Daniel Falcone
Daniel Falcone is a historian specialising in the revolutions of 1848 and the political refugees who sought asylum in New York City. His academic work focuses on Giuseppe Garibaldi’s influence on New York’s local history and the politics of memory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Aside from his research, he is a teacher and journalist whose work has appeared in additional publications such as The Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, The Nation, Jacobin, and Truthout. His journalistic pieces, Q&As with public intellectuals, intersect history with modern-day geopolitical issues.
John Shipton
John Shipton is an anti-war activist and architect in Sydney, Australia, and the father of Julian Assange. He founded the WikiLeaks Party and was involved in the creation of WikiLeaks and helped with WikiLeaks for years. He campaigns and acts as an ambassador for Assange and was featured in the documentary Ithaka, produced by his son Gabriel Shipton.
Ned Dobos
Ned Dobos is an Associate Professor in International and Political studies at UNSW Canberra, located at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of two books– Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press), and Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press)–and is currently President the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific chapter. He has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the philosophy department at Georgetown University.
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou “Yanis” Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.
Lok Sang Ho
Prof. Lok Sang Ho, an economist with a doctorate from the University of Toronto, is a veteran policy analyst with diverse interests ranging from international finance, wellbeing studies, housing, macroeconomic policy, and life education. He is the Director of Pan Sutong Shanghai-HK Economic Policy Research Institute and Director of China Economic Research Programme as well as Director of the STEAM Education and Research Centre. His book, Public Policy and the Public Interest is the first book on public policy that includes a chapter on human nature, and it also offers a formal definition of the public interest, which should be the only focus of all governments. He writes a weekly column for the China Daily.
Rahul Mishra
Rahul Mishra is Associate Professor at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, JNU, New Delhi and a Senior Research Fellow at the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University, Thailand.
Thang Nguyen Quoc
Thang Nguyen-Quoc, Ph.D. leads Oxford Economics Asia’s Macro consulting team in Singapore. Prior to joining OE in 2022, Thang spent a decade delivering flagship economic reports on Southeast Asian and African economies at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He also worked in various roles at the World Bank, National Academy of Social Sciences (US), and Vietnam Commercial Bank. He got a Ph.D. in International Economics from University Paris-Dauphine, M.Sc. from Barcelona School of Economics and B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Hans Zoellner
Hans Zoellner was formerly the head and professor of Oral Pathology in the Sydney Dental School. He continues his academic work of teaching, research and service as a freelance consultant academic in his company Strongarch. He holds honorary appointments in biomedical engineering in the Universities of Sydney and NSW. He is a member of the Australian Association of University Professors, and a supporter of Public Universities Australia.
John Kampert
Retired Accountant, aged 81. I qualified in the Australia in the 1970’s and have worked as an accountant worked in private enterprise and the public service. I have become interested in the politics and economics of money and finance since my retirement and found the internet a fascinating source of information. Most of which unfortunately is NOT common knowledge. It seems the professions prefer to keep the public undereducated.
Harshit Prajapati
Harshit Prajapati is PhD Scholar at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Samuel Marks
Samuel Marks is the co-founder of Green Sphere Project, with a focus on transport, freight and climate policy. He was previously Head of Policy at the National Road Transport Association, a senior policy adviser for the Australian Trucking Association and office manager to the Assistant Minister for Productivity.
David Shoebridge
Senator David Shoebridge
- State: Member of the Legislative Council (NSW) from 2010 to 2022.
- Federal: Elected to the Senate for New South Wales, 2022.
