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What kind of party? What kind of campaign?
15 Oct 2025May’s federal election left the Greens with a big question: What does it actually take to win? Below, five campaigns offer five different answers. The reflections map ongoing debates about how best to understand and approach electoral contests. How should a party committed to transformative change relate to electoral politics, community…
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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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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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Militarised Futures
15 Oct 2025Australia’s Future Fund has increased its investments in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, by over 600%. While hiding behind “administrative compliance”, Australian public wealth profits from genocide. Scheherazade Bloul exposes this as the “banality of...
Read MoreMachine vs Movement
11 Oct 2025What kind of party? What kind of campaign? May’s federal election left the Greens with a big question: What does it actually take to win? Below, five campaigns offer five different answers. The reflections map ongoing debates about how best to understand and approach electoral...
Read MoreOn mutual aid, electoral politics and building community
3 Oct 2025This is what the new wave of Greens campaigning looks like: mutual aid, free meals, and public housing solidarity. Campaigning as community-building work, even when electoral wins aren’t guaranteed. But this is how our movement grows: through reflection and skill-sharing across loss and...
Read MoreThat last 1.6% – Lessons from the Wills 2025 Campaign
2 Oct 2025With one of the largest campaigns ever, the Greens came within 1.6% of winning Wills from Labor — with a record 26% swing in multicultural and working class northern suburbs. But then were outspent 3:1 in the final stretch. Here’s what Samantha Ratnam and Cat Nadel share about lessons...
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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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