Meredith Chen
Meredith Chen joined the Post in 2023 and covers China politics and diplomacy. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Hong Kong. Previously, she had stints with both international and Chinese-language media outlets, focusing on affairs in Asia
David Faber
Dr David Faber is a historian (Adelaide 2008) and Adjunct Researcher at Flinders University. He has been following events in Palestine since the 1960s when he was told on his father’s knee that the Palestinians got a raw deal in 1948.
Martin Kear
Dr Martin Kear is a lecturer in terrorism and international security at The University of Sydney. His research interests include Middle East politics, the political/electoral participation of Islamist movements, and the role of political violence in the organisational narratives of militant movements.
Devanjali Relan
Dr Devanjali Relan is Professor, BML Munjal University. This research is being conducted through a collaboration between Dr Relan and Dr Dhanashree Ratra and her team at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.
Somdeep Sen
Somdeep Sen teaches international relations at Roskilde University and is the author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial.
Fatima Payman
Fatima Payman, Senator for Western Australia, recently launched her political party, Australia’s Voice. Raised in Perth’s northern suburbs, she now serves as a strong voice for Western Australia in Canberra. As an Australian Muslim with cultural roots from Afghanistan, her father’s journey as a refugee and his tireless work ethic inspired Fatima’s values of hard work and perseverance.
As Australia’s youngest politician, Fatima is not afraid to speak her mind through bold and fearless advocacy. Dedicated to holding the government accountable, Fatima passionately represents the interests of Western Australians, ensuring their voices are heard in the corridors of power. With a commitment to transparency, integrity and justice, she is driven by a deep care for WA and an unwavering resolve to make a positive impact.
Allen A. Espinosa
Allen A. Espinosa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, in Prague, Czech Republic. He is currently on study leave as a professor of Science Education at the Educational Policy Research and Development Office of the Philippine Normal University. Allen holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research covers a wide range of topics, including policy research in education, teacher education, information disorder, and social justice in education. You may reach him at allen.espinosa@pedf.cuni.cz.
Alexander Douglas
I am a senior lecturer in philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological, and Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. Information about my teaching and other activities can be found on my staff website.
I am generally interested in the philosophy of the human sciences, particularly those that connect philosophical views on identity with the understanding of social interactions. This interest has led me to the thought of Benedict de Spinoza – an early pioneer of philosophical anthropology. My other interests include philosophy of religion, political economy, British Idealism, and early Daoist texts, especially the Zhuangzi.
Lyn Alisson
Lyn Alisson BEd, former Federal Senator and member of the Accountability Round Table
For the Accountability Round Table’s broader recommendations on integrity reforms see ‘Integrity Now!’
Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells
Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells wrote with John Brumby the book, ‘A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform'.
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Brian Schmidt
Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS FTSE is Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University. For his work on the accelerating universe, Brian Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. Schmidt has worked across many areas of Astronomy including supernovae, gamma ray Bursts, gravitational wave transients, exo-planets, and metal poor stars. Receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1993, Schmidt joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995. He served as the 12th Vice Chancellor and President of the Australia National University from 2016-2023.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jeremy Kuzmarov specialises in U.S. foreign policy and modern U.S. history, and also has a background in criminology. His work examines the internationalisation of U.S. criminal justice. He is also interested in the covert dimensions of U.S. foreign policy. He taught previously at Bucknell University and has a PhD from Brandeis.
Wilson Lee Flores
Wilson Lee Flores is an award-winning columnist of Philippine Star and Abante, a real estate entrepreneur, economics and politics analyst.
Jen Webb
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice in the Faculty of Arts and Design. A cultural theorist who specialises in the field of creative production, her current research includes ARC-funded investigations focused on creative labour studies. She is also a poet, specialising in prose poetry and material poetics.
Patricia Ranald
Dr Patricia Ranald is the convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network and an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN)
IPAN is a grassroots network of organisations around Australia – community, faith and peace groups, trade unions – and concerned individuals aiming to build public dialogue and pressure for change to a truly independent foreign policy for Australia – one in which our government plays a positive role in solving international conflicts peacefully.
Rania Al Abdullah
Rania Al Abdullah is Queen of Jordan. Her domestic activities include education initiatives and youth programs. Globally, she has campaigned for education and cross-cultural dialogue.
Kevin Bray
Dr Kevin Bray is a retired public servant and former academic with degrees in science, economics, international law and nuclear physics. His interest in Palestine and Israel was first engendered by visits in 2004 and 2007, as well as from being denied entry into Israel, via Jordan, en route to an international conference in Ramallah in the West Bank in April 2018. Kevin is a member of APAN (the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) and PIEN (the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network). Responsibility for this article is his alone.
Vivian Forbes
Professor Forbes is affiliated with the University of Western Australia and the Maritime Institute of Malaysia. He holds a MPhil PhD and DLitt and specialises in marine geopolitics.
Barb Dadd
Barb Dadd is a 74 year old mother and grandmother living in regional Western Australia, driven by a lifelong pursuit of truth and justice.
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