Jiao Wang
Dr Jiao Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School. Her research spans monetary policy, macro-prudential policy, macroeconomics and the Chinese economy. She has published in journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Prior to joining Sussex, she worked at the University of Melbourne (2016–2024) and holds a PhD from The Australian National University and two bachelor’s degrees (Economics and Physics) from Peking University.
Leia Greenslade
Dr. Leia Greenslade is a Jewish Australian academic at Griffith University and sits on the Advisory Board for the Jewish Council of Australia. Leia is a fervent advocate for diverse identities, striving for equitable representation and rights. Leia has a background as a social worker and over 30 years’ experience as a committed activist for the promotion of social justice.
William Zheng
Senior Correspondent, China William Zheng is a veteran journalist who has served and led major Hong Kong and Singaporean media organisations in his 20-year career, covering greater China. He is now a senior correspondent on the China desk at the Post.
Helen McCue
Dr Helen McCue AM is a former United Nations consultant, working in the Middle East with refugees and displaced. Dr McCue has been a strong advocate for Palestinian human rights including the rights of Palestinian refugees for over 40 years. She is co-founder of Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and co-founder of Rural Australia for Refugees (RAR). Dr McCue is the 2024 recipient of the Jerusalem Peace Prize.
Jane Caro
Jane Caro is an author, columnist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker and social commentator. She has published ten books, including a memoir, Plain-Speaking Jane, as well as Just a Girl and Just a Queen, the first two novels in the Elizabeth Tudor trilogy. Just Flesh & Blood is the third and final book in the series. Jane appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. She has created and presented three documentary series for the ABC’s Compass, with another in production. A frequent ad hoc columnist, she writes regular columns for Sunday Life and Leadership Matters. Jane divides her time between Sydney and a cattle property in the Upper Hunter. She is married, with two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter. In 2018, Jane won the Walkley Award – Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for a Non-Fiction Book Editing for her bestseller, Unbreakable: Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope.
Jessica Morrison
Jessica is the Quakers Australia peaceworker. She was formerly the Executive Officer of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.
Prue Licht
Prue Licht a retired Social Worker, I used to work with children and Families. Since I retired i have been an active member of Grandmothers for Refugees, currently a coordinator of a local group. I am also actively involved in the Palestinian struggle for human and land rights. I visited Palestine in July 2023, staying in East Jerusalem and the Old City and visiting Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and other areas of the West Bank. My interests include reading, music, cinema, politics, art, my garden and life in general. I spend time with family and friends and am also in the local U3A.
Yan Islam
Yan Islam is an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute and former Branch Chief, International Labour Office, Geneva. He writes in a strictly personal capacity.
Sasha Klumov Attard
Sasha is a political economist currently working as a researcher. His areas of expertise include democratic governance, state-society relations, and social cohesion. His research focuses on the intersection of public policy, private power, and contemporary political change.
Lam Ka Sing
Lam Ka Sing joined SCMP as a journalist at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and has won numerous awards. These include Business Reporter of the Year and Best Property Market News Reporting at the 7th Business Journalism Awards of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Excellence in Business Reporting at The Sopa 2020 Awards for Editorial Excellence as well as Merit Award at The 21st Consumer Rights Reporting Awards from the Consumer Council. He has a Master of Science degree in real estate from the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in international journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a student member in the general practice division of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Rebecca Sta Maria
Rebecca Sta Maria is former Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat, Singapore.
Virginia Lee
Virginia Lee is a solicitor, a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area lawyer, and a China-appointed attesting officer.
Margaret Cassar
Margaret Cassar Executive Member of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association Convenor of Adelaide BDS movement
James Ricketson
Filmmaker/Journalist with 30 years of experience in Cambodia, including 15 months in a maximum security prison on espionage charges.
Jane Cai
Bureau Chief, Beijing Jane Cai, CFA, is the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Post. She has been covering China’s economic, financial, business and political news since the early 2000s.
Derek Wilding
Co-Director, Centre for Media Transition, University of Technology Sydney I have a law degree from UQ and a PhD in media studies from QUT. Previous positions include Executive Director of the Australian Press Council, Manager at the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and Director of the Communications Law Centre at UNSW.
Bill Hayton
Bill Hayton is an Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, United Kingdom. This is an adapted excerpt of ISEAS Perspective 2025/79 published on October 23. The paper and its references can be accessed at this link.
