Adriano Tedde
Dr. Adriano Tedde is a lecturer in Strategic and American Studies at the Centre for Future Defence and National Security at Deakin University.
Fred Zhang
Fred Zhang has worked across major, community, and industry media outlets in Australia for a decade. He has a keen interest in multicultural communications and strategic public engagement.
Stan Grant
Stan Grant is the Vice Chancellor’s Chair of Australian/Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. He was formerly ABC’s Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst.
He is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded journalists, with more than 30 years experience in radio and television news and current affairs. Stan has a strong reputation for independence and integrity and has interviewed international political and business leaders, including our own prime ministers and senior ministers.
Annabel Hennessy
Annabel Hennessy is the Australia researcher for Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Annabel worked in journalism for a decade including as an investigative reporter. She has won several awards for her reporting, including The Walkley Foundation’s Overall Young Australian Journalist of the Year (2020), Young Walkley for Public Service Journalism (2020 and 2021) and West Australian Journalist of the Year (2020). She has published extensively on social policy and issues relating to Indigenous rights, homelessness, disability, and the justice system.
John Schumann
John Schumann is a writer and musician, perhaps best known for his Vietnam veterans anthem “I Was Only 19“. He hastens to add that he has written many other songs. He lives in Adelaide, from where he continues to upset the bunyip aristocracy and all those who believe that they are more important than the rest of us.
Rifat Kassis
Rifat Kassis is a Palestinian human rights and political and community activist. He is an author and speaker. He has been arrested and imprisoned several times by Israel.
Born in Beit Sahour to a Palestinian Christian family, he founded in 1991 the Palestinian section of the international child rights organisation, Defence for Children International (DCI) and in 2005 he was elected President of the international movement. In October 2008, he was re-elected President for another term. In 2014, he concluded his work as General Director of Defence for Children International Palestine and moved temporarily to Jordan to lead the Lutheran World Federation program there.
Ray Kerkhove
Dr Ray Kerkhove is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) with the School of Education, University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba). He is an independent historian, working with First Nations organisations, councils, museums, universities and heritage bodies. He has written a dozen books, 21 peer-reviewed articles and scores of heritage reports, mostly on Indigenous history.
Christopher Raja
Christopher Raja was born in Calcutta. He is the author of a memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story (UQP, 2020), a play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012), and a novel, The Burning Elephant (Giramondo, 2015). Christopher has been twice shortlisted for the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Book of the Year award. He was the 2021 UTS Copyright Agency New Writer’s Fellow, and his memoir was Highly Commended in the National Biography Award 2021. https://www.christopherraja.com/
Andrew P. Napolitano
Andrew P. Napolitano Hard-hitting legal/political news from a man who knows and respects the Constitution and the importance of defending individual freedoms.
A daily discussion of news from the perspective that government is the negation of liberty, and the individual is greater than the state. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, when he presided over more than 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings, and hearings.
JudgeNap is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it takes liberty and property.
The Judge is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. Learn more at JudgeNap.com
Frank Chen
Frank Chen Reporter, Political Economy A graduate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Frank was previously with Asia Financial, Asia Times and Hong Kong Economic Journal.
Caroline Wang
Caroline Wang is the China Analyst at Climate Energy Finance. Her research covers current trends and policies in China’s green energy statecraft and their strategic implications for Australia.
Mark L Wahlqvist
Professor Mark Wahlqvist AO, BMedSc, MB, BS, MD (Adelaide), MD (Uppsala) , FRACP, FAFPHM, FAIFST, FACN , FTSE is a physician who has held appointments in internal medicine , public health, endocrinology, clinical nutrition, and food and nutrition science , variously at universities and research institutes in Australia, Sweden, Indonesia, China and Taiwan. . These have involved cross-cultural, migration, indigenous and international health in community, professional, academic, non-government, national and international organisations, and settings. Awards have been widely received internationally and from Australia, Britain, the USA, Sweden, Indonesia, China, and Taiwan. The initiation of several paradigm shifts in biomedical science and health care have included nutritional biology as extensively ecologically dependent, operationalised when dysfunctional as Ecohealth Disorders (EHD). Peer-reviewed publications number some 500, but around a thousand in all. His belief system is one of connectedness, animate and inanimate, for personal, community and planetary health.
