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Kinship Is The Antidote To Scarcity
7 Nov 2024Last 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 2024Speech 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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Listening to Living Democracy: Audio Book
1 Dec 2023These 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
17 Nov 2023With 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
31 May 2023How 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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Bike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution
7 Dec 2024On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable transport accessible to First Nations women, mothers, caregivers, and children [...] Read...
Read MoreBeyond the far-right
29 Nov 2024Seeing the rise of the far-right through the lens of anti-establishment sentiment reveals why current strategies fail. Mainstream responses that defend the political order or adopt right-wing positions will only accelerate their decline. [...] Read More... from Beyond the far-right The...
Read MoreOn forests – Call for proposals
18 Nov 2024Our upcoming themed issue focuses on forests and forest struggles across the continent. Send us your abstract or pitch by Friday 20 December. We welcome submissions from Indigenous activists and researchers, forest protectors, scholar-activists, collectives and creatives, and others...
Read MoreTrump / Harris / Wong
13 Nov 2024In 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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Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar 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! Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As…
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Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity
8pm AEST, Wednesday 6 NovemberWebinar 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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Webinar #3: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference
8pm AEST, Wednesday 2 October 2024Webinar 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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