Gagan Hitkari
Gagan Hitkari is a PhD candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India. He is also a non-resident James A. Kelly Korea fellow at Pacific Forum, Hawaii, US.
Judith Mackay
Dr Judith Mackay is the Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, based in Hong Kong.
Niusha Shafiabady
Associate Professor Niusha Shafiabady is an electrical engineer and internationally recognised expert in battery systems, hybrid energy storage, and computational intelligence. She has held various academic leadership positions for the past 15 years. In addition, she has been involved in the Computational Intelligence industry for 23 years as project consultant/manager, associate head of school, dean, CEO, chief scientific advisor and ethics committee and academic board member. She has held leadership positions, both in academia and industry.
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic. He is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Channel Ten’s The Project.
John V. Whitbeck
John V. Whitbeck is an international lawyer and an energetic commentator, based in Paris. He has published widely on Middle Eastern affairs since the late-1980s, his work appearing in many Western, Arab, and Israeli publications. As an attorney he has advised the Palestinians on numerous occasions. A collection of his essays, The World According to Whitbeck (Five and Ten Press), appeared in 2005.
Amandine Denis-Ryan
Amandine Denis-Ryan is chief executive of IEEFA Australia. Joshua Runciman is a lead analyst, Australian Gas, with IEEFA
Tony Kwok
Tony Kwok is an adjunct professor of HKU Space and a council member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies. He is an international anti-corruption consultant and former deputy commissioner of the ICAC.
Shaymaa Elkadi
Dr Shaymaa Elkadi is a values-driven governance and strategy leader with over 15 years’ executive and board experience across the justice, mental health, and community services sectors. Shaymaa is currently a Non-Executive Director at Neami National, Women’s Health Victoria, and VACRO, where she also chairs the Strategy and Planning Committee. She serves on the Appeals Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and previously held executive roles with Corrections Victoria, Forensicare, and across public and not-for-profit sectors. Shaymaa is the founder of Ruqi Consulting, a strategy and leadership consultancy specialising in reflective governance, cultural humility, and trauma-informed leadership. Her work is grounded in systems thinking, policy expertise, and a deep commitment to justice, equity, and human rights.
Purnendra Jain
Purnendra Jain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he served as Professor of Japanese Studies for twenty-five years. Jain holds a distinguished position as a scholar renowned for expertise in contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy. Focusing on Japan-India, Japan-South Asia and Australia-Asia relations, along with regionalism, energy and foreign aid issues.
Anne O’Brien
Anne O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She has written widely on the history of poverty, welfare, gender, religion and Indigenous rights. She is currently completing a history of homelessness and people experiencing homelessness in Australia, 1900 to the present.
John Carlson
John Carlson AM was Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office from 1989 to his retirement in 2010. His current affiliations include Senior Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN). He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2012.
Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and a scholar. He is author of more than 20 books including After Jews and Arabs, Memories of Our Future and the forthcoming CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books. He is Distinguished Professor at Queens College, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman is Director of Palliative Care, Canberra Hospital, and Head of palliative care research, Canberra Health Services. He is the author of “Rethinking dementia: Ripples and responses” (Palaver 2024).
James Meese
James Meese is an associate professor at RMIT University where he co-leads the _News, Technology, and Society Network_ and is an associate investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Rachel Matthews
Dr Rachel Matthews is a Melbourne author and lecturer whose work blends tragicomedy with sharp social commentary. Her debut Vinyl Inside was highly commended in the Vogel Awards, her PhD novel Siren examined sexual violence in football, and Never Look Desperate was named one of 2023’s ‘Best New Australian Fiction’ by The Australian and The Guardian. She has been published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times and Women’s Agenda and runs Readers Are Writers workshops across Australia and internationally.
Joshua S. Hill
Joshua S. Hill is a Melbourne-based journalist who has been writing about climate change, clean technology, and electric vehicles for over 15 years. He has been reporting on electric vehicles and clean technologies for Renew Economy and The Driven since 2012. His preferred mode of transport is his feet.
Victor Kattan
Victor Kattan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches a course on the use of force in international law. Previously, Victor was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law at NUS (2013-2015). Before Victor moved to Singapore, he was a legal adviser to the Government of Palestine in Ramallah on secondment from the United Nations Development Program in Jerusalem.
Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891–1949, and the co-editor of Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law, The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition, and Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors.
John Falzon
Dr John Falzon is Senior Fellow, Inequality and Social Justice at Per Capita. He was national CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society from 2006 to 2018. He is a member of the Australian Services Union.
Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese
Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese are the Chief Investigators of the Deathscapes Project funded by the ARC from 2016-2020. Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University and Joseph Pugliese is a Professor in the Department of Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University
Hayley Wong
Hayley joined the Post as a reporter on the China Desk in 2022. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and previously wrote for Bloomberg News.
Areas of Expertise: Current affairs in Hong Kong and mainland China
Damian Coburn
Damian Coburn joined the Australian Public Service via the Public Service Exam, looking for something to earn some money while working out what he wanted to do in life. Retirement is providing some answers. In the intervening 39 years he worked mostly on programs, including development, legislation, operation, improvement, legislation, and regulation. And the odd bit of public policy.
Andrew Wedeman
Andrew Wedeman is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and leads its China Studies Program.
Robert Fantina
Robert Fantina is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War and its Secretary. He is based in Canada. Bob is an activist and journalist, working for peace and social justice. He writes extensively about the oppression of the Palestinians by apartheid Israel. He is the author of several books, including ‘Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy’. His writing appears regularly on Counterpunch.org, MintPressNews and several other sites. Originally from the U.S., Mr. Fantina moved to Canada following the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and now resides in Kitchener, Ontario. Visit his web page at http://robertfantina.com/.
Jim McKay
Professor Jim McKay is an independent scholar, public affairs commentator, and former editor of International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
Sophia Duckor-Jones
Sophia Duckor-Jones Media and communications officer refugee Council of Australia
Journalist, communications / media expert, refugee rights advocate. I’m also neurodiverse, and advocate for greater awareness and understanding around neurodiversity in the workplace.
Jared Bissinger
Jared Bissinger is a Visiting Fellow with the Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and the Research Lead at Catalyst Economics. This article was first published by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak’s commentary website fulcrum.sg.
Bernard Macleod
Bernard Macleod is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist practicing in Sydney. He works in Private Practice with people across the lifespan, with a specific interest in Child & Adolescent psychotherapy. He is an Associate Member of the New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NSWIPP) and a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australasia (PACFA).
John F. Copper
John F. Copper is the Stanley J. Buckman Professor (emeritus) of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of more than forty books on China, Taiwan, and U.S. Asia policy. His most recent book Taiwan’s Presidents: Profiles of the Majestic Six was published August 2024.
Manuel B. Graeber
Professor Manuel B. Graeber has worked and published in several countries (Germany, USA, Japan, UK, KSA and Australia) and belongs to the top 2% of researchers in his field (Stanford list). He is the Barnet-Cropper Chair of Brain Tumour Research at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre and previously founded and chaired the University Department of Neuropathology at Imperial College in London where he became a legally recognized whistle-blower. He was the first President of the Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP 2020-2023, now Vice-President), and he has been President of the University of Sydney Association of Professors (USAP) since 2017. He is a strong supporter of Public Universities Australia (PUA).