Close Pine Gap

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.

  • Professor Kathryn’s UQ website

Barb Shaw

Barb Shaw is a descendant of the Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu people. She lives at Mount Nancy Town Camp, a prescribed area since 2007 under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (the Intervention), and was one of the main spokespeople in the fight against the Intervention.

She is the deputy chair of the CLC, Chair of the Aboriginal Investment NT, a director of the Eynewantheyne Aboriginal Corporation, and founding member of Aboriginal Housing NT.

Justice Not Jails

Justice not Jails is a grassroots community group on unceded Larrakia Country who take action against “tough on crime” agendas that are targeting First Nations communities. This is a diverse group of passionate individuals from all walks of life who actively oppose the injustices faced by Aboriginal people under policies of the CLP Government. Everyone is welcome.

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.

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.

Gem Stone

Gem Stone is a trans antizionist Jewish nurse who lives between Arrente and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung lands. She is part of the Loud Jew Collective and Mparntwe for Falastin.

Jesse Boylan

Jesse Boylan (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer and educator based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, whose practice spans photography, video, and sound to explore nuclear legacies and slow violence. Jesse also works with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and teaches within the School of Art at RMIT University.

Oongi Barb Flick

Oongi Barb Flick is a Yuwaalaayi/Gomeroi/Bigambul woman.

She comes from a family of activists for social justice and Indigenous rights.   Barb has had many years of experience working in the non-government and government sectors across a wide range of issues.

She served as Secretary on the Interim NSW Aboriginal Land Council and also served as Secretary of the National Federation of Land Councils and in her role addressed the Inquiry into the Sizewell B Nuclear Power facility in Suffolk, England.

She has always had an interest in the issues confronting other First Nations Peoples with a similar history of colonisation and has visited Canada, Aeoterora (New Zealand), Papua New Guinea, Kanaky (New Caledonia), China and the United States of America. She is concerned about the ongoing trauma that colonization has had on Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Rim.

Nathalie Farah

Nathalie is a passionate advocate, writer & political campaigner from the Swana region. She is a proud descendant of a long line of resistance fighters. She resists through storytelling, spoken word and staunch political action with the Anti-Militarism Action Network (AMAN)

Vince Scappatura

Vince Scappatura teaches Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, and is author of ‘The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy’. His research interests include Australian and American foreign policies, the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Middle East politics. He is a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) and a supporter of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

For a number of years, Vince has been researching the impending US B-52 nuclear-capable bomber deployment at RAAF Base Tindal, and what this deployment means for Australia’s shifting military policy, particularly with respoect to nuclear weapons.

Hannah Thomas

Hannah Thomas is a lawyer, activist, former Greens candidate and survivor of police brutality.

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.