James Allan holds the oldest named chair at the University of Queensland where he is the Garrick Professor of Law.  He is a native born Canadian who practised law at a large firm in Toronto and then at the Bar in London before moving to teach law in Hong Kong, New Zealand and then Australia.  He has had sabbaticals at the Cornell Law School and the University of San Diego School of Law in the US, at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Dalhousie Law School in Canada (where he was the Bertha Wilson Visiting Professor of Human Rights), and at King’s College Law School in London, England.

Allan has published widely in the areas of constitutional law, legal philosophy and bill of rights scepticism.  His books include The Age of Foolishness: A Doubter’s Guide to Constitutionalism in a Modern Democracy (Academica Press, 2022), A Principled Constitution? Four Skeptical Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022, co-written with Larry Alexander, Steven Smith and Maimon Schwarzschild), Democracy in Decline (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014) and (as co-editor and one contributor) Keeping Australia Right (Connor Court, 2020).  Allan also writes regularly for weeklies and monthlies including being a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia and Quadrant and a sometime contributor to The Australian, Law & Liberty and The Conservative Woman.  As a majoritarian democrat he was absolutely delighted by the Brexit vote.  And as a conservative law professor he has spent almost all of his working life in orthodox left institutions.

Professor Allan has published widely in the areas of legal philosophy and constitutional law, including in all the top English language legal philosophy journals in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, much the same being true of constitutional law journals as well. Professor Allan also has a sideline interest in bills of rights; he is opposed to them. Indeed, he is delighted to have moved to a country without a national bill of rights. He has been actively involved in the efforts trying to stop one from being enacted here in Australia. Professor Allan’s latest book is Democracy in Decline (published mid-2014). Professor Allan also writes widely for newspapers and weeklies, including The Australian, The Spectator Australia and Quadrant, and since arriving here in Australia he has given or participated in more than 80 lectures, debates and talks.

Roger Karge, businessman from Melbourne with an interest in ‘truth-telling’ in Australian, colonial and Aboriginal history. Editor of the Dark Emu Exposed website. Current project is ‘truth-telling’ on the Misinformation, Disinformation and No-information rampant in the Voice Referendum campaigning.

Anthony is a researcher at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University in Sydney. His research interests are positive psychology, conceptualization of mental health, wellbeing, and Aboriginal education. He is active as a social commentator on Aboriginal issues and is regularly asked for interviews and his opinion in the popular media. As a researcher, commentator, and practicing psychologist, he regularly provides guest lectures to psychology students at universities and other professional bodies on Aboriginal psychology.

Richard Peppard is a clinical neurologist.  He has been a popular lecturer on medical topics for decades.  He continues to train undergraduate medical trainees and post-graduate specialists.  He has an academic degree as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Melbourne.

He has run as the Liberal Democratic Party candidate for Melbourne in the last federal election, and for Hawthorn in the last state election.

His earliest memories of his own country has included our Australian aborigines.  His ancestors helped create and fought for the nation that has become modern Australia.  Together with any new migrant who embraces this country, he is convinced Australia becomes the native land of all who can say, like Sir Walter Scott,

“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land!”

Having given serious consideration to the referendum question, he can address the arguments. He seeks, like others, for a better way than this constitutional change to improve Aboriginal welfare and continue with our multicultural, fair society.