Christine Owen
Christine Owens academic work at ANU, Melbourne University and Murdoch University was on literature, history and writing. Her research on the rise of female individualism was published as The Female Crusoe (2010).She was an anti-nuclear activist in the 80s and a regular contributor to The Fremantle Shipping News, edited by Hon Michael Barker KC.
Graeme Turner
Graeme Turner AO is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. A former president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and one of only two humanities’ based researchers to serve on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Committee, he has a long history of engagement in higher education and research policy. One of the founding figures in media and cultural studies in Australia, his most recent book is ‘The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what we can do about it’ (UQP).
Peter Allitt
Peter Allitt worked within the Victorian Education Department introducing the educational application of computers and information management. Consulted to multiple private and public organisations across Australia around education, strategic planning, information management and organisational change.
Regina Jefferies
Dr Regina Jefferies is a Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow at the Evacuations Research Hub.
Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), and the edited collections Digitizing Democracy (2019), the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), and Twitter and Society (2014). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing ‘big social data’. He served as President of the Association of Internet Researchers in 2017–19. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info.
Meg Grealy
Meg Grealy is a research officer with the Drug Policy Modelling Program at UNSW Sydney, where she has worked on projects including treatment system reviews, evidence reviews, and most recently on working to calculate Australia’s government expenditure on drug policy. She is a cultural studies graduate interested in infrastructural inequalities across Australia that impact people’s lives, specializing in qualitative social research and community engagement.
Glen Davis
Former senior executive and Chief Executive in Federal, State and Local Government. Director of innovative bank subsidiary and retailing enterprises. Former member of Science Council of the National Library. Founding Chairman of the Australian Standards Committee on Smart Cards.BA(Admin), JP(Qual), FAIM.
Caglar Kuzlukluoglu
Caglar Kuzlukluoglu, a Turkish economist and strategist, on China’s 3rd plenum of the CPC.
Peter F. Crowley
As a prolific author from the Boston area, Peter F. Crowley writes in various forms, including short fiction, op-eds, poetry and academic essays. In 2020, his poetry book_Those Who Hold Up the Earth_was published by Kelsay Books and received impressive reviews byKirkus Review, the BangladeshiNew Ageand two local Boston-area newspapers. His writing can be found in_Middle East Monitor,Znet,34thParallel,Pif Magazine,Galway Review,Digging the Fat,AdelaidesShort Story and Poetry Award anthologies_ (finalist in both) and_The Opiate._
His forthcoming books, due out later in 2023, are_That Night and Other Stories_(CAAB Publishing) and_Empires End_(Alien Buddha Press)
Katie Smith
Dr Katie Smith is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Marine Biological Association in the UK. Her research interests include understanding the impacts of climate change on marine species, throughout their life history and from individual to whole-ecosystem level.
Bushra Othman
Dr Bushra Othman is a general surgeon who recently volunteered on a medical mission in Gaza with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA).
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory who was based in East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020.
Anne Duggan
Educator and trade unionist - I am a proud life member of the CFMEU and have spent most of my working life immersed in working class education. Formative experiences included travelling through Central America in 1983, working on a refugee camp in Southeast Asia in the later 1980’s and a short time with the democratic movement in South Africa in 1992 in the lead up to majority rule. These experiences coupled with a solid working history in technical, migrant and trade union education in Australia have consolidated my passion for justice and interest in public policy.
Josef Mahoney
Josef Mahoney, Professor of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University.
Rebecca Strating
Rebecca Strating Director, La Trobe Asia, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
Rubayat Chowdhury
Rubayat Chowdhury is a macroeconomist with experience working on monetary policy, growth, and economic development in emerging market economies. He is a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre.
Anne Irwin
Anne Irwin is a volunteer Community Chaplain in Geelong in Victoria. She holds a bachelors degree in Dementia Care and a diploma of Chaplaincy. Her voluntary work brings her into contact with current and former prisoners and provides reliable anecdotal and experiential influences to recognise the need for change in our prisons.
Baogang He
Professor Baogang He is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Personal Chair in International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor He recently co-authored a new book on China’s growing influence titled China’s Galaxy Empire.
Terence Wood
Terence Wood is a Fellow at the Development Policy Centre. His research focuses on political governance in Western Melanesia, and Australian and New Zealand aid.
Alex Sen Gupta
Associate Professor Alex Sen Gupta is a research scientist and lecturer at the Climate Change Research Centre and the Centre For Marine Science and Innovation at UNSW. His work revolves around the role of the ocean in the climate system, how the ocean influences regional climate and what global climate models tell us about the future of the ocean, with a recent focus on marine heatwaves.
Associate Professor Sen Gupta’s research has been funded by the Australian Research Council.
Stephen Howes
Stephen Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
John-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Jane O'Sullivan
Dr. Jane OSullivan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, an Executive member of Sustainable Population Australia, and a co-convenor of The Overpopulation Project. She has published widely on population projections, the threats posed by population growth to food security, economic development and ecological sustainability, and the effectiveness of measures available to limit population growth.
Donald Rhodes
Donald Rhodes is an Australian lawyer and activist based in New York. He is General Counsel for a democracy-focused NGO. He was awarded a Columbia Law School Public Interest Fellowship in 2020. He has previously worked as a political staffer for Labor front-benchers Tanya Plibersek and Mark Butler.
Aisya Zaharin
Aisya A. Zaharin’s research encompasses a diverse range of fields, including political science, history, Middle East issues, decolonisation, and LGBTQI+ and Islam, with a particular emphasis on addressing social inequality and promoting cultural relativism. Her formative years were influenced by her historian mother’s bedtime storytelling, centring around Islamic civilisation and the impact of colonialism on the social-political dynamics of the Global South. Having grown up in a British post-colonised nation, she recognises the dehumanising terminology used to characterise resistance groups as savages and pengganas (terrorists) to maintain colonial authority. She shares Noam Chomsky’s view that intellectuals have a responsibility to expose government concealed motivations and analyse their underlying causes, action and intentions. She accepts that it is the duty of Academia to progress from critique to driving transformative change, harnessing their privileged position to amplify marginalised voices, confront oppressive systems, and advocate for social justice in all its forms.
Pearls and Irritations guest Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler is a former editor of_The Age_and_The Australian Financial Review_, and has long been a familiar face on the ABC. Alan founded the_Eureka Report_and has written columns for The Australian,The AFR,The Age_and the_Sydney Morning Herald.
Pascal Lottaz
Dr. Pascal Lottaz is an Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, in Tokyo. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) and specializes on neutral actors in international relations, especially on neutrality during the two World Wars and during the Cold War. He recently published the books Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (Lexington Books, 2020), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He leads the research network neutralitystudies.com.