Les MacDonald
Les MacDonald was a CEO for more than 40 years. Prior to this, he was Deputy Secretary NSW Health, CEO of the Maritime Services Board and Assistant Secretary of the Federal Departments of the Media and Posts and Telecommunications. Subsequently he was previously Executive Director Uniting Care Ageing NSW. Les has an extensive leadership history including board positions in public hospitals, health insurance, the maritime industry, public transport, cancer medicine and the Council for the Arts amongst others.
Lau Siu kai
Lau Siu kai is a professor emeritus of sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a consultant of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
Marjorie Crohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the national advisory boards of Assange Defense and Veterans For Peace, and the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues. She is co-host of “ Law and Disorder” radio.
Kumiko Nemoto
Kumiko Nemoto is Professor of Management in the School of Business Administration, Senshu University, Tokyo.
Sara Cheikh Husain
Dr Sara Cheikh Husain is a researcher and writer specialising in Islamophobia, social justice, and human rights, with a focus on Palestinians, Muslim communities in the West, and refugees. She completed her PhD in Social Sciences at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute, supported by the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice. Sara has published widely in leading academic journals and policy reports, co-authored A War of Words on media coverage of the Israel–Gaza war, and has a forthcoming book with Palgrave (2025): The politics of anti-Islamophobia in Australia: The case of the Muslim community organisations. She serves on the Executive of AAIMS and advises the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Anti-Racism Campaign.
Jennifer Haines
Jennifer Haines is a Lecturer and Tutor to Nurses at the University of Western Sydney and University of Technology Sydney, and formerly a Registered Nurse, Lawyer and Trade Unionist for over 40 years in the NSW Health system.
Jesse J. Fleay
Jesse Fleay, a First Nations researcher and co-author of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, writes on constitutional reform, executive accountability, and the structural challenges facing Indigenous communities.
Alan Pears
Alan Pears, AM, is one of Australia’s best-regarded sustainability experts. He is a senior industry fellow at RMIT University, advises a number of industry and community organisations, and works as a consultant. Alan writes a column in each issue of Renew magazine.
Sophie Singh
Sophie Singh is a long term campaigner for refugee rights and member of the Canberra Refugee Action Campaign, Sophie Singh was also an organiser with the 2025 Big Walk 4 Refugees, a virtual walk of 44,000kms of solidarity held throughout June with those who came to Australia seeking safety.
Anna-Karina Hermkens
Anna-Karina Hermkens research covers Cultural Anthropology, Art and Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Museum Studies, Gender Studies and Religious Studies/ Pilgrimage Studies. I have done done fieldwork in West Papua (Jayapura area), the North Moluccas (Ternate), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby, Madang, Collingwood Bay and Bougainville) and Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal-Marau area).
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Claud Cockburn was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.
Alexander Cockburn’s _ Guillotined!, A Colossal Wreck and An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents_are available from CounterPunch.
Kosmos Samaras
Kos Samaras specialises in compiling and interpreting research, statistical data and polling to provide a unique insight into the cause and effects of social and political issues impacting communities across Australia.
Often sought for expert commentary on polling data and its impact on all levels of politics, Kos’s keen understanding of the nature of political parties and government decision-making (drawn from more than 25 years of political experience with Victorian Labor) allows him to deliver effective solutions for a broad range of clients.
Catholics for Justice and Peace for Palestinians
Catholics for Justice and Peace for Palestinians is a group of Australian Catholics who have come together to highlight the plight of Palestinians and encourage action. The group includes Clare Condon, Chris Sidoti, Marilyn Hatton, Francis Sullivan, Claire Victory, John Warhurst AO, Patty Fawkner and John Menadue AO.
Elmaz Asan
Elmaz Asan is a Crimean Tatar journalist, based in Kyiv (ATR. TV channel). She is also a visiting research fellow on the history of Crimea through Cambridge University.
Khushboo Razdan
Khushboo Razdan is a correspondent based in New York. Before joining the Post, she worked as a multimedia journalist in Beijing and New Delhi for over a decade. She’s a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
Ryan Manuel
Dr Ryan Manuel Bilby is Managing Director of Bilby, a HK-based company that uses AI to analyse policy.
Eleanor Flynn
Eleanor Flynnare is Co Chair of Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform, both are involved in Church reform at the local and National level and have multiple contacts with international Church Reform groups.
Mark Carter
Mark Carter has been researching aviation’s contribution to global warming for the last 6 years and helped set up both Flight Free Australia — http://www.flightfree.net.au — (a group campaigning to raise awareness of flying’s warming impact, with a ‘pledge to not fly’ call to action) and the No 3rd Tulla Runway coalition — http://www.no3rdtullarunway.net.au — campaigning agains the proposed third runway at Melbourne Airport. In 2018 I researched and wrote The elephant in the sky: the hazards of aviation emissions and how we can avoid them (https://flightfree.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-elephant-in-the-sky_online_s.pdf)
Gary Sigley
Gary Sigley is a Professor of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University. His past research has focused on the cultural heritage and heritage routes of tea in Southwest China, and in particular the Ancient Tea Horse Road. This has been expanded to include researching the growth of tea heritage across China and recent Chinese government initiatives in the field of “tea diplomacy”. Gary is also developing a project on analysing how “China” has been interpreted within Western discourse during recent times of geopolitical transformations. The focus here is on Western “liberal eschatology” and “apocalyptic modernity”.
Jared O. Bell
Jared O. Bell is a former U.S. diplomat and scholar of human rights and transitional justice, dedicated to advancing global equity and systemic reform.
Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith was born and educated in Britain. After obtaining an MA in Natural Sciences at Cambridge and a Diploma in Education in Singapore, he moved to Australia where he completed in 1974 a PhD on New Guinea high altitude flora at ANU, Canberra. Moving to Armidale NSW (where he still resides), he lectured in Geography at UNE before serving as Station Leader of Australian Antarctic Stations in 1996 and from 2000 to 2010.
Alexis Vassiley
Alexis Vassiley is part of the Administrative Committee for the People’s Inquiry into University Restrictions on Free Speech on Palestine. He is a writer and activist based in Perth.
Carolyn Blanden
As a principal of 20 years, Carolyn Blanden has worked in both public and independent schools. Currently, she is Principal of Warakirri College, which has campuses in Blacktown, Campbelltown and Fairfield and plans to expand further into outer western Sydney. Carolyn is an advocate for equality of opportunity believing that every young person has a right to a quality education which can be obtained from both public and independent schools.
Stephen Kentwell
Stephen Kentwell is a former diplomat who served in Paris, Tokyo and Washington and was a Senior Analyst 1997-2001 in the Office of National Assessments. He is currently finalising a detailed jointly written biography of the Chinese entrepreneur C.Y. Tung for publication by Hong Kong University Press.
Daniel Bleakley
Daniel Bleakley is a clean technology researcher and advocate with a background in engineering and business. He has a strong interest in electric vehicles, renewable energy, manufacturing and public policy.
Ho Lok-sang
Ho Lok-sang is director of the Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Institute, Lingnan University.
Marcus Carter
Marcus Carter Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sy