Stuart Kells is one of Australia's leading writers on the history of business and finance. Adjunct Professor at La Trobe Business School, he has twice won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. His shorter works have been published around the world including in Smithsonian, The Paris Review, The Guardian and LitHub. His book The Library: A…
Fiona Crawford is one of Australia's most respected women's football writers. She is author of The Matilda Effect and co-author of Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football. An adjunct lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Justice, Crawford has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, The Guardian,…
Raimond Gaita is professorial fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne and emeritus professor of moral philosophy at King’s College London. His books, which have been widely translated, include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, the award winning Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About…
Eve Vincent is chair of Anthropology in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. She is the author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia and ‘Against Native Title’: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia. Her writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland and Inside Story.
Benjamin Oldroyd is Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney. In 2020 Oldroyd was a resident fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, from where he edited a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London on epigenetics and evolution and wrote this book. Oldroyd is…
Simon Butt is Professor of Indonesian Law at the University of Sydney Law School, where he teaches Indonesian law and Private International Law. Fluent in Indonesian, and having spent years in Indonesia, he has written widely on Indonesian law, including Corruption and Law in Indonesia (2012), The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia (2015), and…
Peter Christoff is a political scientist, a senior research fellow with the Melbourne Climate Futures Initiative, and an honorary associate professor with the School of Geography, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His books include Globalisation and the Environment (co-authored with Robyn Eckersley) and Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a…
Rodney James is an Australian curator and writer specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century art writing and research, collection management, exhibitions, visual art projects and museum policy and strategy. His most recent publications include ‘Blood Red: Ivan Durrant’s social conscience’, in Ivan Durrant, Barrier Draw, National Gallery of Victoria, 2020 and Una Deerbon: Australian potter…
Professor Peter Dawkins was Director of the Melbourne Institute, a position he was appointed to in 1996. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Curtin University of Technology. In 1999-2000 he was a member of the federal government's Reference Group on Welfare Reform, and since 2001 has been a member of the Australian…
Quentin Sprague is a writer based on Australia's southeast coast, on Wadawurrung country. His essays and criticism have regularly appeared in The Monthly, as well as in The Australian, Art & Australia, and Discipline, and in artist monographs and exhibition catalogues published by (among others) The National Gallery of Victoria, The Monash University Museum of…
Andrew Quilty is the recipient of eight Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, for his work on Afghanistan, where he has been based since 2013. He has also received the George Polk Award, the World Press Photo Award and the Overseas Press Club of America award for his investigation into massacres committed by a CIA-backed…
Thea Gardiner researches and writes on the place of women in Australian historical memory. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and is a historian at the archaeology and cultural heritage company Dr Vincent Clark & Associates.
Barbara Baird lives on Kaurna Yerta. She works in Women's and Gender Studies at Flinders University and researches Australian histories of sexuality and reproduction. Since 2017 she has been the Co-Convenor of the SA Abortion Action Coalition. Author image courtesy Nikki Hartmann Photography
Noah Riseman (Author)
Noah Riseman is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, where he specialises in Australian histories of sexuality, gender and race. He is author or co-author of five other books, including: Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945 (2016); Serving in Silence? Australian LGBT Servicemen and Women (2018)…
Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University since 1982. He has also held appointments at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Harvard University, where he was Professor of Australian Studies. His books include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and…
Michael Epis (Author)
Michael Epis is a journalist, editor and author, living and working in Melbourne.
Anita Phillips (Author)
Dr Anita Frances Phillips first suggested the idea for this book, which draws in part on interviews conducted for her PhD, 'The process of policy development using the NDIS as a case study'. Dr Phillips was…
Mark Edele is Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of six books on the history of the Soviet Union, most recently Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (2021). He has worked in archives in Russia, Ukraine,…
Peter Rees was federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. This is his eleventh book, among them the award-winning biography of WWI war correspondent and official historian Charles Bean, Bearing Witness.
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Todung Mulya Lubis is known as a seasoned social activist, academc, practicing lawyer and novelist. He has over 40 years of engagement as a student activist, legal aid lawyer, anti-corruption preacher, poet, novelist, university lecturer and diplomat.
Todung has established many NGOs like Legal Aid Institute, Transparency International-Indonesia, Amnesty International-Indonesia, International Crisis Group, Indonesian Legal…
Libby Robin is an independent non-fiction writer and prize-winning author whose work explores museums and environmental ideas. She works with museums in Australia, Germany, Estonia and Norway. Her books include The Flight of the Emu (2001), How a Continent Created a Nation (2007) and The Environment: A History of the Idea (2018).
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Amanda Thomas is a geographer who lectures in environmental studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Gradon Diprose is a geographer working as an environmental social science researcher at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. His research explores human nature relationships, climate resilient urban infrastructure, and how communities come together around shared concerns to sustain their…
Raewyn Connell is professor emerita, University of Sydney and life member of the National Tertiary Education Union. She has taught in several countries and is a widely cited researcher on questions of social justice, knowledge, and social change. Connell is the current holder of the International Sociological Association's quadrennial award for Excellence in Research and…
Jillian Graham is a freelance writer, editor and researcher, focusing on the experiences of Australian women composers. Graham was awarded the 2018 Redmond Barry Fellowship and was shortlisted twice for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. A trained musician, she sings in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
Thomas H. Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. His previous titles include How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps (Routledge, 2021) and the prize-winning Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air: Atmospheric Romanticism in a Time of Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Justin Clemens has published extensively on the relationships…
Caitlin Mahar is an historian, educator and writer who lectures in history at Swinburne University of Technology. She completed a PhD in history at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and was awarded the Society for the Social History of Medicine Roy Porter Essay Prize, the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of…