Hani Qarmoot
Hani Qarmoot is a journalist and storyteller from Gaza, focusing on resilience, dignity, and life under siege.
Editorial Board, ANU Canberra
The EAF Editorial Board is located in the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
REN Ke
Ren Ke is a senior journalist with Xinhua News Agency. Before returning to China in September 2023, Ren worked in Europe for more than six years. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Xinhua correspondent in Berlin, focusing on Germany’s domestic politics and foreign policies. From 2021 to 2023, Ren was deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua’s Europe Regional Bureau in Brussels and correspondent of EU institutions. In February 2022, Ren was one of the first Chinese correspondents who went to Ukraine to report the Russia-Ukraine War.
Zohran Mamdani
Zorhan K. Mamdani is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly and on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, was elected mayor of New York City.
Sandi Logan
Sandi Logan was a journalist from 1974-1984 (Fairfax, Toronto Sun, ABC-TV & Radio); a DFAT diplomat from 1984-2002, serving in Port Moresby (1988-90), Bonn (1993-96) and Washington DC (1998-2002); a media adviser to federal Liberal and Labor ministers; a communications executive and spokesman for the AFP and the Department of Immigration; and most recently an author of the non-fiction book BETRAYED (Hachette, ISBN9780733648601). Originally from Canada, he has also played ice hockey for more than 60 years.
Philip Lawn
Philip Lawn is a retired evidence-based economist who has published journal articles and books on such broad topics as sustainable development, climate change, and welfare indicators. Philip spent most of his academic career at Flinders University, Adelaide. Despite retirement, Philip is working on a set of alternative sustainable development indicators and intends to write economics textbooks which better reflect concrete reality than current mainstream offerings.
Tom Sinkovits
Tom Sinkovits OAM is a former Australian diplomat, trade official, refugee and Chief of Mission for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration.
Tamara Kayali Browne
Dr Tamara Kayali Browne is Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics at Deakin University, a Palestinian activist with Canberra Palestine and Climate Justice, and a Gaza Representative and member of the ACT Activist Leadership Committee with Amnesty International.
Tamara’s Red Pill https://tamarakayalibrowne.substack.com/
Carolyn Blacklock
Carolyn Blacklock is the former managing director of PNG Power Ltd and former representative for the World Bank in PNG
Kate MacNeill
Kate MacNeill
Head of Art History, and Arts and Cultural Management at University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne.
Zenel Garcia
Zenel Garcia is Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations theory, security and geopolitics. Specifically, how interpretations of security and the geopolitical environment shape the policy preferences of states in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia. He is the author of China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia: The Politics of State and Region-Building (Routledge 2021) and China’s Military Modernization, Japan’s Normalization and the South China Sea Territorial Disputes (Palgrave 2019). He has also published several peer-reviewed articles focused on the impacts of Chinese foreign policy.
Pearls and Irritations guest Josh Pallas
Josh Pallas is President of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties. He is completing a PhD in criminal law at the University of Sydney and previously practiced criminal and administrative law in government and private practice.
Claudia Weisenberger
Claudia Weisenberger, MBA, is a healthcare strategy advisor specialising in private health insurance reform and hospital sector transformation. With 15+ years’ experience across Australia, Europe, US and Asia Pacific, she has led turnaround projects for private hospitals and pharmaceuticals and advised on healthcare financing models. Her research focuses on alternatives to traditional insurance-based healthcare funding.
Chow Chung-yan
Chow Chung-yan began his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and rose to become Executive Editor in 2015, following stints at the City, China and Business desks. As the SCMP’s second-in-command, he is in charge of the China and US bureaus as well as the political economy, culture, print and digital teams. He has been running the SCMP’s day-to-day operations since 2011. He led the newsroom’s organisational restructuring, streamlined its production workflows and set up dedicated teams for both the print and digital products to facilitate the newspaper’s digital transformation. He also assembled an award-winning infographics desk and spearheaded the redesign of the newspaper.
Mohamed Ainullah
Mohamed Ainullah is an AMUST subeditor responsible for the Mediascan section of AMUST
Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara is an author who writes extensively on global politics and is widely regarded as a leading authority on US foreign policy, the Middle East and international strategic affairs. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris.