Richard Denniss
Dr Richard Denniss is the Australia Institute’s chief economist. He is an economist with a particular interest in the role of regulation. Prior to taking up his current position he was an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University where he continues to hold an adjunct appointment.
Tabitha Lean
Tabitha Lean is an activist, poet and storyteller. An abolition activist determined to disrupt the colonial project and abolish the prison industrial complex, she’s filled with rage, channelling every bit of that anger towards challenging the colonial carceral state. Having spent almost two years in Adelaide Women’s Prison, 18 months on Home Detention and three years on parole, Tabitha uses her lived prison experience to argue that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and too often deadly colonial frontier for her people. She believes that until we abolish the system and redefine community, health, safety and justice; her people will not be safe.
Hussein Dia
Professor Hussein Dia FIEAust FASCE FITE is professor of future urban mobility at Swinburne University of Technology. His current work focuses on decarbonising urban transport and harnessing digital innovations to unlock opportunities for sustainable mobility futures.
Sue Turnbull
Sue Turnbull is an Honorary Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include Media Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014). Sue is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council LInkage grant, Valuing Web Series and also on the sole Discovery project, Border Crossings: The Transnational Career of the TV Crime Drama (DP 160102510). She reviews crime fiction for the Fairfax press, is Chair of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and is a Life member of Sisters in Crime, Australia. Sue is also on the Board of Screen Illawarra with a mission to make the region a hub for international screen production.
Geoff Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is a specialist in Soveiet and Russian foreign and military policy, Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at UCC and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His latest book is Stalin’s Library: a Dictator and His Books (Yale University Press 2022).
Haidar Mustafa
Haidar Mustafa is a Syrian journalist and TV presenter of political programs. He has worked for a number of media channels and institutions in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. He is also the author of the book Eyewitness and a graduate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Damascus University.
Estelle Stambolie
Estelle Stambolie is a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University.
Cynthia Kaufman
Cynthia Kaufman is a writer and educator. She is the author of five books on social change: Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness: How to Build a World Where Everyone Has Enough (Routledge 2023), The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook (PM Press 2021), Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World (Bloomsbury 2020), Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope (Lexington Books 2012), and Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change (2nd Edition PM Press 2016). She is the director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College.
Urooba Jamal
Urooba Jamal is a journalist at Al Jazeera focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. She has previously reported from Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
Kandy Wong
Kandy Wong returned to the Post in 2022 as a correspondent for the Political Economy desk, having earlier worked as a reporter on the Business desk. She focuses on China’s trade relationships with the United States, the European Union and Australia, as well as the Belt & Road Initiative and currency issues. She graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in journalism in 2013. An award-winning journalist, she has worked in Hong Kong, China and New York for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and the Financial Times, E&E News, Forbes, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Nikkei Asia and Coconuts Media.
Wenran Jiang
Wenran Jiang, the founding director of the China Institute and Mactaggart Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is an adviser at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.
Richard Hu
Richard Hu is the author of Reinventing the Chinese City (Columbia University Press, 2023) and co-editor (with Diane Hu) of the forthcoming book How Australia Is Studied in China (Routledge, 2024).
Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah is a journalist and the co-founder and executive director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada, a nonprofit, independent online publication focusing on Palestine. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago,
John Hopkins
John Hopkins has lived and worked in China for over 20 years. He began his career in China teaching at the Guanghua Institute of Management at Beijing University in 2000 and has worked in management positions on Australian University Programmes and in British International Schools with a strong focus on working with the Chinese public and government sectors on developing educational and service projects. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic he enjoyed 15 minutes of fame with several million people viewing online interviews and articles about his work as a volunteer interpreter explaining quarantine requirements to newly arrived and returning expats. Since then, he has happily returned to relative obscurity allowing him time to pursue his interests in traditional Chinese culture and linguistics.
Alaine Chanter
Dr Alaine Chanter is a former academic in Politics and Cultural Studies at the University of Canberra. One of her main areas of research was the independence struggle in the French Pacific, particularly New Caledonia.
