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- Navigating disinformation, uncertainty, individualism and the poison apple of conspiracy
- If nothing changes nothing will change: the Voice referendum
- What can we learn from disaster communities?
- New year, a time to embrace the uncertainty of it all
- We could be non-binary
- Adaptive resilience vs safety paternalism
- Left wing, right wing? What just happened to politics?
- Covid, class and the addiction to certainty
- Neoliberalism, the Life World and the Psychopathic Corporation
- Democracy is about our bodies, not just our minds
- What’s your motivation: is it yourself or the change you’re making?
- Mind over matter: The world of abstraction is driving us to destruction
- The real threats to our liberty and survival
- Avoiding the abyss of conspiracy theories
- The difference between a legal system and a fantasy novel
- What’s a conspiracy and what’s just common garden variety corruption?
- Unpredictability, humility and an emerging anthropandemic
- The trilemma – climate change, economic collapse, and rising fascism
- Happy New Normal for the decade ahead
- Fires, liars and climate deniers
- The race to the bottom in australian politics
- Talking about lock-on devices – an article in ‘The Conversation’
- The Ponzi scheme is teetering
- Regenerative culture a key part of the blockade experience
- Staying sane in the late Anthropocene
- Extinction Rebellion
- Major parties have failed on climate, it’s time to rebel.
- Elections In The Late Anthropocene
- It is the Greens that are defeating the Nats and it’s all about your preferences
- Australia’s powerhouse of democracy and innovation is in the Northern Rivers
- Is identity politics a problem for the left?
- The climate emergency and the awful state of Australian politics
- Democracy and rights under threat in corporate police state
- Liberty, freedom and civil rights? Do any of us understand these things anymore.
- The forest wars are back, time to mobilise
- …more commentary
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- A Flood of Emotions – Sydney Ideas Event
- Participatory democracy in the COVID era – SCU podcast
- Activism educator Aidan Ricketts explains how and why protests can be peaceful
- Bob Brown Is Taking “Shocking” Anti-Protest Laws To The High Court
- Anti protest laws could arrest nannas, seize tractors
- “They blinked first”
- Colin Barnett quick to protest against ‘activism degrees’ – The Australian, 16/10/2014
- ‘Degrees in activism’ put brake on growth – The Australian, 15/10/2014
- Magistrate throws out vexatious police case against CSG protesters
- Outrage over school PR ‘by stealth’- The Northern Star
- CSG clash a certainty
- Communities use new tactics
- Gas group attacks lecturer
- …more media
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- Navigating disinformation, uncertainty, individualism and the poison apple of conspiracy
- If nothing changes nothing will change: the Voice referendum
- What can we learn from disaster communities?
- New year, a time to embrace the uncertainty of it all
- We could be non-binary about a lot more than gender
- Adaptive resilience vs safety paternalism
- A Flood of Emotions – Sydney Ideas Event
- Left wing, right wing? What just happened to politics?
- Participatory democracy in the COVID era – SCU podcast
- Covid, class and the addiction to certainty
- Neoliberalism, the Life World and the Psychopathic Corporation
- Democracy is about our bodies, not just our minds
- What’s your motivation: is it yourself or the change you’re making?
- Mind over matter: The world of abstraction is driving us to destruction
- The real threats to our liberty and survival
- Avoiding the abyss of conspiracy theories
- The difference between a legal system and a fantasy novel
- What’s a conspiracy and what’s just common garden variety corruption?
- Unpredictability, humility and an emerging anthropandemic
- The trilemma: climate change, economic collapse, and rising fascism
- Newkind Festival: Australia’s masterclass for social change.
- Happy New Normal for the decade ahead
- Fires, liars and climate deniers
- The race to the bottom in Australian politics
- Talking about lock-on devices – an article in The Conversation
- The Ponzi scheme is teetering
- Study activism and count it towards your degree.
- Regenerative culture a key part of the blockade experience
- Staying sane in the late Anthropocene
- Enabling Emergence: The Bentley Blockade and the Struggle for a Gasfield Free Northern Rivers
- Extinction Rebellion
- Major parties have failed on climate, it’s time to rebel.
- Elections in the late Anthropocene
- It is the Greens that are defeating the Nats and it’s all about your preferences
- Australia’s powerhouse of democracy and innovation is in the Northern Rivers
- Is identity politics a problem for the left?
- The climate emergency and the awful state of Australian politics
- Liberty, freedom and civil rights? Do any of us understand these things anymore.
- Democracy and rights under threat in corporate police state
- Put the Nats last or lose your rights to protest
- The forest wars are back, time to mobilise
- Elections as far as the eye can see
- New Green shoots beginning to emerge
- Is Australia really this conservative?
- Individualism, is it just a consolation prize?
