Bruce M. Smyth is Professor of Family Studies with the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Michael A. Martin is Professor of Statistics in the School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; and Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee at the Australian National University.

Mandy Downing is a Ngarluma Yindjibarndi woman and an Associate Professor with Curtin University in Western Australia, Australia; Co-Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; and the Dean of Indigenous Futures at Curtin University.