Dr Frank Barnaby

Frank Barnaby is Nuclear Issues Consultant to Oxford Research Group in the UK. He is a nuclear physicist by training and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston between1951-57. He went on to work as part of the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council when a university lecturer at University College London (1957-67). He was Executive Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affaires in the late 1960s and Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1971-81. He was Guest Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam (1981-85) and Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1985. Frank is now a freelance defence analyst, and is a prolific author on military technology. Frank is based in the UK.

Dr Ronald McCoy

Dr Ron McCoy is the Co-President of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Ron is based in Malaysia where he has worked for many years. He travels extensively to promote the work of IPPNW and to particpate in international forums on nuclear weapons issues.

Roland Oldham

Roland Oldham is the President of the Association Moruroa e Tatou (Moruroa and Us), an association of former workers from the French nuclear test sites at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. He is a Trade Unionist and founder of the union confederation Confederation Syndicale Independente et Democratique (CSID). Roland is based in Tahiti.

Professor Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is the Senior Vice-Rector for Peace and Governance Programme at the United Nations University. Ramesh Thakur is a political scientist and peace researcher. Professor Thakur is a member of the UNU's senior academic staff and works as part of the University's Peace and Governance Programme.

Rev. Socratez Yoman

Rev. Socratez Sofyan Yoman is MA President of West Papuan Baptist Church. Socratez is based in West Papua.

Senator Lyn Allison

Senator Lyn Allison is the Leader of the Australian Democrats.

Dr Riadh Al-Mahaidi

Dr Riadh Al-Mahaidi is the President of the Australian Iraqi Forum and Head of the Structural Engineering Group in the Faculty of Engineering, Monash University in Victoria.

Prof Joe Camilleri

Joe Camilleri is a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University in Victoria. He is also one of the coordinating voices for the Australian arms of the Global Action to Prevent War (GAPW) network.

James Courtney

James Courtney is the Greenpeace Australia Pacific Peace and Disarmament campaigner

Dr Gillian Deakin

Dr Gillian Deakin is a General Practioner with a strong interest in preventative medicine. With a Masters degree in Public Health she has a focus on societal, environmental and political determinants of health, particularly in the context of war. Gillian is one of the Vice-Presidents of MAPW and the NSW Branch Coordinator

Lauren Giles

Lauren Giles is a student member of MAPW, currently studying medicine at Monash University in Melbourne

Etervina Groenen

Etervina Groenen is a long term community campaigner and human rights advocate,working with refugees from many countries over many years. Etervina was an official spokesperson for East Timor during the 1999 crisis in East Timor, leading the campaign for peacekeepers to be sent into East Timor. She was appoited by President Xanana Gusmao as East Timor's representative from 2000-2001 and appointed by Dr Jose Ramos Horta as Liaison Officer for East Timor's Department of Foreign Affairs from 2001-2002 in the Southern States of Australia. Etervina is currently the East Timor Support and Settlement Worker at North Richmond Community Health Centre and a licenced Lay Minister with the Melbourne Anglican Church.

Dr Marianne Hanson

Dr Marianne Hanson is the Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Co-Director, Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Queensland. Marianne was appointed by Australia's Foreign Minister to the National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament and is the Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Journal of Politics and History. Dr Hanson was a Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford University before she joined the University of Queensland in 1995. She has recently been a Visiting Scholar at the Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues, Department of International Relations at the University of British Columbia, and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Assoc Prof Harry Minas

Assoc Prof Harry Minas is head of the Transcultural Psychiatry Unit at St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne and Director for the Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne. He advises government on the treatment of detainees in mandatory detention.

Assoc Prof Lou Irving

Lou Irving is Director of Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Victoria. In addition, Lou works in developing nations as a physician, most recently earlier this year in East Timor. Lou is a long time member and Victorian State Coordinator of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.

Councillor Carl Jetter

Councillor Carl Jetter is a representative of the City of Melbourne

Miyuki Linsdell

Miyuki Linsdell was born in 1921 in Fukuoka in Kyushu, Japan. She moved to Hiroshima in 1941 with her siblings, and survived the bombing of Hiroshima on the 6 August 1945. Miyuki-san brings us the story of the Hibakusha to remind us of the importance of this anniversary and the work for peace.

Dr Don MacPhee

Dr Don MacPhee is a geneticist specialising in the long term health effects of radiation exposure. Recently retired from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, he is currently based at the Department of Microbiology at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Ruth Mitchell

Ruth Mitchell is a MAPW student member who has strong links with the Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project for IPPNW students. Ruth is studying medicine in Adelaide.

Joy Murphy

Joy Murphy Wandin is a Senior Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri People and is the proud Mother of four adult children and very proud Grandmother of four adored grandchildren. Joy has been involved with Aboriginal Issues for thirty years, has held executive positions across all sectors of Government and is currently a co-chair reviewing the Victorian Government on their implementation of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Joy is an honorary Professor of Swinburne University of Technology and currently holds the position of Chair of the Centre for Indigenous Cultural Arts and Development at the Victorian College of the Arts, Board member of Fraynework Multimedia (Sisters of Mercy) and Co-Patron for Keeping Koori Kids in Catholic Education. Joy is also an Ambassador for BreastScreen Victoria, Australia Day Victoria and an Animis Ambassador for Zoos Victoria. Joy has recently retired as a Commissioner of the Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria, Council Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria, member of the Ethical Standards Committee Victoria Police and member of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Joy operates her own cultural consultancy business "Jarlo Visions".

