Michele Harding: Mother of fallen Australian hero, Reece Harding, who lost his life whilst trying to save the lives of others' when clearing landmines in Rojava Kurdistan (northern Syria).
Rev Bill Crews: Minister of the Uniting Church Ashfield, NSW, and Founder and Chairman of the Exodus Foundation, which serves around 800 meals a day to the needy, and also operates a multipurpose Health & Outreach Centre.
Rev Bill Crews has a popular radio program Sundays 9pm to 12 midnight on 2GB 873AM in Sydney. Listen at 2GB.COM (Photo courtesy of 2GB Radio station)
Julian Burnside AO QC: A leading Australian Human Rights lawyer and refugee advocate, author, recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and Order of Australia. In 2018, Julian Burnside produced a documentary called Border Politics in which he travels around the world visiting refugee camps and interviewing leaders of organisations concerned with refugees and asylum seekers.
The film can be rented and/or purchased HERE
Profesor Ofra Bengio: Head of Kurdish studies at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, and lecturer at Shalem College, Jerusalem. Her many books in Hebrew, Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish include The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State Within a State (2012) and the forthcoming Kurdistan's Moment in the Middle East.
