
Tim Hollo Speaks With Behind the Lines 98.3 About ‘Everything Is Connected’
Tim Hollo had a yarn with Behind the Lines 98.3 about the Green Institute and its upcoming “Everything is Connected” conference. Listen now.
Read MoreTim Hollo had a yarn with Behind the Lines 98.3 about the Green Institute and its upcoming “Everything is Connected” conference. Listen now.
Read MoreIt’s fair to say this photo depicts a) the awesome presence of kids muckin’ about (Food for Thought is a family-friendly program!), mixed with b) the release of some fraught self-consciousness as we made our way together through so many legitimate dilemmas regarding how to start a journey towards…
Read MoreToday, Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg announced another iteration in the climate policy fiasco – a National Energy Guarantee, scrapping support for renewable energy. It is a policy specifically designed to extend the life of coal fired power stations and slow the growth of renewable energy. Can we talk…
Read MoreWith our conference now a little over two weeks away (get your tickets now, people, before they sell out!), I thought it would be a good time to quickly talk a little more about what we mean by its title: Everything is Connected. The idea of the whole conference is…
Read MoreThis is the text of a speech by Executive Director Tim Hollo to the New Economics Network Australia conference, Brisbane, September 3, 2017. What role for politics in building a new economy? I want to start with a slightly provocative question: why are we framing this as an economic exercise…
Read MoreThe below is a speech by Executive Director Tim Hollo to the Ngara Institute, on August 23, 2017. Common Good: Democratic Futures for People and Planet So, common good. I want to talk you this evening about a version of that, a concept which has been much maligned but is a…
Read MoreWhen it comes down it, the barest minimum we should all be able to expect in a decent society is to be treated with basic decency, right? A roof over our heads, food in our bellies, and a little cushion to buffer against hard times. It seems extraordinary that…
Read MoreCoral reefs are extraordinarily beautiful, diverse, complex ecosystems. It is their diversity and complexity, in no small part, which gives them their beauty – colour and movement, ever changing, ever shifting, something to take your breath away everywhere you turn. It is, of course, that diversity, and the complexity of…
Read MoreToday is Bastille Day, the anniversary of a pivotal moment in world history: the storming of the Bastille, marking the beginning of the victory of the French Revolution, and a key point in global democratisation. I wonder, is the democratisation of Facebook one of the crucial next steps towards global…
Read MoreYou know what Canberra, our beautiful bush capital, needs? More billboard advertising! Said nobody, ever… … Except Andrew Barr, in a brief thought bubble early this year. Unfortunately, our Chief Minister sent the idea off to a Legislative Committee inquiry and, unless a large number of Canberrans write in urgently…
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