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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


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



People Want A Better Future: Let's Work Out How To Build It

People Want A Better Future: Let’s Work Out How To Build It

What if I told you that people in regional Queensland want to transition to renewables? That they know it’s inevitable, and want governments to manage it? If you follow the news, or listen to politicians, you’d think I was talking nonsense, wouldn’t you? But if, like Dr Amanda Cahill, you’d… Read More


Sharing, Caring, Co-creating, Co-governing

Sharing, Caring, Co-creating, Co-governing

We had a fabulous conversation last week with Julie Miller Markoff from Bendigo’s bHive and Nat Defriend from London’s Participatory City, taking us through their work to build better, healthier, happier, greener communities from the grassroots up. In the 6th webinar in our Covid Democracy Series “Community-building From Bendigo To… Read More


Is Democracy Possible Without UBI?

Is Democracy Possible Without UBI?

This was just one of the huge questions we grappled with in a wonderful 80 minute conversation with Guy Standing, Jane Goodall, Abigail Boyd, and participants across Australia and beyond. You can now watch the full video below. With tremendous clarity, Guy took us through the challenges of the present… Read More


Cultivating Democracy Conference: Democratising The Economy - Celeste Liddle

Cultivating Democracy Conference: Democratising The Economy

Featured below is an audio podcast of the panel ‘Democratising The Economy’ at The Green Institute conference, Cultivating Democracy, on November 15, 2019. This podcast captures the audio from the ‘Democratising The Economy’ session facilitated by Adam Bandt MHR, with speakers: Clare Ozich, Dr Elise Klein and Celeste Liddle. Read More


UBI Conversation Starters - Green Institute

“Conversation Starters” To Help Design A UBI

In the eighteen months since we kicked off a discussion about Universal Basic Income with our paper, Can Less Work Be More Fair?, the conversation has grown tremendously, with so much interest from around the Greens and beyond. Now it’s time for the next step. Up to now, we’ve… Read More


Green Institute - UBI Work And Labour - Labor

UBI, Work And “Labo(u)r” Parties

It was excellent to watch Richard Di Natale fully embrace and promote the idea of Universal Basic Income in his speech to the National Press Club this week. It’s clear the idea has made its way from the edges of Greens policy and politics into a central position, and that… Read More


Can Less Work be More Fair? Universal Basic Income - UBI

What Is The “Future Of Work”? – Senate Inquiry Submission

The Australian Senate has established a Select Committee to inquire into the enormous topic of “The Future of Work and Workers”. Doubtless they will receive an extraordinary array of widely differing views about both what is happening and what to do about it. The Green Institute was pleased to be… Read More