Carolyn Collins is a research fellow in the University of Adelaide's history department. Her interests include twentieth-century Australian history, women's history and oral history. Her PhD thesis, which combined all three, was awarded the university's Doctoral Research Medal. She has also been a journalist, magazine columnist, and communications manager.
Roy Eccleston is an award-winning journalist with the Advertiser. He has worked at the Courier-Mail, the Age, the Australian, and the Bulletin magazine; and written for Time magazine, and The Times, London. From 2000-2005, he was the Australian's Washington correspondent. He has edited SAWeekend magazine at the Advertiser since 2009.