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Antidote festival

September 2019

  • Host Peter Greste with Rappler editor-in-chief Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Irina Borogan at the My Crime is Journalism panel at the Antidote festival at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday.

    Should journalists be climate activists? Antidote festival grapples with big ideas

  • Hong Kong singer and activist Denise Ho at the Sydney Opera House for the Antidote festival

    Denise Ho: Hong Kong has reached 'a point of no turning back'

August 2019

  • Journalists Peter Greste, Maria Resse and Lina Attalah

    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 (speaking via video call) with Peter Greste at Antidote at Sydney Opera House on 2 Septemb

    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

  • Still from video of Men’s Rights March in Melbourne on Saturday 25 August, 2018 published by Avi Yemini on Youtube.

    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
  • Chelsea Manning

    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’
  • Hundreds of indigenous Hondurans march in 2016 in demanding justice for the murder of indigenous environmentalist Berta Caceres.

    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

  • Svetlana Stankovic

    Antidote is the festival that wants to change the world. Can it succeed?

    Svetlana Stankovic
    Is there a way out of inequality, injustice and oppression? A weekend of ideas, art and action leaves me exhilarated, exhausted and determined

August 2017

  • Actors from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre perform Hamlet at the Good Chance Theatre in the Calais refugee camp in February last year.

    I volunteered with a pop-up theatre in the Calais refugee camp. Here’s what I learnt

    Kirstin Shirling
  • Amal Awad

    Amal Awad: 'Arab women don't need westerners to give them a voice'

  • Protest against a simultaneous ‘anti-Islam’ rally that was organised by ‘ACT for America’ on 10 June 2017 in New York City.

    Occupy and Black Lives Matter failed. We can either win wars or win elections

    Micah White
  • Marnie Shure - Managing Editor of The Onion

    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

    Eve Ensler
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