Ryan Edwards
Ryan Edwards is Deputy Director of the Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University.
Milad Haghani
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
A/Prof Milad Haghani is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Geospatial Transport Planning Lead at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA). He is a former Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2021-2024).
Mona Ali Khalil
Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognised public international lawyer with 30 years of UN and other experience, including as a former senior legal officer in the UN and the IAEA, with expertise in peacekeeping, peace enforcement, disarmament and counterterrorism. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from Harvard University and a master’s in foreign service and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
Su Dharmapala
Su Dharmapala is the CEO & Founder of polipedia.com.au - an AI backed political data start-up. With both expertise in politics, AI and data.
John Singarayar
John Singarayar, a member of the Society of the Divine Word India Mumbai Province, holds a doctorate in Anthropology. He has authored seven books and regularly contributes to academic conferences and publications focusing on sociology, anthropology, tribal studies, spirituality, and mission.
Laurent Dauré
Laurent Dauré is journalist and founder of the French Committee of Support for Julian Assange (Comité de soutien Assange).
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a professor and senior fellow of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science, he earned a PhD from the London School of Economics with a top dissertation prize in 2002. Recognised for excellence in opinion writing from Society of Publishers in Asia, his views and articles have been published widely by local and international media.
Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb
Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb is a dentistry student, poet, oud player, translator, and community activist in the local community. She was a participant in the Hult Prize, an annual competition for ideas solving pressing social issues, such as food security, water access, energy, and education. She works as a writer and makes videos, producing content about Palestine.
Current as of June 2024
Akshit Tyagi
Akshit Tyagi has worked full-time as a business and financial journalist in India for Republic TV, has worked part-time for The Canberra Times, and writes regularly for Australian Outlook and Independent Australia among others. Akshit Tyagi is a Master’s student of International Relations student at ANU, Canberra.
Annabel McGoldrick
Dr Annabel McGoldrick is an activist, author and trauma psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor. Awarded the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2017 for her work in developing the theory and practice of Peace Journalism with Jake Lynch, the couple have just launched in Sydney, their detective novel, Mind Over Murder, about an EMDR trauma therapist turned detective, with a passion for social justice.
Alan MacLeod
Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. He completed his PhD in 2017 and has since authored two acclaimed books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams. Follow Alan on Twitter for more of his work and commentary: @AlanRMacLeod.
Andrea Mazzarino
Andrea Mazzarino, a T__omDispa__tch regular, co-founded Brown University’s Costs of War Project. She has held various clinical, research, and advocacy positions, including at a Veterans Affairs PTSD Outpatient Clinic, with Human Rights Watch, and at a community mental health agency. She is the co-editor of War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rakesh Ahuja
Rakesh Ahuja, a former Australian diplomat, is a Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Consultant. Professional Background: RakeshAhuja.DownloadingMyMind.com
Jeff McCracken-Hewson
Vic Board Representative Jeff McCracken-Hewson has almost five decades of activism in the trade union movements and Labor/Labour parties of Australia and Britain. He joined the Victorian Branch of Fabians in 2018, becoming its Events Manager and, in 2020, its Chair and National Board representative. jeff.mccracken-hewson@fabian.org.au
Ian Anderson
Professor Ian Anderson is Palawa & Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) for the University of Tasmania.
Erin Wen Ai Chew
Ms Erin Wen Ai Chew is a social activist, freelance writer, entrepreneur and thought leader who has dedicated a good part of the last 10 years in addressing social issues impacting on the Asian Australian community. In 2013, Ms Chew founded the Asian Australian Alliance which is a network that focuses on empowering and advancing the voices of the Asian Australian community and advocate on relevant common issues. With the leadership of Ms Chew, the Asian Australian Alliance has been leading the conversation on issues of racism and representation, Asian Australian LGBTIQ issues, issues around domestic violence against Asian Australian women and mentoring the Asian Australian youth.
Michelle Berkon
Michelle Berkon is a Jewish Australian, aspiring mosaic artist, and former teacher. She has always been committed to social justice, environmental sustainability, and animal rights. As a member of Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 for a decade, she has repudiated Zionism and become active in the struggle for Palestinian rights.
Patricia Weston
Patricia Weston, aka Patriciawa.
