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Keynote: Linux Australia Conference 2020
Out of the sausage factory and into the streets – Defending digital rights
Now’s the Chance for Australia to Get Over Coal and Gas
The government’s response to the bushfires ravaging Australia has been woeful but not surprising. A transition away from the country’s reliance on fossil fuels is needed more than ever, and even Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his cronies will have to get on board.
US Tour Dates
Jan-Feb 2020
Privacy as a human right – in conversation with the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner
International Human Rights Day – the right to privacy
It’s Time to Throw Off Our Digital Chains
As data-mining companies and government decision-making edge ever closer, it is not just our digital privacy that’s at risk, but our very capacity to organize in solidarity.
Jacobin Magazin presents: Lizzie O’Shea – No Socialism without Digital Self-Determination!
24 November 2019
Defending encryption in Australia: Human Rights Hero acceptance speech
I was grateful to receive the Human Rights Hero award at RightsCon 2019 presented by Access Now. My esteemed fellow recipients can be found here: https://www.accessnow.org/heroes-villains-awards/ Below is an edited version of my acceptance speech, about the campaign...
Future histories – technology isn’t neutral
Interview: until we start to understand that climate change is a also political problem we may end up carrying the problems of the present into a clean energy future
Invisible Handcuffs
It’s time for workers to throw off the shackles of big tech
How we fight the border industrial complex
Borders are not just political and economic: they are ideological