List of Crikey Journalists and Reporters

1. Sophie Black

Designation Editor-in-chief Author Bio Sophie Black is Crikey's editor-in-chief. She has worked in senior management across cultural and media organisations, and has written for outlets such as The Guardian and The Monthly. As the Wheeler Centre’s head of publishing she oversaw projects such as the Walkley award-winning The Messenger podcast. She sits on the board of Melbourne University’s Centre for Advancing Journalism, and is co-chair of human rights media outlet Right Now.
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2. Ivan Oransky

Author Bio Editor in chief, @_thetransmitter; Distinguished Journalist In Residence, @NYU_Journalism; co-founder, @RetractionWatch; past president, @AHCJ.
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3. Jack Callil

Designation Deputy Editor Author Bio Jack Callil is deputy editor of Crikey. He is also copyeditor of Meanjin, and was previously digital editor of Australian Book Review. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and VICE, among others. He was a finalist for the 2020 Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and was an emerging culture critic for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.
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4. Margaret Simons

Designation Contributor Author Bio Margaret Simons is a journalist and the author of 14 books, including biographies of Malcolm Fraser and Penny Wong. She won the 2015 Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism and has been honoured with several Quill Awards for journalistic excellence. Her forthcoming book is Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms.
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5. Gary Nunn

Designation Freelance Writer Author Bio Gary Nunn is a linguist and freelance writer.
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6. Sue Arnold

Designation Contributor Author Bio Sue Arnold is a former Fairfax investigative journalist. She specialises in environmental research focused on marine and terrestrial issues with a particular focus on wildlife species and their ecosystem roles.
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7. Spenser Mestel

Designation Contributor Author Bio Spenser is a freelance journalist who writes about sports and voting rights in the US. His signature achievement is competing on American Ninja Warrior.
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8. John Buckley

Designation Former Media Reporter Author Bio John Buckley was Crikey's media reporter. He previously covered national affairs and politics at VICE, and his reporting has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Washington Post, among other publications.
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9. Anna Macdonald

Designation Reporter Author Bio Anna Macdonald is a Sydney-based journalist at The Mandarin. She was previously at Mumbrella, reporting on Australia’s media and marketing industry. She graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts and Laws.
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10. Daanyal Saeed

Designation Media Reporter Author Bio Daanyal Saeed is Crikey’s media reporter. He was previously a sports reporter at news.com.au and for the Grafton Daily Examiner.
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11. Amber Schultz

Designation Former Associate Editor Author Bio Amber Schultz covered health and social affairs for Crikey. In 2022 she was awarded a Young Walkley Award for her on-the-ground coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and has been shortlisted for four other Young Walkleys. In 2021 she was awarded the 2021 Mumbrella Young Writer of the Year for her coverage of sexual violence, and in 2018 completed the Jacoby-Walkley scholarship. She holds master's degrees in journalism and international relations.
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12. Anton Nilsson

Designation Political Reporter Author Bio Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter. He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressen newspaper as well as other publications in Sweden, Australia and the United States.
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13. Cormac Pearson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Cormac Pearson is an Australian journalist.
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14. Gina Rushton

Designation Editor Author Bio Gina Rushton is editor of Crikey. She has worked as an editor at Nine and reporter at Australian Associated Press, AAP FactCheck, The Australian and BuzzFeed News. She has written for The Guardian, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Monthly, The West Australian, Business Insider Australia and The Saturday Paper. She is also the author of The Most Important Job in the World.
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15. Cam Wilson

Designation Associate Editor Author Bio Cam Wilson is Crikey’s associate editor. He previously worked as a reporter at the ABC, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Gizmodo. He primarily covers internet culture and tech in Australia.
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16. Charlie Lewis

Designation Editor Author Bio Charlie Lewis pens Crikey's Tips and Murmurs column and also writes on industrial relations, politics and culture. He previously worked across government and unions and was a researcher on RN's Daily Planet. He currently co-hosts Spin Cycle on Triple R radio.
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17. Bernard Keane

Designation Political Editor Author Bio Bernard Keane is Crikey's political editor. Before that he was Crikey's Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
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18. Imogen Champagne

Designation Former Audience Editor Author Bio Imogen Champagne was formerly audience editor at Crikey. Before joining Crikey she was the engagement editor at The Correspondent in the Netherlands, managed communications and events at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, and was the digital manager at NGO Sunrise Cambodia.
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19. David Hardaker

