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.
Rebecca Strating
Rebecca Strating Director, La Trobe Asia, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
Rubayat Chowdhury
Rubayat Chowdhury is a macroeconomist with experience working on monetary policy, growth, and economic development in emerging market economies. He is a Research Officer at the Development Policy Centre.
Anne Irwin
Anne Irwin is a volunteer Community Chaplain in Geelong in Victoria. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Dementia Care and a diploma of Chaplaincy. Her voluntary work brings her into contact with current and former prisoners and provides reliable anecdotal and experiential influences to recognise the need for change in our prisons.
Mohamad Dian Revindo
Mohamad Dian Revindo is the head of the Business Climate and Global Value Chain Research Group at the Institute for Economic and Social Research, (LPEM) in the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Indonesia.
Baogang He
Professor Baogang He is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Personal Chair in International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor He recently co-authored a new book on China’s growing influence titled China’s Galaxy Empire.
Alex Sen Gupta
Associate Professor Alex Sen Gupta is a research scientist and lecturer at the Climate Change Research Centre and the Centre For Marine Science and Innovation at UNSW. His work revolves around the role of the ocean in the climate system, how the ocean influences regional climate and what global climate models tell us about the future of the ocean, with a recent focus on marine heatwaves.
Associate Professor Sen Gupta’s research has been funded by the Australian Research Council.
Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.
Stephen Howes
Stephen Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Mervin Goklas Hamonangan
Mervin Goklas Hamonangan is a Junior Research Associate at the Institute for Economic and Social Research, (LPEM) in the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Indonesia.
Jane O'Sullivan
Dr. Jane O’Sullivan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, an Executive member of Sustainable Population Australia, and a co-convenor of The Overpopulation Project. She has published widely on population projections, the threats posed by population growth to food security, economic development and ecological sustainability, and the effectiveness of measures available to limit population growth.
Amir Tibon
Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: the rise and reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority.