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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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…
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Recording Of Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology
Below you will discover a recording of the event ‘Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology’ hosted by Economythologies featuring Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo. The image of Homo Economicus underpins the ubiquity of neo-classical economics, delineating the possibilities of exchange for humans conceived as rational and self-interested beings. How does growing awareness of our ecological…
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Green Agenda Webinar Recording: Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future
Last Wednesday 11 November Green Agenda Co-editors Felicity Gray and Simon Copland hosted a thought-provoking online discussion based on the Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2020: Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future. Thanks for coming along! If you were unable to attend or would like to revisit, you can watch the recording here or below.…
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Necessary But Insufficient: Anti-corruption Commissions Won’t Stop Corruption
Unfortunately, it’s patently obvious that we need anti-corruption commissions to expose corruption in Australian politics. But history shows such commissions to be necessary to expose corruption but insufficient to prevent it. With NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, fighting for her political life after her knowledge of and failure to act on corruption by her colleague and…
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Government Of, By And For The Fossil Fuel Industry: Speech At Bernard Collaery Trial
Speech by Tim Hollo in Canberra on September 30 at the Bernard Collaery Trial. Good morning everyone and good on you stalwarts for continuing to be here, to stand up for justice and democracy. Before going any further, I also want to acknowledge that we’re here standing on the unceded land of the Ngunnawal people,…
