Chamira Gamage is a Human Rights Advocate at Amnesty International who has been instrumental in campaigning and lobbying for the Assange campaign globally. He has taken a complex and at times unpopular case and ensured it was being given the attention it deserves, based on the core principles press freedom, freedom of expression, and the impact it has on us all, both now and in the future. Chamira is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Thinkrs, a critical thinking Chrome Extension and soon to come News App, which helps users consider context as they read in to help them be better informed.

We cover: 

• Chamira's background
• The backstory of Julian Assange and Wikileaks
• How has Assange been treated
• Why does this matter to all of us
• What can we do

EPISODE LINKS

• Chamira on Twitter
• Amnesty International's petition
• Write to the Whitehouse
• Letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
• Thinkrs.io

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Dr. Peter Rohde is an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Quantum Software & Information at the University of Technology Sydney. Peter is also a mountaineer, musician, cryptoanarchist, and author of the recently released book "The Quantum Internet".

EPISODE LINKS:

• The Quantum Internet
• ‍Peter's website
• Peter's Twitter

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Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian academic, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He recently started the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, which is focused on applying Indigenous thinking to issues that complexity scientists and technologists are currently working on across domains including economics, governance, evolutionary dynamics, cognition, and the environment. Tyson is also the author of the world-view reconfiguring book 'Sand Talk' which served as the basis of our conversation. In the book, Tyson explores our global systems from an Aboriginal perspective and how this viewpoint could help us resolve some of the complex sustainability issues facing our world.

In our conversation we cover:

• The indigenous notion of story and the problem with the narrative at the heart of Western civilisation
• The value in true diversity, identity, and place
• Violence and the need for its integration in society
• Why instead of pursuing growth we should seek 'increase'
• The need for humanity to retake our place as custodians of the land we're connected to.

EPISODE LINKS

• Tyson's Deakin University page
• Book: Sand Talk
• ‍Tyson's Podcast: The Other Others
• Video: Why the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab matters

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PODCAST INFO

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