I am a well-trained fact checker from BBC overseas news room in London some sixty years ago. I also spent time with the CBC in Toronto on my first overseas trip, 1960, before going north to Alaska. After marriage and very happy motherhood in the midst of Mau Mau terrorism I became a successful high school language teacher by default before ‘assisted’ migration to Australia.
Here I continued as a married ‘temp’ in low socio-economic area schools. Finally I had a brief, but enjoyable, four years’ running an Australian wheatbelt DHS, where success retaining ‘black’ students was not popular with local pastoralists. After 1985, though technically very generously ‘retired’ I ran a Fremantle charitable organisation, Walyalup Craft Enterprises helping Noongah and various other day release prisoners. From 1993 I developed and managed two Sydney centres for the Australian Scholarships Group, meeting thousands of local and migrant families
Joseph Gerson
Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy and Vice President of the International Peace Bureau. His books include Empire and the Bomb, and With Hiroshima Eyes.
Mick Hall
Mick Hall is an independent journalist based in New Zealand. He is a former digital journalist at Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and former Australian Associated Press (AAP) staffer, having also written investigative stories for various newspapers, including the New Zealand Herald.
Ro Naulu Mataitini
Ro Naulu Mataitini is a founding member of the People’s Alliance Party (PAP). He resigned from his political post as Senior Vice President of the PAP to become an apolitical member of the 2023 reconstituted Great Council of Chief. Ro Naulu is a high chief of Rewa Province; whose paramount Chief is the Roko Tui Dreketi, Ro Teimumu Kepa.
Annabel Dulhunty
Annabel Dulhunty is a Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Her research focuses on global aid policies and how these aid policies impact women and social and economic equality.
Yehonathan Tommer
Yehonathan Tommer is an Australian journalist, translator and novelist living in Israel.“1944"1944. He has degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Melbourne and Monash Universities. He was a correspondent on Israel and the Middle East for news media in Australia, New Zealand, India and Canada.
Kyle Church
Kyle Church is a contributor for 1/200 media where they cover and critique culture, politics and media in Aotearoa.
James Bovard
James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, and Terrorism and Tyranny. His latest book is Last Rights: the Death of American Liberty. Bovard is on the USA Today Board of Contributors. He is on Twitter at @jimbovard. His website is at www.jimbovard.com
Juan Cole
John Ricardo Irfan “Juan” Cole (born October 23, 1952) is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com).
Ashley Wearne
Ashley has developed and managed a variety of clean development projects with a focus on sustainable, decentralised infrastructure that is deeply integrated in the local community. Outside Australia, he has worked for Germany and the EU’s international development programs in Timor Leste, Uganda, Mozambique, and Europe, partnering with farmers, local and national governments, energy regulators and ministries. Currently, Ashley focuses on urban ecology projects connecting local communities to sustainable, low-tech approaches to environmental management. This work involves the piloting of local technologies and operational strategies and the engagement with land managers both government and private.Ashley holds a MA degree in international economics from Monash University. He is a founding member of the Australian Local Community Composters Alliance. He is also the Site and Sustainability Manager for 9 acres of crown land, and runs his own research and pilots through his organisation Ecology and Community.
Ewan McArthur
Ewan McArthur is a Sydney-based advocate and public servant, working for better Government responses to poverty and inequality for children, young people, their families, and communities.
Ewan graduated with a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the Australian National University and is now the Director, Change and Reform for the ACT Government’s Child Protection and Youth Justice services.
He is fiercely passionate about promoting the rights of First Nations people in Australia, and about building strong public service capacity to tackle wicked problems.
Michael K. Smith
Michael K. Smith is the author of Shame Was The Spur: The Public Life of Noam Chomsky The Madness of King George, and Portraits of Empire and many other titles.
Lincoln Booth
Lincoln Booth has a Masters Degree in International Commercial Law and a Master of Arts (Laws) degree. He is a legal academic with research interests including international commercial law and constitutional law. He is also a candidate in the Executive MBA programme, Judge Business School, Cambridge University.
Ken Russell
Ken Russell spent his working life in the Electricity Supply Industry, initially in England, and subsequently in Queensland, responsible for the supply and spare parts management of large coal-fired power stations. He has been a long-time advocate for rapid climate action.
Jimmy Lanyard
Jimmy Lanyard is a contributor for 1/200 media where they cover and critique culture, politics and media in Aotearoa.