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Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister, a human rights and refugee advocate and an author. He practices principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law. He has been involved in some of Australia's most significant and seminal court cases. In 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "... service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the Arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law." On the podcast we discuss the Australian Government's treatment of refugees and Indigenous Australians, amongst other things.

Tom Latham has been, among other things, a professional musician, businessman, designer and a journalist. In the 1960s he worked for Radio Hong Kong. He also established a company which represented Sichuan Province in Australia for textiles, clothing and footwear. On the podcast we discuss some of Tom's experiences and views on China.

Dr Christopher Gyngell is a Team Leader and Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His interests lie primarily in the ethical implications of biotechnologies and the philosophy of health and disease. He was previously a fellow at the University of Oxford and was awarded his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University. On the podcast we discuss, amongst other things, the ethical and societal implications of using the gene editing tool, CRISPR.

Rayhangul Abliz is a Uyghur Muslim from East Turkistan (Xinjiang). Her parents are, along with millions of other Uyghurs, incarcerated within concentration camps in China. Rayhangul came on the podcast to talk about her parents and the issue more broadly.

Frederik Vervaet is an Associate Professor in Ancient History at Melbourne University. He received his PhD from Ghent University, was a Fellow at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at Oxford University. Frederik has written extensively on Roman Public Law, including a book on The High Command in the Roman Republic: The Principle of the Summum Imperium Auspiciumque from 509 to 19 BCE.