Activists - Stories_Accounts about/by Individuals

Book cover - Title reads 'The town that said no to AGL: How Gloucester was saved from coal seam gas'. The title overlays a photo of a person wearing a hat with their arms held up in a cross in front of them.

Groundswell Gloucester: Fighting and Winning against Fracking

Insights into how a grass roots community campaign based in Gloucester Valley, NSW scored a major victory against the Coal Seam Gas industry.

Kathryn McCallum hands out climate policy scorecards at a polling booth in Macnamara electorate in Melbourne during the 2019 Australian federal election. There is a cardboard stand that reads 'This is the Climate Election'.

Power and Agency: Lessons from Ten years of Climate Campaigning

Kathryn McCallum, an Australian Climate Campaigner, shares her lessons from ten years of climate campaigning in this talk given in 2023.

A portrait of Frank Hall-Bentick. He has short hair, is wearing glasses and is wearing a jumper with a red collar shirt. The text heading reads 'A Patient Man'. The text paragraph reads 'Frank Hall-Bentick has spent almost forty years fighting for the rights of people with disabilities. As part of the Disability Resources Centre’s Leadership Series, he speaks to Anja Homburg about his life and work.'

Disability Advocates and Campaigners in Australia: Frank Hall-Bentick

An interview with Frank Hall-Bentick. Frank was one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated disability advocates and campaigners.

Carly Findlay- a woman with a red face and short dark curly hair, tied up in a colourful scarf. She’s wearing a pomegranate print dress over a grey top. She’s smiling. Yellow text on a blue background reads All about Carly Findlay: Writer, Speaker, Disability and Appearance Activist. There are yellow wavy lines on the top and bottom of image and yellow and red dots above Carly's head.

All about Carly Findlay: Writer, Speaker, Disability and Appearance Activist

Learn all about Carly Findlay-writer, speaker, disability and appearance activist in Australia-through her books, articles, podcasts & videos.

All about El Gibbs: Disability Advocate

Learn all about El Gibbs, an Australian Disability Advocate, through her writing and books, podcasts and webinars.

Digital portrait of Alice Wong, an Asian person smiling. She is wearing a trach at her neck and wearing a crew neck blouse. She is sitting in her power wheelchair. There is a cream colored circle crown on a purple background. Artist credit: Jen White-Johnson

Disability Visibility: Stories and Podcasts

Stories & podcasts about disability rights, social justice, advocacy & intersectionality by Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project.

podcast cover. Title reads Yarning Disability with the First Peoples Disability Network FPDN. In the centre is an illustration of four circles connected by four curved lines. In the bottom left hand corner is a photo of podcast host Bernard Namok, a proud St Paul, Badu, and Erub Torres Strait Islander man, wearing headphones at an audio control desk. He is smiling.

The First Peoples Disability Network: Yarning Disability Podcast

Stories of First Nations peoples living with a disability to highlight the lived experiences of First Nations people with a disability in Australia.

All about Judith Heumann: Disability Rights Activist

Books, videos and podcasts to learn more about Judith “Judy” Heumann. She was a disability rights activist in the United States.

Bryan Law wearing a white hat and suit in his theatre costume of 'peace preacher' being interviewed by a news reporter. A cameraman is filming him. There is a van in the background with anti-war slogan.

The Peace Preacher as Anti-War Organiser in Regional Australia

A personal account of Australian activist, Bryan Law, the ‘Peace Preacher’. Learn about his anti-war campaign and its execution.

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.

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

Learn about the teacher’s, William White, fight against Military Conscription during the Vietnam War in Australia.

Uncle Kevin Buzzacott stands in front of a large banner depicting a black hand against a red and yellow nuclear symbol.

Interview with Kevin Buzzacott

Kevin Buzzacott is a key figure in the opposition to the South Australian Olympic Dam mine and the nuclear industry in general. In this interview he outlines a number of the creative actions he has taken part in as part of a series of campaigns addressing the issues of dispossession and Aboriginal sovereignty.

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