Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter ofLate Night Live, he has interviewed thousands of the world’s most influential politicians, historians, archaeologists, novelists, theologians, economists, philosophers and sundry conversationalists. ‘It’s a privilege to presentLate Night Live,’ he says. ‘No radio program, anywhere on earth, casts a wider net.’ Phillip’s laid-back approach has become a trade-mark forLate Night Live, as has his humour, curiosity, his ability to flesh out rare insights from his guests, and his amazing store of anecdotal knowledge.
Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff is the Marshall M Bouton Fellow for Asia Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Anna Sande
Anna Sande is a Victorian painter, photographer, curator and writer. With qualifications in art history and political science from the University of Melbourne.
Steve Hanley
Steve Hanley writes about the interface between technology and sustainability from his home in Florida or anywhere else The Force may lead him. He is proud to be “woke” and doesn’t really give a damn why the glass broke. He believes passionately in what Socrates said 3000 years ago: “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” You can follow him on Substack and LinkedIn but not on Fakebook or any social media platforms controlled by narcissistic yahoos.
Judith Mackay
Dr Judith Mackay is the Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, based in Hong Kong.
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic. He is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Channel Ten’s The Project.
John V. Whitbeck
John V. Whitbeck is an international lawyer and an energetic commentator, based in Paris. He has published widely on Middle Eastern affairs since the late-1980s, his work appearing in many Western, Arab, and Israeli publications. As an attorney he has advised the Palestinians on numerous occasions. A collection of his essays, The World According to Whitbeck_(Five and Ten Press), appeared in 2005._
Amandine Denis-Ryan
Amandine Denis-Ryan is chief executive of IEEFA Australia. Joshua Runciman is a lead analyst, Australian Gas, with IEEFA
Guest author Tony Kwok
Tony Kwokis an adjunct professor of HKU Space and a council member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies. He is an international anti-corruption consultant and former deputy commissioner of the ICAC.
Anne OBrien
Anne OBrien is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She has written widely on the history of poverty, welfare, gender, religion and Indigenous rights. She is currently completing a history of homelessness and people experiencing homelessness in Australia, 1900 to the present.
Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and a scholar. He is author of more than 20 books including After Jews and Arabs, Memories of Our Future and the forthcoming CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books. He is Distinguished Professor at Queens College, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman is Director of Palliative Care, Canberra Hospital, and Head of palliative care research, Canberra Health Services. He is the author of “Rethinking dementia: Ripples and responses” (Palaver 2024).
Joshua S. Hill
Joshua S. Hill is a Melbourne-based journalist who has been writing about climate change, clean technology, and electric vehicles for over 15 years. He has been reporting on electric vehicles and clean technologies for Renew Economy and The Driven since 2012. His preferred mode of transport is his feet.
Victor Kattan
Victor Kattan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches a course on the use of force in international law. Previously, Victor was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law at NUS (2013-2015). Before Victor moved to Singapore, he was a legal adviser to the Government of Palestine in Ramallah on secondment from the United Nations Development Program in Jerusalem.
Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 18911949, and the co-editor of_Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law,__The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition**,_** and Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors.
John Falzon
Dr John Falzon is Senior Fellow, Inequality and Social Justice at Per Capita. He was national CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society from 2006 to 2018. He is a member of the Australian Services Union.
Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese
Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese are the Chief Investigators of the Deathscapes Project funded by the ARC from 2016-2020. Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University and Joseph Pugliese is a Professor in the Department of Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University
Hayley Wong
Hayley joined the Post as a reporter on the China Desk in 2022. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and previously wrote for Bloomberg News.
Areas of Expertise: Current affairs in Hong Kong and mainland China
Damian Coburn
Damian Coburn joined the Australian Public Service via the Public Service Exam, looking for something to earn some money while working out what he wanted to do in life. Retirement is providing some answers. In the intervening 39 years he worked mostly on programs, including development, legislation, operation, improvement, legislation, and regulation. And the odd bit of public policy.
Andrew Wedeman
Andrew Wedeman is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and leads its China Studies Program.
Jim McKay
Professor Jim McKay is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at The University of Queensland. His latest book is Transnational Tourism Experiences At Gallipoli
Guest author Bernard Macleod
Bernard Macleod is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist practicing in Sydney. He works in Private Practice with people across the lifespan, with a specific interest in Child & Adolescent psychotherapy. He is an Associate Member of the New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NSWIPP) and a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australasia (PACFA).
John F. Copper
John F. Copper is the Stanley J. Buckman Professor (emeritus) of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of more than forty books on China, Taiwan, and U.S. Asia policy. His most recent book Taiwans Presidents: Profiles of the Majestic Six was published August 2024.
Manuel B. Graeber
Professor Manuel B. Graeber has worked and published in several countries (Germany, USA, Japan, UK, KSA and Australia) and belongs to the top 2% of researchers in his field (Stanford list). He is the Barnet-Cropper Chair of Brain Tumour Research at the University of Sydneys Brain and Mind Centre and previously founded and chaired the University Department of Neuropathology at Imperial College in London where he became a legally recognized whistle-blower. He was the first President of the Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP 2020-2023, now Vice-President), and he has been President of the University of Sydney Association of Professors (USAP) since 2017. He is a strong supporter of Public Universities Australia (PUA).
John Shipton
John Shiptonis ananti-war activistandarchitectinSydney, Australia, and the father ofJulian Assange.He founded theWikiLeaks Partyand was involved in the creation ofWikiLeaksand helped with WikiLeaks for years. He campaigns and acts as an ambassador for Assange and was featured in the documentary_Ithaka_, produced by his son Gabriel Shipton.
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou “Yanis” Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.