Maha Hussaini
Maha Hussaini is an award-winning journalist and human rights activist based in Gaza. Maha started her journalism career by covering Israel’s military campaign on the Gaza Strip in July 2014. In 2020, she won the prestigious Martin Adler Prize for her work as a freelance journalist.
Patrick Mazza
Patrick Mazza - Progressive activist and journalist since 1981. Lived in Seattle since 1998, and the Pacific Northwest, aka Cascadia, since 1977.
Morgan Brigg
Morgan Brigg is Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland. He specialises in governance, conflict resolution, and innovative approaches to cross-cultural relations and the politics of knowledge. His work facilitates exchange between Western and Indigenous political philosophies and socio-legal orders as part of a wider exploration of the politics of cultural difference, governance, and selfhood.
Gerardine McLoughlin
Gerardine McLoughlin (PhD) member of the Accountability Round Table
For the Accountability Round Tables broader recommendations on integrity reforms see Integrity Now!
Philip Huggins
Bishop Philip Huggins Director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, August 25 2022
Terry Russell
Terry Russell works for an international aid organisation. Before returning to Australia in 2015, he lived for 17 years in Indonesia and UN-administered East Timor. His Phd thesis was on nation building in East Timor. He is a triple-vaccinated environmentalist.
Vinod Balasubramaniam
Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam is an Associate Professor of Molecular Virology and Leader of the Infection and Immunity Research Strength in the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Monash University Malaysia.
Guest author David Faber
Dr David Faber is an historian, currently an Adjunct Research Scholar at Flinders University.
Martin Kear
Dr Martin Kear is a lecturer in terrorism and international security at The University of Sydney. His research interests include Middle East politics, the political/electoral participation of Islamist movements, and the role of political violence in the organisational narratives of militant movements.
Somdeep Sen
Somdeep Sen teaches international relations at Roskilde University and is the author ofDecolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial.
Fatima Payman
Fatima Payman, Senator for Western Australia, recently launched her political party, Australia’s Voice. Raised in Perth’s northern suburbs, she now serves as a strong voice for Western Australia in Canberra. As an Australian Muslim with cultural roots from Afghanistan, her father’s journey as a refugee and his tireless work ethic inspired Fatima’s values of hard work and perseverance.
As Australia’s youngest politician, Fatima is not afraid to speak her mind through bold and fearless advocacy. Dedicated to holding the government accountable, Fatima passionately represents the interests of Western Australians, ensuring their voices are heard in the corridors of power. With a commitment to transparency, integrity and justice, she is driven by a deep care for WA and an unwavering resolve to make a positive impact.
Allen A. Espinosa
Allen A. Espinosa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, in Prague, Czech Republic. He is currently on study leave as a professor of Science Education at the Educational Policy Research and Development Office of the Philippine Normal University. Allen holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research covers a wide range of topics, including policy research in education, teacher education, information disorder, and social justice in education. You may reach him at allen.espinosa@pedf.cuni.cz.
Lyn Alisson
Lyn Alisson BEd, former Federal Senator and member of the Accountability Round Table
For the Accountability Round Tables broader recommendations on integrity reforms see Integrity Now!
Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells
Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells wrote with John Brumby the book, ‘A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform'.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jeremy Kuzmarov specialises in U.S. foreign policy and modern U.S. history, and also has a background in criminology. His work examines the internationalisation of U.S. criminal justice. He is also interested in the covert dimensions of U.S. foreign policy. He taught previously at Bucknell University and has a PhD from Brandeis.
Wilson Lee Flores
Wilson Lee Flores is an award-winning columnist of Philippine Star and Abante, a real estate entrepreneur, economics and politics analyst.
Patricia Ranald
Dr Patricia Ranald is the convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.
Rania Al Abdullah
Rania Al Abdullah is Queen of Jordan. Her domestic activities include education initiatives and youth programs. Globally, she has campaigned for education and cross-cultural dialogue.
Kevin Bray
Dr Kevin Bray is a retired public servant and former academic with degrees in science, economics, international law and nuclear physics. His interest in Palestine and Israel was first engendered by visits in 2004 and 2007, as well as from being denied entry into Israel, via Jordan, en route to an international conference in Ramallah in the West Bank in April 2018. Kevin is a member of APAN (the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) and PIEN (the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network). Responsibility for this article is his alone.
Vivian Forbes
Professor Forbes is affiliated with the University of Western Australia and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. He holds a MPhil PhD and DLitt and specialises in marine geopolitics.
Barb Dadd
Barb Dadd is a 74 year old mother and grandmother living in regional Western Australia, driven by a lifelong pursuit of truth and justice.
Emilio Dabed
Emilio Dabed is a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer and Ph.D. in political science specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Arab American University, Palestine.
B’Tselem
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.
Bang Xiao
Bang Xiao is an award-winning journalist and a supervising producer for ABC Chinese. Bang’s work often focuses on China and its influence in Australia. He has written on topics from Chinese censorship system, rising nationalism, and tumorials in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, to China’s relations with Australia. As a bilingual reporter at ABC’s Asia Pacific Newsroom, Bang delivers his work through the lens of Australia’s migrant communities.
Mark Leibler
Mark Leibler AC is a pre-eminent Australian tax lawyer and corporate strategist, with a strong commitment to social justice and reconciliation.
Nadera Mushtaha
Nadera Mushtaha is a poet and writer who was born and raised in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Her family is originally from Gaza. In the fall of 2023, she started her third year in the English Language Education Department at Islamic University where she was a student of Dr. Refaat Alareer. Since most schools in Gaza have been destroyed during the current war, she has been organising English classes for children in her neighbourhood.
Current as of July 2024
Jonathan Sher
Dr Jonathan Sher is an IJBPE Contributing Editor and Founding Partner of Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives while the former Deputy Director of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland.
Zhao Hai
Dr. Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.