Dr Ian Newman

Dr Ian Newman is a member of the MAPW Tasmanian branch.

Robert Rands

Robert Rands is an associate member of the Tasmanian branch of MAPW.

Prof Jeffrey Rosenfeld

Jeffrey Rosenfeld is the Professor and Director of Neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University. He has a long standing interest in developing and supporting tertiary health services in the developing world. He has worked in PNG many times and is the Honorary Professor of Neurosurgery to the University of PNG. He is a memeber of the management committee of the Pacific Islands Project of AusAid and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. He has also worked in Rwanda, East Timor, Bouganville, Solomons, Iraq (2004), Vietnam, China, India, Singapore, UK and the USA. He has a large experience of treating landmine victims and is a member of the Australian Campaign to Ban Landmines and has contributed actively to this program particularly in relations to education. He is the immediate past President of the United Nations Association of Australia (Victoria) and National Vice-President and has just completed his triennium as the Commissioner of St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria). He has a particular academic interest in improvng the outcome of the victims of severe traumatic brain injury.

Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff

Tilman Ruff is the in-coming President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia).

Richard Starr

A career diplomat, Mr Starr held the appointments of Australian Ambassador for Disarmament and Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Arms Control and Disarmament from 1993 until 1996. Mr Starr was the chief Australian negotiator throughout the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations in Geneva. He participated in the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference in New York where he was Friend of the Chair on Security Assurances. He was also active in negotiations on a BWC Verification Protocol as a vice chair of the process. From 1990 to 1993, Mr Starr headed the arms control and disarmament area of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been Australian Ambassador in Caracas and in Madrid, and his diplomatic assignments have also included positions in the Australian missions in New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Washington and London. He is now retired from government service. Mr Starr accepted UN invitations to conduct seminars on the CTBT negotiations in 1997 and 1998, chair a 1998 conference in Geneva on the Indian and Pakistan nuclear tests, and review nuclear arms control for UNIDIR's tenth anniversary publication in 1998. At the invitation of the Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO, Mr Starr led the 2003 External Evaluation Team on the development of its On-Site Inspection Programme. Currently he is co-chair of the Commission's external review of the CTBTO's Provisional Technical Secretariat.

Dave Sweeney

Dave Sweeney is the Nuclear Campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation. He is based in the Melbourne office of ACF

Dr Peter Tait

Dr Peter Tait is the MAPW branch coordinator for the Northern Territory.

Bill van Ree

He gained his initial experience in mines and explosive ordnance during twenty three years of military training and experience as an engineering officer in the Australian Army. In 1989/90, he was deployed to Pakistan as the commander a team of military experts sent as part of an international team tasked to assist in training Afghan refugees in mine clearance.  He was touched by their plight and decided to return to Afghanistan as humanitarian mine action worker when military support finished in 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he worked in Afghanistan as a technical adviser, project manager and finally as the National Program Manager for the UN Mine Action Program in Afghanistan. As a consultant on clearing landmines he has been involved in evaluation of design, development, implementation and evaluation of projects in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Laos & Mozambique and spent a short period as the UN Mine Action Program Coordinator in Cambodia. He is currently working with The Packer Turner Research Institute, an Australian research and development institute investigating new technology to improve productivity and safety in demining. He recently was involved in work demining in Iraq, until forced to leave through security concerns.

Dr Adrian von der Borch

Dr Adrian von der Borch is a member of MAPW South Australian branch and long time campaigner on landmines issues.

Dr Sue Wareham

Sue Wareham is the outgoing President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia). Sue has held this role since 1997, but has been actively involved in the MAPW and IPPNW networks since their inception. Sue lives in Canberra and has a very busy general practice.

Anna West

Anna West is a fourth year medical student at the University of Western Austrlaia and winner of the 2005 MAPW Student Competition, with her Powerpoint Presentation on the topic "Nuclear Terror: 60 years on". Anna will travel to Japan later in August to take part in IPPNW led events to commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Mark Zirnsak

Mark has been actively involved in activities relating to the promotion of peace, arms control and disarmament since 1997. He was employed as the Synod Social Justice Development Officer in June 1999 for the Victorian Uniting Church is currently the Director of the Justice and International Mission Unit of the Victoria and Tasmanian Uniting Church. He has been involved in the campaign to ban landmines since 1996. Mark continues to advise the Uniting Church nationally on issues relating to International Humanitarian Law, peace and disarmament. He is the Uniting Church representative on the Minister for Foreign Affairs National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament. Mark was part of the 2001-2002 Australian Landmine Monitor research team and has had national responsibility in the campaign for investigating companies operating in Australia linked to anti-personnel landmine production overseas. In his time with the Uniting Church, Mark also represented the Uniting Church on the Australian Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, acting as co-ordinator for the Coalition in 2001. Mark continues to advise the Synod and actively works on issues of landmines, explosive remnants of war, the small arms trade, and alternatives to military action in resolution of conflicts. From December 1997 to the end of 1999, Mark had been National Religious Network Contact and Victorian Religious Network Coordinator for Amnesty International Australia, gaining broad experience in human rights issues. He was also a member of the Victorian Branch Committee of Amnesty International Australia in 1998-1999. In 2003 Mark was awarded the National Meritous Service Award by Amnesty International Australia. Mark has a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne.