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Madeleine Morris is a Melbourne-based reporter for ABC television’s 7.30. She was formerly a presenter for the BBC in London and reported from dozens of countries before returning to her native Australia. She is the author of Guilt-Free Bottle-Feeding: Why Your Formula-Fed Baby Can Grow Up To Be Happy, Healthy and Smart, published by Finch. 

Dr Anita Elias is a medical practitioner with a background in general practice. She trained in individual, couple and family therapy and has specialised and has worked in sexual medicine and sexual and relationship therapy for 20 years. She attained the inaugural Fellowship of the European Board of Sexual Medicine in 2012.

She is head of the Sexual Medicine and Therapy Clinic at Monash Health, and works in the Psychosexual Service at the Women's Hospital, as well as in private practice. She is involved in teaching medical students at Monash and Melbourne Universities, as well as educating health practitioners and the community in sexual issues.

Maree Crabbe coordinates the violence prevention project Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality. The project seeks to support young people and the broader community to critique the messages about gender and sex that are conveyed through mainstream pornography, and to promote understandings of relationships and sexuality that are based on respect, equality, mutuality, communication and consent.

Maree is co-producer and co-director of the documentary films Love and Sex in an Age of Pornography, broadcast on SBS in Australia and in six other countries, and The Porn Factor, broadcast on SBS this year. She is also author of In The Picture – a resource to support secondary schools to address the influence of explicit sexual imagery.

Maree has worked with young people – and on issues affecting young people – for over 20 years. She has developed and delivered programs focusing on sexual violence prevention, sexual diversity, pornography and the prevention of sexually transmissible infections.

Maree’s contributions to public conversations about young people, sexuality and pornography include interviews on television and radio, and articles in online and print media.

Anastasia Powell is a Senior Research Fellow in Justice & Legal Studies, at RMIT University. Anastasia is co-convenor of GeVARA, the Gendered Violence and Abuse Research Alliance, and member of the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. Her research specialises in primary prevention, policy and legal reform addressing violence against women, and includes the books Sex, Power and Consent (2010), Domestic Violence: Australian Public Policy (2012, with Suellen Murray), and Sexual Violence in a Digital Era (forthcoming in 2017, with Nicola Henry). Anastasia's current research examines technology facilitated sexual violence, including image-based abuse and harassment. 

Rachel Payne is the General Manager of Eros Association, the national industry association and advocacy group of the adult retail and entertainment industry. Relatively new to this position, Rachel has been working on campaigns surrounding classification and censorship, as well as discrimination of adult businesses by the banking sector, and exclusion of employment services for adult retailers.

Previously Rachel worked with Fiona Patten MLC in the Victorian Parliament, and held positions at the Family Court of Australia and Centrelink. Rachel holds an undergraduate degree in sociology and politics from Newcastle University, and a Masters in Policy and Human Services from RMIT University. Her interests include censorship, drug law reform, gender, sex and equality.