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Out Now: Greens and Government – Green Agenda Journal 2022 Volume One
11 Apr 2022Mikaela Valtersson (Green) and Thomas Östros (Social Democrat) at a 2008 press conference, where the Swedish Greens and Social Democrats, for the first time, presented a common budget initiative. With a federal election just weeks away and a real chance that the Greens could find ourselves in balance of power…
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A Liveable Income Guarantee!
22 Mar 2022Did you see the news on the weekend? The Australian Greens have officially proposed a Liveable Income Guarantee, lifting all income support payments to above the Henderson poverty line, and abolishing the nasty, punitive ‘mutual obligations’ and other unfair access restrictions. This is a massively transformative policy…
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E-book: Can We Imagine A Future In Which Welfare Is Unconditional?
26 Oct 2021Can we imagine a future where anyone in Australia who needs help to make ends meet gets that help from government, without having to jump through flaming hoops to prove they deserve it? DOWNLOAD THE EBOOK NOW Can we imagine a future where we simply say that nobody deserves to live in…
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Cultivating Hope: Green Institute Annual Report 2020
21 Jan 2021Last year will go down as history-making in so many ways. It was an immense struggle, marked by tragedy and devastation. But, unexpectedly, it was also tinged with real hope; the hope that can be found in people coming together through adversity, working collectively to create a better world. Looking back on everything The Green Institute did over…
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Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations And Nature
29 Mar 2019If BHP Billiton has rights, and can act as a legal person, why shouldn’t the Great Barrier Reef? What would change if we decided that the natural world we are part of had rights of its own – the right to exist, to habitat, to be free from pollution? This collection began its life as an exploration of the concept…
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February Event: Together? Apart? Where ARE we??
8pm AEDT, 9 February 2022Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 9 February 2022 Almost two years ago, in a snap webinar days after Australia went into our first lockdown, the Green Institute hosted the first public conversation in Australia to discuss how we stay together while keeping apart. Two years on, what have we learned? What have we done, and what has been done to us?…
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Special Event: Mark The 10th Anniversary Of The Greens/Gillard Clean Energy Act With Us!
8pm AEDT, 8 November 2021Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Monday 8 November 2021 In the toxic wasteland that is Australia’s climate politics, it’s sometimes easy to forget that, ten years ago, we had a historic win! Join us to mark this anniversary at a very special online event featuring three of the key players, Christine Milne, Professor Will Steffen, and Adam Bandt, at 8pm on November…
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Unconditionally: How Covid Response Points The Way To Unconditional Welfare
8pm AEDT, 27 October 2021Can we imagine a future where income support payments in Australia are permanently made unconditional? The Covid response helps us do so – and it’s a brighter future! Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 27 October 2021 When the Covid pandemic sent Australia into lockdown in 2020, the Federal Government was pushed by advocates and circumstance into an extraordinary step that changed…
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