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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Podcast: Tim Hollo Charts Pathways Towards Living Democracy
Tim Hollo was interviewed by ‘Better World Leaders’, a podcast that shares experiences, journeys and insights with leaders who are co-creating our better worlds and futures. Listen on AppleListen now on Spotify An introduction to the podcast from Tim Collings of Better World Leaders … “Once you start to engage with systems change, it becomes…
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Podcast: Brave New Green World, Conversations from Byron Writers Festival
In Conversations From Byron, Sarah Wilson sits down with filmmaker and activist Damon Gameau, the ‘electrify everything guy’ Saul Griffith and environmentalist Tim Hollo to imagine a greener future for our world. In a discussion that traverses history, policy, community action and technology, we’re presented with an array of possibilities that embody the 2022 festival…
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Top 7 Green Agenda Reads Of 2022
As we step into the new year, here’s a path circling through Green Agenda’s 2022 most read pieces, cleared by our readers’ high clicks and concerns. Seven articles ranging from reflections on the Greens in power and discussions of Indigenous and environmental struggles in East Gippsland and the West Kimberley, to a Green theory of…
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IPAN Conference – Connecting The Climate And Peace Movements Through Transformative Action
Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks so much for having me here. I also acknowledge that we’re meeting on land violently stolen from peoples who had lived here in diverse nations, in peace, since time immemorial. Paying respect to all elders, I want to particularly acknowledge Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Professor Mary Graham, from whom…
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Living Democracy in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne And Online
The busy times continue, with fabulous conversations all around the place about Living Democracy. I just spent the day at the ACT Conservation Council’s symposium on the Circular Economy where people from NGOs, government, business and academia were buzzing around ways of reinventing the economy, and what’s being done on the ground. I started the day…
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The Opposite Of Violence Is Connection
Today, August 6, is Hiroshima Day, 77 years after the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city caused unimaginable death, destruction and devastation. It’s a day to ponder peace. And, as such, a day on which I thought I’d share an extract from my book, Living Democracy, from the chapter on what I fear…
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What comes after a Greenslide?
What an extraordinary result! Last month’s election, wiping out the ecocidal Morrison government and delivering a remarkable 16 Greens MPs as part of a historic blow to the two party system, is an incredible moment in Australian political history, as well as a pivotal one for our party and movement. With tremendous grassroots campaigning, excellent…
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Out Now: Greens and Government – Green Agenda Journal 2022 Volume One
With a federal election just weeks away and a real chance that the Greens could find ourselves in balance of power and negotiating for government, Green Agenda’s first edition of 2022 explores one of the biggest questions our party and movement face: how should we govern? As a party founded on the principle of grassroots democracy, how…
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A Liveable Income Guarantee!
Did you see the news on the weekend? The Australian Greens have officially proposed a Liveable Income Guarantee, lifting all income support payments to above the Henderson poverty line, and abolishing the nasty, punitive ‘mutual obligations’ and other unfair access restrictions. This is a massively transformative policy proposal. If implemented, it would change millions of lives…
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Ready To Watch: Together? Apart? Where ARE we??
Almost two years ago, in a snap webinar days after Australia went into our first lockdown, The Green Institute hosted the first public conversation in Australia to discuss how we stay together while keeping apart. In the last two years, we’ve seen a huge burst of mutual aid around Australia and the world, but we’ve…
