Paul Evans
Paul Evans is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.
Dennis Doyle
Dennis Doyle received his doctorate in religious studies from the Catholic University of America. He taught at the University of Dayton for over 30 years. He has also been a guest professor at the University of Augsburg and the University of Regensburg.
Guest author Roderic Lyne
Roderic Lyne spent half of a 34 year diplomatic career dealing with the USSR and Russia up to 2004, since when I have visited Russia around fifty times as a businessman, writer and lecturer.
Khalil Harb
Khalil Harb is a Beirut-based journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Lebanese daily Al-Safir. He has also worked for the Associated Press and the Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper. Khalil is a graduate of the American University in Cairo.
Richard Manderson
Richard Manderson has recently retired after a public service career of 23 years, largely in the Departments of Immigration and Home Affairs. His roles included Director of Multicultural Policy, Director of Strategic Research, and a Director of Strategic Policy. He lives in Canberra, although hopefully not in any bubble.
Jane Kenway
Professor Jane Kenwayis an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia, Emeritus Professor at Monash University and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise is in educational sociology.
Tabitha Lean
Tabitha Leanis an activist, poet and storyteller. An abolition activist determined to disrupt the colonial project and abolish the prison industrial complex, shes filled with rage, channelling every bit of that anger towards challenging the colonial carceral state. Having spent almost two years in Adelaide Womens Prison, 18 months on Home Detention and three years on parole, Tabitha uses her lived prison experience to argue that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and too often deadly colonial frontier for her people. She believes that until we abolish the system and redefine community, health, safety and justice; her people will not be safe.
Hussein Dia
Professor Hussein Dia FIEAust FASCE FITE is professor of future urban mobility at Swinburne University of Technology. His current work focuses on decarbonising urban transport and harnessing digital innovations to unlock opportunities for sustainable mobility futures.
Geoff Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is a specialist in Soveiet and Russian foreign and military policy, Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at UCC and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His latest book is Stalins Library: a Dictator and His Books (Yale University Press 2022).
Haidar Mustafa
Haidar Mustafa is a Syrian journalist and TV presenter of political programs. He has worked for a number of media channels and institutions in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. He is also the author of the book Eyewitness and a graduate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Damascus University.
Kandy Wong
Kandy Wong returned to the Post in 2022 as a correspondent for the Political Economy desk, having earlier worked as a reporter on the Business desk. She focuses on China’s trade relationships with the United States, the European Union and Australia, as well as the Belt & Road Initiative and currency issues. She graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in journalism in 2013. An award-winning journalist, she has worked in Hong Kong, China and New York for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and the Financial Times, E&E News, Forbes, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Nikkei Asia and Coconuts Media.
Richard Hu
Richard Hu is the author of Reinventing the Chinese City (Columbia University Press, 2023) and co-editor (with Diane Hu) of the forthcoming book How Australia Is Studied in China (Routledge, 2024).
Guest author Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah is a journalist and the co-founder and executive director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada, a nonprofit, independent online publication focusing on Palestine. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago,
John Hopkins
John Hopkins has lived and worked in China for over 20 years. He began his career in China teaching at the Guanghua Institute of Management at Beijing University in 2000 and has worked in management positions on Australian University Programmes and in British International Schools with a strong focus on working with the Chinese public and government sectors on developing educational and service projects. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic he enjoyed 15 minutes of fame with several million people viewing online interviews and articles about his work as a volunteer interpreter explaining quarantine requirements to newly arrived and returning expats. Since then, he has happily returned to relative obscurity allowing him time to pursue his interests in traditional Chinese culture and linguistics.
Alaine Chanter
Dr Alaine Chanter is a former academic in Politics and Cultural Studies at the University of Canberra. One of her main areas of research was the independence struggle in the French Pacific, particularly New Caledonia.
Jon Richardson
Jon Richardson is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies. He is a formerdiplomat who covered Eastern Europe from Moscow (in the USSR and later Russia), Belgrade, London and Canberra. He also served as High Commissioner to Nigeria and Ghana.
Divna Haslam
Dr Haslam is a clinical psychologist and senior research fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She also holds an honourary role at the University of Queenslands Parenting and Family Support Centre. She is an expert in child and family psychology with a special interest in supporting parents balance work and family and reducing parenting stress. Her work uses population health lens with a focus on prevention which leads to direct policy and practice impacts. Through her work she aims to reduce early childhood adversity and ensure all children are given the opportunity to thrive.
Jim Clancy
Jim Clancy (born Chicago, December 18, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as a former correspondent and anchor on CNN International. He formerly anchored several CNN news reports, including The World Today and The Brief, before his resignation following a series of controversial exchanges with other users on Twitter.
Guest author John W. Whitehead
John W. Whiteheadis the president of The Rutherford Institute and author ofBattlefield America: The War on the American People.
Rohan Greenland
Rohan Greenland is the CEO of MS Australia, Chair of the Neurological Alliance Australia, and has spent the last three decades in senior executive positions across several national health and medical research organisations. He is a passionate advocate for improving the lives of people with MS, through MS Australias strategic program of research and advocacy.
Peter OKeeffe
Peter OKeeffe is a lawyer with a long-standing interest in hospice and palliative care.
Nicholas Ross Smith
Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury.
Benedict Moleta
Benedict Moleta received an MA (Research) from the University of Sydney in 2020, with a thesis on relations between the European Union and Palestine. He is currently researching Australias criminal listing of Hamas. His BA was in German and European Studies, with interests from Lessing to Lenin.
Holly Cullen
Holly Cullenis an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia Law School.
Marco Carnelos
Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign policy staff of three Italian prime ministers between 1995 and 2011. More recently he has been Middle East peace process coordinator special envoy for Syria for the Italian government and, until November 2017, Italy’s ambassador to Iraq.
Guest author Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
Anne Delaney
Anne Delaney is the host of the SwitchedOn podcast and our Electrification Editor, She has had a successful career in journalism (the ABC and SBS), as a documentary film maker, and as an artist and sculptor.
Rainer Chlanda
Rainer Chlanda is an Alice Springs-born youth worker and winner of the Fitzgerald Youth Award – NT Human Rights Awards 2018. He currently works supporting young people with disabilities who are in contact with the Justice System.
Marina Yue Zhang
Dr. Marina Yue Zhang is an associate professor at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS: ACRI). Prior to this position, Marina worked for UNSW in Australia and Tsinghua University in China. Marina holds a bachelors degree in biological science from Peking University, an MBA and a PhD from Australian National University. Marinas research interests cover Chinas innovation policy and practice, latecomers catch-up, emerging and disruptive technologies, and network effects in digital transformation. She focuses on industrial such as semiconductors, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, and clean energy transition. She is the author of three books, including Demystifying Chinas Innovation Machine: Chaotic Order, co-authored with Mark Dodgson and David Gann (Oxford University Press, 2022). In addition to academic publications in technology and innovation, Marina also writes analysis pieces on the intersection of technology and international relations in The National Interest, The Diplomat, The Conversation, The Interpreter by Lowy Institute, East Asia Forum, and comments on science and technology issues on BBC News, Bloomberg TV and other news outlets.
Zichen Wang
Zichen WangResearch Fellow & Director for Int’l Comms at Center for China and Globalisation (CCG), after 11 years at Xinhua News Agency. Founder & Editor: Pekingnology & The East is Read. Salzburg Global Fellow (2024-).