Latest Updates
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Re-engaging
Well, I’m back! As you may recall, I stepped down as Executive Director of the Green Institute back in March in order to focus fully on my election campaign for the seat of Canberra. The board kindly kept my position vacant for the duration, while the wonderful Elissa Jenkins very ably held the fort, and…
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What Needs To Be Done For Us To Survive?
I’m sure that, like me, over this terrifying summer so far, you’ve been inspired by the way communities across the country are coming together to support each other, whether it’s through fighting fires themselves or cooking meals for each other, distributing masks or gathering goods for families who’ve lost everything. And, of course, the donations…
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The End Of The World As We Know It
As I sat down to write this—struggling with how to get on with normal life while, just down the road, a massive fire burns in one of my favourite places and smoke turns the morning light a ghastly orange—two kookaburras suddenly started laughing in the tall eucalypts behind my home. The sound sent a jolt…
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Cultivating Democracy Conference: Democracy And Ecology
Featured below is an audio podcast of the panel ‘Democracy And Ecology’ at The Green Institute conference, Cultivating Democracy, on November 15, 2019. This podcast captures the audio from ‘Democracy And Ecology’ session facilitated by Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, with speakers: Margaret Blakers, Nicky Ison and Dr Natalie Osborne.
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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.
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Cultivating Democracy Conference: Deepening Democracy
Featured below is an audio podcast of the panel ‘Deepening Democracy’ at The Green Institute conference, Cultivating Democracy, on November 15, 2019. Facilitated by Senator Larissa Waters, speakers include:Associate Professor Simon Niemeyer, Dr Amanda Cahill, Dr Tim Dunlop and Nicola Paris.
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Cultivating Democracy Conference: Welcome & Introduction
Featured below is an audio podcast of Tim Hollo’s opening speech to the Green Institute conference, Cultivating Democracy, on November 15, 2019. You can also read Tim’s speech on our blog. At the end of the recording, you will hear Green Institute’s Communications & Projects Officer Elissa Jenkins launch the Institute’s Regular Giving Program.
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Cultivating Ecological Democracy: Opening Conference Speech
This is the text of Tim Hollo’s opening speech to the Green Institute conference, Cultivating Democracy, on November 15, 2019. Audio and transcriptions of the other presentations on the day will be posted in the coming weeks as they become available. On behalf of the Green Institute and all of us here, I acknowledge that…
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Ecological Democracy & Climate Democracy: Speech To Academy of Social Sciences Australia Symposium
I start by acknowledging that we are on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngamberi people and paying respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land, and any conversation about its future, about how we face up to the enormous challenges of the years ahead, must…
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What Kind Of Democracy Do We Need To Survive This?
Like many of you, I have friends and loved ones right now in the paths of some of the most destructive fires Australia has yet seen. I sit, horrified, in front of my screen, reloading pages, hoping to hear good news, thinking about what I need to do to prepare in case Canberra burns again…
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Just Ask Nicely: 24 Things You Can’t Do When Campaigning For Climate Action
YOU CAN’T DO IT THAT WAY! With the increasingly panicked attacks on climate activists for daring to protest, and faux-concerned opinion pieces published pleading “Why can’t they ask nicely?”, here’s a short and incomplete list of what we’re not allowed to do when campaigning for climate action. Suggestions for other items I may have missed…
