Economy
Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Social Justice
The elephant in the room
We’ve passed 7 of 9 planetary boundaries and forests are vanishing, yet the climate movement refuses to name the number one driver of deforestation. It’s top five corporations surpassing Chevron, Shell and BP in combined emissions, though barely rating a mention in climate reporting. Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood blast that there’s no liveable future on this planet without confronting... Read More
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. [...]
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
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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Abundance gets it wrong
Klein and Thompson’s Abundance sounds progressive but delivers repackaged trickle-down economics, blaming NIMBYs while ignoring corporate power and capitalist inequality. Their technocratic utopia misreads deregulation as justice, with wealth for the rich disguised as abundance for all. [...]
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Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice
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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Playing by the rules
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 oppose. Changing hearts or changing systems is a false choice — we need both to rewrite society’s rules. From tree-sits to policy shifts, diversity is our strength when burnout tempts some of us to retreat to our... Read More
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We work with social justice, antiracist, and ecological commitments, and in favour of Indigenous sovereignty. We welcome contributions from all who share an interest in exploring ideas that are consistent with and explore left, progressive, and environmental thought and its contemporary relevance. [...]
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Is this the best we can hope for?
Despite Labor’s “landslide”, Simon Copland warns that the ALP’s historically low primary vote reveals a growing anti-political sentiment. Progressives must reject Labor’s do-nothing electoralism, pushing for real system change — not for electoral aims, but because only a bold left alternative can prevent the far-right from capitalising on capitalism’s inevitable crises. [...]
