Grassroots, protest, and "direct action" activities, opinions in the culture wars, community work and community development, visiting the sick and feeding the poor, Marxism, reformism, social-democracy, leftism, pseudo-leftism, militant reformism, pacifism, armed revolution - If it has an opinion, and its Australian, then this is the category. Conservatives welcome, fascists excluded.

Websites on Activism

  • Internet Resources for Australian Activists -A directory of links for activists working on a variety of progressive issues.
  • Active.org.au -A directory of events and projects for social change. Includes links to Indymedia sites in major cities.
  • Roads Less Travelled -Lists unpopular or neglected issues and seeming lost causes at home and abroad that demand social justice.
  • 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
  • The Big Issue Australia -Magazine sold on the streets by homeless people - they buy copies for $2, and sell for $4, keeping the difference.
  • Human Rights Act for Australia -Want an Australian Bill of Rights
  • Australian Centre for Independent Journalism -Aims to stimulate the production of high quality journalism, and to promote community discussion about the relationship of journalism to political, social and cultural democracy.
  • 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."
  • The Change Agency -Provides training, workshops and research for activists. Free activist manuals and handbooks online.
  • Activist Rights -Promotes positive changes in people's lives and communities. Offers legal advice to activist networks and movements.
  • Greenpeace Australia Pacific -Australia/Pacific branch of the prominent conservation organisation.
  • Reclaim the Night -Women working together for social and political change, and to uphold women's rights to a life without fear of violence, harassment and sexual assault.
  • West Papua Information Kit -Site that supports West Papuan independence from Indonesia.
  • Bang The Table -An open forum with a mission to improve the quality of debate and level of community involvement in public life.
  • Your Call -Offers an independent, secure, impartial and external disclosure management system for people wanting to report companies and organisations or their employees.