"We Gasp for Air Among People Who Believe They Are Absolutely Right"

Waleed Aly is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Network Ten’s The Project. He is the author of People Like Us and Quarterly Essay 37, What’s Right? His latest written work, another Quarterly Essay co-authored with Scott Stephens, is Uncivil Wars. 

Tom Ballard is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster, philanthropist and virtue-signaller. He pretended to be cool on the Triple J breakfast show for years, then went on to perform stand-up all over the world and front his own naughty late-night show for #theirABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard. (The program was cancelled because it was too funny). He’s also guest hosted Q&A for some reason, and since 2015 he’s sat down with everyone from Lyle Shelton to Yassmin Abdel-Magied for his political interview podcast Like I’m A Six-Year-Old. 

Tim Dunlop is a Melbourne-based writer. His four books are an ongoing argument with the status quo, taking on the tired ideas of the political class and offering a better way forward. His new book, Voices Of Us, examines the 2022 election and the emergence of independents as a new political force.

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career. He left The Age in 2006 to edit Crikey. After three years there, he moved to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online’s The Drum. He was editor of Meanjin from 2015 to 2022. He now presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National and the ABC podcast Return Ticket. He is the author of Around Australia In 80 Days and The Year My Politics Broke. 

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Bernard Keane has been Crikey's correspondent in Canberra since 2008, writing on politics, media and economics. He is the author of the e-book War On The Internet and co-author of the bestseller A Short History of Stupid, with Helen Razer. He is also the author of the novel Surveillance.

Scott Stephens is the ABC’s Religion and Ethics online editor. With Waleed Aly, he co-hosts The Minefield on ABC Radio National and co-authored Quarterly Essay Uncivil Wars.