Committee service
- Joint Select: National Anti-Corruption Commission Legislation served from 29.9.2022 to 10.11.2022
- Joint Standing: Implementation of the National Redress Scheme served from 6.3.2023 to present; Migration served from 25.3.2024 to present
- Joint Statutory: Law Enforcement served from 26.7.2022 to present; Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity served from 26.7.2022 to 1.7.2023; National Anti-Corruption Commission served from 9.2.2023 to present; Human Rights served from 4.7.2024 to present
- Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served from 26.7.2022 to present; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: References served from 26.7.2022 to present; Economics: References served as Substitute member from 28.9.2022 to 30.11.2023; Finance and Public Administration: Legislation served as Substitute member from 9.3.2023 to 31.7.2023; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Legislation served as Substitute member from 22.6.2023 to present; Economics: Legislation served as Substitute member from 30.11.2023 to 28.2.2024; Finance and Public Administration: References served as Substitute member from 7.12.2023 to present
- Senate Select: Australia’s Disaster Resilience served from 1.12.2022 to present; Adopting Artificial Intelligence served as Deputy Chair from 27.3.2024 to present
Parliamentary party positions
- Australian Greens. Served: 01.07.2022 to present
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Justice, Defence and Veterans’ Affairs and Digital Rights from 17.6.2022 to 15.5.2023.
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Justice, Defence, Veterans’ Affairs, Digital Rights and Science from 15.5.2023 to 25.3.2024.
- Australian Greens Spokesperson for Defence and Veterans’ Affairs, Digital Rights and IT, Home Affairs, Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs and Justice (includes Attorney-General and Drug Law Reform) from 25.3.2024.
Michael Noetel
Michael Noetel is an Associate Professor, The University of Queensland. He is an academic working at the intersection of psychology, evidence synthesis, and AI governance, with a mission to reduce the worst risks from advanced AI and help people do the most good they can.
John Woods
Monsignor John Woods is a priest of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Parish Priest of Transfiguration Parish, North Woden and Episcopal Vicar for Catholic schools of the archdiocese. He is also chaplain to the Canberra Raiders Rugby League Club and was recently inducted as a Life Member.
Nick Estes
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is a journalist, historian and co-host of the Red Nation Podcast. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019).
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler. Few people have as much experience in the aged care sector as Paul. 38 years, to be exact. He’s been a national and state CEO of aged care industry associations, CEO of a major aged care provider, and influencer of ageing policy, disability and community care programs for both national and state governments. He is a co-founder of Invox with Roland Naufal.
Joseph Harfouch
Joseph Harfouch lives in Perth, Western Australia since 1984. He has Lebanese and Palestinian background. He works in the software industry. He has a strong interest in Arabic music, culture and politics.
Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former 3RRR Breakfaster and a former editor of Overland literary journal. His recent books include Provocations: New and Selected Writing, Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating, Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right, and No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson. He lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Miro Sandev
Miro Sandev is a high school teacher and anti-war activist. He is a member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW, Solidarity and the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition. He lives on unceded Wangal land.
Roland Naufal
Roland has built (and at times threatened) his career by being outspoken about things that matter. He has over three decades of experience – from aged care CEO and Age Friendly Cities expert to the founder of DSC, Australia’s best known NDIS educators. Roland co-founded Invox with Paul Sadler.
Clive Edwards
Clive Edwards is a retired academic. An economist. Phd from ANU 1966. I mainly worked in Universities (ANU, University of Queensland). In the late 70s I spent a year as academic in residence with DFA where one of my roles was to provide advice to the then Foreign Minister, Andrew Peacock, on economic developments in Asia and the implications for Australia. This area has been my principal focus and I have had quite extensive experience in East Asia, particularly in the countries of South East Asia together with Taiwan and South Korea. I live in Brisbane.
Peter Montague
Peter Montague, Ph.D., is a widely published journalist and historian, a fellow with the Science & Environmental Health Network (Ames, IA), and a member of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981, AFL-CIO).
Rayana Ajam
Rayana is a human rights advocate driven by an unwavering commitment to social justice. Currently serving as Media Associate at Amnesty International Australia, she brings four years of experience across casework, crisis response, and strategic advocacy. Rayana has championed the rights of individuals at risk, particularly those from Indigenous, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds. Her work has contributed to the successful resettlement of individuals and submissions to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, and Amnesty’s campaigns. She has represented UN Youth Australia on its Middle East Delegation and contributed to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Anti-Racism Framework. Recognised as a Young Woman to Watch in International Affairs in 2024, she is currently completing her Juris Doctor at the University of New South Wales, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, International Relations and Sociology from the University of Sydney. Rayana is travelling to the United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee through the Global Voices Policy Fellowship.