John Hendry
John Hendry OAM (Education & Cricket)
Educator for 55 yrs and still involved with schools through his Relationship based Education, a joint project with Parents Victoria. Life Member of the Careers Development Association of Australia.
Consultant to Primary and Secondary Schools across all systems in Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and a consultant to UNESCO on Bullying and school violence. John has been a cricket coach at Junior and elite levels for over 45 yrs. Coached and played at Premier Grade level and State level and spent 40yrs coaching school cricket. He believes sport does influence culture.
Professor Jane McAdam AO
Professor Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. In 2022, she was commissioned to lead the drafting of the world’s first regional framework on climate mobility for Pacific governments. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people’.
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.
Garritt Van Dyk
Dr Garritt (Chip) Van Dyk is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato. Current research includes forthcoming publications on botanical imperialism and the first sugar grown in Australia, a bibliography of culinary ephemera, and a book on digital history. Wider research interests extend to the history of empire, early modern economic history, and European patterns of consumption in the Enlightenment.
Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter.
M. K. Bhadrakumar
M. K. Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat by profession. For someone growing up in the 1960s in a remote town at the southern tip of India, diplomacy was an improbable profession. My passion was for the world of literature, writing and politics – roughly in that order.
Luke Slawomirski
Luke Slawomirski is a health economist, most recently with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He lectures in health policy at Imperial College London and is currently a PhD candidate with the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTAS. A former clinician, he has worked with remote Indigenous communities in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia.
Rick Sterling
Rick Sterling is a retired Canadian American electronics engineer. Over the past decade, Rick has researched and written exposes of western media misinformation about international conflicts, especially Syria, as well as the politicisation of international sports and doping. His writing is published at sites such as AntiWar.com, LA Progressive and Sports Integrity Initiative.
Carla Wilshire
Carla Wilshire, is a published Author and the founding CEO of the Social Policy Group. Her background is in political strategy and policy.
Kellie Tranter
Kellie Tranter is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights advocate. She tweets from @KellieTranter
Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Professor in International Relations at the National University of Malaysia and concurrently a non-resident scholar at Carnegie China.
Edmond Chiu
Edmond Chiu A.M. is an Emeritus Professor of The University of Melbourne. He arrived in Australia from Hong Kong in 1952 and experienced the bureaucratic discrimination of the White Australian Policy. Since 2010 he has been a Volunteer Researcher with the Museum of Chinese Australian History (The Chinese Museum) in Melbourne, undertaking research into Chinese Australians who served in two World Wars. He co-authored the book, “For Honour and Country- Victorian Chinese Australians in World War Two” (Museum of Chinese Australian History, 2021)
David Meredith
David Meredith is co-author of Australia in the global economy: continuity and change (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn 2012). He has written extensively on British and Australian economic history, and British social history and imperialism. Formerly at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and more recently the University of Oxford, he now lives in regional New South Wales. David is currently researching the history of unjust enrichment in colonial Australia.
Rhiannon Schembri
Rhiannon Schembri is an evolutionary biologist and Fulbright scholar at Macquarie University.
Joseph G. Davis
Joseph G. Davis is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Computer Science, the University of Sydney.
Rachel Ong ViforJ
Rachel Ong ViforJ is John Curtin Distinguished Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University. Her research interests include intra- and intergenerational housing inequalities, housing affordability dynamics, and the links between housing and the economy.
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).
Shiro Armstrong
Shiro Armstrong is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Yvonne Patterson
Yvonne Patterson lives in Perth WA, is retired from clinical psychology and has extensive experience in government human services policy.
Oliver Vodeb
Dr Oliver Vodeb is a sociologist looking closely at design and communication. He is an academic at the RMIT School of Design in Melbourne. Oliver is the principal curator of Memefest and Lipstick+Bread and a founding member of Academics for Public Universities and Public Universities Australia. He has published extensively, lectures internationally, and has designed and directed public campaigns and interventions in various parts of the world. His latest books are Food Democracy and Radical Intimacies (Intellect) and also What is Post-Branding? (Set Margins’).
Huw Watkin
Huw began his career in journalism in Australia in the mid-1980’s before moving to Asia where he has lived and worked in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He is currently the principal of Drakon Associates, a research and investigation consultancy that focuses on the Asia Pacific, and continues to travel widely and write on a range of subjects and issues throughout the region.
Geetanjali Dhar
Geetanjali Dhar is the founder and CEO of Sanskriti Global Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting multiculturalism.
Ben Manski
Ben Manski is a scholar of social movements and next system studies who is working to build the Next System Teach-Ins. He is a former attorney, a longtime activist for democracy in the United States, and a professor of sociology and member of AAUP-AFT Local 6741.
Ariadne Vromen
Ariadne Vromen is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. She has a longstanding interest in citizen engagement and political inequality. Her new co-authored book Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy will be published soon.
EAF editors The Australian National University
The EAF Editorial Board is comprised of Peter Drysdale, Shiro Armstrong, Ben Ascione, Liam Gammon, Ben Hillman, Adam Triggs, Jiao Wang, Lauren Richardson, Tom Westland, Maria Monic Wihardja and Andrew Levidis, and is located in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
Malcolm Spry
Malcolm Spry B.Econ, now retired, was an international marketing executive specialising in communications and research. Residing in Sydney he has served on several public company Boards and was a co-founder of E*TRADE Australia and a founding member of Human Rights Watch Australia.
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.
Jane Lydon
Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia’s colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include ‘Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire’ (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and ‘Anti-slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?’ (Routledge, 2021). She leads the Australian Research Council-funded research project ‘Australian Legacies of British Slavery: Capital, Land and Labour’, which traces the movement of capital, people and culture from slave-owning Britain to the new settler colonies, aiming to produce a new history of the continuing impact of slavery wealth in shaping colonial immigration, investment, and law.
Mark Christensen
Mark Christensen is Professor, Management Control, at ESSEC Business School in Singapore. He has previously been a business academic in Australian and Danish tertiary institutions with a research interest in accounting as a socio-technical construction, especially in public sector reform.
Fiona McDonald
Fiona is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Fiona is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada. Fiona’s research encompasses issues related to health governance and has four broad themes: