Human rights are for everyone, equally, universally, and forever. Unfortunately in today's world, many people are denied a life in dignity. The challenges to peace and justice are daunting, but now is not the time to falter. 2017 will mark the
Naomi Klein has written a two powerful pieces analysing the flurry of executive orders which have been trucked through by President Trump since his inauguration last month. Klein urges us to see beyond the policies to the administration’s motivation: to create
"If we are to have any hope of making any constructive progress in 2017, all responsible politicians, civil society and business leaders must stand firm and reassert our basic, common values of dignity for all." Writing in the Financial Times as
Most people begin every new year with a sense of hope and and excitement. With recent events throughout the world, many of us also enter this new year with a sense of trepidation. As we move forward to challenges this
On 4 December, 2016, 2016 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Naomi Klein was at Standing Rock in North Dakota when news broke that an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline had been denied. Naomi writes about the joy and relief felt
On 1 December, 2014 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Julian Burnside AO QC gave a stirring speech calling for Australia to uphold it's climate responsibilities. "I have long considered climate change the principal issue facing the world. It is a first-order issue.
2016 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture by Naomi Klein, Delivered on 11 November 2016 at Sydney Town Hall. Naomi Klein's Lecture starts at 25:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20T46qub4VI&t=126s I would like to pay my respects to the elders both past and present of the Gadigal people
At the precise moment that Donald Trump was giving his acceptance speech live, I was in a room packed with a thousand people in Sydney, listening to Maria Tiimon Chi-Fang, a leading activist from the island state of Kiribati. All day I
Did you miss out tickets for Naomi Klein's Sydney Peace Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony. No sweat, a full HD recording of the event is available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20T46qub4VI
On 9 November, 2016 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Naomi Klein appeared in conversation with Lenore Taylor (The Guardian), Murrawah Johnson (Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council), Maria Tiimon Chi-Fang (Pacific Calling Project), Nadine Flood (CPSU) and Shen Narayanasamy (GetUp!) discussing the
Prior to arriving in Sydney to receive the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize, Naomi Klein and her family went up to the Great Barrier Reef to witness the devastating bleaching first hand. In "Under the Surface", a special Guardian film, the award-winning
Senator Pat Dodson was Australia's first Aboriginal Catholic priest and then "the father of reconciliation", but he is apprehensive as he prepares to address the Senate for the first time. Patrick Dodson looks intently into the lens, his brown eyes focused
On 25 June, 2016, The Saturday Paper featured an edited excerpt from Naomi Klein's Edward Said Lecture, discussing the racism that underpins the lack of action on climate change. Naomi Klein is the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize recipient. Tickets for the City of Sydney
This article first appeared in The Guardian on 15 May. Written by Paul Karp. Author and social activist says political action on climate change was lacking ‘and nowhere more so than Australia’ The Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein has criticised
On Friday 11 November Canadian award-winning author, journalist, and activist Naomi Klein will receive the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize at Sydney Town Hall (Click here for tickets here). Below is a selection of books, films, advocacy work and interviews from and by Naomi
On Friday 11 November 2016, Naomi Klein received the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize at Sydney Town Hall. Naomi Klein is a Canadian award-winning author, journalist, activist and one of the world’s leading voices on climate change. Her bold, unapologetic and insightful analysis impressed
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged towards a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has deteriorated since the landmark royal commission
On 17 March 2016, 2002 Sydney Peace Prize Laureate visited Sydney to headline Sydney City Talks to talk about inclusive, sustainable and just cities. A forceful human rights advocate, Mrs Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice,
Paddy Dodson might have been just another scared kid on his first night at boarding school
This piece is based on the 2015 Hamer Oration, delivered by 2014 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Julian Burnside on September 28, 2015. It was published in The Conversation on 28 September 2015. It was with some surprise that I found myself engaged
George Gittoes, the 2015 Sydney Peace Prize recipient, shares some of his latest work with you here. These synthages were created at Syracuse Light Work during his 2013 residency. In these Gittoes combines drawing with photographs from his work at Kibeho
Australian artist Dr George Gittoes AM received the 2015 Sydney Peace Prize: for exposing injustice for over 45 years as a humanist artist, activist and filmmaker, for his courage to witness and confront violence in the war zones of the world,
MEDIA RELEASE Saturday 11 April Australian artist George Gittoes AM has been selected to receive the 2015 Sydney Peace Prize. The Prize will be awarded on Tuesday 10 November at Sydney Town Hall. The 2015 Sydney Peace Prize Jury’s citation reads: George Gittoes AM:
The Sydney Peace Foundation recognises the fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination on the principles of peace with justice. We give our support to Aboriginal people in Australia struggling against overt, punitive policies of assimilation such as the Northern
Australia's federal government is considering abandoning their long-held responsibilities by cutting essential funding to these especially vulnerable areas? Surely the Commonwealth’s commitment to Homelands and Outstations was sealed by the 1967 Referendum? It is quite clear that state governments do not