Blog

Kinship Is The Antidote To Scarcity

7 Nov 2024

Last night, as it was becoming incontrovertible that the USA was voluntarily turning from neoliberalism to authoritarianism, about a hundred of us gathered on Zoom for what I reckon was just about the best way to process it: talking about care and kinship, responsibility and entanglement, autonomy and action, together.

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Ecological Ethics For The End Of The World As We Know It

2 Oct 2024

Speech delivered by Tim Hollo on 24 September to Conversation at the Crossroads series “Ethics in a turbulent world”. Good evening everyone, and thanks so much, Joseph, for the kind invitation to speak with you tonight as part of this series. The theme of Ethics in a Turbulent Time,…

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Publications

Audio Book - Living Democracy - Tim Hollo - Green Institute

Listening to Living Democracy: Audio Book

1 Dec 2023

These are dark times. Could they be the darkest before the dawn? Can we turn this juggernaught around and cultivate an ecological, living democracy? You can now listen to Tim Hollo reading his book, Living Democracy, to find inspiration, ideas, and encouragement to do your own thinking. LISTEN FOR FREE…

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Seeding, Feeding and Leading Transformative Greens Politics: Green Institute Annual Report 2022/23

Seeding, Feeding and Leading Transformative Greens Politics: Green Institute Annual Report 2022/23

17 Nov 2023

With our strongest ever focus on engaging and working with Greens members and the wider movement, 2022/23 was an exciting and highly successful year for the Green Institute. Despite tiny resources, with only 1½ FTE staff, we delivered a massive program of workshops and webinars, publications and podcasts, conferences and writers’ festivals, cultivating deep…

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Nature Market: Why Labor’s market will do nothing for nature

Nature | Market: Why Labor’s market will do nothing for nature

31 May 2023

How much is a koala’s life worth? What’s the cash value of preventing the extinction of the orange bellied parrot? If these are the questions you’re asking, can you expect anything other than a devastatingly, destructively wrong answer? Labor’s Nature Repair Market Bill, a redraft and repackaging of the ecocidal Morrison government’s proposal to establish…

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Green Agenda

Trump / Harris / Wong

13 Nov 2024

In this critique, poet and writer Omar Sakr methodically dismantles Foreign Minister Penny Wong's attempts to gaslight the Australian public about the Commonwealth’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Analysing Wong's recent opinion piece — its manipulation of...

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On forests – Call for proposals

8 Nov 2024

Our upcoming themed issue focuses on forests and forest struggles across the continent. Send us your abstract or pitch by Friday 29 November. We welcome submissions from Indigenous activists and researchers, forest protectors, scholar-activists, collectives and creatives, and others...

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Labor lost the Queensland election a year ago: Unpacking strategic missteps on youth crime

8 Nov 2024

What might we be overlooking when we analyse how the LNP’s youth crime fear campaign spread and took hold? Elections are weird. Right until they step into the polling booth, a surprising proportion of voters are undecided, or at least open to changing their minds. But although it’s...

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The right to repair

7 Nov 2024

From repair cafés to policy reform, Canberra has been at the forefront of the right to repair movement in so called Australia. In this contribution for Green Agenda, Matthew Rimmer shows how local activists and the ACT Greens have pushed for change, while federal policy trails behind...

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Events

Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies

Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies

Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDT

Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As we have been exploring through The Missing Peace, we know it works to create real, lasting, significant change, even in the direst circumstances. One of the reasons we know nonviolent protest works is because those…

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Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity - Green Institute

Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity

8pm AEST, Wednesday 6 November

Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 6 November 2024 View Professor Yin Paradies’ Powerpoint Presentation slides. First Nations understandings of understandings of peace and security, violence and nonviolence, relationality and entanglement, have so much to teach us as we grapple with The Missing Peace. The Green Institute is immensely privileged to bring…

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Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference - Green Institute Webinar

Webinar #3: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference

8pm AEST, Wednesday 2 October 2024

Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate our coexistence, to respect our mutuality, our entanglement, and our…

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