In 2016, ordinary South Australians shut down a major proposal for a nuclear waste dump in the state.

The plan to take nuclear waste from around the world and bury it in the SA outback was opposed by Mothers for a Sustainable South Australia (MOSSA) along with many other community, environment, Indigenous and trade union groups. It was then rejected by a specially formed ‘citizens jury’.

A decade later, South Australia is again being told to go nuclear via the AUKUS submarine deal, regardless of the environmental impacts, security concerns, economic costs and total lack of transparency.

What lessons does the victory over the dump hold for the fight against AUKUS, nuclear submarines, and their nuclear waste?

Join MOSSA member Senator Barbara Pocock, together with Karina Lester and Rod Campbell, as they discuss the lessons of the past and what they mean for South Australia’s nuclear future.

Please note that the venue is only accessible by stairs and does not have step-free access.

SPEAKERS:

Senator Barbara Pocock – Senator for South Australia

Barbara Pocock is a Greens senator for SA. Concern about the consequences of climate change took her to the Senate in 2022. She is currently the Greens spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness, Workplace Relations and Employment, Finance and the Public Sector. She is an economist who has spent her life fighting for the rights of working people, women and low-income workers. She was awarded an AM for services to industrial relations research and social justice in 2010. She has written many books and articles, worked in shearing sheds, on farms, in universities, in government and as a mother. She helped establish MOSSA: Mothers for a Sustainable South Australia, which remains outspoken in opposition to nuclear waste disposal in SA.

Karina Lester — Yankunytjatjara Anangu anti-nuclear activist and language worker from South Australia

Karina Lester is a Yankunytjatjara Anangu anti-nuclear activist and language worker from South Australia. As a second-generation survivor of British nuclear testing at Emu Field in 1953, she campaigns against nuclear weapons and waste. Karina has served as a global ambassador for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and contributed to the UN Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Karina was a leader in the No Dump Alliance against the proposed establishment of South Australian nuclear waste facilities and successfully challenged barriers to ensure Indigenous voices were heard during the 2016 Royal Commission. Beyond her advocacy regarding intergenerational atomic trauma, she works to preserve her native Yankunytjatjara language.

Rod Campbell — Research Director, The Australia Institute

Rod Campbell is the Research Director at The Australia Institute. An economist by background, Rod’s work often focuses on the economics of fossil fuel industries, he has published numerous landmark reports, as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals and he has appeared as an expert witness in major court cases and planning processes. Other areas of research include the management of the Murray Darling Basin, economic assessment of infrastructure projects and the role of economic modelling in policy and planning processes. When

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm ACDT

Where: Rhino Room 1 131 Pirie St Adelaide , SA 5000 Google map and directions

Free public talk on nuclear issues affecting South Australia.

David Noonan will speak on public interest concerns over the new Roxby Downs Indenture Act 2026 on BHP copper-uranium mining and ore processing in SA, and on how AUKUS may face SA with a High-Level nuclear waste agenda.

Dr Jim Green will discuss international developments in the field of nuclear power including ‘small modular reactors’ and Generation 4 ‘advanced’ nuclear reactor concepts

Parking in Sturt St or Wright St

Event will be upstairs in the Minor Works Building

Organised by Friends of the Earth Adelaide

Join with other South Australians to show our opposition to US and Australian Govt war preparations here and to celebrate the peoples movement for peace and friendship within our region and beyond.

The day is a cultural extravaganza with not one but two community choirs, PAAF Giant Sub inflatable, XRSA street theatre, Public Art Peaceboats , Fiddle We Must band, and the arrival of the amazing Peacewalkers Against AUKUS after their 400km walk from Pt Augusta.

Speakers include the AUKUS Public Inquiry’s Karina Lester, MLC Melanie Selwood, AFOPA’s Mike Khizam,Prof Al Rainnie and local Port Adelaide legend Sandra Dann. MC’ed by Eileen Darley.