Designation Editor Author Bio David Hardaker has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.
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20. Peter Fray

Designation Former Editor-in-chief Author Bio Peter Fray is Crikey's former editor-in-chief and managing editor of Private Media. He is also formerly the editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, the editor of the SMH, The Sunday Age and The Canberra Times and the deputy editor of The Australian and The Sun-Herald. In 2013, he started PolitiFact Australia, the country's first stand-alone fact-checking website.
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21. Emma Elsworthy

Designation Editor Author Bio Emma Elsworthy is Climate Editor at Crikey, SmartCompany, and The Mandarin, and writes daily morning newsletter the Worm. Before joining Crikey in 2021, Emma was a breaking news reporter in ABC’s Sydney newsroom, a journalist at BBC Australia, and a journalist in Fairfax Media’s regional network. She was part of a team awarded a Walkley for coverage of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfire crisis, and won the Australian Press Council prize in 2013.
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22. Maeve Mcgregor

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Maeve McGregor is a journalist and lawyer and was previously public affairs correspondent for Crikey.
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23. Guy Rundle

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He is also an associate editor at Arena Quarterly and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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24. Keir Semmens

Designation North America Correspondent Author Bio Keir Semmens is an Australian writer living in Austin, Texas. After graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, with double Masters degrees in foreign service and business, he worked in corporate finance on Wall Street and then in Sydney. He is currently writing a book on American government.
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25. Julia Bergin

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Julia Bergin is Crikey's Northern Territory correspondent based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Prior to this she reported on science.
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26. Christopher Warren

Designation Media Correspondent Author Bio Christopher Warren is an Australian journalist and writer. He was federal secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance until April 2015, and is a past president of the International Federation of Journalists.
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27. Glenn Dyer

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Glenn Dyer is Crikey's business and media correspondent.
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28. Michael Bradley

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Michael Bradley is a freelance writer and managing partner at Sydney firm Marque Lawyers, which was created in 2008 with the singular ambition of completely changing the way law is practised.
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29. Michael Sainsbury

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Michael Sainsbury is a journalist based in Asia with more than 20 years' experience writing about business, business politics and human rights across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
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30. Jason Murphy

Designation Economics Correspondent Author Bio Jason Murphy is an economist and freelance journalist. He has worked at The Australian Financial Review and for the Republic of Nauru and the Australian Treasury. He blogs at Thomas the Think Engine.
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31. Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kunwar Khuldune Shahid is a journalist, commentator and editor whose work has been featured in multiple publications, including The Guardian, Le Monde, Vox, Foreign Policy, Arab News, and MIT Technology Review among others.
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32. Robbie Gramer

Designation Contributor Author Bio Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
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33. Dennis Atkins

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dennis Atkins is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane where he was a national political editor during the Howard government.
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34. Wanning Sun

Designation Contributor Author Bio Wanning Sun is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She also serves as the deputy director of the UTS Australia-China Relations Institute. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2020-23). She is best known in the field of China studies for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration and social inequality in contemporary China. She writes about Chinese diaspora, diasporic Chinese media, and Australia-China relations.
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35. Tim Costello

Designation Contributor Author Bio Tim Costello is chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform and the former CEO of World Vision Australia.
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36. Denham Sadler

Designation Contributor Author Bio Denham Sadler is a freelance writer living in the Kulin Nation. He writes The Justice Map, a weekly newsletter on criminal justice reform issues.
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37. William Tilmouth

Designation Contributor Author Bio William Tilmouth was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and is an Arrernte man. A member of the Stolen Generations, William was taken to Croker Island where he lived and attended school with many other children sent there as a result of government policy of that era.
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38. Michael Rose

Designation Contributor Author Bio Michael Rose is an anthropologist and research associate at the University of Adelaide’s School of Social Sciences. He is always happy to hear about potential research collaborations and job opportunities.
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39. Ben Eltham

Designation Contributor Author Bio Ben Eltham has been covering Australian politics and culture for Crikey since 2007.
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40. Charlotte Mortlock

Designation Contributor Author Bio Charlotte Mortlock is a broadcast journalist with 12 years of experience, working in New York, Sydney and rural Australia, including as a political reporter and news anchor for Sky News. In 2021, she moved into politics as an adviser, and in the same year established the podcast The Clock. Charlotte combined her passion for politics and advocacy for women into launching Hilma’s Network, a recruitment drive aimed at getting women aged 30-60 into joining the Liberal Party as members.
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41. Claire J Harris

