May’s federal election left the Greens with a big question: What does it actually take to win? Below, five campaigns offer five different answers. The reflections map ongoing debates about how best to understand and approach electoral contests. How should a party committed to transformative change relate to electoral politics, community… Read More
When the horrors of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago this week, became known, an idea began emerge that, in some ways, defined the first nuclear generation: “Never again”. Although nuclear weapons proliferated, and millions lived in genuine fear, the idea that they might actually… Read More
Writing 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… Read More
Roiling 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… Read More
Three candidates walk into a bar… It could be the beginning of a silly joke. But, while it was a lot of fun, it was not just serious but genuinely moving, with one of the candidates weeping tears of joy at being welcomed into a respectful conversation. (And, to be… Read More
Speech to University of New England’s Peace and Justice Symposium, February 14, 2025 Good morning, everyone, and what a pleasure it is to be here with you for this stimulating and oh so timely symposium. I want to thank Marty Branagan and UNE for bringing us together, and acknowledge that… Read More
Turning a coal ship around is incredibly difficult. Turning the ship of state is even harder. It’s so much easier to stop investing our trust in the whole shebang and simply start living into being the world we need – a world of peace, of democracy, of just and regenerative… Read More
Yesterday, as I sat in the rain on the road in front of Parliament House, with a cop’s knee in my back, the crowd broke into a powerful chant of: Show me what democracy looks like This is what democracy looks… Read More
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. Read More
They say truth is the first casualty of war. But sexual violence follows in its dust. And they so often travel together. In South Sudan, amidst civil war, women walking to collect water and firewood have been brutally attacked at horrific rates – a dreadful tally often left unrecognised in… Read More
