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27 March 2016


 

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    Andrew Hamilton

    • Andrew Hamilton

    Andrew Hamilton is a Jesuit priest. He taught theology at the United Faculty of Theology for many years, and has contributed widely to theological and religious journals. He has had a long-standing engagement with refugee communities and issues. He is currently editorial consultant of Eureka Street and a policy officer with Jesuit Social Services.

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    Chris Johnston

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    Chris Johnston draws a weekly editorial illustration for Eureka Street. He is an award winning illustrator, cartoonist, and storyboard artist of many years experience. Training in architecture and classic art techniques, he now works mostly with computer and drawing tablet, and when time allows, pursues various online graphic novel projects.

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    Brian Matthews

    • Brian Matthews

    Brian Matthews writes the By the Way column for Eureka Street. Brian is honorary Professor of English at Flinders University, Adelaide where he taught for 25 years and was awarded Flinders' first Personal Chair in English. He was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Oregon, 1986, and subsequently held visiting professorships at the universities of Trento, Venice and Bologna. He was head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and professor of Australian studies at the University of London, 1993–96. In 1997 he became foundation director of the Europe Australia Institute at Victoria University, Melbourne. As a writer of biography, fiction and memoir and as a columnist for the Weekend Australian Magazine and Eureka Street, he has won numerous

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    John Falzon

    • John Falzon

    Dr John Falzon is Senior Fellow, Inequality and Social Justice at Per Capita. He is a sociologist, poet and social justice advocate and was national CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia from 2006 to 2018. He is a member of the Australian Services Union. He has written and spoken widely on the structural causes of marginalisation and inequality in Australia and has long been an advocate for a fairer and more equitable society. John has worked in academia, in research and advocacy with NGOs, and in community development in large public housing estates. He was a participant in the 2020 Summit, has served on the ACOSS Board as well as on Government advisory committees such as the Communi

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    Tim Kroenert

    • Tim Kroenert

    Tim Kroenert was the editor and film reviewer for Eureka Street. He previously worked for five years with The Salvation Army's National Editorial Department, working as a subeditor and staff writer across its various publications including the flagship publication Warcry. He is a published fiction writer and his articles and reviews have appeared in The Age, Inside Film, WQ, the Courier-Mail and The Big Issue.

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    Binoy Kampmark

    • Binoy Kampmark
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    Dr Binoy Kampmark is a former Commonwealth Scholar who lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.  

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    Philip Harvey

    • Philip Harvey

    Philip Harvey is the poetry editor of Eureka Street. Any poetry submissions can be mailed to him at poetry@eurekastreet.com.au. Philip has published widely both in and outside Australia. He also maintains a poetry site, a poetry readings site and a workplace blogspot at the Carmelite Library in Middle Park.

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    John Warhurst

    • John Warhurst

    John Warhurst AO is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University in Canberra where he was Professor of Political Science from 1993-2008. Before that he was Professor of Politics at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, from 1985-1993. He has been a weekly columnist for The Canberra Times since 1998. He also writes occasionally for The Footy Almanac. He has been chair of the Australian Republican Movement (2002-2005), campaigning for an Australian Head of State for Australia, and Deputy Chair of Catholic Social Services Australia (2007-2012), the church's peak body for social services. In 2009 he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for services to political science and to the community.

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    Kerry Murphy

    • Kerry Murphy

    Kerry Murphy is a partner with the specialist immigration law firm D'Ambra Murphy Lawyers. He is a student of Arabic, former Jesuit Refugee Service coordinator, teaches at ACU and was recognised by AFR best lawyers survey as one of Australia's top immigration lawyers.

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    Benedict Coleridge

    • Benedict Coleridge

    Benedict Coleridge recently completed a doctorate in political theory at the University of Oxford. He tweets as @Ben_Coleridge

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    Gillian Bouras

    • Gillian Bouras

    Gillian Bouras is an Australian writer who has been based in the Peloponnese, Greece, for more than 30 years. She has had eight books published; another (Seeing and Believing) is accessible via her website. Her journalism has been published in six countries. She has three sons and three grandsons, with one son living permanently in Australia, so she herself has had to learn to live with 'the divided heart'. But Gillian herself will always be Aussie.

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    Moira Rayner

    • Moira Rayner

    Moira Rayner is a barrister and writer.

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    David James

    • David James
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    David James has been a financial journalist for 28 years. He was a senior writer and columnist at BRW for 25 years, a senior journalist at AAA Banking magazine, an editor and writer for stockbroker JB Were & Sons and a journalist at The Melbourne Herald. He is author of Managing for the Twenty First Century and The Business Devil’s Dictionary. He has a PhD from Monash University: Illusions of Time in Shakespeare's Plays. He now works as a freelance journalist and editor.

