Richard Brennan
Rick Brennan is an emergency medicine and public health physician specialising in humanitarian assistance, epidemic and pandemic preparedness, and emergency management. He was Regional Emergency Director for the World Health Organisation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from March 2019 to January 2025.
Connie Peck
Dr. Connie Peck, AO, is the Founder/Former Principal Coordinator of the UNITAR Programme in Peacemaking and Conflict Prevention – the first-ever training programme in negotiation and mediation in the United Nations (now in its 33rd year). When lecturing at La Trobe University in the 1980s, she also founded Psychologists for the Prevention of War (now called Psychologists for Peace) during the height of the Cold War and acted as its first Convenor. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on conflict resolution and the nuclear threat.See also: www.linkedin.com/in/connie-peck-b92a403a0
Andrew Whelan
Andrew Whelan is a Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong. He writes about public administration, universities, and the social implications of emerging technologies.
Louise Adler
Louise Adler is a former Australian publisher and former board member of numerous arts organisations.
Yiping Huang
Yiping Huang is Professor and Deputy Dean at the National School of Development and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University.
Jasper Lindell
Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times’ Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.
Marie Healy
Marie Healy helped to co-ordinate the formation of the Residents Action Coalition. Marie was instrumental in obtaining an Upper House Inquiry in the Metro Conversion of the Bansktown Line and in saving many of the heritage-listed railway buildings that had been marked for demolition. Marie lives in a Heritage Conservation Area, and around 6 years ago joined the NSW Greens.
Abby Zimmet
Abby Zimet has written Common Dream’s Further column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, she moved to the Maine woods in the early 70s, where she spent a dozen years building a house, hauling water and writing before moving to Portland. Having come of political age during the Vietnam War, she has long been involved in women’s, labor, anti-war, social justice and refugee rights issues.
Stephen Gapps
Historian and Conjoint Lecturer, University of Newcastle
University of Technology, Sydney, PhD
Research interests: Conflict and resistance warfare in early Sydney 1788-1817. The Bathurst War, the First War of Wiradjuri Resistance 1822-1824. The Australian Frontier Wars. Public History, historical reenactments and commemoration
Professional Historians Association, NSW and ACT. History Council of NSW
Publications
2024The Rising - Resistance Warfare 1838-1842, 2021 Gudyarra - The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance, the Bathurst War 1822-24, 2019 The Sydney Wars - Conflict in the early colony 1788-1817,
Robert Clines
Robert Clines is Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Western Carolina University. His scholarship focuses on Islamophobia, antisemitism, and Orientalism in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as the history of premodern Arab Christianity.
Prue Brown
Prudence R Brown is an academic with rich practitioner experience. This mix grounds a vibrant program of research which informs both policy and practice, and which recognises that successful policy reform relies on the complex interplay between policy design, stakeholder interests, implementation context and management capacity. She adapts her professional experience to scholarly frameworks to ensure her research has a real impact on public sector effectiveness.
Sandra Kanck
Sandra Kanck was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council where she represented the Australian Democrats for 15 years, retiring in early 2009. She has continued her activism on numerous fronts, including voluntary assisted dying and heading the state branch of ABC Friends. However, her continuing focus has been on two issues, one being the need for Australia to have population numbers in keeping with the environment’s capacity to sustain them, and Palestinian human rights. In relation to Palestine, Sandra has been active in the BDS (boycott, divest and sanction) movement for more than 13 years.
Brendon O’Connor
Brendon O’Connor is Professor of US Politics and Foreign Relations, US Studies Centre/Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Mandar Oak
Mandar Oak is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Adelaide. He works in the fields of economic development, political economy and public economics.
Ken Coghill
Adjunct Professor Hon. Ken Coghill (BVSc, PhD) members of the Accountability Round Table
For the Accountability Round Table’s broader recommendations on integrity reforms see ‘Integrity Now!’
Martin Newman
Martin Newman Lecturer in Journalism at University of Technology Sydney. Coordinator of Media Law & Ethics. Publishes media blog News2Me.
Michael Stewart Borgas
Dr Michael Borgas, Yanakie Research Institute.CSIRO Atmospheric Scientist, 30 years; President CSIRO Staff Association, 15 years; Physics and Mathematics education, Cambridge University, Trinity College; Adelaide University. Avid volunteer Mongolia, Air Pollution. Grew up in Port Augusta.
