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#TheirBudget, Our Lives – A Democratic Budget Reply In Action!
If there’s anything better for the soul than a big group of people gathered together around a good meal, actively planning together how to build a better world, I’ve not experienced it. On the traditional Budget Reply night, Thursday of Budget week, The Green Institute partnered with The Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU), the Antipoverty…
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From Grief To Possibility To Action: Join Our Virtual Book Club
For everyone who was living anywhere near the gargantuan, climate-change-fuelled fires of 2019-20, or had any connection to the country that was burning, they left an indelible mark on our psyche. Recently, as the autumn chill arrived in Canberra and the first hazard reduction burns took place in the nearby Brindabellas, I found myself struck…
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Budget, Books And Big Tech
I’m super excited to be bringing you three fantastic events covering diverse and important issues over the next six weeks. Please join us to discuss how we can resist austerity in a post-budget event with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, how to move from climate grief to action in a virtual bookclub with Scott Ludlam and Danielle Celermajer,…
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Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide – Talking The Holocaust And Climate Action
I was delighted recently to be invited to speak at the conference of the Australian Academy of Jewish Studies, where I gave a presentation about Ecology, Citizenship and Jewish Identity, drawing together the ideas of Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin. I talked about how the fragile sense of privilege, the uprootedness, and the…
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Green Agenda Journal & Webinar: Into The Fire
Thanks to everyone who came along to the online launch of the Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Summer 2021 Edition: Into The Fire. A special thanks to speakers Lina Koleilat, Dodie Henderson, and Queensland Greens MP Amy MacMahon who discussed how fire defines us and what we can learn from it. Green Agenda recorded the webinar,…
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Are You Burning Up? Join Us To Discuss Into The Fire
Never in my memory has there been a moment of such broad, burning rage against patriarchy, against the entitlement of privileged men, against the way our politics and our justice system allow men to get away with appalling abuse of women. The events of the last couple of weeks, led by the courage of Brittany…
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Ecology, Citizenship, and Jewish Identity
Speech to The Australian Association of Jewish Studies conference, Canberra, February 28. Thanks very much. I want to start by acknowledging that we’re meeting here on the land of the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respect to their elders, past, present and still to come. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Always…
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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…
