Cameron Hill
Cameron Hill is Senior Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre. He has previously worked with DFAT, the Parliamentary Library and ACFID.
Interfaith Coalition
A coalition of Australian interfaith and community organisations including leading Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups
Christine Owen
Christine Owen’s academic work at ANU, Melbourne University and Murdoch University was on literature, history and writing. Her research on the rise of female individualism was published as The Female Crusoe (2010). She was an anti-nuclear activist in the 80s and a regular contributor to The Fremantle Shipping News, edited by Hon Michael Barker KC.
Graeme Turner
Graeme Turner AO is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. A former president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and one of only two humanities’ based researchers to serve on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Committee, he has a long history of engagement in higher education and research policy. One of the founding figures in media and cultural studies in Australia, his most recent book is ‘The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what we can do about it’ (UQP).
Peiman Salehi
Peiman Salehi is a political analyst and writer with a focus on global justice, multipolarity, and Middle Eastern affairs. Over the past few years, his work has been featured in a diverse range of respected international outlets such as South China Morning Post, CounterPunch, Africa is a Country, Al Mayadeen, Z Network, Oriental Review, Global Research, and El Viejo Topo (Spain).
Peter Allitt
Peter Allitt worked within the Victorian Education Department introducing the educational application of computers and information management. Consulted to multiple private and public organisations across Australia around education, strategic planning, information management and organisational change.
Regina Jefferies
Dr Regina Jefferies is a Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow at the Evacuations Research Hub.
Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), and the edited collections Digitizing Democracy (2019), the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), and Twitter and Society (2014). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing ‘big social data’. He served as President of the Association of Internet Researchers in 2017–19. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info.
Meg Grealy
Meg Grealy is a research officer with the Drug Policy Modelling Program at UNSW Sydney, where she has worked on projects including treatment system reviews, evidence reviews, and most recently on working to calculate Australia’s government expenditure on drug policy. She is a cultural studies graduate interested in infrastructural inequalities across Australia that impact people’s lives, specializing in qualitative social research and community engagement.
Brad Underhill
Brad Underhill is a Research Fellow at Deakin University where he teaches, lectures and is a research assistant on a number of projects. He has recently published “Debating the Nation: Speeches from the House of Assembly, 1972-1975” with colleagues Helen Gardner and Keimelo Gima. This book distils the arguments and ambitions of the founders of the nation of Papua New Guinea. His book, “Preparing a Nation; The ‘New Deal’ in the villages, 1945-1964” was recently published by ANU Press. Bill Gammage describes Preparing a Nation as “the standard reference for its subject, which covers a pivotal aspect of Australia’s colonial administration”. His doctoral thesis jointly received the Hank Nelson Memorial award for best PhD, internationally, on any aspect of Papua New Guinea’s history.
Laura Zhou
Laura Zhou joined the Post’s Beijing bureau in 2010. She covers China’s diplomatic relations and has reported on topics such as Sino-US relations, China-India disputes, and reactions to the North Korea nuclear crisis, as well as other general news.
Glen Davis
Former senior executive and Chief Executive in Federal, State and Local Government. Director of innovative bank subsidiary and retailing enterprises. Former member of Science Council of the National Library. Founding Chairman of the Australian Standards Committee on Smart Cards.BA(Admin), JP(Qual), FAIM.
Matthew Taft
Matthew Taft Course Coordinator in English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
Caglar Kuzlukluoglu
Caglar Kuzlukluoglu, a Turkish economist and strategist, on China’s 3rd plenum of the CPC.
Sam Bennett
Dr Sam Bennett is director of the Grattan Institute’s Disability Program and lead author of the new report, Saving the NDIS: How to rebalance disability services to get better results, which can be read free at www.grattan.edu.au.
Donald Rothwell
Donald R Rothwell is Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University where he has taught since July 2006. His research has a specific focus on law of the sea, international polar law, and implementation of international law within Australia as reflected in 28 books, and over 200 articles, book chapters and notes in international and Australian publications.
Peter F. Crowley
As a prolific author from the Boston area, Peter F. Crowley writes in various forms, including short fiction, op-eds, poetry and academic essays. In 2020, his poetry book Those Who Hold Up the Earth was published by Kelsay Books and received impressive reviews by Kirkus Review, the Bangladeshi New Age and two local Boston-area newspapers. His writing can be found in Middle East Monitor, Znet, 34th Parallel, Pif Magazine, Galway Review, Digging the Fat, Adelaide’s Short Story and Poetry Award anthologies (finalist in both) and The Opiate.
His forthcoming books, due out later in 2023, are That Night and Other Stories (CAAB Publishing) and Empire’s End (Alien Buddha Press)
Glenn Diesen
Glenn Diesen is a professor of Russian international affairs, with focus on geoeconomics, conservatism and the Greater Eurasia Initiative.
Caitlin Macdonald
Caitlin Macdonald is undertaking a PhD in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research, which focuses on human and animal relationships and communication in post-2020 Australian fiction, traces and analyses how authors are adapting the conventions and extending the limits of fiction in a context of climate change.
Alex Simpson
Alex Simpson is an Associate Professor and Discipline Chair in Criminology at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research focuses on the intersection of space, cities and crime, with particular expertise in financial crime and the cultures of elite institutions.
Katie Smith
Dr Katie Smith is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Marine Biological Association in the UK. Her research interests include understanding the impacts of climate change on marine species, throughout their life history and from individual to whole-ecosystem level.
Bushra Othman
Dr Bushra Othman is a general surgeon who recently volunteered on a medical mission in Gaza with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA).
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory who was based in East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020.
John Sheridan
John Sheridan Founder partner of Digital Business insights (www.db-insights.com) - established in 2001 to help small to medium sized businesses and non-profits maximise the potential benefits offered by the digital revolution. Previous experience:20 years in advertising as writer, art director, producer and Creative Director for multinational agencies - Leo Burnett, JWT, DDB Needham, Ogilvy etc in England, New Zealand and Australia.Written children’s books - entry-level readers and picture book fiction - Eric the Wild Car, Eric and the Lost Planes, Eric and the Mad Inventor, published in 20 countries worldwide.
Anne Duggan
Educator and trade unionist - I am a proud life member of the CFMEU and have spent most of my working life immersed in working class education. Formative experiences included travelling through Central America in 1983, working on a refugee camp in Southeast Asia in the later 1980’s and a short time with the democratic movement in South Africa in 1992 in the lead up to majority rule. These experiences coupled with a solid working history in technical, migrant and trade union education in Australia have consolidated my passion for justice and interest in public policy.
Josef Mahoney
Josef Mahoney, Professor of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University.
Ahmad Ibsais
Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American and law student who writes State of Siege.
Linda Pentz Gunter
Linda Pentz Gunter is a writer based in Takoma Park, Maryland. She is the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. This article is written in her personal capacity. Views are her own.