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A report by the Green Institute has found that gas corporations could make between $78 billion and $107 billion exporting Australian gas this calendar year, as a result of the price surges caused by t...

Are you the next leader of the Green Institute? Background The Green Institute is the official think tank of the Australian Greens. Founded in 2008 by Margaret Blakers OAM and funded by a…

The public education sector in Queensland is suffering from years of a manufactured crisis; systemic underfunding, overburdened teachers, and political neglect. In the context of the current struggle…

Benjamin Gready writes from Bethlehem, where collecting seeds, documenting species, and doing ecological fieldwork is an act of resistance for the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and…

Australia’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…

May’s federal election left the Greens with a big question: What does it actually take to win? Green Agenda editor Carlos Morreo features five campaigns that offer five different answers.

With 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…

In Senate Estimates hearings on October 8, Future Fund officials deflected and justified their investments in Elbit Systems

The 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…

As Voyager 1 nears its end, Emma Davidson reflects on what its journey, along with Pluto and its moon Charon, reveal about the beauty and power of symbiosis. In her essay, Emma shows how…

Writing for Green Agenda, Terry Leahy’s essay shows how the environmental movement’s emphasis on cultural transformation without structural reform reproduces the very “social games” of capitalism we…

“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…

“As I write this, Israeli airstrikes continue to rain down on a city reduced to rubble, on people—a million children—huddled in tents”. Writing as genocide unfolds in Gaza and his newborn…

Writing 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…

Right now, at this moment, and in the coming years, what are we to do differently? How can we, in a system designed to protect the status quo, act to transform it? Tim Hollo shares his first…

60 members of the local Murwillumbah community took part in an event designed to promote community collaboration and better democracy by flipping the script of the traditional “Meet the Candidates”…

In March 2025, the Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ spoke to Tim Hollo about his book Living Democracy. You can listen to it here.

Beneath the rhetoric of Europe's far-right is a web competing economic interests. While the Far Right shares a xenophobic discourse, the parties represent very different factions of capital, from…

In Sarawak, eucalyptus plantations are replacing biodiverse forests under the guise of "reforestation". Indigenous communities fight to protect their lands while Australia continues to import timber…

Tim Hollo's Speech to University of New England's Peace and Justice Symposium, February 14, 2025.

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If it has occurred to the members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture that there is nothing to eat on a dead planet, they have chosen not to present that framing to government. Instead, writes…

On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable…

As I sat in the rain on the road in front of Parliament House, with a cop's knee in my back, the crowd broke into a powerful chant of "Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks…

At Rising Tide, the protesters pulled off possibly the biggest act of climate-focussed nonviolent civil disobedience in Australian history. Read more from Tim Hollo.