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Call on the Australian government to:

• Sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a matter of urgency, signing in this term of government, comprehensively repudiating nuclear weapons including extended nuclear deterrence, fulfilling Labor’s long-standing policy commitment and aligning Australia with the global majority of nations choosing to reject nuclear weapons.

• Reject nuclear ambiguity and prohibit the entry, transit or presence of nuclear weapons in Australian territory, waters and airspace.

• End all forms of assistance to nuclear weapons activities, including targeting, command, control, planning or enabling operations that support the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.

Join the WEBINAR: Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence!

Want to attend the Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence, but not sure exactly how to get there? Got some questions about what to expect? Look no further!

Mparntwe for Falastin and AMAN (Anti Militarism Action Network) will be hosting a webinar on Thursday May 28 to answer all such questions.

Tune in from 6:30 - 7:30 AEST to get the low down.

Tickets are free, register to get the zoom link on the day.

Gather with community members on Kaurna Yerta planning to join together for the 2026 Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence!

📅 10am, THIS Saturday 6th of June 📌 metro-west Tarntanya (Adelaide) area, on Kaurna Yerta - DM @sage.southaus for the address!

Come along to learn what the Convergence is all about, transport plans, and solidarity ideas for those who want to support from home.

For more Convergence info, visit @mparntwe_for_falastin or @aman_antimilitarismnetwork

We are inviting individuals and groups from peace & anti-militarism movements around the continent to converge on Arrernte lands this July for 3 days of workshops, panels, and actions weaving together threads of anti-militarism and decolonial movements.

Pine Gap is built on stolen sacred land. The facility’s involvement in war crimes, surveillance, and genocide make Australia an accomplice in the crimes of the US.

A World BEYOND War Australia symposium (in association with the Victorian Quaker Centre) Monday 15 June 2026 from 9:00am-1:00pm AEST (find the time in your time zone) This event will be livestreamed. Please register on this page for the Zoom link.

Between the two periods of Taliban rule (roughly 2001–2021), Afghanistan saw a dense landscape of civil society initiatives around peacebuilding, women’s rights, and gender equality, led by Afghan NGOs, informal community groups, and international partners.

Afghans who fled after August 2021 have become key actors in keeping Afghan peace, social justice and gender equality struggles alive from exile, combining direct support to people inside Afghanistan with advocacy, movement-building and institution-building abroad.

This symposium, organised by World BEYOND War Australia (the Australian chapter of the international World BEYOND War movement), will explore a number of themes related to Afghans promoting peace and social justice in new lands.

We have three impressive keynote speakers:

• Dr. Mujib Abid, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne, is an Afghan-Australian scholar of modern Afghan history, peace studies and political theory whose current work focuses on the Afghan diaspora in Australia.
• Efat Abulfazil, a peace advocate now living in Italy, has a long history of promoting mental health, gender equality, and nonviolence in communities affected by conflict and displacement. Efat is the founder of the Malika Soraa Foundation.
• Nemat Ahangosh, a peacebuilder, poet, and activist now living in the UK. Nemat is the founder of Stretch More, a UK registered charity dedicated to empowering disabled individuals in conflict zones and disaster-prone areas.

NO WAVE is proud to present ART AS ACTION, a night of poetry, music and art to raise funds to support grassroots activism.

Join us on Wednesday July 1 at the Wheaty to hear talented local artists responding to the theme of ART AS ACTION. Art has always been a tool for collective liberation – a way to give marginalised people voice and agency, to build political momentum, and to tell alternative versions of the past, present and future. Now more than ever, we need to share stories, poems and songs that inspire us, radicalise us, move us to act, and connect us with other people and their struggles.

Important info:

Doors open 6.30pm, first set of speakers at 7pm. Line up coming soon!

Tickets are $10 and free for mob. Buy through Humanitix – limited spots so get in quick.

Zines, earrings, stickers and other merch will be available for purchase on the night.

Drinks will be available at the bar and there will be a food truck outside.

