Bill Browne is head of the Australia Institute’s Democracy and Accountability Program. His diverse research interest areas include truth in political advertising reforms, examining the allocation of discretionary grants and government use of consultants, the use of opinion polling, and the role of the states and the Senate in Australian democracy.

Sarah Cameron is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Griffith University’s School of Government and International Relations. She is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Election Study and an Investigator on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Her research focuses on Australian and comparative politics, including elections, political behaviour and attitudes towards democracy.

Anita Coles is the Committee Secretary to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.

Charlotte Fletcher is a Principal Research Officer with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.

Ian McAllister is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The Australian National University. He has been director of the Australian Election Study since 1987. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Sarah Moulds is an Associate Professor in law at the University of South Australia, Justice and Society Unit, current editor of the Australasian Parliamentary Review, and co-founder of the Rights Resource Network SA. She has teaching and research interests in the area of public law, human rights, counter-terrorism and criminal law, administrative law and anti-discrimination law.

Ben Oquist was the Executive Director of the Canberra-based independent policy think tank, the Australia Institute from 2015 to 2022 where he remains a board member. Ben is a respected policy analyst, political consultant and commentator on Australian politics who now works for the multi-partisan government relations firm DPG Advisory Solutions.

Cheryl Saunders is a Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Her areas of expertise are in the fields of Australian and comparative public law and she has long-standing specialist interests in federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Anne Twomey AO is a Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and a part-time consultant at Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers. She writes and comments in the media on constitutional issues, including federalism, parliament, electoral law, executive power and the reserve powers of the Crown.