Masood Haque
Masood Haque is a physician and documentary filmmaker. His last film, Witness: a documentary, about the FBI’s sting operation against two innocent men, is available on Prime.
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.
Gregory Elich
Gregory Elich is a Korea Policy Institute board member. He is a contributor to the collection, Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Haymarket Books, 2023). His website is https://gregoryelich.org Follow him on Twitter at @GregoryElich.
Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter’s areas of expertise include American foreign policy, national security, arms control, the Middle East, Iran and Russia. He recently wrote “the rift between the CIA and Donald Trump…may not be such a bad thing” given that the president is “pushing a policy of reconciliation with Russia that the CIA neither supports nor is equipped to effectively advise him on.” In addition to his impeccable credentials, Ritter is an electrifying public speaker who is world-renowned for correctly insisting Iraq had no significant weapons of mass destruction when the Bush administration claimed otherwise. His eighth book, _Deal of the Century: How Iran Blocked the West’s Road to War_, will be published in June.
David Lindenmayer
Professor David Lindenmayer is a distinguished Australian scientist and academic, specialising in landscape ecology, conservation, and biodiversity. His research focuses on integrating nature conservation with agricultural production, improving biodiversity conservation in forestry and plantations, and enhancing fire management practices. With over 940 peer-reviewed papers and 49 books, David is one of the most published ecologists globally. He leads large-scale, long-term research programs in south-eastern Australia. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including the ESA Whittaker Award, multiple Eureka Prizes, and the Australian Natural History Medal.
Narelle Bedford
Narelle Bedford, is a Yuin woman and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. Her area of expertise is Administrative Law, concentrating on all forms of accountability over government decision-making. Prior to academia, she was Judge’s Associate, and a public servant in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Attorney-General’s Department.
Peter Curtis
Peter Curtis is an educator in the public system in the ACT and has taught the early years through to high school. He has recently published, ‘A Meeting of Minds’, an imagined dialogue between Paulo Freire and Karl Marx.
Simon Board
Associate Lecturer in PDHPE, Charles Sturt University
Simon Board is an educational specialist in the area of Personal Development, Health and Physical Education. Over 25 years, he has led, developed and grown future-focused and collaborative PDHPE departments at a number of independent schools and is currently employed as Head of PDHPE at Kambala.
Bernadette Zaydan
Bernadette Zaydan is an Australian lawyer with a diverse practice in human rights, commercial, public, and regulatory law. She’s particularly passionate about the intersection of law and human rights.
Sophie Howe
Sophie Howe was the inaugural Future Generations Commissioner of Wales from 2016 to January 2023. Sustainability futures and Wellbeing adviser and the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales TED Speaker and public policy expert.
Walden Bello
Walden Bello, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, is the author or co-author of 19 books, the latest of which are Capitalism’s Last Stand? (London: Zed, 2013) and State of Fragmentation: the Philippines in Transition (Quezon City: Focus on the Global South and FES, 2014).
Maria Tanyag
Maria Tanyag is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, and the Deputy Director for the Philippines Institute, at the Australia National University.
Elizabeth Thurbon
Elizabeth Thurbon is Professor of International Political Economy, Deputy Head of School and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. She is also Director of the Green Energy Statecraft Project, a collaborative initiative between UNSW Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney.
David Goessmann
David Goessmann David Goeßmann is a journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked for several media outlets including Spiegel Online, ARD, and ZDF. His articles appeared on Truthout, Common Dreams, The Progressive or Progressive International. In his books he analyzes climate policies, global justice, and media bias.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor Co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics. And radio broadcaster and science columnist with ACM newspapers and author of Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet (Odyssey, 2020).
Meg Hart
Meg Hart is an organisational psychologist and writer. She spent over 30 years in Hong Kong and China and is a graduate and post-graduate of Hong Kong and Sydney Universities. Currently a Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Nan Tien Institute for Buddhist Studies in Wollongong, she is writing a book about her lived experience of the two different but potentially complementary cultures of China and Australia.
Stephen Semler
Producer of charts and policy analysis for the working class. Co-founder, SPRI (@security_reform, securityreform.org). Available for consulting. Find me on Bluesky & Twitter: @stephensemler
Dean Ashenden
Dean Ashenden has worked in and around schools as a teacher, academic and consultant, and in journalism. He has contributed to all major print outlets and to many professional, academic, and social affairs journals. His previous book, Telling Tennant’s Story, was inaugural winner of the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. He is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Dean Ashenden has commented on education in all major Australian print outlets. His Unbeaching the Whale: Can Australian schooling be reformed? was published earlier this year by Inside Story
Robert Clancy
I am a Clinical Immunologist with a research focus on mucosal immunology and host-parasite relationships at mucosal surfaces, with over 300 publications and the award of a DSc and AM for this work. I developed clinical services in Immunology at MacMaster University, RPAH Sydney, and the Hunter region. With two others I developed the specialty of Clinical Immunology in Australia, serving as Chief Examiner for 5 years. My research defined the immunology of airway protection, communication with the gut, the idea of airway resilience, and strategic development of products optimising airway protection, I was Foundation Professor of Pathology in the Newcastle Medical School. Current practise focusses on vaccine-damaged subjects.
Judge Napolitano
Hard hitting legal/political news from a man who knows and respects the Constitution and the importance of defending individual freedoms. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. As Fox News’ Senior Judicial Analyst from 1997 to 2021, Judge Napolitano gave 14,500 broadcasts nationwide on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. He is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it takes liberty and property. The Judge is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. His most recent book, SUICIDE PACT: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties.
Callula Killingly
Callula Killingly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
Garry Rosario da Gama
Garry Rosario da Gama is a PhD student at Crawford School of Public Policy. His research is focussed on integrity networks, accountability, transparency and anti-corruption efforts in Indonesia.
Jerome Mellor
Jerome Mellor is a former general practitioner with a lifetime interest in political history.
JJ Rose
As a writer and advisor, James (JJ) Rose has written features, commentary, essays and analysis (on my by-line and for others) for various publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al-Jazeera, The Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post and, the South China Morning Post. In 2006, he was advisor to the Special Ambassador to the United Nations World Food Program, The Hon. Mr Abdul-Aziz Arrukban.He has taught Journalism at Griffith University, and is founder of The Kick Project, a registered charity which seeks to bring conflicted or challenged communities together through soccer/football. James has written many books, the most recent a political thriller based on the 2022 Qatar World Cup in Qatar. He has spent time in Israel and the Occupied Territories and has recently returned from the region.
Jonathan Symons
Jon teaches international relations and public policy in the School of International Studies, Macquarie University. He has published widely on international climate politics and policy. His most recent book ‘Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and Climate Crisis’ (Polity, 2019) explores the argument for increased state investment in low-carbon innovation and deployment of low-carbon technologies. His previous book ‘Queer Wars: The New Global Polarisation over Gay Rights’ (co-authored with Prof. Dennis Altman, Polity, 2016) explored the debate between those arguing that ‘LGBTQI rights are human rights’ and those who believe rights protections should not extend beyond the ’traditional values of mankind’.
Thu Nguyen
Dr Thu Nguyen is an early career health policy and systems researcher with expertise in policy studies, political science, and health governance in the Asia Pacific region. She is currently a Research Fellow based at Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Australia.
John Langdale
John Langdale is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia.
Hao Nan
Hao Nan is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a Nuclear Futures fellow (2025-2026) with the Ploughshares Fund & Horizon 2045.
John CH Mitchell
John C. H. Mitchell OAM has successfully farmed beef cattle and prime lambs for more than 48 years. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting at The Australian National University and applied much of what he learned there to farm management through succession problems, drought, debt and bushfires.