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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. But what’s it like to…
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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 back on everything The Green Institute…
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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 universal access to the funds…
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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 growing awareness of our ecological…
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Green Agenda Webinar Recording: Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future
Last Wednesday 11 November Green Agenda Co-editors Felicity Gray and Simon Copland hosted a thought-provoking online discussion based on the Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2020: Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future. Thanks for coming along! If you were unable to attend or would like to revisit, you can watch the recording here or below.…
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Necessary But Insufficient: Anti-corruption Commissions Won’t Stop Corruption
Unfortunately, it’s patently obvious that we need anti-corruption commissions to expose corruption in Australian politics. But history shows such commissions to be necessary to expose corruption but insufficient to prevent it. With NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, fighting for her political life after her knowledge of and failure to act on corruption by her colleague and…
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Government Of, By And For The Fossil Fuel Industry: Speech At Bernard Collaery Trial
Speech by Tim Hollo in Canberra on September 30 at the Bernard Collaery Trial. Good morning everyone and good on you stalwarts for continuing to be here, to stand up for justice and democracy. Before going any further, I also want to acknowledge that we’re here standing on the unceded land of the Ngunnawal people,…
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6 Months, 9 Webinars, 26 Speakers, Countless Ideas!
Six months ago, just as coronavirus was reaching Australia and we were beginning to grapple with what a pandemic response might look like, the Green Institute called a snap webinar, Staying Together While Keeping Apart, to discuss how to ensure that, through looming lockdowns, we continue the vital work of cultivating connection, cohesion and democracy. The…
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Building Community To Stop Fossil Fuels
One of the most obvious fault lines exposed in COVID politics is over climate action and fossil fuels, with governments using the cover of the pandemic to push forward with polluting and destructive projects despite ever clearer evidence that a clean energy-driven recovery is the way to go, and stronger than ever demands from communities…
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There’s No Time Left Not To Do Everything
After a few months of suppressing our terror of the climate crisis while we’ve focussed on the immediate crisis of the pandemic, I’ve noticed, in conversations in person and online, that the fires in the USA have brought the trauma of last summer back to the surface for many many people. It’s patently obvious that…