Matty Silver
Matty Silver is a relationship counsellor and sex therapist in private practice and a sex commentator. Over the past six years she has written for several magazines and for Fairfax publications - such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age - followed by a regular blog for The Huffington Post Australia. She is the President of ASSERT NSW, the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapist –This text refers to the paperback edition.
Robert Breunig
Professor Robert Breunig is the director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy.
Susan Thornton
Susan Thornton is a former US diplomat and Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Centre.
Lee Jones
Lee Jones is Professor of Political Economy and International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London and Research Associate of the Second Cold War Observatory.
MK Bhadrakumar
Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat for three decades in the Indian Foreign Service with multi-year assignments in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. MK writes extensively on the geopolitics of Eurasia, China, West Asia and US strategies. He is a columnist at The Cradle, writes a popular blog called Indian Punchline, and is a syndicated columnist worldwide.
Priti Gulati Cox
Priti Gulati Cox is an artist and the creator of the Sidewalk Museum of Congress outside the office of Kansas 1st District Congress member @rogermarshallmd in Salina, Kansas, where Stan and Priti live.
Caolán Magee
Caolán Magee is an Irish journalist based in London. For his investigations into global affairs and human rights, he has been shortlisted for Amnesty International’s 2025 Gaby Rado Award.
Federica Marsi
Federica is a journalist with more than five years of reporting experience from the Mediterranean region and a knowledge of four languages including Arabic. Focusing primarily on issues related to migration, extremism and security, she has filed dozens of articles from Greece, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, among others. Her work includes a front-page investigation into Lebanon’s transnational mass-surveillance operations for leading pan-Arab newspaper The Daily Star, an in-depth report on sexual exploitation in Greek hotspots for Al Jazeera English and a series of six videos on the living conditions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon featured in the Huffington Post.
Marcus Strom
Marcus Strom is former President of MEAA Media, the journalists’ union, a former Labor Press Secretary and is a member of the ALP.
Shahar Hameiri
Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland and Research Associate of the Second Cold War Observatory.
Meg Schwarz
Meg Schwarz holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and brings over 35 years of experience championing social justice, advocacy and consumer engagement. Based in South Australia, Meg has dedicated her career to working alongside diverse communities, including refugees, people with disabilities and individuals with complex trauma backgrounds.With a strong passion for equality and human rights, Meg specialises in fostering meaningful communication, empowering voices through advocacy and creating inclusive spaces for dialogue. Her skills in stakeholder engagement, strategic communication and community development have earned her recognition as a trusted and compassionate leader in her field.
Eleanor J Bader
Eleanor J. Bader is a Brooklyn, NY-based freelance journalist who writes about social issues for Truthout, The Progressive Magazine, Lilith, The Indypendent, the Sunset Post and Ms Magazine.
Timothy Welch
Tim Welch specialises transportation, infrastructure and urban modelling with a focus on the use of big data and technology. Much of Dr. Welch’s research is applied with a focus on equity and climate change. His past work has included analyses of public transportation performance and connectivity; evaluating the efficacy of policies aimed at mitigating climate change; developing models to measure housing value and other fiscal impacts of transportation infrastructure investments; and investigating the travel behaviour influences of the built environment.
Val Noone
Val Noone is a writer and activist whose 1993 book, Disturbing the War, is a detailed study of peace work within the Melbourne Catholic Church during the Vietnam War when church life was dominated by the pro-war and anti-worker Santamaria movement. He is a fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. In 2013 the National University of Ireland awarded him the degree Doctor of Literature for his contribution to Irish Studies in Australia.
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 University’s 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 ABC’s 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 Premier’s Award for Community Harmony and the 2019 Australian Financial Review Diversity and Inclusion Award, where she was named one of Australia’s 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.
Ivana Knezevic
Ivana Knezevic over 11 years of experience in marketing across Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, Ivana is an experienced Marketing Manager who specialises in driving brand growth through innovative and strategic approaches tailored to the financial services sector. She excels at developing customer-centric, integrated marketing campaigns that resonate across diverse markets and cultures, blending creativity with data-driven insights to achieve impactful results. Ivana’s strategic mindset allows her to seamlessly align marketing initiatives with broader business goals,
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.