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    Fiona Katauskas

    • Fiona Katauskas

    Fiona Katauskas draws a weekly political cartoon for Eureka Street. She is a Sydney based cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian and New Matilda. Her political cartoons also pop up regularly in the Museum of Australian Democracy's annual Behind the Lines exhibition and Scribe Publications' Best Political Cartoons of the year anthologies.

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    Fatima Measham

    • Fatima Measham
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    Fatima Measham is a Melbourne writer. She tweets as @foomeister.

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    Catherine Marshall

    • Catherine Marshall
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    Catherine Marshall is a Sydney-based journalist and travel writer. She started her career as a broadcast journalist in her native South Africa and has written for magazines, newspapers and online publications in Australia, South Africa, the United States and Asia. She micro-blogs at www.zizzyballord.com and tweets as @zizzyballordand. Her writing can be seen at www.catherineamarshall.blogspot.com.

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    Megan Graham

    • Megan Graham

    Megan Graham is a freelance writer, journalist, and occasional blogger based in Melbourne. She is passionate about writing that humanises and empowers people, particularly women. She won Eureka Street's 2013 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers and has been published in Crosslight newspaper and Adios Barbie. Follow Megan on Twitter @secondhandstori 

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    Barry Gittins

    • Barry Gittins

    Eureka Street columnist Barry Gittins is a Melbourne writer and poet who's worked as an editor, journalist, proof-reader, reviewer and researcher. He is the Melbourne assistant manager of the Salvation Army Australia Museum.

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    Justin Glyn

    • Justin Glyn

    Justin Glyn is a Jesuit priest who grew up in South Africa and migrated to New Zealand in 1998. He has practised law in both countries and has a doctorate in international and administrative law from the University of Auckland. After his ordination he will travel to Canada to study a Licence in Canon Law at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on theology and an adapted version of his Ph.D thesis was published by Presidian in 2009 under the title Fundamental Rights in Administrative Decision-Making: Peremptory Norms as Objective Standards in Immigration and Refugee Cases.

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    Kate Galloway

    • Kate Galloway

    Kate Galloway is a Queensland legal academic who thinks and writes about land law, technology, and social and environmental sustainability. She has a particular interest in the way in which the law affects justice for women, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. As well as publishing and speaking both in Australia and internationally, Kate is a regular blogger and commentator in Australian online media. She is presently associate professor of law at Griffith Law School. She is on twitter as @katgallow and on the web at https://kategalloway.net/

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    Francine Crimmins

    • Francine Crimmins

    Francine Crimmins is studying a double degree of Journalism and Creative Intelligence & Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney. She is on twitter as @frankiecrimmins. Francine is the recipient of Eureka Street's 2017 Margaret Dooley Fellowship for Young Writers.

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    Neve Mahoney

    • Neve Mahoney
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    Neve Mahoney was a student at RMIT university and was a columnist and assistant editor at Eureka Street. She has also contributed to Australian Catholics and The Big Issue.

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    Tseen Khoo

    • Tseen Khoo

    Tseen Khoo is a lecturer at La Trobe University and founder/convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN), a network for academics, community researchers, and cultural workers who are interested in the area of Asian Australian Studies. She tweets as @tseenster.

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    Greg Foyster

    • Greg Foyster

    Greg Foyster is a Melbourne writer and the author of the book Changing Gears.

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    Cristy Clark

    • Cristy Clark

    Dr Cristy Clark is a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. Her work focuses on the intersection of human rights, neoliberalism, activism and the environment, and particularly on the human right to water.

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    Celeste Liddle

    • Celeste Liddle

    Celeste Liddle is a trade unionist, a freelance opinion writer and social commentator. She is the current Greens candidate for the seat of Cooper in the upcoming Federal elections.

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    Dani Larkin

    • Dani Larkin

    Dani Larkin is a Bunjalung woman who grew up on the Aboriginal community Baryulgil. She is an admitted lawyer and has practiced in a variety of areas of law. Dani is studying her PhD in law at Bond University with her thesis topic on 'The Law and Policy of Indigenous Cultural Identity and Political Participation: A Comparative Analysis between Australia, Canada and New Zealand'.

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    Sheila Ngoc Pham

    • Sheila Ngoc Pham

    Sheila Ngoc Pham is a writer, producer and radio maker. She currently teaches public health ethics at Macquarie University and is a PhD candidate at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. She tweets as @birdpham

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    Yen-Rong Wong

    • Yen-Rong Wong

    Yen-Rong Wong is a Brisbane-based writer, and the founding editor of Pencilled In, a literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the work of Asian Australian artists.

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    Daniel Sleiman

    • Daniel Sleiman

    Daniel Sleiman is a freelance writer and journalist based in Canberra.

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    Ramona Wadi

    • Ramona Wadi

    Ramona Wadi is a freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine, Chile and Latin America.

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    David Ishaya Osu

    • David Ishaya Osu

    David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet. His poems have appeared in: Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka, Birmingham Arts Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Watershed Review, The Missing Slate and elsewhere.

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