Activism
Alternative labels
Political activists
Social activism
Report
On our own terms: emerging insights report. Systems change through lived experience leadership
This report describes in-depth conversations with lived experience and community leaders across Australia, as part of a national project exploring lived experience leadership. The report discusses how lived experience leadership is practised and what it might take to better support and scaffold this work.
Working paper
Skating over thin evidence: the weaponisation of endangered species laws in the Tasmanian salmon wars
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsiderations) Act 2025 is intended to restrict the power of the federal environment minister to reconsider past decisions. This paper proposes that reconsideration timelines are not the underlying problem. The paper details the case of the Maugean skate, highlighting the one-sided process that allows activists to obstruct economic...
Survey Report
Much ado about Gen Z: are young workers really driving corporate activism?
According to this survey report younger generations are extremely cynical about big business’s motivations to jump on social justice bandwagons and some think their employers judge them on their ability to toe a politically correct corporate line.
Article
Business means business: why corporates should avoid social activism
Increasingly, corporations are seen to be moving away from holding shareholders interests as the central goal in order to align themselves prominently with popular causes. Polling shows that the public are increasingly unimpressed by corporate activism and that overall, doing nothing is almost certainly the best approach from a business perspective.
Report
United against algorithms: a primer on disability-led struggles against algorithmic injustice
This research explores how people with disability are collectively responding to the threats posed by algorithmic, data-driven systems - specifically their public sector applications.