Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson studied at the ANU, Moscow State and Leningrad State universities. He worked in DFAT from 1981 to 2004. His postings for DFAT included four years in Moscow 1988-92; and five in Beijing, 1995-99, including a year at the Beijing Institute for Economic Management. From 2000-2004 he worked on China and Mongolia in DFAT’s North Asia Division. From 2004 to 2013 he was the Senior Analyst for Russia and Central Asia at ONA and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies at the ANU.
Shamikh Badra
Shamikh Badra holds a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney and is a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong where he researches Palestinian resistance, diplomacy and settler colonialism. His publications in professional journals cover appraisals of academic theory and activism to advance global solidarity for Palestine. His non-violent work includes a theoretical framework for the Great March of Return and leadership (2015) to foster Palestinian unity.'
Pearls and Irritations guest John P Ruehl
John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several other foreign affairs publications. He is currently finishing a book on Russia to be published in 2022.
Etan Nechin
I am a writer, journalist, and editor, originally from Israel. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Huffington Post, The Independent, Jewish Currents, Medium, Columbia Journal, and more.
Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich, a _TomDispatch_ regular, is chairman and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new Dispatch book, _On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century_, has just been published_._ He is the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House_._
Coen Luettringhaus
Coen Luettringhaus Jack of all trades, master on none. Concerned citizen, Dad, and partner. Believing that a better world remains possible.
Mark Dodgson
Mark Dodgson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Executive-in-Residence at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.
Amalendu Misra
Amalendu Misra a professor of international politics at Lancaster University, UK, and the author of seven critically acclaimed monographs on conflict and peace. My primary research concerns interrogation of violence in the political process.
David Salter
David Salter has been a journalist, broadcaster and author for more than 50 years. He was a member of the team that founded “This Day Tonight”, Australia’s first nightly current affairs program. He worked in the Canberra gallery, at the BBC, and for the Nine and Seven networks. Salter was Executive Producer of “Media Watch” for 200 episodes with Stuart Littlemore QC.
Phil Miller
Phil Miller is Declassified UK’s chief reporter. He is the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away With War Crimes. Follow him on Twitter at @pmillerinfo
Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan Holmes is a former executive producer of The ABC’s current affairs programs Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent and The 7.30 Report, and a former presenter of Media Watch. He is a board director of ABC Alumni Ltd.
Sybil Fares
Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN
Shojaa al-Safadi
Shojaa al-Safadi is a Palestinian writer and poet, a member of the Palestinian Writers Union, and a founder and director of the Friendship Cultural Forum from 2004 to 2014.
Christoph Nedopil
Christoph Nedopil is the Director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a Professor of Economics at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
He is also a Visiting Professor at FISF Fudan University, Shanghai, and Singapore Management University (SMU).
Matthew Sussex
Matthew Sussex is an Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Toshiya Takahashi
Dr Toshiya Takahashi is Professor of International Relations at Shoin University in Japan. His research explores theoretical aspects of security, multilateralism and Japan’s security and foreign policy.
Brenda Fitzpatrick
With a PhD in global Politics Brenda Fitzpatrick writes to bring attention to the plight of victims of sexual violenc e in war and conflict. She works with humanitarian and UN agencies and has had experience in refugee camps and war zones. Her book, ‘Tactical Rape in War and Conflict ’ was deemed ground breaking and her novel, ‘Gwennie’s Girl ’ visceral and engaging’.
Yang Yao
Yang Yao is professor and dean of DAFI, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and visiting professor, Peking University.
Alexander Howard
Alexander Howard Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Edith Lin
Edith joined the Post as a reporter in 2022 and covers Hong Kong’s housing, land and development. Prior to joining the Post, she was a reporter at Radio Television Hong Kong.
Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter of Late 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 present Late Night Live,’ he says. ‘No radio program, anywhere on earth, casts a wider net.’ Phillip’s laid-back approach has become a trade-mark for Late Night Live, as has his humour, curiosity, his ability to flesh out rare insights from his guests, and his amazing store of anecdotal knowledge.
Xiaoying Qi
Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi has expertise in business and economic relations, social capital and social networks, and contemporary China. Her most recent book, Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis, is published by Cambridge University Press. A previous book, Remaking Families in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2021) won the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of the Australian Sociological Association. An earlier book, Globalised Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (London & New York: Routledge, 2014), was awarded The Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association.
Jamal Kanj
Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. He writes frequently on Arab world issues for various national and international commentaries.
Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff is the Marshall M Bouton Fellow for Asia Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Ibrahim Quraishi
Ibrahim Quraishi is a conceptual artist and writer dividing his time between Berlin and Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited extensively across Europe, South/East Asia and the Middle East. He is a regular cultural-political contributor to the German newspaper TAZ : die tageszeitung. His first historical novel, “being everywhere, being no where” (part I of a trilogy), is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press, NY.<
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.
Stella Yee
Stella Yee writes about politics and democracy, drawing on lived experiences across Malaysia, the United States, and Australia. She was the Independent candidate for Menzies in the 2025 federal election.
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.