Fiona Stanley
Professor Fiona Stanley AC is a distinguished research professor at University of Western Australia.
Tamara Jacka
Tamara Jacka is an emeritus professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University and an active member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. Since 2020, she has been involved in campaigning against AUKUS, against Israeli occupation and genocide in Palestine, and for improvements in refugee rights in Australia.
Vince Scappatura
Dr Vince Scappatura teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. His book published by Monash University Publishing is titled The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy. Scappaturas submission to the 2023 Defence Strategic Review on behalf of the Independent Peaceful Australia Network.
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is the president of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli negotiator with the Palestinians at Taba under prime minister Ehud Barak and at Oslo B under prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
AJDS Executive
Australian Jewish Democratic Society
A Progressive voice among Jews, A Jewish voice among Progressives.
Zaha Hassan
Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously she was the co-ordinator and senior legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team during Palestines bid for UN membership, and a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012.
Fiona Argyle
Fiona Argyle has been the Mayor of the City of Nedlands since mid 2021. She is the only woman in history to be elected twice in the City of Nedlands. Prior to this she was a successful businesswoman and journalist with the ABC and Channel 9. These are her personal views, and may not represent those of the City.
Phillip Coorey
Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence.
Concerned Academics and Experts
We the signatories are scholars of the humanities and social sciences and other disciplines with expertise in the issues pertaining to AUKUS.
David Lilley
David Lilley has been working in social housing for 25 years, in roles spanning the public, private, social, and university sectors. He has recently submitted a PhD thesis titled ‘People or Profit? The use of critical systems thinking to diagnose and transform housing policy for health, wellbeing, and equity’. His writing is based on his own research and opinions. It is not intended to be reflective of any organisational affiliation, past or present.
Major General Michael G Smith AO (Retd)
Over his 34 years as an Army officer,Major General Mike Smithsaw service in Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Kashmir and Papua New Guinea. His last assignment with the ADF was Deputy Force Commander for the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor. Since retiring from the ADF in 2002, his many roles have included CEO of Austcare, Founding Executive Director of the Australian Civil-Military Centre, National President of the United Nations Association of Australia, a Visiting Fellow at ANU and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University.
Guest author Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomskyis Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most recent book isClimate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.
John Price
John Price is an associate fellow at the Centre for Global Studies, professor emeritus (history) at the University of Victoria, and an advisor of Canada-China Focus.
Collin Acton
Collin Acton OAM is the former Principal Chaplain and Director-General of Chaplaincy in the Royal Australian Navy.
Mark Warburton
Mark Warburton is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne. He periodically works as a consultant on tertiary education and social services. He worked in the Australian Public Service for over 30 years and spent nearly a decade in the Senior Executive Service. He obtained extensive practical experience in designing and implementing policy for major government funding programs in higher education, income support and social services. He was an adviser to Australian Government Ministers for nearly six years during the 1990s.
Benedict Coyne
Benedict Coyne is the former National President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR).
Christine Carlisle
Christine Carlisle lived for over 40 years in Mackay, a Central Queensland coastal town that is a central commercial and population hub for both the Great Barrier Reef and the coal mines in the BowenBasin and Galilee Basin. She has been engaged in environmental and social issues since the 1980s and is a founding member of the Environment Council of Central Queensland. The group is purely volunteer, and members are active in the wider environmental movement in Australia. Christine believes that the climate and biodiversity crises that we are responsible for, pose the greatest challenge to our existence that humanity has ever faced.
Myron J. Pereira
Jesuit Father Myron J.Pereira, based in Mumbai, has spent more than five decades as an academic, journalist, editor and writer of fiction. He contributes regularly to UCA News on religious and socio-cultural topics.
Robert Manne
Robert Manne AO, FASSA, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University.
Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.
Fred Chaney
Fred Chaney (AO) is a former Australian politician who was deputy leader of the Liberal Partyfrom 1989 to 1990 and served as a minister in theFraser Government. He was aSenatorforWestern Australia from 1974 to 1990, and then served a term in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993. Chaney was appointed an Order of Australia in 1997.After leaving politics he focused on indigenous policy matters, serving on theNational Native Title Tribunal(19942007), as co-chair ofReconciliation Australia(20002005), and as co-founder and Vice-President of TheGraham (Polly) Farmer Foundation,(1995current).
Geoff Holland
Geoff Holland BA (COMM), MA (Hons) STS, Convenor of World Peace Now ॐ peace group and Board Member of World BEYOND War, has been an eco-activist and peace activist for over 50 years. He participated in the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and Rio+20 in 2012. Geoff was a Qld. Greens candidate for the seat of Cairns in 2012. He also has a background in global futures studies.
Pam Stavropoulos
Pam Stavropoulos, PhD is a consultant with a particular interest in politics and mental health. A former Fulbright Scholar, she left her tenured academic position to pursue study of psychotherapy and is co-author of nationally and internationally endorsed guidelines for treatment of complex trauma. She has held lectureships at Macquarie University and the University of New England, and is a former Program Director of the Jansen Newman Institute. The author of Living under Liberalism: The Politics of Depression in Western Democracies (Florida: Universal, 2008) she has written research reports, political commentary, and is a clinical supervisor in private practice.