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Marcus Fielding joined the Australian Army in 1983 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in December 1986. He was commissioned into the Royal Australian Engineers, has held a variety of command, staff and instructional appointments, and has served on operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, East Timor and Iraq.
Thea Gellerfy is an early career researcher with a background in defence industry, working in support of several global military operations. She is pursuing an academic career in strategic studies, focusing on developing more robust methodologies for defence acquisitions.
John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at The Australian National University. A retired Army officer, he is also former head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Andrew Selth is an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia. He has been studying international security issues and Asian affairs for 45 years, as a diplomat, strategic intelligence analyst and research scholar. Dr Selth has published 10 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed works, most of them about Myanmar (Burma).
Caroline Stevenson is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University. Her interests include the China maritime trade to Southeast Asia, Chinese trade ceramics and the Canton trade.
Jennifer Jones is a non-Indigenous woman born and raised on Wiradjuri country in the Southern Riverina district of New South Wales. Her PhD, from the University of Adelaide, examined cross-racial collaboration in Australian publishing history. Jennifer’s ARC post-doctoral fellowship project, examining Aboriginal Branches of the Country Women’s Association of NSW (1956–72), was conducted at the University of Melbourne. She joined the History Program at La Trobe University in 2011, teaching Australian Indigenous studies at Bendigo (2011–15), and interdisciplinary studies at Albury–Wodonga (from 2016). Jennifer’s research interests include Indigenous Australian history, rural and religious history, and histories of childhood and education.
Roy Henry Patterson (1940–2017) was a Taungurung Elder with Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Irish heritage. Born and raised in Healesville, Roy worked in the forestry industry, as a circus hand and as a farm labourer. In retirement, he returned to his ancestral lands at Taggerty, in central Victoria’s Upper Goulburn Valley. Drawn by desire to protect and foster respect for his traditional Country, Uncle Roy worked (2002–17) as an Indigenous Educator at the Camp Jungai outdoor education facility and at Holmesglen Rural Learning Centre at Eildon, where he became renowned for applying traditional knowledge to his cooking and in medicinal interventions. Uncle Roy died on 15 April 2017, and is survived by children Keith, Steven, Jessica and their families.
Nick Bainton is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland. He has been studying the social impacts of large-scale resource extraction in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. He has written widely on the social and political effects of extractive capitalism in Melanesia and beyond.
Kalissa Alexeyeff is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has a background in critical theory and social anthropology and conducts ongoing research in the Cook Islands and Sāmoa in the home islands and diaspora. Her main research interest is the intersection of gender, sexuality and culture in contemporary contexts. She is the author of Dancing from the heart: Movement, gender and Cook Islands globalization (2009) and co-editor of Gender on the edge: Transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders (2014) and Touring Pacific cultures (2016).
John Cox has 25 years’ experience in the Pacific, working as a volunteer, NGO program manager, development consultant and anthropologist. His core work on ‘fast money schemes’ explores the moral and developmental aspirations of the growing middle classes of the Pacific. John has published on gender, politics and developmental challenges in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji, including new communications technologies, sorcery accusations, disaster response and livelihoods. John is an Honorary Lecturer with the School of Culture History and Language at ANU and an Honorary Associate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He currently works at the University of Melbourne on the ARC Laureate Project ‘Future Islands: Catalysing Solutions to Climate Change in Low-Lying Islands’.