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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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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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“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. [...]
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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
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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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A movement of relationships — The Greens in Fraser 2025
“The work we do with communities does not pre-exist our relationships”, says Huong Truong as she reflects on the Fraser campaign. Against those who dismiss grassroots organising as nothing but “retail politics”, Huong shows how electoral campaigns can move beyond “meaningful interactions” to create solidarity across communities — transforming both our communities and the Greens. “We are in community together”.... Read More
