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is the author of the multi-award-winning book 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia.

is the contributing editor of The Monthly Today and the 2021 Mumbrella Publish Awards Columnist of the Year.

is a political journalist. He was the host of Schwartz Media's The Culture podcast and the editor of 7am until early 2022.

is an author. His most recent novel is The Shepherd’s Hut. He is patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

is a lawyer and writer, and the chair of Digital Rights Watch.

leads the biosecurity program at the Kirby Institute. She is on the World Health Organization’s SAGE smallpox and mpox advisory group.

is a contributing editor to The Monthly, and the 2018 Mumbrella Publish Award Columnist of the Year.

is a former Labor prime minister, and is the global president and chief executive of the Asia Society Policy Institute, and author of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China. He also studied Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University.

is a screenwriting researcher and the author of Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life.

has been a journalist for 50 years. He is the author of Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State.