Captain Mitchell Lindsay is an Infantry Officer posted to the Defence Cooperation Program in PNG as the liaison officer to the Joint Force Academy. He previously served as a platoon commander with the 5th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment and the North West Mobile Force as the Adjutant. 

Captain Jonathan Tegabwasa is the Papua New Guinean Instructor at the Royal Military College of Australia. He has served in the Second Battalion, Royal Pacific Islander Regiment as a Platoon Commander and later as the Unit Adjutant. He has also served at Headquarters PNGDF as the Aide De Camp to the Chief of Defence Force and recently as the Staff Officer Grade Three at the Officer Cadet Training Wing, Joint Forces Academy in Igam Barracks. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College and is currently an Instructor with Second Class.

Major David Allison is a legal officer with Australian Army Legal Corps.

Julian Hohnen is a former Infantry Lieutenant Colonel with operational service in Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel and Lebanon.

Dr Richard Fletcher is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London (Qatar). After more than 20 years living and studying in China and the Near East (most recently in the Persian Gulf) he has returned to Australia. His specialities include cultural and physical anthropology, geospatial applications, remote sensing, and the use of historical intelligence sources.

Mike is a 30-year member of the ADF. In 2023 he is Director General Reserves at AHQ. Concurrently he is a consultant where he supports and enables Defence and industry performance. He assisted the last whitepaper as a member of the minister’s 6-person expert panel. Mike has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Defence and industry revitalising our approach to sovereignty, supported state government’s defence industry strategy, and aided business and universities to build Defence-relevant capabilities.