This event is a fundraiser, with all proceeds from tickets and merch (minus artist fees) given directly to two grassroots causes:

50% of proceeds will go towards supporting the Close Pine Gap – Sacred Land Back Convergence in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Held from July 18-20, it will bring together activists from around the continent for workshops and protest to say Close Pine Gap, End the US Alliance, and Sacred Land Back. For more info head to: https://closepinegap.org.au/.

50% of proceeds will go to supporting “Preserving Pirltawardli”, a culture-sharing community gathering run by the Kaurna Collective. https://www.facebook.com/share/1GjLc6xHW3/

Merch offerings: As part of the event, we will be selling hand-made merch and accessories including earrings, t-shirts and posters. All funds will be used towards Sacred Land Back Convergence and Preserving Pirltawardli.

Contact closepg.ky@proton.me for further information!

Logistic and financial travel support to Mparntwe is being offered for those wanting to attend the Convergence with support for mob as our priority. If you are a First Nations person travelling from Kaurna Yarta to the convergence please contact us to see how we can make the journey easier for you.

First started in 2017, NO WAVE is a reading series held on the first Wednesday of every month at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, bringing together some of Adelaide’s best poets & other writers. Fans of poetry, fiction, memoir & more are treated to readings from established and emerging local talent.

NO WAVE recognises that we are on the unceded lands of the Kaurna people. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Movie fundraiser- screening new film Toy Story 5

Proceeds go to Mahmoud and family in Gaza

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4

A US foreign policy reporter, Abby Martin, and her Iraq veteran husband turn their sights on the hidden impact that the US military has on the planet, after the birth of their first child created them anxiety about the climate crisis. Their investigation exposes a secretive and constantly-expanding web of pollution, cover-ups and unaccountability by the world’s biggest polluter.

The film, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, reveals a hidden truth behind global heating: the role of the US Military as the world’s largest institutional polluter, tracing the link between war, empire, and ecological destruction.

We follow the film showing with a panel discussion including film maker Abby Martin & others

Presented by Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) - https://ipan.org.au/

This film is recommended for a mature audience (M) and that it contains thematic material that may be disturbing to some viewers, including discussions of war and environmental destruction, but that this material is presented in an educational and journalistic context’. Persons under 15 years must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

Twenty-year-old Strathalbyn Artist and Designer Ami Jackson is using creativity as a platform for social change, launching a powerful collection of socially conscious products designed to spark conversation about global injustice, displacement and human rights.

On July 25, Ami will officially launch her exhibition and product range titled ‘Let’s TalkAbout Global Injustice’, featuring intentionally designed practical items including totebags, key rings and wearable art aimed at encouraging awareness, discussion,empathy and personal action.

Ami’s first launch collection focuses on Palestine and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,using symbolism, culture and storytelling through design.

A peace walk/bike ride against AUKUS, leaving Port Augusta 19th August 20266, and travelling towards Port Adelaide

August 29th is the International Day of Nuclear Tests. Join us this Saturday to hear from vibrant speakers about its relevance including in our local contexts, and engage in discussion on what we can do.

This is a free public community event by Medical Association for Prevention of War (SA branch), in collaboration with Doctors for the Environment (SA chapter).

When: Saturday 29 August, 1:30 to 4:15pm

Where: Pilgrim Church Hall, 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide 5000

This event is not affiliated with any political or religious groups.

Tea and coffee provided. There will also be a raffle of fine red and white wines.

Bringing together topics including - Significance of nuclear testing in Australia and in relation to the UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests - Impacts of nuclear radiation on health and environment - Relevance to Australia’s current situation - Mediation at the individual, community, and international level - A workshop on what we can do to make the world a more peaceful place

Guest speakers include: Dr Amanda Ruler (RN, PhD, Nat Vice Pres. Of Medical Association for Prevention of War) Benjamin Crouch (Medical Physicist, M. Phil) Dr Kate Wylie (Executive Dir. Doctors for the Environment Australia) Professor Dale Bagshaw (internationally renowned mediator) Teresa Pham (Doctors for the Environment SA)

SAGE is a community for all folks who love and care for our planet. Our monthly gatherings are a space to nourish each other, so that we can nourish our world.

