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Scott Ludlam

Scott Ludlam is a former Australian Greens Senator and long-term anti-nuclear campaigner.

July 2020

  • Australians Gather As Part Of Global Climate Strike in Sydney

    Love letter from 2029: I want you to know we did it, we turned the ship around

    In a series that asks writers to imagine a not-too-distant future, Scott Ludlam urges the citizens of 2020 to hold on, keep fighting and look to the margins

April 2020

  • Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt at a press conference

    The Greens are founded on grassroots democracy – the leadership vote should be no exception

    Michael Berkman, Mehreen Faruqi, Tammy Franks, Tim Hollo and Scott Ludlam
    Now is the time to champion participatory decision-making and rebuild the trust people have lost in democracy

January 2020

  • Currowan Fire South Coast NSW

    I fled the bushfires with ash falling from the sky, but this is what community feels like

    Scott Ludlam
    The defence of this precious, fragile part of the world is being sustained almost entirely by volunteers

May 2019

  • File photo dated 06/08/13 of hands typing on a laptop keyboard.

    We can still undo some of the damage done to our digital rights

    Scott Ludlam
    After the election, the job of unwinding mandatory data retention and the assistance and access mess will be upon us

April 2019

  • Scott Morrison at a press conference on Christmas Island

    We paid $180m for Scott Morrison to have a press conference on Christmas Island

    Scott Ludlam
    The blunder could be the most politically costly press conference ever

December 2018

  • iphone

    National security is a government strength – so Labor will let them be reckless with it

    Scott Ludlam
    What is at stake here is the security of your personal communications and financial transactions, your phone and your laptop

November 2018

  • The swings of the municipal school of Bento Rodrigues district witch was covered with mud after the dam burst.

    It was a disaster on an almost inconceivable scale, then the world moved on

    Scott Ludlam
    Attention fades faster than the destructive impacts of the Samarco dam disaster

September 2018

  • A towering white gum tree reaches into the sky, Australia, 28 December 2017

    A new generation of campaigners fights to save the south-west forests

    Scott Ludlam
    A decade-long campaign to protect old-growth forests was successful. But in the intervening years something has gone terribly wrong

August 2018

  • Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, cyber security minister Angus Taylor and defence minister Marise Payne at the opening of the Australian Cyber Security Centre in Canberra on Thursday.

    The government is ratcheting up its surveillance powers. But we can stop this

    Scott Ludlam
    The people demanding these new powers have proven that they cannot be trusted with the powers they already have

July 2018

  • Bernard Collaery with senators Tim Storer, Rex Patrick, Nick McKim and MP Andrew Wilkie at Parliament House in Canberra, 28 June 2018.

    The Witness K affair is one of the most debased abuses of power in the postwar era

    Scott Ludlam
  • Voters cast their ballots in the Tasmanian State Election at Sorell Memorial Hall, March 3, 2018.

    There are more than two sides of politics. Let's shake things up

    Scott Ludlam

June 2018

  • Protesters dressed in white overalls block the coal line that connects the coal mines in the Hunter Valley with the port at Sandgate in Newcastle, May 8, 2016.

    We must fight the erosion of civil rights while we still can

    Scott Ludlam
    ‘National security’ is used as a smokescreen to curtail media freedom and criminalise dissent

May 2018

  • Peter Dutton

    See you in the town square, Peter Dutton and Pauline Hanson

    Scott Ludlam
    Politicians have mastered the art of ‘othering’ to try to divide us. Unity will eventually prevail
  • Jennifer Brea in a scene from 'Unrest'

    To the #MillionsMissing with ME/CFS, something remarkable is happening

    Scott Ludlam
    As researchers close in on the genetic origins of ME/CFS, it’s time to say to those suffering they are not forgotten
  • A boy walks on the Exxon Mobil LNG pipe in Papua New Guinea<br>Screengrab from Ian Shearn’s 2013 documentary When We Were Hela, which investigates the Exxon Mobil liquid natural gas (LNG) project in Papua New Guinea.

    ExxonMobil's project in PNG is economic parasitism

    Scott Ludlam
    PNG was lulled with wildly unrealistic modelling. It would be dangerous to conclude that this couldn’t happen to us

April 2018

  • British ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce (L) and US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (C) vote during a UN security council meeting, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 14 April.

    Syria exposes the broken state of global governance. How do we respond?

    Scott Ludlam
  • Senior traditional owner Yvonne Margarula of the Mirarr people stands infront of the Ranger uranium mine’s pit number three in Kakadu National Park.

    What anti-Adani protestors can learn from the Jabiluka blockade

    Scott Ludlam

March 2018

  • A laptop showing the Facebook logo is held alongside a Cambridge Analytica sign at the entrance to the building housing the offices of Cambridge Analytica, in central London on 21 March 2018.

    Don't waste the Cambridge Analytica scandal: it's a chance to take control of our data

    Scott Ludlam
    Big, positive changes are possible when scandals put companies like Facebook under the microscope
  • Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to a group of Australian Army soldiers after inspecting armoured vehicles at the Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane, Australia, 14 March 2018.

    Our authoritarian government has turned up the heat. But we can still fight back

    Scott Ludlam
    Australia’s accelerating militarisation and erosion of civil liberties must be resisted
  • The Peace Boat docked in Freemantle, Western Australia.

    We need to talk about peace again

    Scott Ludlam
    We’re in an age when ambition is called for. And it just may come in the shape of a 32,000 tonne ocean liner
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