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After The Election … In A World On Fire
12 May 2025Writing for Green Agenda after the election, David Shoebridge and Ellen Sandell reject the establishment’s demands to moderate, affirming that Greens politics exist to transform rather than simply winning for winning’s sake. Both remind us that the party’s strength lies in principled solidarity across struggles — from climate justice and social justice to Gaza. We’re not done…
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Democracy When The World Is On Fire
10 May 2025Roiling emotions. Relief and devastation. A pinch of hope, a shake of anger, a dash of despair. A generous sprinkling of equanimity – this too shall pass, and elections are one small part of the arc of history. And a powerful flavour of gratitude. I want to start this email…
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Making Democracy Fit For Purpose In The 21st Century
17 Dec 2024U3A Canberra Northside invited Tim to present on the challenges to democracy and possibilities for reinventing it, expanding on the themes in Living Democracy. We’ve transformed his speech into a publication for all to access here.
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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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“I am because we are”
23 Jun 2025“I didn't win a seat, but my god I've won a neighbourhood”, writes Sonya Semmens on her Macnamara campaign. In an atomised society where “people see themselves not as part of a collective, but an individual — alone and powerless”, electoral politics, Sonya argues, must serve...
Read MorePost-election in the genocide
2 Jun 2025“As I write this, Israeli airstrikes continue to rain down on a city reduced to rubble, on people—a million children—huddled in tents”. Writing as genocide unfolds in Gaza and his newborn Arab-Aboriginal child laughs in his arms, former Greens candidate Omar Sakr dissects Labor’s...
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24 May 2025We work with social justice, antiracist, and ecological commitments, and in favour of Indigenous sovereignty. We welcome contributions from all who share an interest in exploring ideas that are consistent with and explore left, progressive, and environmental thought and its contemporary...
Read MoreIs this the best we can hope for?
17 May 2025Despite Labor’s “landslide”, Simon Copland warns that the ALP’s historically low primary vote reveals a growing anti-political sentiment. Progressives must reject Labor’s do-nothing electoralism, pushing for real system change — not for electoral aims, but because only a bold...
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Special briefing and discussion: defeating the Atlas Network’s extreme right astroturfing
8pm AEDT, Thursday 27 February 2025If 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. Also, an auto-reminder went out ONCE with the wrong Zoom link for an old event. Please be sure to use the CORRECT LINK for this event.
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Missing Peace Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar 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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Missing Peace 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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