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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3

Policy fails, but gardens grow

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, community-based regenerative food advocates have to continue to subvert agribusiness as a form of grass-roots sustainable materialism [...]

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Democracy, Economy, Environment, Green Agenda 2024:3

Growing gardens on the grave of the old world – celebrating community energy

| 10th February, 2025

In the light of the rapid dismantling of US democratic institutions, and global certainties that rely on it, it is timely to publish this lightly edited version of...
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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3

Policy fails, but gardens grow

| 10th February, 2025

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...
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Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Negotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government

and | 20th January, 2025

Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first...
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Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice

Bike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution

and | 7th December, 2024

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...
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Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Theory

Beyond the far-right

| 29th November, 2024

Seeing the rise of the far-right through the lens of anti-establishment sentiment reveals why current strategies fail. Mainstream responses that defend the political order or adopt right-wing positions...
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Call for Proposals, Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1

On forests – Call for proposals

| 18th November, 2024

Our upcoming themed issue focuses on forests and forest struggles across the continent. Send us your abstract or pitch by Friday 20 December. We welcome submissions from Indigenous activists...
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Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:3, Peace, Social Justice

Trump / Harris / Wong

| 13th November, 2024

In this critique, poet and writer Omar Sakr methodically dismantles Foreign Minister Penny Wong's attempts to gaslight the Australian public about the Commonwealth’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of...
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Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:3, Peace, Social Justice

Labor lost the Queensland election a year ago: Unpacking strategic missteps on youth crime

| 8th November, 2024

What might we be overlooking when we analyse how the LNP’s youth crime fear campaign spread and took hold? Elections are weird. Right until they step into the...
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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2

The right to repair

| 7th November, 2024

From repair cafés to policy reform, Canberra has been at the forefront of the right to repair movement in so called Australia. In this contribution for Green Agenda,...
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