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.
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/