He then used these new mechanisms to pursue the ABC for many, many months, and in no less than three separate inquiries, over the supposed bias in AM’s coverage of the early stages of the invasion of ...

Paul Ham is an author and journalist. His books include the acclaimed Kokoda and Vietnam: The Australian War. He is currently the Australian correspondent for the London Sunday Times.

Robyn Davidson is a non-fiction writer. She is the author of the award-winning books Tracks and Desert Places, and the editor of The Best Australian Essays 2009 and The Picador Book of Journeys.

Bill Bowtell is a strategic–policy analyst and consultant and the executive director of the Lowy Institute’s HIV-AIDS project. He was a political adviser to Paul Keating.

Robert Forster is a singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Go-Betweens. His collection of music criticism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009.

Cassandra Pybus is the founding editor of Australian Humanities Review. Her books include Raven Road, The Devil and James McAuley and her memoir Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree.

Mandy Sayer is a columnist and author. Her books include Mood Indigo, Dreamtime Alice and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Her most recent novel, Love in the Years of Lunacy, was published in 2011.

Paul Barry is a journalist and investigative reporter. He is the author of Who Wants to be a Billionaire? The James Packer Story and The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer.

Peter Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist at the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His books include The Politics of ...

The campaign to repair the single parenting payment was a model of how research and advocacy can push government to face the cruel effects of a policy and change course ...

Lesley Hughes is an ecologist and professor of biology at Macquarie University who researches the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems. She is a councillor with the publicly funded ...

Ruth Balint is a writer and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea.