Contributors

Rebecca Huntley

(“Coming to the parity”, p.8) is one of Australia’s foremost researchers on social trends. She is the author of numerous books, including How To Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference, and is a fellow of the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia.

Bruce Wolpe

(“Presidential care”, p.10) is (nonresident) Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and the author of Trump’s Australia. His report on the US election was filed from Summit County, Colorado.

Don Watson

(“The TV man”, p.11) is an awardwinning author. His books include

The Passion of Private White, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, The Bush and Watsonia, a collection of his writing.

Angela Savage

(“Fledglings”, p.13) is an award-winning writer and the chief executive officer of Public Libraries Victoria.

Sean Kelly

(“How Morrison changed politics”, p.16) is the author of The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison, a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was an adviser to Labor prime ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.

Russell Marks

(“The cost of care”, p.26) is a criminal defence lawyer and an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University, where he completed a PHD in Australian political history. His most recent book is Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia. He lives on Kaurna land.

Ceridwen Spark

(“The head of the house”, p.34) conducts research on gender and social change at RMIT University.

Jock Serong

(“Thinker, tailor, Tesla, sphere”, p.42) is the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. He writes feature articles in the surfing media, and his novels include On the Java Ridge, Preservation and The Burning Island.

Peter Craven

(“The persistence of memory”, p.52) is a literary and culture critic.

Michael Nolan

(“Heady metal”, p.56) is the senior editor of The Monthly.

Kate Jinx

(“The quirk and the dead ”, p.60) is a writer and film curator. She is the features and talks programmer at Melbourne International Film Festival, director of programming at Golden Age Cinema and co-host of the weekly culture podcast See Also.

Michael Williams

(“Noted”, p.64) is the editor of The Monthly.

Tara Kenny

(“Noted”, p.65) is a culture writer and The Monthly’s television critic.

Toni Jordan

(“Life sentences”, p.66) is a Melbournebased writer. Her most recent novel is Prettier if She Smiled More.

Judy Horacek

(“Rear view”, p.66) is a cartoonist, artist, writer and children’s book creator.