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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Social Justice
Rethinking public education in Queensland – crisis and opportunity
In the context of the Queensland Teachers Union’s current struggle against the state government’s manufactured crisis, underfunding and exploitation of teachers’ passion, Luke Robinson outlines the demands of the strike actions. Drawing on practical lessons from the Finnish education model, Robinson argues that teachers need to be valued properly. [...]
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Forests, Peace, Social Justice
All that remains
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 Sustainability. As the violence of Israeli settlements expands in the West Bank, Palestinians defy colonial erasure by building ecological knowledge. [...]
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Democracy, Economy, Featured, Peace
Militarised Futures
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 profits from genocide. Scheherazade Bloul exposes this as the “banality of finance management”, arguing that militarisation has become our normalised condition, connecting the Future Fund’s moral bankruptcy to the country’s foundational economy of genocide and... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue
Machine vs Movement
What 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 contests. How should a party committed to transformative change relate to electoral politics, community organising, and... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice, Theory
On mutual aid, electoral politics and building community
This 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 victory, embedding social justice in all we do. [...]
Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Theory
That last 1.6% – Lessons from the Wills 2025 Campaign
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 3:1 in the final stretch. Here’s what Samantha Ratnam and Cat Nadel share about lessons learnt, organising community, and why the 2028 campaign has already started... Read More
Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice
For public housing, against privatisation
RAHU Secretary Harry Millward argues that the Victorian Labor government’s so-called public housing “renewal” is social cleansing by state policy. Against Labor’s demolitions and privatisation, we need a diversity of tactics, from mass rallies to direct action. [...]
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How degrowth are you?
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 environmentalism in the north finds it difficult to address global south exploitation. [...]
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Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice
“I am because we are”
“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 the deeper work of rebuilding community. [...]
Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Peace, Social Justice
Post-election in the genocide
“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 Arab-Aboriginal child laughs in his arms, former Greens candidate Omar Sakr dissects Labor’s electoral “super mandate” built on a historically low 34.6% primary vote and coordinated attacks on the... Read More