- Study Activism and count it toward your degree!
- Three corrupt sectors that distort our economy
- Algorithms of Change – Politics in the Pub
- Now more than ever: non-violence and positive change
- Challenging times ahead, we need to build unity in diversity
- Hung parliament: An outbreak of democracy.
- The future of Capitalism, Democracy and Activism in Australia
- Political donations the essence of corruption
- For sale: your right to protest.
- NSW addicted to old habits
- Senate voting reform causes a flurry
- Anti protest laws could arrest nannas, seize tractors
- Bob Brown Is Taking “Shocking” Anti-Protest Laws To The High Court
- Roadside drug tests a big fail
- Prohibition, it begins and ends with violating our rights
- Climate change, think globally respond regionally
- People power not pollies kept us gasfield free
- Activism Leader: Bentley Blockade will go down in history
- The perfect storm – Shenhua and the Liverpool Plains
- Sovereignty at stake in TPP
- High Noon in the Nthn Rivers: Metgasco Vs Everybody Else
- Rapid Onset Fascism
- Public Interest Advocacy ~ Summer Law School ~ 13-18 Dec, 2015 ~ Byron Bay
- Metgasco vs the people
- When injustice becomes the law
- Upper House to vote on CSG moratorium
- Activism and social movements, an eternal part of human evolution
- Not a single gas license cancelled yet…
- Compensation for democracy? No way!
- Preference whispering or vote scamming?
- The nightmare returns, but the solution is simple
- It’s mining vs democracy with Bairds COALition
- Social media as a tool in social movement campaigns
- The people stopped the Gasfields, the government failed us.
- Too late for state government to change its spots now
- Gasfields still threaten most of the region, how will you vote?
- Renewed threat of gasfields following state election
- Forest crisis goes well beyond koalas
- Round Three in the battle to save our native forests
- Gloucester Dreaming
- NIMBY’s, blow ins, and professional protesters
- NSW gas plan mostly hot air
- Rally a great display of direct democracy
- “They blinked first” – Speech at Northern Rivers Gasfield-Free march 1st Nov 2014
- Colin Barnett quick to protest against ‘activism degrees’ – The Australian, 16/10/2014
- ‘Degrees in activism’ put brake on growth – The Australian, 15/10/2014
- Earth laws & regional community environmentalism
- Beyond the Ballot Box – FedTalks
- Can we be a totalitarian democracy?
- The corporatisation of democracy
- Greens. Reboot. Future. A weekend of great speakers and big topics.
- When profit trumps democracy
- Hypocrisy the greatest luxury? Don’t buy the hype!
- Stop CSG Sydney – talk by Aidan Ricketts
- Activism part of the fabric of life
- Protest lies at the heart of democracy
- Time to cancel all gas licenses in the Northern Rivers
- Reclaiming democracy
- What part of ‘consult’ does Metgasco not understand?
- Bentley is everybody’s victory
- B Day at Bentley – a political solution, or a democratic hand grenade?
- Bentley Blockade: a timely warning to all resource investors
- Bentley and social movements: an interview on BayFM.
- Politics + corruption = mining under martial law
- Bentley Blockade: mining vs democracy
- Show up at Bentley
- People power holds the line at Bentley
- Watch out for early signs of fascism
- The politics of ‘extreme energy’- the bigger picture
- Time for Metgasco to admit defeat and back down
- Democracy vs corporate survival
- Investment Risk: An Amplification Tool for Social Movement Campaigns Globally and Locally
- 16 Nov 2013 – Bentley, NSW – NVDA Workshop
- Invasive Gasfields: The people vs Metgasco (Round 2)
- Magistrate throws out vexatious police case against CSG protesters
- Invasive Gasfields: Its one minute to midnight but communities can win
- Finding New Ways to Protect Our Local Ecosystems
- Study community activism this summer at Byron Bay – 2013
- Stay calm, feel empowered
- The lucky country is fast becoming a crime scene
- Outrage over school PR ‘by stealth’- The Northern Star
- Report from the National Toxics Network – April, 2013
- Aidan Ricketts at the Melbourne Writers Festival
- Destroying the Joint? – The Melbourne Writers Festival
- Digging a Hole – The Melbourne Writers Festival
- Stokers Siding Direct Action Workshop
- Tara Surge
- Activist Workshop at Parliament House, Sydney
- The market, in action.
