Mary Garden
Mary Garden is a freelance journalist with a PhD in Journalism (USC). Her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including Australian Financial Review, The Guardian, Meanjin and The Guardian. She has written extensively about “The Palmist and the Catwoman case, where Andrew Fitzherbert became the first person in Australia to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence alone. She is an award-winning author of four books: The Serpent Rising, Coming Together, Sundowner of the Skies, and My Father’s Suitcase, a memoir on her sister, which has won multiple awards including the National Indie Excellence Award for autobiography.
A J Brown
A J Brown is professor of public policy and law, and program leader, integrity, leadership and public trust in the Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University. He is also a former senior investigator for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Associate to Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC QC, ministerial advisor in the first Beattie Government, and current member of the board of Transparency International Australia: http://www.transparency.org.au
Michael Sfard
Michael Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer and the author of “The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine and the Legal Battle for Human Rights” (Metropolitan Books). He also wrote the Yesh Din report “The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the Crime of Apartheid”
Wei Yu
Wei Yu works at CODEPINK as the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign coordinator. She was born in Tianjin, China and has lived in the US since her high school years. Prior to joining CODEPINK, Wei was a student researcher on neocolonialism and has worked with several nonprofit organisations serving women, racial minorities, and other progressive causes.
Esther Linder
Esther Linder is an Australian photojournalist covering social affairs, gender issues, food security and more. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and The Age. She tweets and grams @estherlinder_.
Anne Barker
Producer: Anne Barker has been the ABC’s Indonesia Correspondent since September 2018, based in Jakarta. She was previously the Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem from 2009-2012 where she covered the start of the Arab Spring and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Before that she spent several years in Darwin where she covered events in the NT and East Timor for the ABC. She won a Walkley award in 2007 for her coverage of the Federal Government’s intervention in remote indigenous communities.
Ayman Qwaider
Ayman Qwaider, a Palestinian Australian educator, was born and raised in Gaza. He holds an International Master’s degree in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies. Ayman has participated in number of research programs and has worked in the field of emergency education.
Hena Prince
Hena Prince is a Doctoral Candidate and policing researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar, visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London, and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He is the author of Pakistan: A Hard Country. Anatol spent the first part of his career as a journalist in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the former USSR.
Dominique Moritz
Dominique is an Associate Professor in the School of Law and Society. Her research expertise is the law related to children’s decision-making including consent and capacity. Her knowledge broadly encompasses criminal law, health law and regulatory concepts related to children with a particular interest in child sexual abuse material criminalisation. Dominique is a lawyer and former police officer.
David Goeßmann
David Goeßmann is a journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked for several media outlets including Spiegel Online, ARD, and ZDF. His articles appeared on Truthout, Common Dreams, The Progressive or Progressive International. In his books he analyses climate policies, global justice, and media bias.
Kelly Hine
Dr Kelly Hine is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC). Prior to joining UniSC, Dr Hine was a Lecturer at the Australian National University. She attained a double degree in Psychological Science and Criminology & Criminal Justice and holds a PhD from Griffith University.
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 an historian, currently an Adjunct Research Scholar at Flinders University.
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
Michael Dudley
Dr Michael Dudley senior consultant in psychiatry, adolescent service, Prince of Wales Hospital
conjoint senior lecturer in psychiatry, UNSW
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.
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_._
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.
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.
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.
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,
Kym Davey
Kym Davey is a human rights advocate and former Commonwealth and State public servant. He is a former Chair of the SA ALP Platform Committee and a member of SA Labor Friends of Palestine and Labor Against War.
Sarmad Ishfaq
Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard Kennedy School Review, Open Democracy, Defense Post Paradigm Shift, Mondoweiss, and Eurasia Review to name a few. He has also been published by several international peer-reviewed journals such as Taylor and Francis’ Social Identities. Before becoming an independent writer, he worked as a research fellow for the Lahore Center for Peace Research. He has a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong.
Graham Allison
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Mat Nashed
Mat Nashed is an award nominated journalist that has covered the MENA region for 14 years. He mainly covers Sudan and Palestine, while keeping eyes on developments in the Levant.
Sharmine Narwani
Sharmine Narwani is a Beirut-based writer and analyst of West Asian geopolitics, and a columnist at The Cradle. Her work has been published in a broad array of media outlets, including The American Conservative, Russia Today, The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Al-Akhbar English, Assafir, Huffington Post, BRICS Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera and others. She is cited in many publications for her groundbreaking, investigative coverage of the Syrian conflict.
Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus is author of ’The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump, Clarity Press, January 2020. He blogs at jackrasmus.com and hosts the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions on the Progressive Radio Network on Fridays at 2pm est. His twitter handle is @drjackrasmus.
Sally Sara
Sally Sara is an award-winning journalist, writer and author. She has reported from more than 40 countries as a foreign correspondent with the ABC, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.
Sally has won two Walkley Awards, one for television news and the other for radio. She has twice been a finalist in the Graham Perkin Award — Australian Journalist of the Year.
Mike McIntire
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter, author and editor. As a member of the investigations unit at The New York Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 for reporting on the hidden financial incentives behind police traffic stops, and in 2017 for reporting on covert Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election
Robert Wood
Dr. Robert Wood has been a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at University of Pennsylvania and an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University. The author of more than 300 articles and five books, Robert serves as a Director at Centre for Stories. He has a fortnightly interview on politics on community radio station RTR FM. Robert lives in Perth.
Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. She has a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in English language from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly Undergraduate Student at Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities Political Science and International Relations.
Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid is an independent researcher and former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center. Her areas of interest are nuclear politics and security issues of South Asia. Twitter: @AsmaKhalid_11
Elizabeth Finkel
Dr Elizabeth Finkel holds a PhD in biochemistry and was a research scientist at the University of California, before becoming an award winning Melbourne based writer. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from the US journal Science to ABC radio’s Science Show. She is the author of two books. Stem Cells: Controversy on the Frontiers of Science published in 2005, won a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. The Genome Generation, published in 2012, was described by The Canberra Times as “science writing of the highest order.” The Weekend Australian described her as a “scientist with a journalist’s genes.”
Sherine Al Shallah
Sherine Al Shallah is a PhD Candidate at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney.