Brian Schmidt
Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS FTSE is Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University. For his work on the accelerating universe, Brian Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. Schmidt has worked across many areas of Astronomy including supernovae, gamma ray Bursts, gravitational wave transients, exo-planets, and metal poor stars. Receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1993, Schmidt joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995. He served as the 12th Vice Chancellor and President of the Australia National University from 2016-2023.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jeremy Kuzmarov specialises in U.S. foreign policy and modern U.S. history, and also has a background in criminology. His work examines the internationalisation of U.S. criminal justice. He is also interested in the covert dimensions of U.S. foreign policy. He taught previously at Bucknell University and has a PhD from Brandeis.
Wilson Lee Flores
Wilson Lee Flores is an award-winning columnist of Philippine Star and Abante, a real estate entrepreneur, economics and politics analyst.
Patricia Ranald
Dr Patricia Ranald is the convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN)
IPAN is a grassroots network of organisations around Australia – community, faith and peace groups, trade unions – and concerned individuals aiming to build public dialogue and pressure for change to a truly independent foreign policy for Australia – one in which our government plays a positive role in solving international conflicts peacefully.
Rania Al Abdullah
Rania Al Abdullah is Queen of Jordan. Her domestic activities include education initiatives and youth programs. Globally, she has campaigned for education and cross-cultural dialogue.
Kevin Bray
Dr Kevin Bray is a retired public servant and former academic with degrees in science, economics, international law and nuclear physics. His interest in Palestine and Israel was first engendered by visits in 2004 and 2007, as well as from being denied entry into Israel, via Jordan, en route to an international conference in Ramallah in the West Bank in April 2018. Kevin is a member of APAN (the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) and PIEN (the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network). Responsibility for this article is his alone.
Vivian Forbes
Professor Forbes is affiliated with the University of Western Australia and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. He holds a MPhil PhD and DLitt and specialises in marine geopolitics.
Barb Dadd
Barb Dadd is a 74 year old mother and grandmother living in regional Western Australia, driven by a lifelong pursuit of truth and justice.
Emilio Dabed
Emilio Dabed is a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer and Ph.D. in political science specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Arab American University, Palestine.
B’Tselem
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.
Bang Xiao
Bang Xiao is an award-winning journalist and a supervising producer for ABC Chinese. Bang’s work often focuses on China and its influence in Australia. He has written on topics from Chinese censorship system, rising nationalism, and tumorials in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, to China’s relations with Australia. As a bilingual reporter at ABC’s Asia Pacific Newsroom, Bang delivers his work through the lens of Australia’s migrant communities.
Mark Leibler
Mark Leibler AC is a pre-eminent Australian tax lawyer and corporate strategist, with a strong commitment to social justice and reconciliation.
Nadera Mushtaha
Nadera Mushtaha is a poet and writer who was born and raised in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Her family is originally from Gaza. In the fall of 2023, she started her third year in the English Language Education Department at Islamic University where she was a student of Dr. Refaat Alareer. Since most schools in Gaza have been destroyed during the current war, she has been organising English classes for children in her neighbourhood.
Current as of July 2024
Jonathan Sher
Dr Jonathan Sher is an IJBPE Contributing Editor and Founding Partner of Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives while the former Deputy Director of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland.
Zhao Hai
Dr. Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Sharon Seah
Sharon Seah is Senior Fellow and Coordinator at the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
Margery Evans
Margery Evans is chief executive of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, which represents the state’s 430 autonomously owned and operated schools and their 245,452 students.
Guest Claudia Hyles
Claudia Hyles OAM
The writer feels very fortunate indeed to have met Dr Jean Calder AC in 2015 in Gaza while participating in a study tour organised by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. She is a member of APAN and is a former member of the APAN Executive Committee.
Lama Qasem
Lama Qasem is a Palestinian from Jenin. Lama is an executive member of the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network and an organiser for the Palestinian Action Group Canberra.
Ken Hillman
Ken Hillman is Professor of Intensive Care at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on the inappropriate care of the elderly near the end of life. He has also published two books, Vital Signs (NewSouth) and A Good Life to the End (Allen and Unwin) as well as delivering a TEDx talk on dying in the elderly.
David Higginbottom
From 1989-1997 David Higginbottom was a Marketing Manager with Telstra responsible for EDI, Email, and Internet related technologies. From 1997-2009 he was a Canberra-based lobbyist, concentrating on the political and policy issues associated with new technologies.
Currently he is working with new audio technologies.
Blinne N Ghrlaigh
Ms Blinne N Ghrlaigh, KC, is a Barrister for Matrix Chambers and a member of the Bars of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales.
Guest author Michael Dudley
Dr Michael Dudley senior consultant in psychiatry, adolescent service, Prince of Wales Hospital
conjoint senior lecturer in psychiatry, UNSW
Sameed Basha
Sameed Basha is a defence and political analyst with a masters degree in international relations from Deakin University, Australia
Ian Hickie
Professor Ian Hickie
Co-Director Health and Policy,
Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Zichen Wang
Research Fellow & Director for Int’l Comms at Center for China and Globalization (CCG), after 11 years at Xinhua News Agency. Founder & Editor: Pekingnology & The East is Read. Salzburg Global Fellow (2024-).
Peter Breadon
Peter Breadon is Director of the Health Program at Grattan Institute and lead author of Grattans new report, Sickly sweet: Its time for a sugary drinks tax.
Richard Bean
Richard Bean is an academic and data scientist who has published extensively in the fields of energy, transport, health and classical cryptography. He specialises in large-scale data analysis and the integration of data sets from different areas.
Elizabeth Minter
Liz began her career in journalism in 1990 and worked at The Age newspaper for two 10-year stints. She also worked at The Guardian newspaper in London for more than seven years. A former professional tennis player who represented Australia in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Liz has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Letters (Hons).
Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet. Melissa is the founder of_Croakey_. A safe, reliable and relevant news and information environment is critical.
Lillian Cicerchia for Jacobin
Lillian Cicerchia is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, with a focus on political economy, feminism, and critical theory.
Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose has written widely on Australia-Chinese themes. He is adjunct professor at Western Sydney University and emeritus professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His most recent novel is The Idealist, published by Giramondo last month.
Brandon J Weichert
Brandon J Weichert is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower. He is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right. His work appears regularly in The Washington Times and Real Clear Politics. Weichert is a former US congressional staffer who holds an MA in statecraft and national security affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, and is an associate member of New College, Oxford University.
Guest author Brandon J Weichert
Brandon J Weichert is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower. He is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right. His work appears regularly in The Washington Times and Real Clear Politics. Weichert is a former US congressional staffer who holds an MA in statecraft and national security affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, and is an associate member of New College, Oxford University.