Morgan Rees
Dr Morgan Rees is a Lecturer of Policy and Politics at the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Justice. His research is primarily in US and Australian foreign policy with current projects looking to examine the future of Australia-US relations in the context of the rise of Trump and an increasingly inward looking US.
Les MacDonald
Les MacDonald was a CEO for more than 40 years. Prior to this, he was Deputy Secretary NSW Health, CEO of the Maritime Services Board and Assistant Secretary of the Federal Departments of the Media and Posts and Telecommunications. Subsequently he was previously Executive Director Uniting Care Ageing NSW. Les has an extensive leadership history including board positions in public hospitals, health insurance, the maritime industry, public transport, cancer medicine and the Council for the Arts amongst others.
Sophie Singh
Sophie Singh is a long term campaigner for refugee rights and member of the Canberra Refugee Action Campaign, Sophie Singh was also an organiser with the 2025 Big Walk 4 Refugees, a virtual walk of 44,000kms of solidarity held throughout June with those who came to Australia seeking safety.
Ryan Manuel
Dr Ryan Manuel Bilby is Managing Director of Bilby, a HK-based company that uses AI to analyse policy.
Justin Catanoso
Justin Catanoso is a regular contributor to Mongabay and a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University in the United States.
Roger McKenzie
Roger McKenzie is a reporter for the Morning Star. He is the general secretary of Liberation, one of the oldest UK human rights organisations.
Kristine Klugman
Dr Kristine (Kris) Klugman OAM has been President of Civil Liberties Australia since 2003 and is coordinator of communications for its National Human Rights Act campaign. Her PhD in Politics at ANU analysed the two-way communication flow between MPs and electors. Earlier degrees were in Community Studies, and History. Kris’s OAM in 1987 was for ‘services to education and the community’.
Joh-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
John-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Yose Rizal Damuri
Yose Rizal Damuri is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and Economic Studies (CSIS) Indonesia.
Quinta Jurecic
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare’s managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Aditya Joshi
Dr. Aditya Joshi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He specialises in foundational and applied natural language processing (NLP): the field of artificial intelligence that has given us large language models. His research has been published in leading AI/NLP research venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, WWW, etc. Since receiving his PhD in 2018, he has worked as a data scientist at SEEK, a machine learning engineer at Notiv and a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO’s Data61.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ricardo Vaz
Ricardo Vaz grew up in Mozambique. With very strong political leanings from an early age, and a clear anti-imperialist outlook, he always felt a very strong affinity towards the Bolivarian Revolution and Chavismo, and has closely followed political developments in Venezuela. After living in different countries and continents, he moved to Venezuela in 2019.
Sarah Kendall
Sarah Kendall is a PhD candidate and Sessional Academic at the University of Queensland. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in criminal law and procedure, evidence law, and national security. Currently, she is researching the nature, effectiveness and appropriateness of measures used to prevent emerging (often cyber) national security threats, including espionage, sabotage and foreign interference. She is also researching domestic violence law and trials, with a focus on the treatment of vulnerable victim-witnesses.
Douglas Newton
Douglas Newton is a retired academic and historian. His latest book is Private Ryan and the Lost Peace: A Defiant Soldier and the Struggle Against the Great War (Sydney: Longueville Media, 2021).
Peter Tregear
Peter Tregear is an academic, performer, and arts commentator. He is a Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and an Adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide and was Professor and Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University from 2012–2015.
Irene Watson
Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Meintangk, Portuwutj and Bunganditj Peoples. With a long commitment to obligations to care for country and people Irene is a research Professor of Law at the University of South Australia. A prolific writer her book Aboriginal People’s, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law, was published in 2015.
Masood Haque
Masood Haque is a physician and documentary filmmaker. His last film, Witness: a documentary, about the FBI’s sting operation against two innocent men, is available on Prime.
Terence Wood
Terence Wood is a Fellow at the Development Policy Centre. His research focuses on political governance in Western Melanesia, and Australian and New Zealand aid.
Bernadette Zaydan
Bernadette Zaydan is an Australian lawyer with a diverse practice in human rights, commercial, public, and regulatory law. She’s particularly passionate about the intersection of law and human rights.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor Co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics. And radio broadcaster and science columnist with ACM newspapers and author of Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet (Odyssey, 2020).
Robert Clancy
I am a Clinical Immunologist with a research focus on mucosal immunology and host-parasite relationships at mucosal surfaces, with over 300 publications and the award of a DSc and AM for this work. I developed clinical services in Immunology at MacMaster University, RPAH Sydney, and the Hunter region. With two others I developed the specialty of Clinical Immunology in Australia, serving as Chief Examiner for 5 years. My research defined the immunology of airway protection, communication with the gut, the idea of airway resilience, and strategic development of products optimising airway protection, I was Foundation Professor of Pathology in the Newcastle Medical School. Current practise focusses on vaccine-damaged subjects.
Thu Nguyen
Dr Thu Nguyen is an early career health policy and systems researcher with expertise in policy studies, political science, and health governance in the Asia Pacific region. She is currently a Research Fellow based at Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Australia.
Hao Nan
Hao Nan is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a Nuclear Futures fellow (2025-2026) with the Ploughshares Fund & Horizon 2045.
Lana Elliott
Dr. Lana Elliott is a health policy and systems academic with a background in global health and political science. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Social Work and an Affiliated Investigator with the QUT Centre for Justice.
Stephanie M. Topp
Dr. Stephanie Topp has over 17 years of experience working as a health policy and systems expert specialising in governance and health workforce in low-resource settings. Her skills lie at the intersection of policy analysis, evidence synthesis and health system strengthening, drawing on multi-disciplinary training and extensive service design and implementation including with integrated models of primary-care. Dr. Topp is a Professor of Global Health and Development at James Cook University in Australia, Honorary Principal Research Fellow with the Nossal Institute for Global Health and currently visiting Professor with Zambart in Lusaka, Zambia. She previously served on the Board of Directors for Health Systems Global.
Ali Reza Yunespour
Ali Reza works as an academic at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD from UNSW Canberra, where his thesis examined how market economy impacted admission practices in Afghanistan’s higher education. His current research interests are on education in fragile contexts and refugee education in Australia. Ali Reza has extensive experience in community development in conflict-affected areas. Since 2007, through his volunteer work with Indigo Foundation Australia, he has been supporting around 11,000 students across 60 rural schools and mosques in Afghanistan.
Sahasranshu Dash
Sahasranshu Dash is a senior economist and research partner at the South Asia Institute of Research and Development in Kathmandu, Nepal. His work focuses on trade strategy, inclusive growth and sustainable development across South Asia.