Jo Sun Huang

Jo Sun Huang is a retired Australian public servant.

Ross Hanan

Ross Hanan

Ross Hanan former banking industry consultant.

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 CellsControversy 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.”

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.

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

Stephen Olson

Stephen Olson is a visiting senior fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

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).

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.

John Sheridan

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.

Brad Reed

Brad Reed is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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.

Moataz al-Hallaq

Motaz Al-Hallaq is a freelance journalist, based in Gaza

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.

Kenny Stancil

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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

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

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.

Margaret Cassar

Margaret Cassar

Margaret Cassar Executive Member of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association Convenor of Adelaide BDS movement

Hani Qarmoot

Hani Qarmoot is a journalist and storyteller from Gaza, focusing on resilience, dignity, and life under siege.

Tamara Kayali Browne

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

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

Peter Briggs

Peter Briggs

Peter Briggs retired from the RAN in 2001 after a 40-year career, specialising in submarines. This included two submarine commands, command of the RAN Submarine Squadron, director of Submarine Policy and Warfare and Head of Submarine Capability Team, established to rectify Collins introduction into service issues. He was the president of the Submarine Institute of Australia from 2006-09 and is a frequent contributor to public debate on Australian submarine matters.

Adrian Lipscomb

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

Maria O'Sullivan

Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University

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.

Kate McGeorge is a Melbourne based clinical psychologist and PhD researcher undertaking a socio-analytic study of the relationship between psychology, neoliberalism and societal mental health.

Kate McGeorge

Kate McGeorge

Kate McGeorge is a Melbourne based clinical psychologist and PhD researcher undertaking a socio-analytic study of the relationship between psychology, neoliberalism and societal mental health.

Joel Scanlan

Joel Scanlan Senior Lecturer in Health Information Management, University of Tasmania