Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and the author of One Hundred Years of Dirt, which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the National Biography Award.  He is currently the Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper and his recent books are On Money and My Year of Living Vulnerably.

Jess Scully is an advocate for the creative economy and the role of cities in a fair future. She is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney: previously, Jess curated projects including Vivid Ideas and TEDxSydney, worked as a public art curator, policy advisor and magazine editor. Glimpses of Utopia is her first book.

Roy Eccleston is associate editor of SA Weekend Magazine at The Advertiser.  Eccleston began his career as a cadet at The Courier Mail newspaper, and has worked for The Age in Melbourne and Canberra; and for The Australian where he was Canberra-based foreign affairs writer, Queensland bureau chief, Washington Correspondent from 2000-2005, and a staff writer on The Weekend Australian Magazine. He has covered two Olympic Games, a US presidential campaign, and wrote the last cover story for The Bulletin magazine. He has been a contributor for Time Australia and The Times of London, and edited SA Weekend from 2009-20.

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