Emilio Dabed
Emilio Dabed is a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer and Ph.D. in political science specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Arab American University, Palestine.
B’Tselem
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.
Bang Xiao
Bang Xiao is an award-winning journalist and a supervising producer for ABC Chinese. Bang’s work often focuses on China and its influence in Australia. He has written on topics from Chinese censorship system, rising nationalism, and tumorials in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, to China’s relations with Australia. As a bilingual reporter at ABC’s Asia Pacific Newsroom, Bang delivers his work through the lens of Australia’s migrant communities.
Mark Leibler
Mark Leibler AC is a pre-eminent Australian tax lawyer and corporate strategist, with a strong commitment to social justice and reconciliation.
Nadera Mushtaha
Nadera Mushtaha is a poet and writer who was born and raised in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Her family is originally from Gaza. In the fall of 2023, she started her third year in the English Language Education Department at Islamic University where she was a student of Dr. Refaat Alareer. Since most schools in Gaza have been destroyed during the current war, she has been organising English classes for children in her neighbourhood.
Current as of July 2024
Jonathan Sher
Dr Jonathan Sher is an IJBPE Contributing Editor and Founding Partner of Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives while the former Deputy Director of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland.
Zhao Hai
Dr. Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Sharon Seah
Sharon Seah is Senior Fellow and Coordinator at the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
Margery Evans
Margery Evans is chief executive of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, which represents the state’s 430 autonomously owned and operated schools and their 245,452 students.
Guest Claudia Hyles
Claudia Hyles OAM
The writer feels very fortunate indeed to have met Dr Jean Calder AC in 2015 in Gaza while participating in a study tour organised by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. She is a member of APAN and is a former member of the APAN Executive Committee.
Rateb Jneid
Dr Rateb Jneid President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) and Vice President of Regional Islamic Da’wah Council of Southeast Asia (RISEAP). Qualified Lawyer, Minister of Religion, Registered Marriage Celebrant and Educator
Lama Qasem
Lama Qasem is a Palestinian Australian human rights advocate, activist, and community leader originally from Jenin, Palestine. She serves as an executive member of the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, where she works to amplify Palestinian voices, advance human rights, and mobilise communities for justice and accountability.
Ken Hillman
Ken Hillman is Professor of Intensive Care at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on the inappropriate care of the elderly near the end of life. He has also published two books, Vital Signs (NewSouth) and A Good Life to the End (Allen and Unwin) as well as delivering a TEDx talk on dying in the elderly.
David Higginbottom
From 1989-1997 David Higginbottom was a Marketing Manager with Telstra responsible for EDI, Email, and Internet related technologies. From 1997-2009 he was a Canberra-based lobbyist, concentrating on the political and policy issues associated with new technologies.
Currently he is working with new audio technologies.
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
Ms Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, KC, is a Barrister for Matrix Chambers and a member of the Bars of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales.
Michael Dudley
Dr Michael Dudley senior consultant in psychiatry, adolescent service, Prince of Wales Hospital
conjoint senior lecturer in psychiatry, UNSW
Sameed Basha
Sameed Basha is a defence and political analyst with a master’s degree in international relations from Deakin University, Australia
Ian Hickie
Professor Ian Hickie
Co-Director Health and Policy,
Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Peter Breadon
Peter Breadon is Director of the Health Program at Grattan Institute and lead author of Grattan’s new report, Sickly sweet: It’s time for a sugary drinks tax.
Richard Bean
Richard Bean is an academic and data scientist who has published extensively in the fields of energy, transport, health and classical cryptography. He specialises in large-scale data analysis and the integration of data sets from different areas.
Elizabeth Minter
Liz began her career in journalism in 1990 and worked at The Age newspaper for two 10-year stints. She also worked at The Guardian newspaper in London for more than seven years. A former professional tennis player who represented Australia in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Liz has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Letters (Hons).
Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet. Melissa is the founder of Croakey. A safe, reliable and relevant news and information environment is critical.
Desmond Lachman
Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.
Lillian Cicerchia for Jacobin
Lillian Cicerchia is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, with a focus on political economy, feminism, and critical theory.
Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose has written widely on Australia-Chinese themes. He is adjunct professor at Western Sydney University and emeritus professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His most recent novel is The Idealist, published by Giramondo last month.
Liu Kun
Liu Kun, a commentator with CGTN and former Washington Bureau chief of China Radio International.
Brandon J Weichert
Brandon J Weichert is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower. He is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right. His work appears regularly in The Washington Times and Real Clear Politics. Weichert is a former US congressional staffer who holds an MA in statecraft and national security affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, and is an associate member of New College, Oxford University.
Neil Westbury
Neil Westbury was a member of the ‘Gilbert’ independent Review Panel that examined Woolworths proposed establishment of a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin_._
Michael Whitney
Michael Whitney is a renowned geopolitical and social analyst based in Washington State. He initiated his career as an independent citizen-journalist in 2002 with a commitment to honest journalism, social justice and World peace.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG).
Ruari Elkington
Ruari Elkington Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
Ned Manning
Ned’s plays have been produced in Australia and overseas. His plays are performed and studied in schools throughout Australia.
Ned was the first Australian playwright to write about the Stolen Generation when he wrote Close to the Bone with his students at the Eora Centre for Aboriginal Visual and Performing Arts in Redfern. Close to the Bone toured NSW and has had a number of productions throughout the country. His follow up play on the same subject, Luck of the Draw, was the first play written by a white writer to be produced by Queensland’s Indigenous theatre company, Kooemba Jdaraa.
As an actor, Ned has appeared in some of Australia’s most loved film, television and theatre productions including: Looking for Alibrandi, Offspring, The Shiralee, Bodyline, Aftershocks, The Sullivans, Home and Away and Neighbours. He played the lead role in the 1980’s cult classic, Dead End Drive-In.
His most recent performance was in the Foxtel series Mr Inbetween in 2021.
William Gregory
William Gregory holds a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours in Politics and International Relations. His interests are in Australian foreign policy and history, international political economy, and US-China relations.
Chris Ray
Chris Ray is a freelance journalist whose writing on the Syrian war has appeared in Australian, US and UK publications.
Richard Heller
Richard Heller is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Manchester, UK. He was Director of The Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle, and consultant physician at the John Hunter Hospital. Then as Professor of Public Health in Manchester he set up the University’s first online master’s degree. He founded and coordinated Peoples-uni to build Public Health capacity in developing countries at low cost, through online learning. His recent open access book is The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.
Iyanatul Islam
Iyanatul (Yan) Islam, PhD (Cambridge), is Professor (Adjunct), Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, Australia, a Distinguished Fellow at the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM), Dhaka, Bangladesh and a former Branch Chief, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland.
Josh Trindade
Josh Trindade is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Knowledge Institute. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official editorial position of UCA News.
Adam Triggs
Adam Triggs is a senior research manager at the e61 Institute, a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School at the Australian National University
Brian Hudson
Brian Hudson is a political science graduate from Bates College with a keen interest in international relations and global affairs. As a freelance commentator, he provides analysis on geopolitics, international security, and counter-terrorism. His work has been featured on news analysis platforms such as Modern Diplomacy, Eurasia Review, and others.