Joe Prevedello

Experienced government affairs, politics and communications professional.

Joe Prevedello is currently the CEO of the ACT Master Plumbers Association and has worked as Communications Director for the Australian Forest Products Association and as an adviser to conservative politicians in the federal, ACT and Northern Territory parliaments.

Joe also worked as a radio journalist, rugby league commentator, tour operator and guide and currently presents programming on Canberra radio station 2CC.

From regional NSW originally, Joe is passionate about national pride, limited government and promoting the importance of small business.

The Honourable Tony Abbott AC

Former Prime Minister of Australia.

Hon. Tony Abbott AC was elected as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia in 2013. His administration repealed the carbon and mining tax, boosting the country's resource-led economy. Economic liberalisation continued in the form of free trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea. Mr Abbott also secured Australia's borders, halting the people smuggling trade from Indonesia. And he put Australia front and centre of the fight against Islamic State, becoming the second largest military contributor to the US-led campaign. Australia also took centre-stage in international politics when Mr Abbott chaired the G20 meeting of global leaders in Brisbane in November 2014.

In 2020 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia, and in 2022 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

Currently, he is a director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial, a visiting fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and the Danube Institute and is a Board Director at FOX Corporation.

Dr Bradley Thayer

Author and commentator.

Dr Bradley Thayer is a Fellow at the American Freedom Alliance. He is a Founding Member of the Committee on Present Danger China, and a widely published author and commentator on the global threat from the Chinese Communist Party. His writings have appeared in many outlets including at American Greatness, Realclearpolitics, Realcleardefense, and at @Bradthayer.

Benjamin Harnwell

International podcast editor and political commentator.

Since 2021, Ben has served as the international editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room, the number one ranked US political podcast.

Before that, he ran the historic 83,000m², 800-year-old Abbey of Trisulti, nestling in the Apennine mountains outside Rome, which was the home of the Academy for the Judeo-Christian West. This project was an attempt to defend the Judeo-Christian West through the re-evangelisation of the political sphere.

Joel Gilbert

Documentary film maker and president of Highway 61 Entertainment.

Joel Gilbert is a documentary film maker based in Los Angeles and president of Highway 61 Entertainment, as well as a political commentator and foreign policy analyst. He is also an investigative journalist who writes for The Gateway Pundit, and is credited for exposing New York Attorney General Letitia James for her mortgage fraud. Gilbert was an advisor on the Ted Cruz for President campaign.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Senator for the Northern Territory.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was elected to the Australian Senate in 2022 as the Senator for the Northern Territory. She is dedicated to representing the people of the Northern Territory and advocating for Australian families and communities across the nation. Senator Price is committed to pushing back against divisive activism that she believes is making life harder for everyday Australians. She is focused on reversing the decline under the Albanese Labor Government and advancing a common-sense policy agenda that will see Australia thrive once again.

Daniel Wild

Political commentator and IPA Deputy Executive Director

Daniel provides intellectual and cultural leadership through his analysis and regular commentary in the media, where he appears on all of the major television and radio networks, and is featured in all major newspapers, as well as having built a substantial social media following through the IPA. Prior to joining the IPA, Daniel served in the federal public service in the Department of the Finance and Deregulation, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where he led the Abbott government’s deregulation agenda. Daniel was the Liberal Party’s candidate for the Division of Spence in South Australia at the 2025 election, where he achieved the highest-performing result for the Liberal Party in that state.

Maurice Newman AC

Prominent Australian businessman.

Maurice has long been recognised for his leadership and influence in Australian business with a career of over 50 years in stockbroking and investment banking. He has served in a range of advisory and public roles including Chair of the ABC, Chair of the Australian Securities Exchange, Chancellor of Macquarie University, Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Australia NZ and Chair of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council among many others.

Steve Baxter

Australian investor and entrepreneur.

Steve is a patriotic Australian, a proud Queenslander, and a former soldier. He helped found two successful telecommunication businesses and is now an early-stage investor in innovation, with investments ranging from ed-tech to fin-tech to his latest in sovereign Australian defence technology. He spent four seasons on the Channel Ten show Shark Tank Australia and was Queensland Chief Entrepreneur for a year, and started community ventures encouraging entrepreneurship.

John Roskam

Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.

John has served as Executive Director of the IPA and The Menzies Research Centre, a lecturer in politics at The University of Melbourne, and the Government Relations Manager at Rio Tinto. He is the author of a number of works including 'Why Australians voted No to the Voice', has written regularly for The Australian Financial Review, and is an Honorary Fellow of Campion College.

Senator Alex Antic

Liberal Senator representing South Australia in the Federal Parliament.

Alex is a Liberal Senator for South Australia, a former commercial lawyer and Adelaide City Councillor, entering federal parliament in July 2019. Alex is a strong advocate for freedom of speech, limiting bureaucratic red tape, countering political correctness, and holding the government to account. He is a regular guest on Sky News Australia and various independent media outlets where he speaks about issues relating to freedom and getting involved in the machinery of politics to make a difference.

Moira Deeming MP

Member of the Victorian Parliament.

Moira Deeming MP was elected to the Upper House in the Victorian state parliament in 2022. Prior to entering parliament, she was an advocate for parental rights, women’s rights, and she spoke out against the sexualised programs in schools, at great cost Moira continued to advocate for these in parliament. Moira has also long advocated for Melbourne's working class western suburbs which have been taken for granted and neglected by the Andrews and Allan Labor governments. Moira is dedicated to defeating Labor at the 2026 state election.

Julian Martin

Leading brand strategy and market research expert.

Julian is Managing Partner of BrandCentral, a Sydney based branding and research consultancy. Julian’s experience spans all major consumer and business categories as well as research for Governments, Political Parties, Industry Associations and Advocacy Groups. Julian’s work with ADVANCE includes qualitative research for the No campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum.

Mia Schlicht

Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.

Mia Schlicht is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, specialising in law and energy policy. She is a regular commentator on Sky News Australia, where she discusses issues ranging from immigration and national defence to the negative impact of renewable energy infrastructure on rural communities. Her analysis has appeared in The Australian Financial Review, The Herald Sun, The Age and The Daily Telegraph, and has also been published in The Australian Law Journal. Mia holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Science from Monash University.

Stephen Doyle

Stephen is the Campaign Director and Strategy Advisor to ADVANCE.

Stephen Doyle is managing director of The Whitestone Group (TWSG), a political and social issues campaign agency. Mr Doyle is a campaign strategist who led the successful ‘no’ campaign in Australia’s 2023 ‘Voice’ constitutional referendum, turning a 60 to 40 loss into a 60 to 40 win. He was the campaign strategist and manager for the ADVANCE Greens Truth campaign, which reduced the Greens to one House of Reps MP.

Matthew Sheahan

Matthew is the Executive Director at ADVANCE.

Before helping found ADVANCE in 2018, Matthew had never worked in politics. He left home in the Lockyer Valley at 18, and was a student, cab driver, small business owner, teacher, farm hand and the Deputy Master of King’s College at UQ. Since becoming Executive Director, ADVANCE has become the largest and most influential grassroots political movement in Australia, leading the successful No campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum, as well as delivering a massive blow to the Greens at the 2025 federal election.