John Spoehr is Pro-Vice Chancellor - Reseach Impact at Flinders University. He is also Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute. John leads a multi-discplinary team focusing on industry and workplace transformation in the context of technological change and innovation. He is a prominent local commentator on a wide range of political and economic issues. His previous books with Wakefield Press include Beyond the Contract State: Ideas for social and economic renewal in South Australia, Power Politics: The electricity crisis and you as well as the State of South Australia series.
Purnendra Jain is Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. Author and editor of 12 books and numerous scholarly articles on contemporary Asian politics and foreign policy issues, his latest co-edited books are Japan in Decline: Fact or fiction?, Japanese Politics Today: From karaoke to kabuki democracy and Japan’s Strategic Challenges in a Changing Regional Environment. A former President of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, he is currently President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.