Designation Contributor Author Bio Claire J Harris is a Melbourne-based film and television writer, producer and story consultant. Her non-fiction writing has also won awards and been published both in Australia and internationally.
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42. Nomi Kaltmann

Designation Contributor Author Bio Nomi Kaltmann is a lawyer and journalist and ran as an independent candidate for Caulfield in the 2022 Victorian election. She is the founder of Australia's Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She lives in Caulfield with her husband, Daniel, and their brood of super cute kids.
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43. Robert Lechte

Designation Contributor Author Bio Robert is a writer and welfare state campaigner living in Melbourne.
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44. Julian Bajkowski

Designation Contributor Author Bio Julian Bajkowski is a senior reporter for The Mandarin, and is based in Sydney.
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45. James Baillieu

Designation Contributor Author Bio James Baillieu is a Melbourne-based director and activist investor in several companies. He is a former McKinsey & Co consultant and lawyer with Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
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46. Alexandra Wake

Designation Contributor Author Bio Alexandra Wake is an Associate Professor in Journalism at RMIT University. She came to the academy after a long career as a journalist and broadcaster. She's worked in Australia, Ireland, the Middle East and across the Asia Pacific. Her research, teaching and practice sits at the nexus of journalism practice, journalism education, equality, diversity and mental health. Her most recent work focuses on moral injuries faced by journalists.
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47. Kristine Ziwica

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kristine Ziwica is a Melbourne-based columnist and consultant who is a regular contributor to Women’s Agenda, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News and The Guardian. She has over twenty years of experience as a feminist writer and activist. She is a very proud member of the Women in Media steering committee and an ambassador for the Honour a Woman campaign.
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48. Kristin O'connell

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kristin O’Connell is a disability support pension recipient and antipoverty activist with the Antipoverty Centre.
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49. Liam Barrett

Designation Contributor Author Bio Liam Barrett is a freelance journalist/political commentator based in London. He writes regularly on progressive politics, LGBTQIA+ rights and international affairs.
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50. Dechlan Brennan

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dechlan Brennan is a Melbourne-based writer who focuses on restorative justice.
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51. Judith Brett

Designation Contributor Author Bio Judith Brett is an emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. Her most recent book is Doing Politics: Writing on public life (Text, 2021).
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52. Alison Pennington

Designation Contributor Author Bio Alison Pennington is an economist, writer and media commentator. She conducts research on economic issues facing working people including the future of jobs, skills and training, and the role of government. Alison is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Economics with La Trobe University.
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53. Alison Broinowski

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dr Alison Broinowski AM is a former diplomat, author and academic. She is president of Australians for War Powers Reform.
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54. Dominic Kelly

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dominic Kelly is an adjunct research fellow in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. He is the author of Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia (2019).
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55. Aidan Lewis

Designation Contributor Author Bio Aidan Lewis is a health policy expert at Miles Morgan Australia and a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra specialising in health.
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56. Uncle Dennis

Designation Contributor Author Bio Uncle Dennis is a proud Aboriginal man, radio presenter and Aboriginal Heritage guide.
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57. Megan Clement

Designation Contributor Author Bio Megan Clement is a journalist in Paris and the editor of Impact, a newsletter of international feminist journalism.
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58. Elizabeth Evatt

Designation Contributor Author Bio Elizabeth Evatt AC was the first chief judge of the Family Court of Australia, from 1976 to 1988. Some of the positions she has held are: deputy president of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, chair of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, president of the Australian Law Reform Commission, elected member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and more.
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59. Jessica Balanzategui

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dr Jessica Balanzategui is a senior lecturer in media at RMIT. She is the author or co-editor of five books, the most recent being Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV (with Baker and Sandars, 2023). Jessica received an AFI Research Collection Fellowship on Australian children’s television policy, and is a chief investigator with the Australian Children’s Television Cultures research team.
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60. John Blaxland

Designation Contributor Author Bio John Blaxland is professor of international security and intelligence studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Along with Clare Birgin his is the co-author of Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber
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61. Darrin Durant

