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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…
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Together? Apart? Where ARE we??
Welcome to 2022. And life doesn’t get less interesting, does it? As we head into our third year of pandemic, with the climate and ecological crisis hanging over us, and with threats to our weakening democracies looking ever more worrying, it’s hard to feel this is a happy new year. But yesterday I was privileged…
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Thank You For Being Part Of An Amazing Year
Well. That was quite a year. Again. Wasn’t it? From the storming of the US Capitol in January, through more waves of the pandemic, to the Glasgow climate conference’s first ever commitments to start seriously phasing down fossil fuels, history didn’t let up. Through it all, the Green Institute was here, doing our best to…
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Celebrating And Planning Climate Action
Well, what an inspiring conversation we had last night, coming together to mark the 10th anniversary of the Clean Energy Act passing the parliament, and discuss what the precedent means for the months ahead. Our three wonderful panellists, Christine Milne, Will Steffen and Adam Bandt took us through the full story of the Multi Party…
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Happy Birthday, Bob Brown’s Bank!
Tony Abbott and his friends in the Murdoch press derided it as “Bob Brown’s Bank”, and vowed to shut it down. But, ten years on, despite repeated attacks, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation is still operational, and still channeling billions of dollars of vital investment into renewable energy. It’s one of the most successful policies…
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Sharing As Democracy – DemFest21
What does borrowing dress up clothes or lending a lawnmower have to do with democracy? Quite a lot, as it happens! When you do it thoughtfully. When the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy announced a call for pre-recorded videos for their DemFest21, celebrating local democracy, I knew I had to do one explaining the participatory…
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Launch Of “Unconditionally”
From reflections on lived experience to academic analysis of real life impacts to analysis of what people actually believe, the launch of our new paper, “Unconditionally: COVID response and the future of welfare” was a brilliant way to help us imagine a future where welfare is unconditional. The event featured Kirstin O’Connell from the Anti…
