Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar, visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London, and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He is the author of Pakistan: A Hard Country. Anatol spent the first part of his career as a journalist in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the former USSR.
Dominique Moritz
Dominique is an Associate Professor in the School of Law and Society. Her research expertise is the law related to children’s decision-making including consent and capacity. Her knowledge broadly encompasses criminal law, health law and regulatory concepts related to children with a particular interest in child sexual abuse material criminalisation. Dominique is a lawyer and former police officer.
David Goeßmann
David Goeßmann is a journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked for several media outlets including Spiegel Online, ARD, and ZDF. His articles appeared on Truthout, Common Dreams, The Progressive or Progressive International. In his books he analyses climate policies, global justice, and media bias.
Kelly Hine
Dr Kelly Hine is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC). Prior to joining UniSC, Dr Hine was a Lecturer at the Australian National University. She attained a double degree in Psychological Science and Criminology & Criminal Justice and holds a PhD from Griffith University.
David Faber
Dr David Faber is an historian, currently an Adjunct Research Scholar at Flinders University.
Michael Dudley
Dr Michael Dudley senior consultant in psychiatry, adolescent service, Prince of Wales Hospital
conjoint senior lecturer in psychiatry, UNSW
Desmond Lachman
Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.
Neil Westbury
Neil Westbury was a member of the ‘Gilbert’ independent Review Panel that examined Woolworths proposed establishment of a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin_._
Brian Hudson
Brian Hudson is a political science graduate from Bates College with a keen interest in international relations and global affairs. As a freelance commentator, he provides analysis on geopolitics, international security, and counter-terrorism. His work has been featured on news analysis platforms such as Modern Diplomacy, Eurasia Review, and others.
Ivana Knezevic
Ivana Knezevic over 11 years of experience in marketing across Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, Ivana is an experienced Marketing Manager who specialises in driving brand growth through innovative and strategic approaches tailored to the financial services sector. She excels at developing customer-centric, integrated marketing campaigns that resonate across diverse markets and cultures, blending creativity with data-driven insights to achieve impactful results. Ivana’s strategic mindset allows her to seamlessly align marketing initiatives with broader business goals,
Sarmad Ishfaq
Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard Kennedy School Review, Open Democracy, Defense Post Paradigm Shift, Mondoweiss, and Eurasia Review to name a few. He has also been published by several international peer-reviewed journals such as Taylor and Francis’ Social Identities. Before becoming an independent writer, he worked as a research fellow for the Lahore Center for Peace Research. He has a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong.
Graham Allison
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Sharmine Narwani
Sharmine Narwani is a Beirut-based writer and analyst of West Asian geopolitics, and a columnist at The Cradle. Her work has been published in a broad array of media outlets, including The American Conservative, Russia Today, The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Al-Akhbar English, Assafir, Huffington Post, BRICS Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera and others. She is cited in many publications for her groundbreaking, investigative coverage of the Syrian conflict.
Mike McIntire
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter, author and editor. As a member of the investigations unit at The New York Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 for reporting on the hidden financial incentives behind police traffic stops, and in 2017 for reporting on covert Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election

Robert Wood
Dr. Robert Wood has been a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at University of Pennsylvania and an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University. The author of more than 300 articles and five books, Robert serves as a Director at Centre for Stories. He has a fortnightly interview on politics on community radio station RTR FM. Robert lives in Perth.
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly Undergraduate Student at Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities Political Science and International Relations.
Amir Tibon
Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: the rise and reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority.
Anthony Klan
Anthony Klan is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, Anthony is the founder and editor of investigative news outlet The Klaxon.
Roderic Lyne
Roderic Lyne spent half of a 34 year diplomatic career dealing with the USSR and Russia up to 2004, since when I have visited Russia around fifty times as a businessman, writer and lecturer.
Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
Rosemary Sheehan
Professor Rosemary Sheehan was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for her significant contribution to child welfare and the law. In 2021 She was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in recognition of her research prominence. She is a Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.

Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb is Emeritus Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University. He has written widely on Indonesian history and the history of mass atrocity. He is currently researching Japanese war crimes in Southeast Asia during the Second World War.

Tamara Kayali Browne
Dr Tamara Kayali Browne is Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics at Deakin University, a Palestinian activist with Canberra Palestine and Climate Justice, and a Gaza Representative and member of the ACT Activist Leadership Committee with Amnesty International.
Tamara’s Red Pill https://tamarakayalibrowne.substack.com/
Kate MacNeill
Kate MacNeill
Head of Art History, and Arts and Cultural Management at University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne.

Tim Thornton
Dr Tim Thornton, is Director of the School of Political Economy, Melbourne. Senior Research Fellow at the Economics in Context Initiative at Boston University and the Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Tim is also a member of the Advisory Council at the Centre for Economy Studies in the the Netherlands and a member of the Editorial Collective for the Journal of Australian Political Economy.
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad (born July 10, 1925, Alor Setar, Kedah [Malaysia]) is a Malaysian politician who served as prime minister of Malaysia (1981–2003; 2018–20), overseeing the country’s transition to an industrialised nation.
Erwin Chlanda
Erwin Chlanda Journalist. TV photojournalist and producer Minyerri, Northern Territory, Australia
Grace McQuilten
Grace McQuilten is a published art historian, curator and artist with expertise in art and health, public art, social practice, social enterprise and community development. Grace’s research challenges and transforms conventional understandings of the relationship between margin and centre in relation to the cultural economy, contemporary art practice and art history. She has pioneered work on the field of art-based social enterprise in Australia, with particular expertise in migrant and refugee settlement.