YOUR PRAXIS 2026 PRESENTERS
Dr Anna Sturman
Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sydney
Dr Anna Sturman is a Pakeha, feminist political ecologist, currently working on Gadigal land as a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sydney. She is particularly interested in questions of agency and power related to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity collapse, and how we care for each other in the midst of it all.
Bronwyn Lee
PhD candidate, sociology, Binghamton University USA
Bronwyn Lee is writing a PhD on the politics of mining through Binghamton University (USA); tutors a little at UTS; and does research to support campaigns that rein in the power of multinationals with the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR).
Claire Parfitt
Political Economist University of Sydney
Claire Parfitt lives on Dharawal country and was born in the coal mining valleys of Wales/Cymru during the Thatcher regime. She is a lifelong trade union tragic, and a current active member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Claire has taught in the political economy department at the University of Sydney since 2012, and spends a lot of time thinking, reading and writing about class relations, frontiers of capital accumulation and how working people can wrest power from capital and the state.
Dr Dave Eden
Writer, teacher and independent researcher, Brisbane
Dave Eden is based in Brisbane and works in a Primary School. He has been involved in anticapitalist politics since the 90s, and writes and talks about capitalism in Australia and the struggles that seek to overcome it.
Dr Elizabeth Humphreys
Political Economist, University of Technology Sydney
Elizabeth Humphrys is a political economist at the University of Technology Sydney. She researches the impact of economic and climate change on workers, and recent projects have investigated: climate change and workers’ health and safety; impacts of neoliberalism on labour; industrial and social contexts of hi vis clothing in Australia; experiences of disabled professional workers; and, the 1970 West Gate Bridge disaster. Her book, How Labour Built Neoliberalism, was described in the Sydney Review of Books as a ‘tremendously important’ contribution to understanding economic change in Australia’s recent past.
Dr Jacob Broom
Lecturer in Politics & International Relations, Murdoch University
Jacob Broom is an Early Career Researcher, a Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, and a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research focuses on the role of finance in capitalist society, particularly in Australia.
Dr Matt Ryan
Political Economist, University of Technology Sydney
Matt Ryan is a teacher and researcher based at the University of Technology Sydney. In his work, he uses political economy to understand the past, present and future of capitalism in Australia, especially as it relates to climate change and the environment. Previously Matt worked at the Australia Institute, and he lives on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.
Max Chandler-Mather
Executive Director, The Green Institute
As the former Greens MP for Griffith and party spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness, Max transformed housing politics in Australia through a national campaign to fight for renters. Prior to entering Federal Parliament, Max was the party strategist for the Queensland Greens from 2017-2022 during the party’s most successful period to date. Now Max brings his wealth of experience as a strategist and campaigner to the Green Institute, and the task of helping build the Greens movement across Australia.
Sam Wallman
Writer, illustrator and union activist, Melbourne
Sam Wallman is a writer, illustrator and union activist based in Naarm Melbourne. His work has been published in the Guardian, the New York Times, The Age, Le Monde Diplomatique, the ABC and SBS. He is currently working on his third long-form comic, ‘ALL OUT!: Blue Collars and Pink Bans’ to be published by National Library of Australia Publishing and PM Press in the US in 2027. Sam previously worked as an organiser for the National Union of Workers, and now works part-time as a wharfie. He is an active member of the Maritime Union of Australia.