Designation Contributor Author Bio Darrin Durant is senior lecturer in science and technology studies at the University of Melbourne, and author of Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science (Palgrave, 2020).
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62. Jordana Silverstein

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dr Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders (Monash University Publishing, 2023). She researches histories of statelessness, Australian child refugee policies and Australian Jewish history.
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63. Carolyn Holbrook

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dr Carolyn Holbrook is a Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University, and the Director of Australian Policy and History. Her latest book, Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia's Greatest Challenges (NewSouth), edited with Lyndon Megarrity and David Lowe, was published in July 2022.
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64. Aunty Geraldine Atkinson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Aunty Geraldine Atkinson is a Bangerang and Wiradjuri Elder and the outgoing co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria.
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65. Andrew Dodd

Designation Contributor Author Bio Andrew Dodd is the director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He is a former broadcaster and reporter at ABC Radio National and ABC TV and a former media and business writer at The Australian.
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66. Peter Mares

Designation Contributor Author Bio Peter Mares is a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism, and a moderator at Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership. He is a contributing editor to Inside Story magazine and the author of No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text, 2018) and Not Quite Australian: How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation (Text, 2016).
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67. John Quiggin

Designation Contributor Author Bio John Quiggin is a professor in economics at the University of Queensland and is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy.
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68. Katrina Marson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Katrina Marson is a lawyer and author of Legitimate Sexpectations: The power of sex-ed.
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69. Kate Atkinson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kate is a Sydney-based journalist with a background in student news and community radio. She completed a bachelor of communications at the University of Technology Sydney, where she majored in journalism and political science.
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70. Patrick Marlborough

Designation Contributor Author Bio Patrick Marlborough (they/them) is a writer and comedian from Fremantle, Western Australia. Their work has previously been published in Vice, The Saturday Paper and The Guardian.
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71. Ross Stitt

Designation Contributor Author Bio Ross Stitt is a freelance writer. He has a PhD in political science and was formerly a partner in major corporate law firms in Australia and NZ.
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72. Madi Howarth

Designation Contributor Author Bio Madi Howarth is a Wonnarua and Yuin journalist.
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73. Dave Platter

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dave Platter is a business communicator and strategist with close to 30 years of experience working with urban issues, property markets and proptech.
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74. Pragya Agarwal

Designation Contributor Author Bio Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, professor of social inequities and author of a number of non-fiction books including Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What To Say: Talking with children about race. Her most recent book is Hysterical: Exploding the myth of gendered emotions.
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75. Nyadol Nyuon

Designation Contributor Author Bio Nyadol Nyuon is a lawyer, human rights advocate and Care Australia ambassador.
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76. John Zubrzycki

Designation Contributor Author Bio John Zubrzycki is the author of five books on India. His latest, The Shortest History of India, is published by Black Inc. He has worked in India as a diplomat and foreign correspondent and has a PhD in Indian history.
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77. Peter Timmins

Designation Contributor Author Bio Peter Timmins has had 40 years' experience working in and advocating for transparency reforms, particularly freedom of information. He was awarded the Australian Press Council Press Freedom Medal in 2017 for his efforts.
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78. Adam Schwab

Designation Contributor Author Bio Adam Schwab is the host of The Contrarians Podcast and has written for Crikey and SmartCompany since 2005. He is the author of the best-selling Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed and the founder of global travel company Luxury Escapes. He is a former Private Media board member.
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79. Phil Dickie

Designation Contributor Author Bio Phil Dickie is a Gold Walkley recipient and author of bestselling book The Road To Fitzgerald: Revelations of corruption spanning four decades.
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80. Jeanine Leane

Designation Contributor Author Bio Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic from southwest New South Wales. She is currently associate professor in creative writing at the University in Melbourne. After a longer teaching career, she completed a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University.
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81. Adrian Beaumont

Designation Contributor Author Bio Adrian Beaumont is an election analyst (psephologist) at The Conversation and a honorary associate of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne.
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82. Natalie Feliks

Designation Contributor Author Bio Natalie Feliks is a writer, activist and critic from Melbourne. She has previously written for Junkee, Overland, Archer and others, covering rights for transgender and neurodivergent people from a feminist lens.
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83. Yee-fui Ng

Designation Contributor Author Bio Yee-Fui Ng is an associate professor and deputy director of the Australian Centre of Justice Innovation at Monash University, and a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar. She is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context, which was a finalist for the Holt Prize.
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84. William Summers

