terror australis: race, gender and nation,

This lecture will take an intersectional feminist approach to exploring current public discourse about terror, violence and hate in Australia. It will begin with a critical eye on the political responses across many institutions that followed the tragedy of the massacre of Jewish people at Bondi in December 2025. It will argue that the exceptionalising of antisemitism as a form of hate and racism, particularly since December 2025, has worked to marginalise and in some cases erase from public view not only other forms of racism, but also the significance of gendered violence and the continuation of coloniality. This is done through discursive dominance, public policy and the allocation of public resources. Further, the discourses through which antisemitism is exceptionalised reproduce a particular white and patriarchal view of the nation and its past. Against an approach which might seek to establish a hierarchy of forms of racism, violence or hate, this lecture considers what alternatives an intersectional feminist approach might offer. We live in troubled times, although not all this trouble is new, and the lecture will conclude with an attempt at ideas on, if not a vision of, how to create a better future.

We sincerely hope you can join us for this public lecture.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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