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Culture, Democracy, Featured, Social Justice, Theory
Zohran, Zack and the necessity – and limits – of left populism
Mamdani and Polanski's left populism is inspiring, yet it risks reinvesting hope in a broken system. The radical move? Let’s use electoral success and those 180,000 new Green Party members (not just for door-knocking!) but to devolve power to the people, creating affinity groups, building mutual aid hubs, and community assemblies – creating spaces where people hold power collectively. [...]
Democracy, Featured
From Jakarta, Gema Bangsa: Echo of the nation
Janet Rice reports on a new Indonesian party that has adopted Greens policies. Mobilising supporters across the archipelago, the next challenge will be transforming Gema Bangsa into a genuinely participatory democracy project. [...]
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Featured, Peace, Social Justice, Theory
Radical love as activism
Building on the concept of aufhebung—preserving the hope of the old world within the joyous creation of the new—Emma Davidson calls for protest as jamming and radical love. A collective protest practice countering fascism with joy instead of anger. [...]
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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. [...]
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
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
Culture, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3
Forever in the space between us
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 relationships and collaborations often within liminal spaces remain fundamental to addressing humanity’s deepening crises and Earth’s custodianship [...]
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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