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Into The Fire - Green Agenda Journal - Webinar

Green Agenda Journal & Webinar: Into The Fire

Thanks to everyone who came along to the online launch of the Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Summer 2021 Edition: Into The Fire. A special thanks to speakers Lina Koleilat, Dodie Henderson, and Queensland Greens MP Amy MacMahon who discussed how fire defines us and what we… Read More


Are You Burning Up? Join Us To Discuss Into The Fire - Young woman looking at fire with man standing in the background

Are You Burning Up? Join Us To Discuss Into The Fire

Never in my memory has there been a moment of such broad, burning rage against patriarchy, against the entitlement of privileged men, against the way our politics and our justice system allow men to get away with appalling abuse of women. The events of the last couple of weeks, led… Read More


Ecology, Citizenship, and Jewish Identity - Hannah Arendt and Emma Goldman

Ecology, Citizenship, and Jewish Identity

Speech to The Australian Association of Jewish Studies conference, Canberra, February 28. Thanks very much. I want to start by acknowledging that we’re meeting here on the land of the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respect to their elders, past, present and still to come. This always was and always… Read More


I Am Greta DocPlay Screening - Movie Documentary - Green Institute - Senator Jordon Steele-John

Youth And Democracy In A World On The Brink

Greta Thunberg has swept the globe with her raw honesty and stark challenges to world leaders to act “as if our house is on fire, because it is”. Millions of people, young and old, have been inspired by her to join strikes and marches and get involved in activist groups. Read More


Cultivating Hope - Green Institute Annual Report 2020

Cultivating Hope

Last 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… Read More


58% Of Australians Support Universal Basic Income

58% Of Australians Support Universal Basic Income!

Imagine if, instead of extending the awful, controlling, racist Cashless Welfare Card, as they did this week, our government was discussing how to cultivate trust, how a good society helps every one of its members get by. Imagine if, alongside a commitment to universal health care and education, we put… Read More


Recording Of Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology | Green Institute - Tim Hollo

Recording Of Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology

Below you will discover a recording of the event ‘Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology’ hosted by Economythologies featuring Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo. The image of Homo Economicus underpins the ubiquity of neo-classical economics, delineating the possibilities of exchange for humans conceived as rational and self-interested beings. How does… Read More