“The truth telling is to liberate everyone. It’s to liberate us from our own sense of superiority or to liberate us from our sense of oppression… and we’ve got to deal honestly with this if we want to create a
In 2017, the Black Lives Matter Global Network received the Sydney Peace Prize for building a powerful movement for racial equality and courageously reigniting a global conversation. We recently caught up with Rodney Diverlus who accepted the Prize in 2017
During her time in Australia to accept the 2019 Sydney Peace Prize on behalf of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke spoke with Vogue Australia's Clare Press about the origins of Me Too, the viral hashtag, and how work to
2018 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Professor Joseph Stiglitz joined GetUp!'s Future To Fight For podcast for a chat about inequality, globalisation, and some of the myths that hold us back from great economic policy.
Peter Dutton is arguably the most powerful person in the country. In his new ministry he has oversight for national security, for the Federal Police, Border Force and ASIO, for the law enforcement and emergency management functions of the Attorney-General’s
This article is written by 2014 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Julian Burnside AO QC. It appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of 25 March 2018. What does it say about the state of our democracy when it falls upon everyday people
This talk was presented by 2016 Sydney Peace Prize Laureate Naomi Klein, at an official TED conference in September 2017. Things are pretty shocking out there right now -- record-breaking storms, deadly terror attacks, thousands of migrants disappearing beneath the waves
This article is written by Melina Abdullah, #BLM Organizer and Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles. It is the first in the Black Lives Matter Everywhere series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and
The Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLM) will be awarded the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize in November. The Movement for Black Lives, of which BLM is part, has galvanised the globe from California to London to Australia, and #BlackLivesMatter has
Next month 2016 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Naomi Klein is releasing her new publication No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need! We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, wage all-out war on