Robert Breunig
Professor Robert Breunig is the director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy.
Susan Thornton
Susan Thornton is a former US diplomat and Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Centre.
Lee Jones
Lee Jones is Professor of Political Economy and International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London and Research Associate of the Second Cold War Observatory.
MK Bhadrakumar
Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat for three decades in the Indian Foreign Service with multi-year assignments in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. MK writes extensively on the geopolitics of Eurasia, China, West Asia and US strategies. He is a columnist at The Cradle, writes a popular blog called Indian Punchline, and is a syndicated columnist worldwide.
Priti Gulati Cox
Priti Gulati Cox is an artist and the creator of the Sidewalk Museum of Congress outside the office of Kansas 1st District Congress member @rogermarshallmd in Salina, Kansas, where Stan and Priti live.
Marcus Strom
Marcus Strom is former President of MEAA Media, the journalists union, a former Labor Press Secretary and is a member of the ALP.
Shahar Hameiri
Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland and Research Associate of the Second Cold War Observatory.
Meg Schwarz
Meg Schwarz holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and brings over 35 years of experience championing social justice, advocacy and consumer engagement. Based in South Australia, Meg has dedicated her career to working alongside diverse communities, including refugees, people with disabilities and individuals with complex trauma backgrounds.With a strong passion for equality and human rights, Meg specialises in fostering meaningful communication, empowering voices through advocacy and creating inclusive spaces for dialogue. Her skills in stakeholder engagement, strategic communication and community development have earned her recognition as a trusted and compassionate leader in her field.
Val Noone
Val Noone is a writer and activist whose 1993 book, Disturbing the War, is a detailed study of peace work within the Melbourne Catholic Church during the Vietnam War when church life was dominated by the pro-war and anti-worker Santamaria movement. He is a fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. In 2013 the National University of Ireland awarded him the degree Doctor of Literature for his contribution to Irish Studies in Australia.
Stan Cox
Stan Cox is the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (City Lights, May, 2020).
Nyadol Nyuon
Ministerial Appointed Director (from 1 July 2022) Nyadol Nyuon became Director of Victoria Universitys Sir Zelman Cowen Centre in January 2022, after more than a decade in community development and advocacy. Her work focuses on legal reform, social justice, human rights and multiculturalism. A refugee to Australia, Nyadol went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University and a Juris Doctor at the University of Melbourne, before spending six years in commercial law at Arnold Bloch Lieber. She is a regular media commentator, having appeared on the ABCs The Drum and Q&A; and has written for publications like The Age, Guardian Australia and The Saturday Paper. Nyadol has won several prestigious awards, including the 2019 Victorian Premiers Award for Community Harmony and the 2019 Australian Financial Review Diversity and Inclusion Award, where she was named one of Australias top 11 most influential women. In June 2022, Nyadol received A Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to human rights and refugee women.
Fiona Carberry
Fiona Carberry was formerly Director of Sole Parent Policy, and Parenting Policy sections from 1995-98 in the Department of Social Security (DSS). She also worked in the Social Policy Divisions of DSS and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1991-1994. She has a Master of Arts (Public Policy) from the University of Melbourne.
Sarah Schwartz
Sarah is the Principal Lawyer of the Wirraway Practice (Police & Prison Accountability) at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. Sarah represents clients in cases involving police accountability, the rights of people in prison and coronial inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody. Sarah is also a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and co-organiser of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference Australia. In 2019, Sarah was awarded a John Monash Scholarship to complete a Master of Laws at Harvard University. At Harvard, she researched policing, mass incarceration and community resistance to the criminalisation of race and poverty.
Guest author Bruce Cameron
Bruce Cameron, MC, served in the Australian Army for twenty years and was a tank troop leader in Vietnam. He is the author of Canister! On! FIRE!: Australian tank operations in Vietnam. He has previously contributed to P&I.
Samuel Hume
Samuel Hume is a New Zealand teacher and writer based in London. His work has also appeared in Arena and Jacobin.
Claudina Habru
Claudina Habru is a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide. Before moving to Australia, Claudina was a lawyer in the Solomon Islands and later manages her family’s business.
Kym Davey
Kym Davey is a human rights advocate and former Commonwealth and State public servant. He is a member of Labor Against War.
Guest author 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.
Guest author Graham Allison
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Guest author 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.
Sally Bowden-Schaible
Sally Bowden-Schaible is Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 35 years of counseling experience and a nationally certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC).
Sevim Dagdelen
Sevim Dagdelen has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2005. She is the spokeswoman for the Left Party parliamentary group on the Bundestags Committee on Foreign Affairs, a deputy member of the Defence Committee and spokeswoman for international policy and disarmament. From 2017 to 2020, she served on the executive committee of the Left Party parliamentary group as vice chair. Sevim Dagdelen is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Minran Liu
Minran Liu is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is concurrently a lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). He received his PhD at the University of Sydney and is interested in Chinese defence and foreign policy, domestic-international interaction, and Australia-China relations.
David Gosset
David Gosset a Sinologist, is the founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, editor of China and the World in three volumes, and the creator of the Inspiring Series, a collection of books that aims to introduce China to the world.
Mahjabeen Ahmad
Mahjabeen Ahmad is an independent researcher, consultant, advocate, and cultural diversity expert based in Adelaide. Mahjabeen has served as a Board and Executive Committee member of the Multicultural Communities Council of SA Inc. (MCCSA), the peak multicultural organisation in the state of South Australia and on the Board of Management of Multicultural Aged Care (MAC), the lead agency for culturally and linguistically diverse aged and community care in South Australia.
Pat Anderson
Pat Anderson AO is an Alyawarre woman, was co-convener of the First Nations Constitutional Convention, which developed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and is a member of the working group of First Nations leaders who will guide the referendum. She is one of the most senior and accomplished Aboriginal activists in Australia.
Priestley Habru
Currently a PhD Candidate at The University of Adelaide researching Public Diplomacy and its implication in the Pacific. He has a Master of Arts in Global Media from The University of Adelaide and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Gender Studies from the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji.
Cathy Peters
Cathy Peters is a former Greens councillor and the co-founder of BDS Australia. She worked as a radio producer and executive producer for the ABC for thirty years making some documentaries on the Israeli occupation. She is Jewish and her grandparents and other relatives perished in the holocaust. She has travelled to Gaza and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories on a number of occasions and is a long-time advocate for Palestinian rights and justice.
Juan Cole
Juan Coleis the founder and chief editor ofInformed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books,Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of EmpiresandThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.