Politics

is a novelist, writer and social commentator.

is a former Labor minister for science and a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne.

is a former independent senator for South Australia.

is The Saturday Paper’s senior reporter.

is the author of The Winter Road, winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award and the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction.

is the independent federal member for Kooyong.

is an Aboriginal writer, a descendant of the Yiman people of Queensland. She is professor of Australian Indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne.

is the author of 12 books, including The Shortest History of China.

is co-chief executive of The Australia Institute. His latest book is Dead Centre: how political pragmatism is killing us.

is a former leader of the Australian Greens. His latest book is Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders.