| Active: Events and projects for social change - now in Sydney and Melbourne. Designed to be easy to print out to show to those without web access. |
| Activist Rights - Online resources for activists, organisers, lawyers and legal support teams in Victoria.: The Activist Rights website is for people who are trying to create positive changes in their lives and communities. Our aim is to help Australian activist networks and movements face the police and legal system, build resilience against repression and to keep working for a better world. Information is particular to Victoria and Commonwealth Law and current as at April 2004. This site should not be used instead of legal advice. Always seek legal advice. |
| Amnesty International Australia: Amnesty Australia is part of the global movement defending human rights and dignity. We work with people in Australia and our region to demand respect for human rights and protect people facing abuse. |
| Australian Centre for Independent Journalism: "The ACIJ aims to stimulate the production of high quality journalism, especially investigative journalism...and to promote community discussion about the relationship of journalism to political, social and cultural democracy...[a]ctivities of the Centre include the publication of investigative journalism...." |
| Brisbane Domestic Violence Resource Centre: BDVAS offers a free and confidential service for women, children, family members and individuals in the community affected by domestic and family violence in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Emergency contact details included. |
| Celebrate Capitalism: We proudly uphold: Free trade, globalisation, liberty, profit, free speech, technology, universal individual rights, intellectual and material prosperity, private property, rule of law, innovation, creativity, human dignity and happiness. |
| Gay Tasmanian Activist Rodney Croome: Tasmanian-based, Australian gay activist, Rodney Croome, blogs on gay law reform, human rights, social change, life, love and culture. Rodney fronted the long, bitter and ultimately successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania. Thanks to the work of Rodney and many other Tasmanians, the island state has been transformed from having Australia's worst laws and attitudes on homosexuality to having the best. |
| Get Up: A politically motivated movement attempting to enlist like-minded people who want to bring participation back into democracy. By signing up for updates, GetUp members will receive emails alerting them to new campaigns and providing ways of taking targeted, coordinated and effective action |
| Green Left Weekly: Australian newspaper sold by members and supporters of Socialist Alliance and Resistance |
| Greenpeace Australia Pacific: Australia/Pacific branch of the prominent conservation organisation. |
| Human Rights Act for Australia: Want an Australian Bill of Rights |
| Indymedia Melbourne: Melbourne Indymedia is a collective of independent media groups and producers offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of struggles, actions and celebrations. Everyone is a witness. Everyone is a journalist. |
| Indymedia Sydney - don't hate the media... be the media: Reports on politics and events, created by independent activists. |
| Internet Resources for Australian Activists: A directory of links for activists working on a variety of progressive issues. |
| Kate Durham: Kate Durham is an artist who uses her work to help win public support for refugees. |
| Last Superpower: Marxists who think much anti-US "left-wing" thought is not Left at all, support democratic revolutions against fascists like Sadaam Hussein (and those like him who still stand), and think the USA is weaker than ever before, no matter what it likes to pretend. |
| Let's Take Over: Politics and Activism in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Includes the biggest online calendar of events for activists in Brisbane. |
| Network Against Prohibition (NAP) - Northern Territory Chapter: NAP is dedicated to promoting and protecting the health and human rights of illicit drug users around the globe as well as the rights of those living in communities in developing countries who rely on opium, coca, cannabis etc for their survival. We provide computer/internet access, operate an after-hours needle/syringe program and much more for our constituents in Darwin. |
| Pleasure Activism Australia - Home: Pleasure Activism Australia is a not-for-profit community group for sex-positive, pro-feminist people of any gender who believe in advocating consensual sexual pleasure for adults and who believe in the power of consensual sexuality to transform our society. We are inspired by people such as Annie Sprinkle, Carol Queen, Betty Dodson and Tristan Taormino. |
| Reclaim the Night - Women and Children protest men's sexual violence against them: Reclaim the Night came out of women's need to challenge male sexual violence against them and the curfew mentality imposed on all women. It is an event where women work together for social and political change, and to uphold women's rights to a life without fear of violence, harassment and sexual assault |
| Refugees Australia - National Directory: Refugees Australia's National Directory is the most concise listing of Australian refugee groups available on the Internet. Includes quick facts, taking action links and a contacts page with email addresses and phone numbers of groups in Australia. |
| Roads Less Travelled: Lists unpopular or neglected issues and seeming lost causes at home and abroad that demand social justice. |
| Save Helidon Hills: Believes Helidon Hills (South East Queensland) sandstone mining should be slowed |
| Sisters Inside: Works for rights of female prisoners in Queensland, Australia. |
| Southern Adelaide Workers Defence Committee: Trade union activists in Southern Adelaide |
| The Big Issue Australia: Magazine sold on the streets by homeless people - they buy copies for $2, and sell for $4, keeping the difference. |
| The Change Agency: Provide training, workshops and research for activists. Free activist manuals and handbooks online - over 50 documents. |
| The Nick Possum Home Page: Nick Possum is a private eye who is against the Iraq war and lots of other things. He is a possum, with a trenchcoat. |
| The Sydney Social Forum: The Sydney Social Forum is a 3-day conference of politics, open space workshop discussion, debate, strategising, and skill sharing. This site provides reports, resources and information on other Australian and world Social Forums. |
| Whistleblowers Australia: "For those who have exposed corruption or any form of malpractice, especially if they were then hindered or abused, and for those who are thinking of exposing it, or who wish to support those who are doing so." |
| Whistleblowing.com.au (not the same as Whistleblowers Australia): Hosted by former NSW Detective Senior Constable Deborah Locke, author of Watching the Detectives. Her allegations of widespread corruption ultimately helped bring about the establishment of the Wood Royal Commission. |
| Women's Health Queensland Wide health information: Topics include breast cancer, bullying amongst girls, emergency contraception, lesbians' sexual health and pap smears, common thyroid disorders, and weight loss, fad diets and drugs. |
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