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Unconditionally: How Covid Response Points The Way To Unconditional Welfare

“Unconditionally” – Covid Response And The Future Of Welfare

Can 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! On the evening of October 27, I’m excited to bring you a discussion about this big idea with some of Australia’s… Read More


What Is Green Politics? Asia Pacific Greens Discussion Forum - APGN

What Is Green Politics? Discussion With Asia Pacific Greens

I was absolutely privileged on October 10 to join a panel for the Asia Pacific Greens Federation, discussing the question “What is Green Politics?” with Greens colleagues from Lebanon, Japan and Indonesia. It was a wonderful insight into how, in different circumstances and from different perspectives, our challenges, issues and… Read More


Everything Is Terrible. What A Time To Be Alive! Green Institute - Hope - Doomism

Everything Is Terrible. What A Time To Be Alive!

This opinion piece was first published in The Canberra Times on 15 August, 2021. “So, New Zealand looks like the best place to ride out the apocalypse. When are we moving?” If I had a tonne of coal in the ground for every time someone had… Read More


Momentum Builds For Universal Basic Income

Momentum Builds For Universal Basic Income

Anglicare Australia backing will shift the debate The Green Institute has warmly welcomed Anglicare Australia’s announcement this week of support for Universal Basic Income, making it the first major Australian charity to back the policy shift, and marking an important turning point in the conversation about… Read More


Replenishing The Oily Rag - Image is of an oily paint brush rag and paint brush.

Replenishing The Oily Rag

So far this year, amidst the challenges we’re all facing, The Green Institute has brought you two fantastic quarterly editions of Green Agenda – Into The Fire and On (in)security, webinars on youth & democracy and climate grief and action, a bunch of blog posts, and a democratic… Read More



TheirBudget, Our Lives - A Democratic Budget Reply In Action

#TheirBudget, Our Lives – A Democratic Budget Reply In Action!

If there’s anything better for the soul than a big group of people gathered together around a good meal, actively planning together how to build a better world, I’ve not experienced it. On the traditional Budget Reply night, Thursday of Budget week, The Green Institute partnered with The Australian Unemployed… Read More


Full Circle - Scott Ludlam - New Book - Danielle Celermajer - Summertime

From Grief To Possibility To Action: Join Our Virtual Book Club

For everyone who was living anywhere near the gargantuan, climate-change-fuelled fires of 2019-20, or had any connection to the country that was burning, they left an indelible mark on our psyche. Recently, as the autumn chill arrived in Canberra and the first hazard reduction burns took place in the nearby… Read More


Budget, Books And Big Tech

Budget, Books And Big Tech

I’m super excited to be bringing you three fantastic events covering diverse and important issues over the next six weeks. Please join us to discuss how we can resist austerity in a post-budget event with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, how to move from climate grief to action… Read More


Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide - Talking The Holocaust And Climate Action - Green Institute - Image of Tim Hollo talking to a group of people

Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide – Talking The Holocaust And Climate Action

I was delighted recently to be invited to speak at the conference of the Australian Academy of Jewish Studies, where I gave a presentation about Ecology, Citizenship and Jewish Identity, drawing together the ideas of Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin. I talked about how the fragile sense of… Read More