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About + Work

I've worked as a campaigner, writer, school teacher and radio producer.

I grew up in Bunbury, Western Australia, and now live in Fremantle.

I've written for publications including Jacobin, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, Kill Your Darlings, Arena Online and The Last Place on Earth.

You can subscribe to my newsletter for updates, links to my work, and the occasional essay.

Here is a selection of my writing:

2025:

Climate activist arrested over a hat
Last week, Gerard Mazza was wrongfully arrested while getting out of bed – proof of Woodside’s power in WA and the farce of policing climate activism.
The Saturday PaperGerard Mazza
You can’t always get what you want
But will the climate ever get what it needs?
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza
How Disruptive Climate Campaigners use Mainstream Media
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
The CommonsAntje
How Disruptive Climate Campaigners use Social Media
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
The CommonsAntje

2024:

In a Climate Dystopia, Solidarity Will Be Key to Survival
A new novel set in the harsh desolation of Western Australia imagines the dystopic future that mining billionaires are creating. Those who remain find beauty in nature and each other — but violent resistance has become key to survival.
Gerard Mazza
The land of opportunity?
It’s good to learn from your mistakes – but it’s better to learn from someone else’s.
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza
Can art furries solve climate change?
Protest art has to work as art to work as protest.
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza
Notes from an inquest
A coroner’s inquest into the death in custody of an Aboriginal teenager has sparked calls for justice.
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza
Tucker Carlson is obsessed with Perth
Clive Palmer imports MAGA energy to Australia with the Freedom Conferences.
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza
The anger is blowin’ in the wind
In a hometown divided over wind farms and whales, I try to work out why turbines have heads a spin.
The Last Place on EarthGerard Mazza

2023:

Whose voice counts on Aboriginal heritage? – Arena
Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth
Arena Online
My Woodside merch haul: trinkets from the Anthropocene
The annual FeNaClNG festival near WA’s North West Shelf gas project celebrates iron ore, salt and gas. Sadly the boiling planet doesn’t rate a showbag.
CrikeyGerard Mazza
Gurridyula makes music to reclaim and resist
The Wangan and Jagalingou custodian talks rap music, the nature of time and spitting bars at cops.
Gerard MazzaGerard Mazza

2022:

What you need to know about the Burrup Hub | Australian Greens
The scale of threat posed by the many interconnected fossil fuel projects in WA’s Pilbara region is staggering, and yet we’ve stopped talking about it as a whole: the Burrup Hub.
Australian Greens
Climate Wars Out West – Arena
Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth
Arena Online

I previously worked for Pilbara-based First Nations media company Ngaarda Media, where I did some reporting.

I've conducted interviews for the community radio current affairs program The Wire.

I have done campaign work with organisations including Disrupt Burrup Hub, Save Our Songlines, Stop Evicting Families, Friends of Australian Rock Art, and others.

You can contact me at: gerard.mazza@gmail.com