James brings a unique perspective to Australian politics, shaped by years in commercial radio in Queensland and NSW. He joined Pauline Hanson’s One Nation in 2015 and has been her chief of staff since 2016, helping steer the party’s federal strategy and operations. In 2024, Ashby became leader of One Nation Queensland, heading the campaign into that year’s state election as candidate for Keppel in Central Queensland, the region he has called home since his teens.
Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing
UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland
Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS
Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)
Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister
Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia
Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism
Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)
