“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
This week Professor Muhammad Yunus visits Australia. Professor Yunus received the first-ever Sydney Peace Prize in 1998, eight years before winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Events and lectures are sold out, but Professor Yunus will appear on ABC Q&A on Monday 3 April.
In the wake of President Trump's travel ban, and the subsequent uncertainty surrounding Australia's refugee deal with the US, 2014 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Julian Burnside joined Radio Adelaide to weigh in on the rise of nationalism and the growing
2011 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Professor Noam Chomsky has been incredibly vocal about the dangers posed by a Trump presidency, well before the primaries and certainly after the inauguration. The below two interviews illustrate Chomsky's view on how the United States' unique
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.
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
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
By Dr Vandana Shiva, recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize We live in times whose signature is violence – from the killing of 134 innocent children in Peshawar to the massacres of 2000 by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the 17 in Paris just in the