Kasy Chambers
Kasy Chambers is the Executive Director of Anglicare Australia a large network offering services to one in every 19 Australians and has previously held positions with UnitingCare Australia, the Department of Family, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the YWCA of Canberra.
Samuel Cairnduff
Dr Samuel Cairnduff is a lecturer in media and communications in the School of Culture & Communication at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches across arts and cultural management, strategic communications, and public relations. His research examines cultural leadership, institutional ethics, and the role of cultural organisations in social change.
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.”
Royce Kurmelovs
Royce Kurmelovs is an Australian freelance journalist and author of The Death of Holden (2016), Rogue Nation (2017) and Boom and Bust (2018). He lives in Adelaide, South Australia.
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.
Tauel Harper
Tauel Harper is currently based at Murdoch University, teaching and carrying out research in public communication. He has also worked at University of Canberra, UWA, Murdoch, Curtin and Liverpool Universities. Tauel has previously published two books ‘Democracy in the Age of New Media’ and ‘Media After Deleuze’ and written widely on issues surrounding public communication and the impact of big data on the public sphere.
Carl Gopalkrishnan
Carl Gopalkrishnan is an Australian/UK international visual artist and writer whose art works explore intergenerational trauma, faith and queerness, and creative thinking in international intervention. As an Australian of Indian, Chinese and English heritage based in Australia, Carl has also worked in senior policy adviser roles on social cohesion issues for The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV) and the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV), and as a researcher for State Governments. Carl advises communities and government on social cohesion issues at the intersections of multiculturalism, faith and diverse sexuality and gender (LGBTQIA+).
Dave Kellaway
Dave Kellaway is on the Editorial Board of Anti*Capitalist Resistance, a member of Socialist Resistance, and Hackney and Stoke Newington Labour Party, a contributor to International Viewpoint and Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres.
Sinead Barry
Sinead Barry is Program Manager, Master Mental Health, and Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Mona Shtaya
Mona Shtaya is a Palestinian digital rights defender, working as the Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Actions; she is also a 2024 Migration and Technology Monitor Fellow and a non-resident scholar for the Middle East Institute (MEI) in the Palestine-Israel program.
Sara Dowse
Sara Dowse is an American-born Australian feminist, author, critic, social commentator, and visual artist. Her novels include Schemetime published in 1990, Sapphires, and As the Lonely Fly, and she has contributed reviews, articles, essays, stories, and poetry to a range of print and online publications.
Roberta Esbitt
Roberta Esbitt is an international architect, property developer and academic with a special interest in residential property markets. She has a B.Arch from Cornell University (USA), and an M.Bus (Property) and a PhD from RMIT University (Australia), and since 2007 was sessional lecturer at RMIT as well as guest lecturer in Europe. She is currently an Associate at RMIT University.
Refaat Ibrahim
Refaat Ibrahim is a Palestinian writer from Gaza and the founder of The Resistant Palestinian Pens ( https://resistantpens.org/ ). A graduate in English Language and Literature from the Islamic University, he writes about political, social, and cultural issues in Palestine. Through his work, he amplifies Palestinian voices under occupation, believing writing is a bridge between truth and people’s hearts and minds.
Stephen Bartos
Stephen is an internationally recognised expert on governance, regulation and public finance.
Stephen was Professor of Governance and Head of the National Institute of Governance at the University of Canberra, and also a Commissioner with the International Airservices Commission, the regulator that governs operators’ access to international air passenger and freight routes into and out of Australia.
Azizur Rahman
Azizur Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Construction, Property and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Helen Gardner
Helen Gardner began her academic career at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2001. In 2002 she was appointed to Deakin University as a lecturer in World History and Pacific History. She is currently working with the Institute in the Contemporary History Group where she leads research into contemporary and historical Pacific issues. In 2012 she became the external editor of the Journal of Pacific History and is a former secretary of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies.
Katrin Leifels
Katrin Leifels is a Lecturer in the School of Construction, Property and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne.
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.
