Adam has had something to do with Melbourne AWOL and has never had anybody pay to hear him speak. It's rumoured he and Bono have never been seen in the same place at the same time.

Bob Burton is a Canberra based freelance journalist who writes for PR Watch (www.prwatch.org) and edits Mining Monitor (www.mpi.org.au). In 1999 he co-authored with Nicky Hager Secrets and Lies; the anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign.

David Nguyen has been involved with Footscray Community Arts Center since 1996. He is the writer and producer of Dragon's Lair, the first play to explore young Vietnamese people and heroin culture. He broadcasts weekly on 3CR's Vietnamese Misfits and is the harm reduction co-ordinator at VIVAIDS.

Deborah Kelly has been producing dissenting cultural communications projects for over 15 years. Her most recent, 'Hey, hetero!' in Sydney in March 2001, was one of the biggest public art projects ever mounted in Australia.

DJ Toupee is a Melbourne DJ. She started the website www.femmebots.com, a database of Australian female DJs, and has been involved in various projects that bring together female DJs.

Duff is a Melbourne comedian. He shot to fame during this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival after pieing himself and hugging Steve Bracks in the tradition of Operation Dessert Storm.

Elizabeth Lukin is an owner/director of Essential Media Communications, a media management/public affairs company. She has worked on many high profile political campaigns including the MUA dispute, the AMWU Fair Trade campaign, and numerous anti-Kennett campaigns.

Fiona Katauskas has been a cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald and has contributed to Strewth magazine.

Gavin Sullivan is a lawyer and activist with an interest in housing, squatting, and autonomist politics. He has recently been working with the Sydney Housing Action Collective [SHAC] and South Sydney City Council to develop Australia's first caretaker housing policy.

Jagjit Plahe is an activist from Kenya where she was involved in advocating on trade and human rights issues, as well as the overall impact of multilateral development institutions on social justice. She was actively involved in the Debt campaign in Kenya and on issues related to the World Trade Organisation.

Jason Matthew Gibson teaches in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology and is currently media editor for The Paper. His principle interests are media policy and media activism.

Jock Given is a Senior Research Fellow at Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research. He is currently completing a second edition of The Death of Broadcasting? Media's Digital Future.

John Hughes is Commissioning Editor for Documentary at SBS Independent. Gabriel Lafitte has been actively working with Tibetans for over 20 years to assist them in their struggles. Through his experiences he offers an offbeat critique of modernity and its compulsions, the new corporate economy and the manufacture of new human needs.

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist and activist, living in Australia. He has worked around the world organizing conferences, lists, workshops and publications. He has written widely about media and net culture and strategies.

Julia Scott is an SBS Radio programmer.

Kate Armstrong is a hiphop femcee based in Melbourne. She has been teaching free-styling and breakdancing/ hiphop dance for a number of years, and directed the hiphop musical Bass Anger in 1999.

Kate Munro is a descendant of the Kamilaroi people of NSW around Caroona. She is studying professional writing/journalism and has been a broadcaster with 3KND, Melbournes Koori Radio Station, since 1998. She is currently a reporter for the Koori Mail, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper.

Lachlan Musicman is the luckiest boy alive (says Lachlan).

Lisa Bellear is an Indigenous poet, writer and activist. She broadcasts weekly on 3CR's Not Another Koori Show and writes and performs her poetry regularly around Australia.

Lou Smith is an artist and activist who was intimately involved in the creation and production of the Newcastle festival 'Cultural Stomp'.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international best-selling book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. For the past six years, Ms. Klein has travelled throughout North America, Asia, Latin America and Europe, tracking the rise of anti-corporate activism.

Nancia Guivarra is a Bindal Juru and Meriam woman and a board member of Gadigal Information Services incorporating Koori Radio, the new voice of Australias largest urban Aboriginal community, in Sydney. She is also the presenter of 'Awaye!', Radio Nationals only Indigenous arts and culture program.

Natasha Cho is Australian-born Chinese. She is a writer, editor and zine-maker. Last year, she helped to start up Yellow Kitties, a social/support group for Asian lesbians. She has 2 life ambitions: 1) to get her collection of short stories published, and 2) to win Cleo magazine's award for Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year.

Nicole Skeltys is originally from Canberra and is one half of B(if)tek, a Melbourne-based techno outfit responsible for starting the WINK Activist Awards. She also DJs independently and as Artificial with DJ Toupee.

Peter Lane has been involved with community television for over 20 years.

Sam g who is best known for her DJing work and her program 'Headcharge' on 3RRR FM, is also in demand as an 'introducer of the speaker', having MCed at various festivals and events including Media Circus 1999...

Scott Mcquire is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include: interactions between media technologies; architecture and urbanism; cinema and digital technology; media-based arts; and theories of media, modernity and postmodernity.

Tiga Bayles is a Birri Gubba man, from the Northern Queensland coast country. He has been involved in Indigenous land rights struggles and Indigenous radio broadcasting since 1976. He is currently the manager of 4AAA Murri Country Radio in Brisbane and is the Chairperson of the National Indigenous Radio Service.

Tony Birch is a writer who also teaches >history at the University of Melbourne. His most recent publication is 'The last refuge of the "Un-Australian"' for UTS Review, forthcoming.