Judge Napolitano
Hard hitting legal/political news from a man who knows and respects the Constitution and the importance of defending individual freedoms. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. As Fox News’ Senior Judicial Analyst from 1997 to 2021, Judge Napolitano gave 14,500 broadcasts nationwide on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. He is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it takes liberty and property. The Judge is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. His most recent book, SUICIDE PACT: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties.
Garry Rosario da Gama
Garry Rosario da Gama is a PhD student at Crawford School of Public Policy. His research is focussed on integrity networks, accountability, transparency and anti-corruption efforts in Indonesia.
Jerome Mellor
Jerome Mellor is a former general practitioner with a lifetime interest in political history.
JJ Rose
As a writer and advisor, James (JJ) Rose has written features, commentary, essays and analysis (on my by-line and for others) for various publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al-Jazeera, The Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post and, the South China Morning Post. In 2006, he was advisor to the Special Ambassador to the United Nations World Food Program, The Hon. Mr Abdul-Aziz Arrukban.He has taught Journalism at Griffith University, and is founder of The Kick Project, a registered charity which seeks to bring conflicted or challenged communities together through soccer/football. James has written many books, the most recent a political thriller based on the 2022 Qatar World Cup in Qatar. He has spent time in Israel and the Occupied Territories and has recently returned from the region.
Jonathan Symons
Jon teaches international relations and public policy in the School of International Studies, Macquarie University. He has published widely on international climate politics and policy. His most recent book ‘Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and Climate Crisis’ (Polity, 2019) explores the argument for increased state investment in low-carbon innovation and deployment of low-carbon technologies. His previous book ‘Queer Wars: The New Global Polarisation over Gay Rights’ (co-authored with Prof. Dennis Altman, Polity, 2016) explored the debate between those arguing that ‘LGBTQI rights are human rights’ and those who believe rights protections should not extend beyond the ’traditional values of mankind’.
John Langdale
John Langdale is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia.
Jennifer Hewett
Jennifer Hewett is the National Affairs columnist. She writes a daily column on politics, business and the economy.
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange(born 3 July 1971) is anAustraliancomputer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is a spokesman and editor-in-chief ofWikiLeaks, which is a website that posts news leaks. He started the website in 2006.He was born inTownsville,Queensland. He also made a program calledRubberhose (file system)to hidesecretinformation in a specific way that protects against torture.
Assange was the Readers’ Choice forTime Person of the Yearin 2010 after getting the mostInternetvotes.
Peg LeVine
Peg LeVine, PhD, EdD is a Genocide Scholar, Trauma-Torture Psychologist, Anthropologist, Associate Professor Adjunct (School of Medicine, Monash University), and Sculptor (bronze, stone, ceramic)
Aim Sinpeng
Dr Aim Sinpeng is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.
Katherine Seppings
Katherine Seppings is a writer, poet, editor, photographer, historian, and a human and animal rights activist. She has worked in publishing since the 1970s in Australia, London and New York. Published in journals, anthologies, history blogs and nonfiction books, her article ‘The Removal of Palestine by Google Maps’ appeared in The Big Smoke 2018. Her ‘Poem for Palestine’ will be in Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025.
Sherry Tao Kong
Sherry Tao Kong is Associate Research Professor at Institute of Social Science Survey and Institute of Area Studies, Peking University.
Jeremy Salt
Jeremy Salt taught modern Middle East history at the University of Melbourne, Bogazici (Bosporus) university in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara. he is the author of ‘The Unmaking of the Middle East. A history of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press, 2008) and ‘The Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923’ (University of Utah Press, 2019). He is now an independent researcher.
John West
John West is the author of “Asian Century on a Knife-edge” and currently teaches at Tokyos Sophia University. He is also executive director of the Asian Century Institute. These positions follow major stints at the Australian Treasury, the OECD and Asian Development Bank Institute. John is an Australian national, who completed a master’s degree in economics at the University of New South Wales.
