BEHIND THE PODCAST

Josh Bornstein - Narrator

Josh Bornstein is the Director of Corporate Regulation at The Australia Institute. Prior to joining the Australia Institute, Josh was an award-winning lawyer and the national practise leader of the employment and industrial relations team at Maurice Blackburn for 29 years.

He is an honorary adjunct associate professor at UTS and a member of the Victorian Racing Tribunal. He is also a director of the Australian Society of Authors. His book, ‘Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech’ was published by Scribe in 2024.

Josh’s grandparents fled Poland, arriving in Australia in 1938.

Katherine Biber - Collaborating Historian

Katherine Biber is a legal scholar, historian and criminologist and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her latest book, The Last Outlaws: The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia, was published in 2025 by Scribner (Simon & Schuster), and was preceded by an award-winning podcast trilogy also titled The Last Outlaws, made in collaboration with descendants of Jimmy Governor. Katherine has been collaborating historian on four History Lab podcast productions.

Katherine teaches and researches the laws of evidence, particularly photographic evidence, documents, and histories of evidence. She is author of the books In Crime’s Archive: The cultural afterlife of evidence (2019) and Captive Images: Race, crime, photography (2007), and co-editor of the book Law’s Documents (2022) and Evidence and the Archive (2017), The Lindy Chamberlain Case (2009) and Playing the Man (1999). Until recently, Katherine was co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Crime, Media, Culture.

Sara Dehm - Collaborating Historian

Associate Professor Sara Dehm is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney whose research focuses on migration law, international law and refugee protection.

Her work explores how legal systems regulate mobility, produce inequality and shape histories of displacement, borders and state power.

Olivia Rosenman - Writer and Producer

Olivia Rosenman is an award-winning audio producer and journalist. She specialises in narrative documentary and her work has been commissioned by publishers including Google, ABC, Monocle, Bauer Media, Newscorp, and The Wheeler Centre. Prior to working in audio, Olivia was a reporter with Storyful news agency, and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak - Collaborating Academic

Professor Ana Vrdoljak is a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and International Law and Co-Coordinator of the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network on Culture in Emergencies at the University of Technology Sydney specialising in international law, human rights and international humanitarian law. Her research examines the protection of culture and cultural heritage in conflict and post-conflict settings, alongside broader questions of legal accountability and reparations.

Ana is the author of International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects (Cambridge University Press, 1e 2006, 2e forthcoming), ‘Human Rights and Genocide: The Work of Lauterpact and Lemkin’ European Journal of International Law (2009). She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on International Cultural Heritage Law (Oxford University Press 2020) and The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions. A Commentary (Oxford University Press 2024). She is general editor of the Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law and OUP book series Cultural Heritage Law and Policy.

Melissa May - Sound designer

Melissa May is a freelance sound designer and audio engineer. Collaborating on the production of audio features, podcasts and radio documentaries. The process of making audio stories through podcasts is what she loves to do, bringing them to life by creating an immersive aural experience.
She worked at ABC Radio National for more than 20 years making features, live radio, outside broadcasts, radio dramas and podcasts.

More recently, she’s collaborating on podcasts for Impact Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney, Monash University the University of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Australian Sports Commission.

Eloise Chandler - Senior Research Associate

Eloise Chandler is a researcher and writer who loves diving into archives and collaborating across disciplinary divides. Eloise is currently midway through her doctorate, which spins off from her work on this project: a critical legal history of state secrecy in Australia.

Sarah Gilbert - Executive Producer at UTS Impact Studios

Sarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and researcher. She started her media career as a copygirl at News Ltd, and went on to writing features for the New York Post and guidebooks about Argentina for Lonely Planet. She has researched, produced and directed a number of history documentaries for Australian television, and is the author of Unconventional Women: the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia. Sarah is executive producer at UTS Impact Studios.

Benjamin Vozzo - Website Designer

Benjamin Vozzo is a digital specialist who brings impact-driven stories and ideas to life online. He has worked with environmental movements including WWF’s Earth Hour in Singapore and Australia, as well as conservation organisation Citizens of the Reef, and collaborates with UTS Impact Studios. He created the websites for the UTS Impact Studios podcast series The Last Outlaws before working on this site for Emergency Exit.