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Never again … ?
5 Aug 2025Peace Memorial Park – Hiroshima When the horrors of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago this week, became known, an idea began emerge that, in some ways, defined the first nuclear generation: “Never again”. Although nuclear weapons proliferated, and millions lived in genuine fear, the…
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After The Election … In A World On Fire
12 May 2025Writing for Green Agenda after the election, David Shoebridge and Ellen Sandell reject the establishment’s demands to moderate, affirming that Greens politics exist to transform rather than simply winning for winning’s sake. Both remind us that the party’s strength lies in principled solidarity across struggles — from climate justice and social justice to Gaza. We’re not done…
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Making Democracy Fit For Purpose In The 21st Century
17 Dec 2024U3A Canberra Northside invited Tim to present on the challenges to democracy and possibilities for reinventing it, expanding on the themes in Living Democracy. We’ve transformed his speech into a publication for all to access here.
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Listening to Living Democracy: Audio Book
1 Dec 2023These are dark times. Could they be the darkest before the dawn? Can we turn this juggernaught around and cultivate an ecological, living democracy? You can now listen to Tim Hollo reading his book, Living Democracy, to find inspiration, ideas, and encouragement to do your own thinking. LISTEN FOR FREE…
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Seeding, Feeding and Leading Transformative Greens Politics: Green Institute Annual Report 2022/23
17 Nov 2023With our strongest ever focus on engaging and working with Greens members and the wider movement, 2022/23 was an exciting and highly successful year for the Green Institute. Despite tiny resources, with only 1½ FTE staff, we delivered a massive program of workshops and webinars, publications and podcasts, conferences and writers’ festivals, cultivating deep…
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Abundance gets it wrong
12 Sep 2025Klein and Thompson’s Abundance sounds progressive but delivers repackaged trickle-down economics, blaming NIMBYs while ignoring corporate power and capitalist inequality. Their technocratic utopia misreads deregulation as justice, with wealth for the rich disguised as abundance for all....
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12 Sep 2025The recent 2025 International Degrowth Conference held in Oslo may have exposed some of the deepest contradictions in the movement. The Degrowth and Delinking Collective’s intervention highlights how environmentalism in the north finds it difficult to address global south exploitation....
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15 Aug 2025Terry Leahy’s essay shows how the environmental movement’s emphasis on cultural transformation without structural reform reproduces the very “social games” of capitalism we oppose. Changing hearts or changing systems is a false choice — we need both to rewrite society’s rules....
Read More“I am because we are”
23 Jun 2025“I didn't win a seat, but my god I've won a neighbourhood”, writes Sonya Semmens on her Macnamara campaign. In an atomised society where “people see themselves not as part of a collective, but an individual — alone and powerless”, electoral politics, Sonya argues, must serve...
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Missing Peace Webinar #6: Nuclear Disarmament in a world of Trump and Netanyahu
8pm AEST, Thursday 7 August 2025Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEST, Thursday 7 August 2025 In the week the world marks 80 years since nuclear weapons were unleashed on the world with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Green Institute’s Missing Peace series continues with a webinar asking “where to for nuclear disarmament in a world of Trump and…
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Special briefing and discussion: defeating the Atlas Network’s extreme right astroturfing
8pm AEDT, Thursday 27 February 2025If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Also, an auto-reminder went out ONCE with the wrong Zoom link for an old event. Please be sure to use the CORRECT LINK for this event.
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Missing Peace Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As we have been exploring through The Missing Peace, we know it works to create real, lasting, significant change, even in the direst circumstances. One of the reasons we know nonviolent protest works is because those…
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