Contributors

HUGH WHITE

(‘Relying on Trump’, p.8) is a professor of strategic studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.

RICHARD DENNISS

(‘A Big Dump’, p.10) is the chief economist at the Australia Institute. His latest book is Econobabble.

HAMISH MCDONALD

(‘The New Opium Wars’, p.12) is the Saturday Paper’s world editor. His latest book is Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century.

SYLVIA ROWLEY

(‘Not-church on Time’, p.15) is a British journalist and documentary filmmaker, currently based in Melbourne.

ANTHONY HAM

(‘Back from the Dead’, p.16) is a writer who specialises in wildlife and conservation for magazines and newspapers around the world.

KAREN HITCHCOCK

(‘The Medicine’, p.19) is a doctor and Monthly columnist. Her most recent work is the Quarterly Essay ‘Dear Life’.

RICHARD COOKE

(‘Arrested Development’, p.20) is a writer, broadcaster and contributing editor to the Monthly.

ANN ARNOLD

(‘The New Black’, p.28) is a journalist with ABC Radio National.

MARK MCKENNA

(‘The Character Business’, p.36) is a professor at the University of Sydney. This essay will appear in A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton, to be published in June.

MARGARET WERTHEIM

(‘The Science Question and Feminism’, p.42) is a science writer and curator. Her books include Pythagoras’ Trousers and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace.

ANWEN CRAWFORD

(‘Climax Isn’t the Point’, p.46, and ‘Who’s the Boss Now?’, p.54) is the Monthly’s music critic and the author of Live Through This.

FRANK BONGIORNO

(‘This Storied Land’, p.50) teaches history at the Australian National University. His books include The Sex Lives of Australians and The Eighties.

SHANE DANIELSEN

(‘A German Comedy?’, p.52) is a screenwriter and former artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

OSLO DAVIS

(‘In Light of Recent Events’, p.58) is an illustrator, artist and cartoonist.