Nick is branch president of the NTEU at Sydney Uni and a Senior Lecturer in the English Department
Vivian Honan
Viv is a NSW Teachers Federation member and will speak about their strike campaign against staff shortages
Tom Barnes
Tom is a Senior Research Fellow at ACU and the lead researcher on the report Unlucky in a lucky country: How COVID has exposed social inequity
Owen Magee
Owen is a high school student activist with School Strike for Climate.
Terry Irving
Terry is a radical historian and author of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe.
Sophia Sarkis
Sophia is a Burmese community activist organising to demand the Australian government act against the military following the recent coup
Martin Empson
Martin is a climate activist and socialist from the UK and editor and a contributor to the book System Change not Climate Change
Michael Brown
Michael is a Black Lives Matter activist based in Los Angeles. He will speak on the panel Socialism, the Democrats and the left—the fight for real change in the US
Paul Silva
Paul is the nephew of David Dungay Jnr who was killed in custody and has spent the last five years campaigning for justice for David and other Indigenous people killed in custody
Frank Stilwell
Frank is Emeritus Professor in Political Economy at Sydney University and the author of numerous books, most recently The Political Economy of Inequality