Independent Journalism in Today’s Political Climate

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher.

Soaliha Iqbal is the social media editor for Ette Media. She has worked in Australian media for seven years and was nominated for Young Writer of the Year at the 2023 Mumbrella Publish Awards. She’s written for SBS, Missing Perspectives, PEDESTRIAN.TV, Junkee, and others. She’s also appeared as a guest on BBC Radio, ABC Sydney Radio, Triple J, FBi Radio and more. You also might’ve heard her on the Book Smart podcast, the Big Small Talk podcast, Flex Mami’s Semi Factual History Lessons podcast, Abbie Chatfield’s It’s A Lot podcast, and her own podcast Here’s The Thing, Tho.

Antoun Issa is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and co-founder of Deepcut News.

Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. She has also been a visiting scholar at the ANU’s Humanities Research Centre. She is the author of Anxious Histories (2015) and co-editor of Refugee Journeys (2021), and her criticism and essays appear widely in Australian publications.