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.
Imad Mahmoud
Imad Mahmoud is of Palestinian origin. He is an Executive Member of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association in South Australia. Imad is interested in religion and hopes that progressive religious ideas might help push forward an end to the Palestinian conflict.
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.
Mark Seddon
Mark Seddon is the Director of the Centre for United Nations Studies at the University of Buckingham, UK, which was officially opened in September 2019 and offers an MA Degree in UN & Diplomatic Studies. He was Media Adviser to Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the President of the United Nations General Assembly. He has worked as editor of Tribune, United Nations & Diplomatic Correspondent for Al Jazeera English, speechwriter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and Director of Communications for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, which was chaired by UN Special Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown. He has also been an activist and parliamentary candidate with the Labour Party, and served on the National Executive Committee, the National Policy Forum and the Economic Policy Commission, chaired by Gordon Brown. (Wikimedia)
Ellen Koshland
Ellen Koshland established the Koshland Innovation Fund to stimulate new thinking about education in Australia.
Her commitment to education in Victoria represents one of the most remarkable and relentless campaigns to address the serious inequities facing many young people and their families.
In 1989, she established the Small Change Foundation to improve learning and life outcomes for young people in the public education system. Renamed the Education Foundation, it raised more than $10 million to fund over 500 innovative programs in Victoria and nationally, supporting many students in government schools to develop their talents and foster a love of learning. In 2008, the Education Foundation became a permanent division of The Foundation for Young Australians.
She is a founding partner of the Global Education Leaders Partnership, a powerful alliance of global education leaders who seek to transform education to meet the needs of the future through new methods, curriculum and assessment.
Teesta Prakash
Dr Teesta Prakash is a policy analyst with expertise in strategic and foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific. She has a PhD in Australia’s strategic foreign policy during the Cold War and has worked at the Lowy Institute and Australian Strategic Policy Institute previously.
Dr Tamara Wood
Dr Tamara Wood is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney; Postdoctoral Researcher (external) at the Hertie School, Berlin; and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the founding Co-Chair and current Steering Group member of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN). In 2022, she acted as Deputy Lead for the technical team commissioned to draft the Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility.