Tom Calma is an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and the Iwadja tribal group whose traditional lands are south
Agnes Chong is a lawyer and a co-founder of AMCRAN, the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network, an organisation
dedicated to providing an Islamic perspective on civil rights issues in the Australian context She oversaw the production of
"Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You" -- a booklet explaining people's rights and responsibilities under Australia's new and
complex anti-terrorism laws. Agnes and the other co-founder of AMCRAN Waleed Kadous were nominated for the Law and Justice
Foundation Volunteer Award earlier this year for improving access to justice for marginalised or disadvantaged groups in the community.
Neri Javier Colmenares is currently an Associate of the Asian Law Centre of the University of Melbourne and is finishing his PhD with its
Faculty of Law doing a dissertation on the International Criminal Court and the legal system impediments to the prosecution of human
rights violators in the Philippines. He has been the General Counsel of Bayan Muna (People First Party) since it was organized in 1999
and is currently its 4th Nominee in the 2004 Congressional elections. He is also a human rights lawyer and was a political prisoner for
four years during martial law. He is one of the 10,000 human rights victims in the Marcos Human Rights Case and appeared before
District Court in Hawaii on the issue of the settlement agreement with the Marcoses. He has published articles on the International
Criminal Court and was co-editor of the University of the Philippines Law Center’s World Bulletin Journal on the issue of international
crimes. He is also listed by Amnesty International as a country expert for the Philippines on Universal Jurisdiction.
Ken Davis has been active in the socialist, international solidarity and gay liberation movements in Sydney since 1973. He been
professionally engaged with HIV since 1984, and since 1994 has worked on the international programs of Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA,
mainly on projects in the southern Africa, Middle East and Mekong regions.
Tanja Dreher is research manager at
the UTS Shopfront and a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Cultural Research,
University of Western Sydney. Tanja has completed a CRC-funded research report
on experiences of racism in NSW after September 11, 2001 and is currently
completing her doctorate on news and cultural diversity in western Sydney.
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Michael Head, B.Juris, LLB (Hons) (Monash), LLM (Columbia), PhD (UWS)
Senior Lecturer, Coordinator, Community Law Program at the University of Western Sydney. Having previously taught law at LaTrobe, Adelaide and ANU in the 1970s, Michael Head returned to academic life in 1999 after two decades as editor of a socialist newspaper. His teaching and research interests lie in Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Refugee and Immigration Law and Law Foundation (Law and Society). He publishes articles regularly in the fields of socialist legal theory, civil liberties and refugee law. He also writes on legal and political matters for the World Socialist Web Site. In 2004 he completed a PhD on the passionate legal debates and jurisprudence of the pre-Stalinist Soviet Union, becoming the first PhD graduate from the UWS Law School. Dr Head is editor of the University of Western Sydney Law Review.
E-mail:
m.head@uws.edu.au
Telephone: (02) 4620 3327
Michael Humphrey is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Sociology at UNSW. He has published widely on the themes of multiculturalism, Islam, racism, globalisation, violence, law, human rights and reconciliation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Australia, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. His recent research has focused on atrocity and social trauma and strategies of transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. His current research is focused on human rights and healing in post-conflict societies. His main books are Islam, Multiculturalism & Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora, IB Tauris, London, (1998) and The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: from terror to trauma, Routledge, London (2002).
Email:
m.humphrey@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385 2398
Scott Poynting is Associate Professor, School of Humanities, UWS. He is co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Institute of Criminology, 2004).
Joo-Cheong Tham is an Associate Law Lecturer at La Trobe University. Since the September-11 attacks, he has researched Australia's anti-terrorism laws and has also given evidence to several parliamentary inquiries to such laws. He is also a member of the Civil Rights Network.