A very private Xmas
We’re excited to be running our last Rebel School of the year: Security Culture & Digital Privacy which seems quite apt on the day that Labor teamed up with the …
Black Lives Matter – still, and always
Always and and always will be Aboriginal Land. Black lives have always mattered. Not just this week, not the last time there was an outrageous beating, or death in custody. …
Covid Not so Safe – the case for conscientious objection
EDIT NOTE 8/5/20 – Yes, this is a long post. We want to provide context for the bigger picture of some data, privacy and surveillance concerns but also outline the …
7 reasons to say no to the Corona Tracing Phone App
Why friends don’t let friends endanger friends We are living through this wild ride together – where things don’t make sense. Some activist groups were the first I saw to …
10 steps for building Community during Corona
This is Alana and Aysha. Aysha has down syndrome. Alana says “I’m wanting people who are unwell to pull back from sending kids to school, going to work, health services and public spaces. It’s serious, it might not be your most important person that doesn’t make it but it will be someone’s.”
FIRES: Give to the grassroots
As the entire continent reels from what may be the worst fires in recent human history, and East Coast capital cities and regions gasp for clean air, we can see …
Vale Bill Ryan
We are at a bit of a loss. In time more words will come. Bill Ryan was a model for aging disgracefully. Using his age and his experience/s to challenge …
Calling all lawyers
We could have started off with a lawyer joke, but honestly we are so very lucky to have had the chance to deal with the best of them in our …
Keep loving, keep fighting
This is an edited transcript of a talk from Progress 2019 on 20th June on a panel convened to discuss Big Ideas for Human Rights – we were lucky to …
Suppression of the right to protest
We were thrilled to be invited to submit an essay to this brilliant collection – Rebalancing Rights – Communities, Corporations, and Nature. What would change if we decided that the …