Democracy

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

Beyond the far-right

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 will only accelerate their decline. [...]

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, 2 weeks ago


Call for Proposals, Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1

On forests – Call for proposals

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 and researchers, forest protectors, scholar-activists, collectives and creatives, and others working with the forest, environmental and ecological justice movements. Green Agenda publishes essays and non-fiction writing with forceful political and theoretical analysis,... Read More

by , 3 weeks ago


Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:3, Peace, Social Justice

Trump / Harris / Wong

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 Palestinians. Analysing Wong's recent opinion piece — its manipulation of timelines, false equivalencies and misinformation about Australia's military and political support for Israel. Sakr exposes how both Labor and Liberal actively enables... Read More

, 4 weeks ago


Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:3, Peace, Social Justice

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

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 polling booth, a surprising proportion of voters are undecided, or at least open to changing their minds. But although it’s possible to shift some voters late in a campaign, candidates are also... Read More

by , 1 month ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2

The right to repair

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, Matthew Rimmer shows how local activists and the ACT Greens have pushed for change, while federal policy trails behind global progress. With other countries now taking the lead, Rimmer calls for the... Read More

, 1 month ago


Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Social Justice, Theory

Not a commodity, climate justice

A dominant view of climate justice advocates for richer nations to pay developing ones to do the work of “solving” climate change. But this renders climate justice a mere commodity, and perpetuates the longstanding global division of labour, class disparity, and the north-south flow of value. [...]

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by , 3 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Social Justice

Esperance’s struggle: Confronting racism in rural Australia

On a cold wintry evening in June, a group of people, mostly “wadjelas”, whitefellas like me, have gathered within a small, corrugated iron clad building to show support for an Aboriginal community that is under siege. I assume that those attending are, as I am, disappointed by recent events that have exposed the outwardly racist nature of the place we... Read More

, 4 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:2, Peace, Social Justice, Theory

Facilitating change: consensus, collaboration and participatory politics

We need to make our democracy work for us. We need to change it so that it is more participatory. Former Green Senator Janet Rice reflects on her decade bringing facilitation and consensus-building skills to the politics of parliament. [...]

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by , 6 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Peace, Social Justice, Theory

No regrets

Brad Homewood and Violet CoCo are climate activists and organisers with Extinction Rebellion. They recently served two months in prison for blocking the West Gate Bridge in Naarm/Melbourne to sound the alarm on the climate emergency. [...]

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and , 6 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice, Virtual Issue

Visions & Movements

Our latest issue of Green Agenda, ‘Visions & Movements’ is a testament to the radical imagination and collective experimentations from-below. From visions of alternative urban futures grounded in ecological justice to building material counter-power through everyday practices of growing, making, and sharing, to learning from struggles against state violence and abandonment – the essays show the many ways that our... Read More

by , 7 months ago