Stan Cox
Stan Cox is the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (City Lights, May, 2020).
Nyadol Nyuon
Ministerial Appointed Director (from 1 July 2022) Nyadol Nyuon became Director of Victoria Universitys Sir Zelman Cowen Centre in January 2022, after more than a decade in community development and advocacy. Her work focuses on legal reform, social justice, human rights and multiculturalism. A refugee to Australia, Nyadol went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University and a Juris Doctor at the University of Melbourne, before spending six years in commercial law at Arnold Bloch Lieber. She is a regular media commentator, having appeared on the ABCs The Drum and Q&A; and has written for publications like The Age, Guardian Australia and The Saturday Paper. Nyadol has won several prestigious awards, including the 2019 Victorian Premiers Award for Community Harmony and the 2019 Australian Financial Review Diversity and Inclusion Award, where she was named one of Australias top 11 most influential women. In June 2022, Nyadol received A Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to human rights and refugee women.
Fiona Carberry
Fiona Carberry was formerly Director of Sole Parent Policy, and Parenting Policy sections from 1995-98 in the Department of Social Security (DSS). She also worked in the Social Policy Divisions of DSS and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1991-1994. She has a Master of Arts (Public Policy) from the University of Melbourne.
Sarah Schwartz
Sarah is the Principal Lawyer of the Wirraway Practice (Police & Prison Accountability) at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. Sarah represents clients in cases involving police accountability, the rights of people in prison and coronial inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody. Sarah is also a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and co-organiser of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference Australia. In 2019, Sarah was awarded a John Monash Scholarship to complete a Master of Laws at Harvard University. At Harvard, she researched policing, mass incarceration and community resistance to the criminalisation of race and poverty.
Bruce Cameron
Bruce Cameron, MC, served in the Australian Army for twenty years and was a tank troop leader in Vietnam. He is the author of “Canister! On! FIRE!: Australian tank operations in Vietnam”. He has previously contributed to ‘P&I’.
Guest author Bruce Cameron
Bruce Cameron, MC, served in the Australian Army for twenty years and was a tank troop leader in Vietnam. He is the author of Canister! On! FIRE!: Australian tank operations in Vietnam. He has previously contributed to P&I.
Samuel Hume
Samuel Hume is an independent journalist and teacher based in London. His collected articles can be found on his Substack.
Claudina Habru
Claudina Habru is a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide. Before moving to Australia, Claudina was a lawyer in the Solomon Islands and later manages her family’s business.
Kym Davey
Kym Davey is a human rights advocate and former Commonwealth and State public servant. He is a member of Labor Against War.
Guest author Sarmad Ishfaq
Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard Kennedy School Review, Open Democracy, Defense Post Paradigm Shift, Mondoweiss, and Eurasia Review to name a few. He has also been published by several international peer-reviewed journals such as Taylor and Francis’ Social Identities. Before becoming an independent writer, he worked as a research fellow for the Lahore Center for Peace Research. He has a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong.
Guest author Graham Allison
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Guest author Sharmine Narwani
Sharmine Narwani is a Beirut-based writer and analyst of West Asian geopolitics, and a columnist at The Cradle. Her work has been published in a broad array of media outlets, including The American Conservative, Russia Today, The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Al-Akhbar English, Assafir, Huffington Post, BRICS Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera and others. She is cited in many publications for her groundbreaking, investigative coverage of the Syrian conflict.
Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, is published by The New Press.
Sally Bowden-Schaible
Sally Bowden-Schaible is Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 35 years of counseling experience and a nationally certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC).
Sevim Dagdelen
Sevim Dagdelen has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2005. She is the spokeswoman for the Left Party parliamentary group on the Bundestags Committee on Foreign Affairs, a deputy member of the Defence Committee and spokeswoman for international policy and disarmament. From 2017 to 2020, she served on the executive committee of the Left Party parliamentary group as vice chair. Sevim Dagdelen is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Minran Liu
Minran Liu is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is concurrently a lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). He received his PhD at the University of Sydney and is interested in Chinese defence and foreign policy, domestic-international interaction, and Australia-China relations.
David Gosset
David Gosset a Sinologist, is the founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, editor of China and the World in three volumes, and the creator of the Inspiring Series, a collection of books that aims to introduce China to the world.
Mahjabeen Ahmad
Mahjabeen Ahmad is an independent researcher, consultant, advocate, and cultural diversity expert based in Adelaide. Mahjabeen has served as a Board and Executive Committee member of the Multicultural Communities Council of SA Inc. (MCCSA), the peak multicultural organisation in the state of South Australia and on the Board of Management of Multicultural Aged Care (MAC), the lead agency for culturally and linguistically diverse aged and community care in South Australia.
Pat Anderson
Pat Anderson AO is an Alyawarre woman, was co-convener of the First Nations Constitutional Convention, which developed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and is a member of the working group of First Nations leaders who will guide the referendum. She is one of the most senior and accomplished Aboriginal activists in Australia.
Priestley Habru
Currently a PhD Candidate at The University of Adelaide researching Public Diplomacy and its implication in the Pacific. He has a Master of Arts in Global Media from The University of Adelaide and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Gender Studies from the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji.
Cathy Peters
Cathy Peters is a former Greens councillor and the co-founder of BDS Australia. She worked as a radio producer and executive producer for the ABC for thirty years making some documentaries on the Israeli occupation. She is Jewish and her grandparents and other relatives perished in the holocaust. She has travelled to Gaza and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories on a number of occasions and is a long-time advocate for Palestinian rights and justice.
Juan Cole
Juan Coleis the founder and chief editor ofInformed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books,Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of EmpiresandThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Adrian Pisarski
Adrian Pisarski was the CEO and Chairperson of National Shelter between 2004 and 2022 providing policy advice to the community sector and governments. He is now an independent consultant and writer. He is also chairperson of Jacaranda Housing Co.
Con Pagonis
Con Pagonis volunteers with several multicultural community organisations. Now retired, he worked as a public sector multicultural affairs policy and programs manager at the federal, state and local government levels
Minnie Chan
Senior Reporter, China
Minnie Chan is an award-winning journalist, specialising in reporting on defence and diplomacy in China. Her coverage of the US EP-3 spy plane crash with a PLA J-8 in 2001 near the South China Sea opened her door to the military world. Since then, she has had several scoops relating to China’s military development. She has been at the Post since 2005 and has a master’s in international public affairs from The University of Hong Kong.
David Langsam
David Langsam reported on Israel-Palestine conflict 1985-97 for Fairfax media, BBC World Service, ABC Radio, The Guardian, New Statesman and The Independent.
Hurjehan Kadernani
Hurjehan Kadernani is researcher with a public health and dental background based at the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University.
Robert M. Schaible
Robert M. Schaible is Professor Emeritus in the Arts & Humanities Department at the University of Southern Maine.
Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Times.
Peter Doherty
Peter Charles Doherty AC FRS FAA FMedSci is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.
Kambale Musavuli
Kambale Musavuli, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is a leading political and cultural Congolese voice. Based in Accra, Ghana, he is a policy analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy AO is Senior Adviser at Asialink and former Australian Ambassador to the US and several Asian countries.
Matthew Ehret
Matthew Ehret is a journalist, Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow, and BRI Expert for Tactical Talk. He is a regular author on several political/cultural websites including Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel, Strategic Culture, and Oriental Review. He has also authored three books from the series the Untold History of Canada.
Pearls and Irritations guest Jian Zhang
Jian Zhangis an Associate Professorin International and Political Studies at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra atthe Australian Defence Force Academy, the University of New South Wales, Australia