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).
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).
Daniel Falcone
Daniel Falcone is a historian specialising in the revolutions of 1848 and the political refugees who sought asylum in New York City. His academic work focuses on Giuseppe Garibaldi’s influence on New York’s local history and the politics of memory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Aside from his research, he is a teacher and journalist whose work has appeared in additional publications such as The Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, The Nation, Jacobin, and Truthout. His journalistic pieces, Q&As with public intellectuals, intersect history with modern-day geopolitical issues.
John Shipton
John Shipton is an anti-war activist and architect in Sydney, Australia, and the father of Julian Assange. He founded the WikiLeaks Party and was involved in the creation of WikiLeaks and helped with WikiLeaks for years. He campaigns and acts as an ambassador for Assange and was featured in the documentary Ithaka, produced by his son Gabriel Shipton.
Ned Dobos
Ned Dobos is an Associate Professor in International and Political studies at UNSW Canberra, located at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of two books– Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press), and Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press)–and is currently President the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific chapter. He has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the philosophy department at Georgetown University.
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou “Yanis” Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.
Lok Sang Ho
Prof. Lok Sang Ho, an economist with a doctorate from the University of Toronto, is a veteran policy analyst with diverse interests ranging from international finance, wellbeing studies, housing, macroeconomic policy, and life education. He is the Director of Pan Sutong Shanghai-HK Economic Policy Research Institute and Director of China Economic Research Programme as well as Director of the STEAM Education and Research Centre. His book, Public Policy and the Public Interest is the first book on public policy that includes a chapter on human nature, and it also offers a formal definition of the public interest, which should be the only focus of all governments. He writes a weekly column for the China Daily.
Rahul Mishra
Rahul Mishra is Associate Professor at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, JNU, New Delhi and a Senior Research Fellow at the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University, Thailand.
Thang Nguyen Quoc
Thang Nguyen-Quoc, Ph.D. leads Oxford Economics Asia’s Macro consulting team in Singapore. Prior to joining OE in 2022, Thang spent a decade delivering flagship economic reports on Southeast Asian and African economies at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He also worked in various roles at the World Bank, National Academy of Social Sciences (US), and Vietnam Commercial Bank. He got a Ph.D. in International Economics from University Paris-Dauphine, M.Sc. from Barcelona School of Economics and B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Hans Zoellner
Hans Zoellner was formerly the head and professor of Oral Pathology in the Sydney Dental School. He continues his academic work of teaching, research and service as a freelance consultant academic in his company Strongarch. He holds honorary appointments in biomedical engineering in the Universities of Sydney and NSW. He is a member of the Australian Association of University Professors, and a supporter of Public Universities Australia.
John Kampert
Retired Accountant, aged 81. I qualified in the Australia in the 1970’s and have worked as an accountant worked in private enterprise and the public service. I have become interested in the politics and economics of money and finance since my retirement and found the internet a fascinating source of information. Most of which unfortunately is NOT common knowledge. It seems the professions prefer to keep the public undereducated.
Harshit Prajapati
Harshit Prajapati is PhD Scholar at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
David Shoebridge
Senator David Shoebridge
- State: Member of the Legislative Council (NSW) from 2010 to 2022.
- Federal: Elected to the Senate for New South Wales, 2022.
Committee service
- Joint Select: National Anti-Corruption Commission Legislation served from 29.9.2022 to 10.11.2022
- Joint Standing: Implementation of the National Redress Scheme served from 6.3.2023 to present; Migration served from 25.3.2024 to present
- Joint Statutory: Law Enforcement served from 26.7.2022 to present; Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity served from 26.7.2022 to 1.7.2023; National Anti-Corruption Commission served from 9.2.2023 to present; Human Rights served from 4.7.2024 to present
- Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served from 26.7.2022 to present; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: References served from 26.7.2022 to present; Economics: References served as Substitute member from 28.9.2022 to 30.11.2023; Finance and Public Administration: Legislation served as Substitute member from 9.3.2023 to 31.7.2023; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Legislation served as Substitute member from 22.6.2023 to present; Economics: Legislation served as Substitute member from 30.11.2023 to 28.2.2024; Finance and Public Administration: References served as Substitute member from 7.12.2023 to present
- Senate Select: Australia’s Disaster Resilience served from 1.12.2022 to present; Adopting Artificial Intelligence served as Deputy Chair from 27.3.2024 to present
Parliamentary party positions
- Australian Greens. Served: 01.07.2022 to present
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Justice, Defence and Veterans’ Affairs and Digital Rights from 17.6.2022 to 15.5.2023.
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Justice, Defence, Veterans’ Affairs, Digital Rights and Science from 15.5.2023 to 25.3.2024.
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Defence and Veterans’ Affairs, Digital Rights and IT, Home Affairs, Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs and Justice (includes Attorney-General and Drug Law Reform) from 25.3.2024.