Louise C. Johnson is an Honorary Professor at Deakin University. A human geographer, she has researched and published on city access and inclusion, manufacturing workplaces, the Indigenous absence in Australian urban planning and the dynamics of Australian regional economies. Her books include Placebound: Australian Feminist Geographies (2000), Cultural Capitals (2009) and, with Sue Jackson and Libby Porter, Planning in Indigenous Australia (2018). In 2011 she received the Institute of Australian Geographers Australia and International Medal for her contribution to urban, social and cultural geography.

Tanja Luckins is a historian in the Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published on memory and war; material and popular culture; cosmopolitanism; food and drink cultures; and the 1960s. Her books include The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War (2004) and, with Diane Kirkby and Chris McConville, The Australian Pub (2010).

David Walker AM, FASSA, FAHA is Professor Emeritus at Deakin University, holds honorary positions at the University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University and was inaugural BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University. His most recent books are Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region (2019) and Not Dark Yet: A Personal History (2011).