Interfaith Coalition
A coalition of Australian interfaith and community organisations including leading Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups
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.
Matthew Taft
Matthew Taft Course Coordinator in English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anthony Klan
Anthony Klan is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, Anthony is the founder and editor of investigative news outlet The Klaxon.
Roderic Lyne
Roderic Lyne spent half of a 34 year diplomatic career dealing with the USSR and Russia up to 2004, since when I have visited Russia around fifty times as a businessman, writer and lecturer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
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-).
Louise Katz
Louise Katz a retired academic who until recently taught critical thinking skills at Sydney University. I’ve published articles previously on Israel and Palestine, as well as other subjects, plus novels and short stories.
Rosemary Sheehan
Professor Rosemary Sheehan was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for her significant contribution to child welfare and the law. In 2021 She was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in recognition of her research prominence. She is a Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb is Emeritus Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University. He has written widely on Indonesian history and the history of mass atrocity. He is currently researching Japanese war crimes in Southeast Asia during the Second World War.
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.
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/
Kate MacNeill
Kate MacNeill
Head of Art History, and Arts and Cultural Management at University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne.
Tim Thornton
Dr Tim Thornton, is Director of the School of Political Economy, Melbourne. Senior Research Fellow at the Economics in Context Initiative at Boston University and the Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Tim is also a member of the Advisory Council at the Centre for Economy Studies in the the Netherlands and a member of the Editorial Collective for the Journal of Australian Political Economy.
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad (born July 10, 1925, Alor Setar, Kedah [Malaysia]) is a Malaysian politician who served as prime minister of Malaysia (1981–2003; 2018–20), overseeing the country’s transition to an industrialised nation.
Erwin Chlanda
Erwin Chlanda Journalist. TV photojournalist and producer Minyerri, Northern Territory, Australia
Adrian Lipscomb
Adrian Lipscomb OAM is a retired lawyer, travel-writer, academic, and political observer. During the 1980s he worked in policy areas with the Australian Department of Defence in Canberra and with the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO, later renamed as the Defence Intelligence Organisation [DIO]). In the mid-1990s he volunteered in the Solomon Islands, and was the co-ordinating author of the 1998 edition of the Lonely Planet Guide to PNG
Grace McQuilten
Grace McQuilten is a published art historian, curator and artist with expertise in art and health, public art, social practice, social enterprise and community development. Grace’s research challenges and transforms conventional understandings of the relationship between margin and centre in relation to the cultural economy, contemporary art practice and art history. She has pioneered work on the field of art-based social enterprise in Australia, with particular expertise in migrant and refugee settlement.