Jon Richardson
Jon Richardson is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies. He is a former diplomat who covered Eastern Europe from Moscow (in the USSR and later Russia), Belgrade, London and Canberra. He also served as High Commissioner to Nigeria and Ghana.
Divna Haslam
Dr Haslam is a clinical psychologist and senior research fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She also holds an honourary role at the University of Queensland’s Parenting and Family Support Centre. She is an expert in child and family psychology with a special interest in supporting parents balance work and family and reducing parenting stress. Her work uses population health lens with a focus on prevention which leads to direct policy and practice impacts. Through her work she aims to reduce early childhood adversity and ensure all children are given the opportunity to thrive.
Abubakr Al-Shamahi
Abubakr Al-Shamahi is a Middle East and North Africa Editor with Al Jazeera Digital
Jim Clancy
Jim Clancy (born Chicago, December 18, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as a former correspondent and anchor on CNN International. He formerly anchored several CNN news reports, including The World Today and The Brief, before his resignation following a series of controversial exchanges with other users on Twitter.
John W. Whitehead
John W. Whitehead is the president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People.
Rohan Greenland
Rohan Greenland is the CEO of MS Australia, Chair of the Neurological Alliance Australia, and has spent the last three decades in senior executive positions across several national health and medical research organisations. He is a passionate advocate for improving the lives of people with MS, through MS Australia’s strategic program of research and advocacy.
Steven Harper
Steven J. Harper is an attorney, adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School, and author of several books, including Crossing Hoffa – A Teamster’s Story and The Lawyer Bubble – A Profession in Crisis. He has been a regular columnist for Moyers on Democracy, Dan Rather’s News and Guts, and The American Lawyer. Follow him at https://thelawyerbubble.com.
Peter O’Keeffe
Peter O’Keeffe is a lawyer with a long-standing interest in hospice and palliative care.
Nicholas Ross Smith
Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury.
Benedict Moleta
Benedict Moleta received an MA (Research) from the University of Sydney in 2020, with a thesis on relations between the European Union and Palestine. He is currently researching Australia’s criminal listing of Hamas. His BA was in German and European Studies, with interests from Lessing to Lenin.
Holly Cullen
Holly Cullen is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia Law School.
Marco Carnelos
Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign policy staff of three Italian prime ministers between 1995 and 2011. More recently he has been Middle East peace process coordinator special envoy for Syria for the Italian government and, until November 2017, Italy’s ambassador to Iraq.
Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
Anne Delaney
Anne Delaney is the host of the SwitchedOn podcast and our Electrification Editor, She has had a successful career in journalism (the ABC and SBS), as a documentary film maker, and as an artist and sculptor.
Rainer Chlanda
Rainer Chlanda is an Alice Springs-born youth worker and winner of the Fitzgerald Youth Award – NT Human Rights Awards 2018. He currently works supporting young people with disabilities who are in contact with the Justice System.
Marina Yue Zhang
Dr. Marina Yue Zhang is an associate professor at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS: ACRI). Prior to this position, Marina worked for UNSW in Australia and Tsinghua University in China. Marina holds a bachelor’s degree in biological science from Peking University, an MBA and a PhD from Australian National University. Marina’s research interests cover China’s innovation policy and practice, latecomers’ catch-up, emerging and disruptive technologies, and network effects in digital transformation. She focuses on industrial such as semiconductors, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, and clean energy transition. She is the author of three books, including “Demystifying China’s Innovation Machine: Chaotic Order,” co-authored with Mark Dodgson and David Gann (Oxford University Press, 2022). In addition to academic publications in technology and innovation, Marina also writes analysis pieces on the intersection of technology and international relations in The National Interest, The Diplomat, The Conversation, The Interpreter by Lowy Institute, East Asia Forum, and comments on science and technology issues on BBC News, Bloomberg TV and other news outlets.
Zichen Wang
Zichen Wang Research Fellow & Director for Int’l Comms at Center for China and Globalisation (CCG), after 11 years at Xinhua News Agency. Founder & Editor: Pekingnology & The East is Read. Salzburg Global Fellow (2024-).
Asa Winstanley
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and Ali Abunimah is executive director of The Electronic Intifada.