Books, Journals and Excerpts

A group of protestors with large banner that reads Keep Uranium in the ground, Socialist Youth Alliance.

Leave it in the Ground: Union Bans and Uranium Exports in the 1970s

Read about the history of opposition to uranium mining in Australia in the 1970s and early 1980s regarding union bans and uranium exports.

What is the Difference between Advocacy and Activism?

Find out the difference between advocacy and activism in this book chapter published in 2022 by Jane Johnston and Robyn Gulliver.

book cover - title is Data for Social Good. There is a patterned background of purple leaves swirling.

Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

Practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects.

Book cover that reads - Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance. Letters are in red neon lights.

Subvertising: Sharing a Different Set of Messages

Exposing the manipulation and damage wrought by the advertising industry and outline the ways in which subvertisers are fighting back.

book cover that reads - Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing. The text is written in red writing over the US Constitution document.

Constitutions: How To Build Durable Groups

Looking at building a group? Here are key questions that any group should consider and define during its formation.

Cover of Robert Cialdini's book Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade.

Activism and Pre-Suasion

Lessons for activists on how to be more persuasive and effective, drawing on the book Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini.

Draftmen Go Free: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement in Australia

An in-depth account of the hundreds of campaigns and actions that were carried out across Australia against the war and conscription.

Defying Censorship: The New Theatre and Till The Day I Die

Read an excerpt from the book, The New Theatre: People Plays and Politics Behind Australia’s Radical Theatre.

Vida Goldstein, a woman wearing a hat and a black coat holding pieces of paper. The main one at the front resting on the lower half of her body reads Votes Women. Torture! In order of Home Secretary

Changing The World: The Women’s Political Association

The story of Vida Goldstein & the Women’s Political Association through their own words via a series of excerpts from speeches & publications.

A large group of men on strike sitting on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in front of one of the opera house sails. Some are wearing hard hats

How Workers Defeated Anti-Strike Laws in the 1970s

Read an excerpt from the book, Without Bosses: Radical Trade Unionism in the 1970s, about workers retaining the right to strike.

Book cover - Title reads 'Aboriginal Changemakers: Stories of self determination and empowerment'. There is an indigenous design on the left in black and white.

Aboriginal Change Makers: Stories of Aboriginal Self-determination and Empowerment

Stories and event about the role of Aboriginal Change Makers in the fight for equality and a more just society for all of us.

Close up of two Opera House building sails or the triangular parts of the building. On one reads NO WAR in red paint and there are people standing on top of the sail. They are silhouetted against a blue sky with faint white clouds.

No War Opera House Graffiti Action: An Interview with Dave Burgess

Interview with Dave Burgess who graffitied No War onto the Sydney Opera House to show opposition to the war in Iraq in 2003.

A 89 year old woman wearing a hat, knee length coat and dress stands in bare feet in the water of a bay holding an umbrella standing in front of a pile of dumped sand being tipped out of a truck

Fighting for the Foreshore: The Campaigns to Protect Mounts Bay and Kings Park

Read an account of Perth’s first two major conservation campaigns, the preservation of Kings Park bushland and the survival of Mounts Bay.

Strikers walking along a rocky beach next to the water holding signs. One reads Equal rights for all workers.

Defending Unionism: The Weipa Dispute, 1995

Learn how workers in Weipa forced a mining company to accommodate collective bargaining by combining strike action and a port blockade.

Brave Enough to say ‘No’: William White and the Fight against Military Conscription during the Vietnam War

Learn about the teacher, William White, who fought against Military Conscription during the Vietnam War in Australia.

Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years

Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.

Graph showing the Movement Action Plan developed by Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan and Four Roles of Activism

Learn about and understand the ups and downs of social movements from Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan and the Four Roles of Activism.

book cover with illustration of swirling leaves. Text reads World Protests A study of Key protest issues in the 21st century

New Study Reveals a World of Growing Protests

A recent study verifies an increase in the size and frequency of protests and paints a fascinating picture of the characteristics of protests around the world.

Changing Beliefs Through Action at the Point of Assumption

How can activists reframe debates & beliefs? By challenging the assumptions that underpin them using powerful actions at points of intervention.

workers sitting on steps outside Opera House

The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In

Learn about the Sydney Opera House ‘work-in’ carried out by construction workers who expelled management & continued work under workers’ control.

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