Designation Contributor Author Bio William Summers is a journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. His specialist areas of expertise are freedom of information (FOI) and MPs’ allowances. In 2017 he was a Walkley Award finalist.
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85. Katherine Wilson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Katherine Wilson is a journalist living in the Yarra Valley. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies.
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86. Carla Wilshire

Designation Contributor Author Bio Carla Wilshire OAM is the founding CEO of the Social Policy Group and director of the Centre for Digital Wellbeing, a not-for-profit policy research and design centre focussing on technology’s impact on overall health and wellbeing, safety and social cohesion in the Australian community. She has a background in public policy development and impact strategy, corporate governance and tertiary research. Before establishing SPG, Carla worked in senior roles in the public service and as an adviser to the government, principally in migration and settlement, including as chief of staff to the m...inister for multicultural affairs.more
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87. Benjamin Abbatangelo

Designation Contributor Author Bio Benjamin Abbatangelo is a Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk journalist and writer.
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88. Mililma May

Designation Contributor Author Bio Mililma May is a Larrakia Tiwi woman living, working and studying on Gulumoerrgin. Mililma is CEO of Uprising of the People, a Darwin based-grassroots organisation that empowers the community and stands up against injustices in the Northern Territory. She is an activist, artist and writer.
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89. Anne Pattel-gray

Designation Contributor Author Bio Professor Anne Pattel-Gray was appointed Professor of Indigenous Studies and inaugural Head of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity and commenced the role in August 2022. She is a descendant of the Bidjara/Kari Kari people of Queensland and a celebrated Aboriginal leader. Throughout her career, she has exercised numerous leadership and consultancy roles in First Nations organisations and not-for-profit agencies.
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90. Rod Campbell

Designation Contributor Author Bio Rod Campbell is the research director at the Australia Institute and oversees the Institute’s Coal Mine Tracker. An economist by background, his research often focuses on fossil fuel industries. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and has appeared as an expert witness in mining major court cases and planning processes.
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91. Celeste Liddle

Designation Contributor Author Bio Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, a freelance opinion writer, social commentator and critic.
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92. Anjali Sharma

Designation Contributor Author Bio Anjali Sharma was the lead litigant of the Sharma v Environment Minister, a class action legal case which, in 2021, successfully established that the environment minister owes all young people a duty of care to protect them from the impacts of climate change. She aims to raise awareness about the disproportionate impacts of climate change, particularly towards young people and people of colour, and advocates for a just future where the voices and stories of marginalised communities are amplified.
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93. Cornelia Koch

Designation Contributor Author Bio Cornelia Koch is a senior lecture at Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide. Her interests are in public and comparative law as well as human rights.
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94. Andrew Markus

Designation Contributor Author Bio Andrew Markus AO is Emeritus Professor in Monash University's Faculty of Arts. He researches ethnic relations and public opinion and is the co-author (with Bain Attwood) of The 1967 Referendum.
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95. Cameron Murray

Designation Contributor Author Bio Cameron Murray is an economist who specialises in property markets, resource and environmental economics, and corruption. His research on grey corruption in Australia has been transformed into a book called Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians.
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96. Dennis Altman

Designation Contributor Author Bio Dennis Altman is the son of Jewish refugees, who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. His most recent books are God Save the Queen and Death in the Sauna. Altman is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
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97. Rupert Levian

Designation Contributor Author Bio Rupert Levien is a freelance writer currently based in Brisbane, Queensland. He has contributed film notes to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)/The Australian Cinémathèque.
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98. Peter Greste

Designation Contributor Author Bio Peter Greste is the executive director of the Alliance for Journalists Freedom and professor of journalism at Macquarie University.
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99. Jason Ward

Designation Contributor Author Bio Jason Ward is the founder and principal analyst of CICTAR, the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research. He has been a frequent commentator on international corporate tax issues, including as a spokesperson for the Tax Justice Network – Australia. CICTAR does detailed forensic financial analysis to expose aggressive tax avoidance strategies of multinational corporations and help push essential tax reforms. CICTAR has also done detailed analysis of the aged care sector in Australia and internationally, to make recipients more accountable for public funding and im...prove quality by increasing transparency and accountability.more
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100. Nick Feik

Designation Contributor Author Bio Nick Feik is the former editor of The Monthly, and a freelance journalist.
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