Join us for an evening of delicious food, hearty discussion and new skills. The night will start with a shared meal, then we will move into community announcements, then into open space workshops, with lots of space for social breaks throughout.

This month’s SAGE will focus on the anti-war movement in this country. We’ll hear from & about people who are fighting militarism and imperialism – from opposing the AUKUS submarine pact, to calling for the closure of intelligence facilities and weapons companies, to protesting Australia’s alignment with US-led wars. We’ll also learn about ways to get involved.

We’re inviting speakers (to be announced soon) but we also welcome workshop/discussion ideas about the theme from everyone in the community – no need to message us, just turn up with your idea!

If you’ve got a mate who could run a good workshop on this theme, call them up & invite them.

Plus, as always, anyone can bring workshop or discussion ideas that are completely unrelated to the theme :)

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Some other things you might want to bring… 🍲 A plate of food to share for the potluck dinner 🫒 Veggies or seedlings for the produce swap 🧵 Something to mend at the mending corner 🌟 Energy to help shape the new space and make it our own!!

Run through of how the night will (roughly) go… 4:30-5:15pm: Arriving, Sharing food. 5:15-5:45pm: Welcome, Community Announcements. 5:45-7:45pm: Open Space Workshop Sessions (including a break for tea/chats). 7:45-8.00pm: Closing Circle.

All welcome. Come anytime that suits you.

SAGE will now be held at YouthInc, an alternative school for 18-25 yr olds in a cool converted church on Pulteney St. We’re keen to build a mutual relationship with the generous YouthInc crew and help make the space our own for the long haul.

Of course, SAGE is still (& will always be) for all ages. Young or old, parent or pensioner, first-timer or seasoned activist - everyone is welcome.

See you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1658940141859575/

SAGE is a community for all folks who love and care for our planet. Our monthly gatherings are a space to nourish each other, so that we can nourish our world.

Join us for an evening of delicious food, hearty discussion and new skills. The night will start with a shared meal, then we will move into community announcements, then into open space workshops, with lots of space for social breaks throughout.

This month’s SAGE will focus on the anti-war movement in this country. We’ll hear from & about people who are fighting militarism and imperialism – from opposing the AUKUS submarine pact, to calling for the closure of intelligence facilities and weapons companies, to protesting Australia’s alignment with US-led wars. We’ll also learn about ways to get involved.

We’re inviting speakers (to be announced soon) but we also welcome workshop/discussion ideas about the theme from everyone in the community – no need to message us, just turn up with your idea!

If you’ve got a mate who could run a good workshop on this theme, call them up & invite them.

Plus, as always, anyone can bring workshop or discussion ideas that are completely unrelated to the theme :)

–

Some other things you might want to bring… 🍲 A plate of food to share for the potluck dinner 🫒 Veggies or seedlings for the produce swap 🧵 Something to mend at the mending corner 🌟 Energy to help shape the new space and make it our own!!

Run through of how the night will (roughly) go… 4:30-5:15pm: Arriving, Sharing food. 5:15-5:45pm: Welcome, Community Announcements. 5:45-7:45pm: Open Space Workshop Sessions (including a break for tea/chats). 7:45-8.00pm: Closing Circle.

All welcome. Come anytime that suits you.

SAGE will now be held at YouthInc, an alternative school for 18-25 yr olds in a cool converted church on Pulteney St. We’re keen to build a mutual relationship with the generous YouthInc crew and help make the space our own for the long haul.

Of course, SAGE is still (& will always be) for all ages. Young or old, parent or pensioner, first-timer or seasoned activist - everyone is welcome.

See you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1658940141859575/

This petition supports the demands of the Hayes family, Traditional Owners of Kuyunba, the land Pine Gap Facility occupies. This petition is organised by the Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence.

Pine Gap is a US facility near Alice Springs / Mparntwe on Arrernte Country. Pine Gap has been used for intelligence gathering that is implicated in multiple imperial wars.

Go to petition to read the Hayes family’s letter and sign your support.