Maha Hussaini
Maha Hussaini is an award-winning journalist and human rights activist based in Gaza. Maha started her journalism career by covering Israel’s military campaign on the Gaza Strip in July 2014. In 2020, she won the prestigious Martin Adler Prize for her work as a freelance journalist.
Ayman Qwaider
Ayman Qwaider, a Palestinian Australian educator, was born and raised in Gaza. He holds an International Master’s degree in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies. Ayman has participated in number of research programs and has worked in the field of emergency education.
Hena Prince
Hena Prince is a Doctoral Candidate and policing researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Patrick Mazza
Patrick Mazza - Progressive activist and journalist since 1981. Lived in Seattle since 1998, and the Pacific Northwest, aka Cascadia, since 1977.
Keith Mascord
I am a Canadian-born Australian. I am recently retired - most recently from managing the NSW multi-faith prison chaplaincy team. I am an Anglican priest, an academic having taught (philosophy and pastoral ministry) in a conservative theological college in Sydney. I now identify as progressive. I trace my own intellectual and spiritual journey in 3 books, A Restless Faith: leaving fundamentalism in a quest for God (2012); Faith without Fear: risky choices facing contemporary Christians (2016) and An Honest Faith: the possible friendship of Athens and Jerusalem (2015).
Mel Gurtov
Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international affairs quarterly and blogs at In the Human Interest.
Dan Yu
Dan Yu, is a China-based international education analyst and digital media specialist with over ten years of experience in the outbound education sector. She has led content strategy and audience research across major Chinese platforms, including Zhihu, WeChat, Weibo, RedNote, and LinkedIn, working closely with international schools and education organisations. Dan Yu’s work focuses on how Chinese public opinion, digital discourse, and policy shifts shape perceptions of overseas education.
Morgan Brigg
Morgan Brigg is Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland. He specialises in governance, conflict resolution, and innovative approaches to cross-cultural relations and the politics of knowledge. His work facilitates exchange between Western and Indigenous political philosophies and socio-legal orders as part of a wider exploration of the politics of cultural difference, governance, and selfhood.
Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar, visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London, and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He is the author of Pakistan: A Hard Country. Anatol spent the first part of his career as a journalist in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the former USSR.
Gerardine McLoughlin
Gerardine McLoughlin (PhD) member of the Accountability Round Table
For the Accountability Round Table’s broader recommendations on integrity reforms see ‘Integrity Now!’
Philip Huggins
Philip Huggins Anglican Bishop; Adjunct Professional, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.
Dominique Moritz
Dominique is an Associate Professor in the School of Law and Society. Her research expertise is the law related to children’s decision-making including consent and capacity. Her knowledge broadly encompasses criminal law, health law and regulatory concepts related to children with a particular interest in child sexual abuse material criminalisation. Dominique is a lawyer and former police officer.
Akhmad Hanan
Akhmad Hanan is an independent Indonesian researcher specialising in geopolitics and energy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in oceanography from Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) and a master’s in energy security from Universitas Pertahanan (Indonesian Defence University).
AbdulWahed Jalal Nori
Dr AbdulWahed Jalal Nori is an assistant professor at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and coordinator of the Centre for Foresight Studies. His work bridges Islamic thought, political science and futures studies, focusing on ethics, civilisation and reform. He previously served in various academic and policy roles in Malaysia and Iraq.
Terry Russell
Terry Russell works for an international aid organisation. Before returning to Australia in 2015, he lived for 17 years in Indonesia and UN-administered East Timor. His Phd thesis was on nation building in East Timor. He is a triple-vaccinated environmentalist.
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 analyses climate policies, global justice, and media bias.
Kelly Hine
Dr Kelly Hine is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC). Prior to joining UniSC, Dr Hine was a Lecturer at the Australian National University. She attained a double degree in Psychological Science and Criminology & Criminal Justice and holds a PhD from Griffith University.
Janet Rice
Janet Rice is a former Australian Greens Senator, founding member of the Australian Greens and has been a campaigner for justice, people, and the planet for more than four decades. As a Senator she was co-convenor of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine and and the Greens spokesperson for a range of portfolios including foreign affairs, LGBTIQA+, social and community services and forests. As well as being a committed advocate for Palestine, Janet is co-chair of the Australia Tibet Council and a campaigner for self determination for West Papua.
Vinod Balasubramaniam
Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam is an Associate Professor of Molecular Virology and Leader of the Infection and Immunity Research Strength in the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Monash University Malaysia.