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BFU presents: Surveillance, security & “smart” cities

Bunyapa Park Cnr Thomas Street & Vulture Street, West End, QLD, Australia

In this public discussion, Brisbane Free University brings together community organisers and academics engaged in various ways with the securitised city for a panel discussion on surveillance, policing and 'smart' cities in Australia. Topics touched upon will include the violence of policing, security and surveillance, and colonial logics that continue to underpin and dominate these cities.

free

Justice in West Papua: Public Forum

Red Brick Hotel 83 Annerley Road, Woolloongabba, QLD

The Struggle for Justice in West Papua is a public forum on the situation in Papua/West Papua, and what we can do about it.

Free

Brisbane Pride: What Next?!

Bunyapa Park Cnr Thomas Street & Vulture Street, West End, QLD, Australia

BFU and Queer Anti-Colonial Action Bitchez invite you to a forum to discuss what should be done about the co-option & commercialisation of Brisbane Pride.

New Economy In Action

Online

This webinar will explore some initiatives and organisations that are already working towards an economy that includes the well-being of people and of the planet, and discuss sustainable architecture, slow clothing and the sharing of resources within a post-growth society. Join the conversation with Clare Kennedy founder of Five Mile Radius, Jane Milburn founder of Textile Beat and Sabrina Chakori founder of the Brisbane Tool Library. Click here to sign up.

Free

Momentum – First Nations First | QPAC Cremorne Theatre

The Cremorne Theatre QPAC Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

It’s Spring 2031 and communities are thriving. People are safe in homes, streets and workplaces. Country is in balance hearing its languages, feeling its people’s footsteps. Everyone is equal regardless of gender. How did we get here? Join Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, Treaty Working Group Co-Chair, and June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in a conversation led by Associate Professor Sandra Phillips, UQ Associate Dean (Indigenous Engagement).

$20