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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Everything Is Connected: Racism And Prejudice
This was a deeply moving and powerful panel session entitled “Systemic approaches to racism and prejudice”. Panel members were: Lidia Thorpe: Lidia is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman who [was at the time] the Greens candidate in the by-election for the Victorian state seat of Northcote [and is now sitting member for Northcote]. She is also Managing Director…
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Everything Is Connected: Science, AI, And Democracy
Traversing the way the internet has impacted on democratic discourses, how giant capitalist monopolies have begun to take control and challenge the basis of democracy, how technology changes the way we work and interact, and how commercialisation of research challenges public good science, this was a fabulous conversation. Panel members were: Ellen Broad Ellen Broad…
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Everything Is Connected: Brendan Mackey’s Plenary Presentation
Professor Brendan Mackey is the Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program and specialises in the interactions between climate change, biodiversity and land use, sustainable development and the science and policy of ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation and related public policy issues. Prof Mackey’s keynote presentation, entitled The breath of life connects us all: scientific…
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Everything Is Connected: Mary Graham Plenary On Indigenous Conceptions Of Governance
Dr Mary Graham is Associate Adjunct Professor of the School of Political Science and International Studies. She is a Kombumerri person (Gold Coast) through her father’s heritage and affiliated with Wakka Wakka (South Burnett) through her mother’s people. Mary has lectured nationally on Aboriginal history, politics and comparative philosophy. Dr Graham’s opening plenary presentation was…
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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.
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Being Better Indigenous Allies: A Food For Thought Event Report
It’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 being better Indigenous allies. A big…
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Guaranteeing What, Exactly?
Today, 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 about what this National Energy Guarantee…
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What Do We Mean By “Everything Is Connected”?
With 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 to give us an opportunity to talk…
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Politics and the New Economy: Speech to New Economy Network Australia conference
This 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 instead of a political one?…
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“Common good and the Commons” – speech to Ngara Institute
The 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 beautiful model for democratic futures…