- Adelaide Activist Skillshare Workshop
- The Good Fight Against Coal Seam Gas
- The Good Fight Against Coal Seam Gas
- What a difference direct action makes: resistance thrives on persistence
- Environment protesters turn to corporate law – ABC Radio Law Report
- Environment protesters turn to corporate law – ABC Radio Law Report
- If the law is an ass are we obliged to obey it? – Northern Rivers Echo
- The death of a thousand cuts: using multiple tactics to overwhelm your opponents
- Risky Business – Al Jazeera’s report on CSG in Australia
- Glenugie protestors to fight on – Northern Rivers Echo
- CSG doco screens worldwide on Al Jazeera
- CSG protest to continue despite police blockade raid – ABC North Coast
- Top cop praises protestors but defends arrests – Northern Star
- Protesters Ready for Long Haul – Northern Star
- The great gas invasion is doomed to fail as communities unite and fight
- Speaking to the committed at Glenugie
- Resurgence review
- The Ecologist review of The Activists’ Handbook
- People power vs CSG, the year in review
- Lismore meeting a barometer of betrayal
- Gas company swaps social license for jackboot diplomacy
- Woodford Folk Festival event featuring Aidan Ricketts
- Bangalow training for non violent direct action against CSG
- Training for peaceful direct action training against CSG
- Gas industry shoots the messenger over methane emission evidence
- The climate crisis is a Copernican moment for our society
- Gas body fired up over reports of methane gas leaks – SMH
- We Are the People
- CSG clash a ‘certainty’ – Northern Star
- Conflict inevitable as gas mining is forced upon unwilling communities
- Contaminated sites and accidents related specifically to CSG/LNG in Australia
- Solidarity for Bradley Manning
- National Party the biggest losers in CSG debacle
- NSW government mere puppets of gas industry
- Extreme Coal in the UK
- Chain Reaction Magazine: The power of locking your gate
- Study activism and count it towards your uni degree
- Newcastle Workshop – Sat 14 July, 2012
- Lismore residents CSG vote
- The power of locking your gate
- Rock the Gate! movie trailer
- Activist training at The Channon June 24, 2012: Non-violent direct action for Gasfield Free communities
- The ‘How To Guide’ for declaring your community gasfield free
- Communities use new tactics to go CSG free
- Organising for community resistance to CSG
- Registration open for Ross House Campaign Training Day, Melbourne
- Direct Action and the CSG-Free Community Strategy: an activist training resource
- Naomi Blackburn reviews The Activists’ Handbook
- Activist trainer undeterred by ASIO threat
- Gas group attacks SCU lecturer
- 3 May, 2012 – Wilderness Society Victoria event
- Community declares itself Gasfield Free!
- Activist School on Weekend Sunrise
- Protest School on Seven News
- Gas Lobby Criticises Activist
- Activocracy: You are what you do
- Workshop at the Sphinx Rock Café – April 28th, 2012
- The emerging movements against coal seam gas
- Exporting a piece of Northern Rivers activism to the world.
- 2 April 2012 – ABC local radio
- Building capacity – training and the CSG-Free group
- Doing it by the book
- The CSG-Free Community Strategy: A new approach to community defence
- March/April 2012 – CSG-Free training in Lismore, NSW
- Vanuatu Chicken Battery Update
- March 25, 2012 CSG Free Workshop, Grafton, NSW
- March 11 2012 – CSG-Free Northern Rivers training workshop
- Planning and Mapping your Campaign – a guide for local action groups
- Vanuatu chicken battery and abattoir
- Empowerment and Personal Sustainability – avoiding burnout and keeping your group afloat.
- The life cycle of activists
- Social Movements and the Role of Activists
- The Activist’s Handbook
- What is so different about the CSG- free campaign?
- Inaugural CSG free Northern Rivers activism and campaign workshops at Keerong Valley
- Activism and campaigning workshop Huon Environment Centre Huonville, Tasmania
- Study Community Activism – 2011
- Summer Law School – 2010
- Encouraging student collaboration and engagement online: showcase of online course design
- Teaching constitutional law to Fiji students: law order and the rule of what?
- Threshold concepts: ‘loaded’ knowledge of critical eduction?
- Corporate claims to fundamental rights: life liberty and immunity to commercial regulation
- Teaching constitutional law to Fiji students
- Corporate liability for manslaughter: the need for further reform
- Renewable energy issues in the South Pacific
- Online education in the South Pacific
- Theatre of protest: the magnifying effects of theatre in direct action
- Changing the world: a step by step guide to community activism
- Theatre of protest: the magnifying effects of theatre in direct action
- Threshold concepts in legal education
- Directors duties to the company and minority shareholder environmental activism
- Police powers in the premier state, or the premiers police state
- Om gaia dudes, the North East Forest Alliance old growth forest campaign
- Freedom of association or guilt by association: Australia’s new anti-terrorism laws and the retreat of political liberty
- The Forest Protest Protocol : an outbreak of participatory democracy : an historic agreement between police and environmental protesters in NSW
- Third party rights in NSW environmental legislation: the backlash
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