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Legal Rupture, Legal Order: Three Stories of Australian Riots

Tilly Houghton was a friend to many at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) and demos journal, and worked on and contributed to this issue of demos journal. We have been gi...

Tilly Houghton

The politics of silence and the precarity of political dissent

Yajo* lived in place that has produced some of the most brilliant, distinguished academics and professionals...

Matthew Mabefam

Kennedy Mbeva

Exclusionary feminist discourse in India, past and present

It was 2017 and Trump had just been elected. Women’s marches had sprung up in many places and on my television screen. The image of thousands of women standing shoulder to shoulder...

Nur Hadziqah

Reading as Resistance: A History of the Read-In

Beneath the shade of large arch’s awnings there is a rectangular window through which you can see out onto rubble. ‘A Bold New Campus’ is how a placard below the window describes i...

Louis Kleé

‘We Just Needed a Place to Live’: Canberra Young People’s Ongoing Fight for Affordable Housing

The history of Canberra can be cut many ways. It is, for all intents and purposes, a history of a semi-alpine valley imposed with the burden of Capitol – scoured clean and designed...

Emma Cupitt

Steve Skitmore

Higher Education Activism Without Vocation

Action on higher education policy is a core aspect of activism at universities. While this work is important and necessary, something is fundamentally missing from our demands and ...

Catherine Claessens

Robyn Lewis

The Privilege of an Activist Upbringing

My earliest memory of parental-encouraged activism is when, at the age of ten my mum told me to go harass the Premier of Queensland. To give context, my mum was involved in the cam...

Lizzie Storor

Redefining Normality with Acts of Everyday Activism

Like many students, I came to university hoping to find a way to make the world a more just and sustainable place. After a few environmental science courses that explored the cause...

Mia Sandgren

Driven by Duty (Or, How to Radicalise Your Friends)

When I was a child, my parents were part of a group called of Friends of South West Rocks. They, along with a few other local greenies, were outraged when the Council approved a de...

Sylvia Gunn

A Way Out of Capitalism

Increasingly, in the books I’m reading and the conversations I’m having—about climate change, about automation and the future of work, about the many current and coming crises—the ...

Siobhan Neyland

Letters to a Law Student Who Cares About Justice

The following notes respond to a prompt asking legal academics at ANU to write a short message to law students who chose to study law because they cared about justice. For such st...

Demos Team

Suppressed in Solidarity

Sumithri Rekha Venketasubramanian. Soo-mi-three (roll the r , short vowel sounds for the first two syllables) Ray-khaa (aspirate the k a slight bit) Veng-cut-uh-soob-ruh-mu...

Sumithri Venketasubramanian

Effective Justice: Reinvesting in the Vulnerable

Australian incarceration rates are at an all-time high, prisons are overcrowded, and the majority of people who spend time in prison re-offend; it is time that prison reform was on...

Phyllida Behm

Same Words, Different Tongues

Humans tend to throw up walls upon encountering ideas we don’t understand. Spectrums of experience are broken down into boxes; identities have their variations chiseled away until ...

Rosalind Moran

Remembering and Forgetting: Australia’s Constructed History

The study of history is in many ways an attempt to learn from the past; in some cases, so we do not repeat its mistakes. Yet we forget all the time, due to neglect, and limited hum...

Matt Rogers

The Gweagle Shield

The first of these two letters was written by Rodney Kelly, a descendent of Cooman, the original owner of the Gweagle Shield. Rodney’s letter was sent to the British Museum, reques...

Rodney Kelly

Reconciling Culture and Feminism

[13/03/2016 10:56] Mum: “Tomorrow is nonbu ” [10:59] Me: “ Nonbu is nombadai right” Mum: “Yep” Me: “The one with the yellow string where we praise men to the stars” Mum: “We pr...

Sumithri Venketasubramanian