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.

After the chaos of Trump’s loss and the Capitol Hill riot, the Republican Party is at war with itself, and the warning signs ...

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.

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 ...

Kathy Marks is the Sydney-based Asia–Pacific correspondent for the Independent. She is the author of Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Anna Funder is the author of All That I Am, which won the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Stasiland. She is a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at UTS.

Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer based at the Australian National University. She is the author of Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia ...

Adrienne Ferreira is based on the NSW central coast. Her first novel, Watercolours, was published in May 2011. She is an alumna of Varuna, the Writers’ House, in Katoomba.

Deyan Sudjic is a critic, curator and a former director of the Venice Architecture Biennale. His most recent book, Stalin’s Architect, was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize.