Should journalists be climate activists? Antidote festival grapples with big ideas
Denise Ho: Hong Kong has reached 'a point of no turning back'
August 2019
Changing the journalistic climate: what role does philanthropy play in reporting news?
The fund behind the biggest grant ever given to the Sydney Opera House for a festival says it won’t play favourites in Australian media
September 2018
Chelsea Manning, Ronan Farrow and Ta-Nehisi Coates on terror and bravery at Antidote
Alexandra Spring and Steph Harmon
At the Sydney Opera House’s Antidote festival, there were calls for courage, warnings about surveillance and lashings of political gossip
August 2018
Australia still has time to avoid the worst, says Alt-America author David Neiwert
Neiwert, who has reported on the American right for five decades, says it’s a mistake for the media to ignore rightwing movements
Move to ban Chelsea Manning from Australia a 'political stunt' to appease Trump
Human rights advocates rally to support US whistleblower, saying if the government ‘consider themselves proponents of free speech they should let her in’
Trump tweets about white farmers while indigenous peoples face annihilation
Raj Patel
As the alt-right obsesses over white South African farmers, indigenous activists are murdered in ever greater numbers
September 2017
Antidote is the festival that wants to change the world. Can it succeed?
Svetlana Stankovic
I volunteered with a pop-up theatre in the Calais refugee camp. Here’s what I learnt
Kirstin Shirling
August 2017
Amal Awad: 'Arab women don't need westerners to give them a voice'
The author of Beyond Veiled Cliches relates the daily struggle of Arab women – whether Muslim or not – to hold on to identity
Occupy and Black Lives Matter failed. We can either win wars or win elections
Micah White
The people’s sovereignty is dead and every protest is a hopeless struggle to revive the corpse. It is time to try a different method
The Onion in the age of Trump: ‘What we do becomes essential when its targets are this clownish’
MuslimGirl's Amani Al-Khatahtbeh: 'We decided to make the conversation about us'
Even with a misogynist predator-in-chief, we will not be silenced
