devastating consequences of climate inaction.In recent years, young climate activists have articulated the frustration and resentment that comes with the knowledge that they, and the as-yet unborn, will carry the overwhelming burden of climate impacts; a burden that, in the words of climate scientist James Hansen and his colleagues, may prove to be 'too heavy to bear' (Hansen et al. 596).Greta Thunberg is the most well-known of such activists.Thunberg has displayed extraordinary composure as she levels accusations and reproaches at world leaders and older generations, whom she has described, disparagingly, as acting like children (Carrington).Her speeches have galvanised young people worldwide to participate in school climate strikes and the Fridays for Future movement.In street protests, children have brandished placards stating: 'You'll die of old age, we'll die of climate change'.One placard, held aloft by Australian teenager Isolde Raj-Seppings during a climate protest outside the Prime Minister's residence at the height of Black Summer, read: 'Look at what you've left us.Watch us fight it.Watch us win' (Raj-Seppings).She would subsequently become a litigant in one of the youth climate lawsuits discussed below.The intergenerational burden of climate impacts will be shouldered by all young people.

INTERGENERATIONAL DISPOSSESSION NEED LOOK NO further than the ground on which they stand.The theft of land from the first people of this country is not just a spiritual and cultural disinheritance (though the spiritual and cultural dimensions of this dispossession cannot be overstated) but one which is dizzying in its economic immensity.The vast wealth beneath this land, which legally belongs to First Nations Australians, underpins the Australian economy as it is currently constituted.Indigenous sovereignty and restitution of land, and, thus Indigenous command of Australian extractive industries is the necessary horizon of Australian politics and intergenerational justice.Yet, I argue, this goal comes into direct conflict with Australia's subimperial place in the US-led grouping of nations and the current constitution of the Australian state and economy.Both Australians committed to advancing Indigenous sovereignty and those advocating for further state regulation of the resource sector must recognise what history tells us: even moderate measures in these directions will face opposition from the centre of capitalism's empire.Below, I attempt to clarify certain dimensions of this apparent impasse, historicise some of its key aspects, and provide various grounds for hope.Intergenerational injustice is a geopolitical issue, and is therefore historically complex.My generation is one formed under the sign of the protracted collapse of really-existing socialism, beginning with the Berlin Wall.Capitalism's victory A

TODAY'S MUSIC CONSERVATORIUM? WHERE classical students spend hours every day alone in practice rooms, obsessively perfecting minute gradations of tone, colour, and expression? Where young prodigies strive for agility in their plucking and bowing and teachers assert pedagogical lineages to Liszt and Busoni? And meanwhile, down the hallway, the contemporary music students craft beats and breaks with subtle flavours of sonic production. The very name 'conservatorium' is etymologically related to 'conservative' and an ethos of preservation.

One student offered an electrifying reading of Eckermann's poem that I've never forgotten. 2 He began by recalling a trip to Beirut he'd made as a young adult, long after leaving the city as a child and migrating with his family to Western Sydney. How did the city appear to you, I asked? The same, he deadpanned, with more bullet holes.