Dr Stephen Gapps is a historian with research interests in early colonial Sydney and the Frontier Wars. He is author of The Sydney Wars and Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance. He will speak on the Frontier Wars and his new book Uprising—War in the Colony of NSW 1838-1844.
Rock Haocas
Rock is the co-ordinator of external affairs of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia and will speak about workers, unions and the struggle against French colonialism in a session on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.
Veronica Koman
Veronica is an Indonesian human rights lawyer and West Papua advocate. She will be speaking on a panel on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.
Karina Lester
Karina is a Yankunytjatjara woman and a second-generation survivor of British nuclear tests at Emu Fields. She will speak about her family and community’s role in the anti-nuclear movement.
Ahmed Abadla
Ahmed is a Palestinian from Gaza, co-founder of Palestine Justice Movement Sydney and creator of the Red Inverted Triangle podcast. He will speak on Palestine: strategies for liberation.
Clare Fester
Clare is a socialist based in Los Angeles and a member of Marx21. She will speak on Donald Trump's assault on migrants, trans people and workers and the crisis in US politics.
Simon Assaf
Simon Assaf is Lebanese revolutionary socialist based in London. He reported on the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon for Socialist Worker, writes regularly on the Middle East and is on the editorial board of The Public Source (Lebanon). He will speak via Zoom.
Latoya Aroha Rule
Latoya is a Wiradjuri and Maori researcher, writer and campaigner.
Sameeh Naser
Sameeh was displaced from Gaza City as Israel's bombs rained down, arriving in Australia in December. He will give an eyewitness account of life under Israel’s genocidal onslaught.
Ian Brown
Ian is a Gomeroi activist campaigning against the Santos Narrabri coal seam gas project who will join the panel on What's the alternative to the Voice?
