Physicist and biographer of
Sir Ernest Rutherford.

Professor of Political
Science, City University,
Hong Kong and convenor
of Power for Democracy.

Polemical writer, author of
Pip Pip: a sideways
look at time.

Historian and biographer,
columnist for The Hindu,
cricket expert.

South East Asia Project
Director, International Crisis
Group, Indonesia. Specialist
in human rights in Asia and
frequent media commentator

Philippe Legrain author of
Immigrants: Your Country
Needs Them (2007).

Independent scientist,
environmentalist, originator
of the Gaia Theory, described by
New Scientist as one of the
century's greatest thinkers .

Indigenous leader, first
female principal chief
of the Cherokee Nation.

Professor, Nutrition, Food
Studies and Public Health,
New York University,
author of What to Eat.

Freelance science journalist,
former science editor of The
Guardian.

Journalist, deputy editor of
Private Eye, author
of How Mumbo-Jumbo
Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.

Director, Centre for Rural &
Regional Innovation,
University of Queensland

NASA scientist and Director,
Canberra Deep Space
Communication Complex

Director, Workplace
Research Centre, University
of Sydney

Indigenous educator,
Director, Yunggorendi First
Nations Centre, Flinders
University

Journalist and lawyer,
Victoria's first Privacy
Commissioner

Director, Centre for
International Governance
and Justice, Australian
National University

Dr Clifton is the Director of
CSIRO's Nutrition Clinic, which
was established in the mid 1980s

Professor of Human
Geography, University
of Sydney

Former Environmentalist of
the Year, member
of the Wentworth Group of
Concerned Scientists,
Director of Land & Water
Australia

Founding editor, National
Indigenous Times

author of American Hoax,
and member of The Chaser team.

Tim Harcourt is the chief
economist of the Australian
Trade Commission (Austrade).

Australian Research Council
Professorial Fellow and
Emeritus Professor in the
Department of Sociology,
Flinders University in Adelaide.

Director, Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies,
Australian National
University

First Australian ordained
rabbi, patron and founder of
the Council of Christians and
Jews, Jewish historian

Director, Asian Law Centre,
University
of Melbourne

Philosopher and Executive
Director, St James Ethics
Centre

Feminist and lecturer,
School of Politics and
International Relations,
University of New
South Wales

Managing Director, Austhink,
intelligence expert and
author of Thunder from the
Silent Zone: rethinking China

Satirist and wanker from the
The Chaser's War
on Everything, ABC TV

Senior Research Dietician,
CSIRO and co-author
of the best-selling CSIRO
Total Wellbeing Diet

Professor, Department of
Medicine, University
of Melbourne

Former federal government
adviser and speechwriter

China correspondent,
Australian Financial Review

Journalist and presenter of
the Health Report,
ABC Radio National

Author of Traumascapes.
The Power and Fate
of Places Transformed by
Tragedy

Journalist and National
Security Editor, Sydney
Morning Herald, co-author of
Dark Victory

Senior writer with The
Australian, and author of Dirt
Cheap: Life at the Wrong
End of the Job Market