To balance the youthful exuberance offered by our reporters we will have weekly analysis from our seasoned experts. Our experts are ready to break down the issues to provide a deeper understanding of the political wonderland that will be unfolding infront of us.

• Drew Ambrose

  
  Drew Ambrose began his journalism career in 2005 with an SBS TV cadetship after completing RMIT University's Professional Communication degree. Since then he has worked as a news reporter and current affairs producer for World News Australia, Insight, Living Black, Asia Pacific Focus, and Australian Story. At just 21 Drew was the first Jakarta correspondent for ABC's international channel Australia Network. Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, he filmed and edited television stories completely alone across the archipelago as a video-journalist. Drew's work has won a number of industry awards including a Melbourne Press Club Quill and a United Nations Media Peace Award. He won a 2010 Young Australian Journalist Award in the online category for his coverage of Victoria's Black Saturday Bushfires.

• Shant Fabricatorian

  
  Shant Fabricatorian is a News Editor with Alternative Media Group. Having worked as editor for the Sydney City News, he is also the founding editor of the Inner West Independent, a monthly community newspaper distributed in the Leichhardt LGA. Launched in July 2009, the Independent provides a stand-alone and unique alternative blend of local news, events and profiles for residents of the inner west. In addition to his print work, Shant is a tutor in media law, ethics and politics at UTS, and also hosts ‘Neighbourhood Watch’, a weekly foreign correspondents’ show on Radio 2ser. As well as its comprehensive network of local correspondents located in five continents, Neighbourhood Watch talks with a variety of journalists, academics, authors and activists, covering international news which does not receive adequate prominence in the mainstream media.

• Anna Klauzner

  
  Anna Klauzner wears many hats. She is a journalist, editor, producer and multimedia reporter. After completing an Arts Media and Communications degree at the University of Sydney, she has gone on to work at ABC’s Q&A, Four Corners, Network Ten News, and Vibewire’s journalism portal. She writes on politics, technology and the arts for a range of publications, here and abroad. Outside the world of journalism, Anna is involved in the Australian film industry and was the editor and post-production producer on a soon-to-be released feature film set in Sydney’s Bondi Beach. In 2007, Anna spent a semester in Paris where she studied film and worked in the French indie music scene. She speaks French and Russian, loves reading and is looking forward to the Federal Election!

• Sarah Falkiner - Left Right Think Tank

  
  Sarah Falkiner loves to read, has a disconcertingly strong interest in politics and has been known to talk the ear off her friends when really passionate about an issue. She is a Melbourne native, but loves to travel and spent three months in Ghana as a volunteer teacher in 2006. Sarah graduated last year from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Political Science and is currently the Victorian Policy Manager for Left Right Think Tank.

• Rachel Maher

  
  Rachel Maher has worked on a range of media production and training projects in Australia and abroad. She studied documentary film and television at the Victorian College of the Arts and has produced video, radio and written content for broadcast and publication on a range of platforms. Rachel broadcasts regularly on Australian community radio as part of the production team of environment program, Earth Matters. She has freelanced as a producer for Radio New Internationalist, ABC Radio National, SBS and the Pacifica Network in the USA. She recently worked at newmatilda.com and with the international media development agency, Internews in Sri Lanka.

• Catriona Menziespike

  
  Catriona Menzies-Pike is a Sydney-based writer, editor and researcher. She completed a PhD in modernist literature at the University of Sydney in 2005 and taught English and American literature to undergraduates across Sydney for several years before shifting to work in independent media. Catriona was associate editor at newmatilda.com and has extensive experience as an online editor. Passionate about exploring new ways for writers and journalists to use digital technologies, Catriona is currently completing a Masters in Interactive Multimedia at UTS.

AYAC – Australian Youth Affairs Coalition

The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition (AYAC) is Australia’s non-government youth affairs peak body, which seeks to represent young people aged 12-25 and the sector that supports them. AYAC boasts a growing membership of State and Territory youth peak bodies, national youth organisations, researchers, policy makers and young people themselves, who are all passionate about creating an Australian community that supports and promotes the positive development of young people.

AYAC and its members are dedicated to working for and with young people and seeks to ensure that they have access to mechanisms which allow them to make decisions about issues that affect them in the Australian community. You can find out more about AYAC on our website www.ayac.org.au