters first Creative Quarter - the Northern Quarter. Between 2012 and 2018 he was a member of the UNESCO 2005 Convention’s Expert Facility, supporting cultural policy development in Mauritius and Samoa.
John Barclay
John Barclay led ground-breaking Library Association of Australia China Library Study tours in 1976 and 1983 and later cultural tours to China. He has been committed to educational and cultural exchange between Australia and China for over fifty years.
Sora Park
Sora Park is a Professor of Communication at the University of Canberra and the Director of the News & Media Research Centre.
Guest authors Farida Rustamova and Maxim Tovkaylo
Farida RustamovaIndependent journalist. Ex-BBC Russian, Meduza, RBC, TV Rain.
Maxim TovkayloI started this blog after Russian government destroyed all the remaining independent media. Because someone has to.
Brian Lawrence
Brian Lawrence LL.B. M.Ec. prepared submissions and appeared on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and agencies of the Catholic Church in the national annual wage reviews from 2003 to 2019. He is a former barrister and was a Deputy President of the Industrial Relations Commission of Victoria, the functions of which have been transferred to national tribunals.
Jenna Price
Jenna Price is a regular columnist and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.
Rojan Joshi
Rojan Joshi is Researcher at the South Asian Research and Advocacy Hub, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and a recipient of the Australian Government’s 2024 New Colombo Plan Scholarship for India.
Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of theQuincy Instituteand author ofLosing an Enemy - Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy.