speakers

 Here’s a list of speakers coming to share their ideas, thoughts and aspirations to Close Pine Gap and for the anti-militarism and decolonial movements more broadly going forward. More info coming soon.

Auntie Sue Haseldine

I am a Googatha woman from Ceduna in South Australia. I have been fighting for Country, culture and animals for a long time. I am the President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA). I will continue to fight for the rights of the planet and future generations against anything and everything that threatens them.

 

Professor KAthryn GilbEy

Professor Kathryn Gilbey is an Alyawarre Arelhe with close kinship and family ties across Central Australia. Professor Gilbey is an experienced academic and researcher, specialising in First Nations knowledges, inclusive education and critical race theories.

    Karina lester

    Karina Lester is a Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman who grew up on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands) in South Australia. Her father, the late Yankunytjatjara elder Yami Lester, was blinded by the ‘black mist’ fallout from the Totem 1 nuclear test at Emu Field in 1953.
    The Lester family has been a stalwart of nuclear resistance for decades.

      Laniyuk

      Laniyuk (she/her) is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji, and French political creative, writer, and performer. Her practice is grounded in cultural, language, and land reclamation.

        Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira

        Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira (they/them) is a Māori and Irish campaigner and community organiser with whakapapa (lineage and ancestry) to Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whakaue and County Kerry in Ireland.

          Nour Salman

          Nour Salman is the Anti-Palestinian Racism Project Lead at APAN. She is a seasoned geopolitical analyst and communications professional, with a history leveraging open-source intelligence and analysis techniques to interpret complex events and security developments in the Middle East. Passionate about social justice and care, she is an active member and advocate in the Palestinian community in Naarm/Melbourne.

            Remah Naji

            Remah Naji is a Palestinian activist with Justice for Palestine Magan-djin who has played a leading role in organising against Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine. She is a member of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network board and a committed unionist and social justice campaigner.

            Rita Jabri Markwell

            Rita Jabri Markwell is a human rights and public interest litigation lawyer and public policy contributor. Over her career, she has worked for Muslim, Aboriginal, and Stolen Generations’ advocacy organisations, and as a ministerial adviser.

              Ahmed Adam

              Ahmed Adam is an artist, writer, and community worker whose practice spans film, photography, critical writing, and African drumming. Born in Sudan, he lived and worked in Mparntwe for twelve years. Now based on Kaurna Country (Tarnantya/Adelaide), Adam is grateful for the connections and learning that Central Australia offered him, continuing to shape his practice.

              Adam’s work investigates capitalism, territories, and memory. His writing follows these traces, moving between classical forms of colonial extraction and what is now called technofeudalism, including the largely unexamined connections between global capital, digital infrastructure, and the violence of militias such as the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

              Adam’s central concerns are the conditions under which certain lives are rendered disposable and what forms of knowledge and resistance survive at the margins. His practice moves between the visual, the sonic, and the written as different registers of the same inquiry.

              Professor Richard Tanter

              Richard Tanter is Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute, and Honorary Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

              Richard has worked on peace, security and environment issues in East and Southeast Asia as analyst, policy advocate and activist since the 1970s. His research has focussed on militarisation, intelligence, and nuclear issues in Indonesia, Korea, Japan, and Australia.

              David shoebridge

              David Shoebridge is an Australian Greens Senator for NSW, and longtime environmental and social justice advocate. He currently holds portfolios in Justice, Defence, and Digital Rights. 

              A defender of human rights, Shoebridge has been outspoken on issues from Gaza to climate justice, challenging corporate power while advocating for grassroots democracy and ecological sustainability. 

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