Stephen M. Walt
Stephen M. Waltis the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Philip Brenner
Philip Brenneris emeritus professor of international relations and history at American University, Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. in history from Columbia University. His most recent books are Contemporary Cuba: The Post-Castro Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) and Cuba Libre: A 500-Year Quest for Independence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).
Ikemi Ivara
Ikemi Ivara, married and mum to 3 beautiful children, working as a Human Resource Professional within the aviation industry. Passionate about everyone being treated right no matter their situation, I have previously worked within the disability sector and am keen to find ways to stand up for people who can’t do so for themselves. When I am not working, I enjoy singing, dancing and watching soccer. Since moving to Australia, I have come to love Footy and support the Tigers. I continue to aspire to be a better version of myself, upskilling and ensuring I am contributing positively to the human race.
Xiao Qian
H.E. Ambassador Xiao Qian is the current Chinese ambassador to Australia, a post which he assumed in January 2022. Previously he served as Chinese ambassador to Indonesia (2017 - 2021), and before that, Chinese ambassador to Hungary (2012 - 2015).
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.
Frances Cowell
Frances is a student of geopolitics and international law following a long career in capital markets investing in Sydney and London,She attends Masters degree classes at the University of Paris 2 Sorbonne-Assas, complementing her own research with formal instruction with international law and political-science theory. She also attends lectures at the Jacques Delors Institute and the EU Institute for Security Studies, among other organisations.An occasional contributor to Pearls and Irritations, as well as to LInstitut du Pacifique and LAssociation Ralits et Relations Internationales in Paris, from 2016 to 2023 Frances served as a contributor to and director of TheEuropeanNetwork.eu.As part of her career in capital markets investing, including as Head of Investment Risk for a major British insurer and asset manager, Frances spoke at several professional investment conferences, was a regular contributor to well-known professional journals, author of two monographs published by Palgrave-MacMillan and co-author of one published by Wiley. Australian born, she lives in Paris, speaks French more-or-less fluently, basic Spanish, even more basic Italian, a haze of Indonesian and some German. She dances Argentine tango, likes all animals, especially cats, but doesnt have any of her own.
Virginia Young
Virginia Young works with scientific leaders worldwide to communicate the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity for the mitigation of climate change. She is chairperson of the west Australian environment NGO Gondwanalink. She is a board member of Wilderness Australia and the US-based Partnership for Policy Integrity and a member of several climate specialist groups of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Camille Khellaf
Camille Khellaf Camille is a French journalist based in Tunisia and France. She is passionate about issues of equality, racism and sexism. She is committed to reporting on issues outside of France, her native country, with a perspective free of neo-colonial bias.
Guest author Camille Khellaf
Camille Khellaf Camille is a French journalist based in Tunisia and France. She is passionate about issues of equality, racism and sexism. She is committed to reporting on issues outside of France, her native country, with a perspective free of neo-colonial bias.
Aaron Mat
Aaron Mat is a Journalist with The Grayzone, where I host “Pushback.” Contributor to Real Clear Investigations. Temporary co-host of “Useful Idiots.” In 2019, won theIzzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media for Russiagate coverage in The Nation.
Tim Lindsey
Tim Lindsey is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the Melbourne Law School. He completed his PhD thesis in Indonesian studies and teaches and researches Indonesian law. His publications include Indonesia: Law and Society; Law Reform in Developing Countries; The Indonesian Constitution; Corruption in Asia; Islam, Law and the State in Southeast Asia; and Indonesian Law. He is a founding editor of The Australian Journal of Asian Law.
Eugene Puryear
Eugene Puryear is a journalist at the U.S. movement-centered Breakthrough News and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Vicken Babkenian
Vicken Babkenian is an independent researcher for the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the co-author with Prof. Peter Stanley of Armenia, Australia and the Great War (NewSouth 2016)
Wei Li
Wei Li is a Lecturer in International Business at the University of Sydney’s Business School and a member of China Studies Centre. Before joining the university, Dr Li worked in corporates in the UK and China. Her current research looks at the globalisation of Chinese enterprises and Chinese economy.
Jeff Rich
Jeff Rich is a writer, historian, and former government official. He writes weekly on world affairs and history at jeffrich.substack.com