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Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021
Strike action: The youth climate movement gives us hope for the future
In 1896 Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could alter the surface temperature of the earth through the greenhouse effect in a seminal paper. 125 years later this alarming prediction has become a reality and activists worldwide have been fighting for real climate action. School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C), is a climate group... Read More
Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021
Community hope fuels government action
The Greenest government in Australia’s history sits in the heart of Canberra. We have set a net-zero emissions target for 2045. We are powered by 100% renewable electricity. We are phasing out the use of fossil-fuel gas, incentivising the uptake of electric vehicles and changing the building code to require more climate resilient housing and workplaces. This isn’t just a... Read More
Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021
Countering climate doomism – an interview with Ketan Joshi
Ketan Joshi is a writer, analyst, communications consultant and author with a focus on climate change and energy. He worked in the renewable energy industry for about eight years, doing operational monitoring, data analysis, community engagement and corporate communications. He’s also worked in data science and innovation communications at Australia’s national science agency. In this interview Green Agenda co-editor Simon... Read More
Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring 2021, Peace
Plan E: A climate-centred security strategy?
It is timely that Green Agenda consider the issue of hope, because the circumstances humanity and the living planet face in 2021 are dire. At the time of the Glasgow climate summit, the world finds itself facing three types of security crises: Planetary security is threatened by the Climate Emergency; the sixth extinction event; and the precariousness of other planetary... Read More
Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Social Justice
Green Agenda Winter 2021: On Dissent
I will never forget the first protest I attended. It was 2002 and George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard were gearing up to go to war in Iraq. So was the movement of people around the world to oppose the invasion. I was still in high school, but a few friends and I organised to get leave from school... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Social Justice
Show up and make noise: We must reject all attacks on our right to dissent
I’ve relayed this story many times over the years: the first rally I remember going to was in May 1988 when I was ten years old. At that time, my family lived in Canberra. My family attended the rally under the guise of attending something else – the day marked the official opening of the “new Parliament House” and government-planned... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Peace, Social Justice, Uncategorised
Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud: An interview with Mehreen Faruqi
Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Greens Senator for New South Wales (2018 – present). Green Agenda’s co-editor Simon Copland spoke with Mehreen about her recently published memoir, Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud, and what it means to be an ‘unapologetically Brown, Muslim, migrant, feminist woman‘ in Australian politics. The transcript has been edited for clarity and brevity. Simon Copland: Thank... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Social Justice
Dis-settling critique in stasis: Reflections on the university from the South to the North
This piece originally appeared in Overland. We thank both the author, Heba Al Adawy, and Overland, for permission to republish this important piece. On a crispy November evening of 2019, Lahore’s smog filtered sky was buzzing with drone surveillance cameras, radiating an orangish glow over around 5,000 young protestors who had assembled at the chowk of Punjab Assembly. For the emerging student... Read More
Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021, Social Justice
Rising above discrimination in an attempt to be heard: People with disability
When posing the question what mechanism does dissent play in Australian politics we can view this through the lens of history. Australia has a long history of formulating policy through grassroots actions; the shearers strike of 1891, the Pilbara strike of 1949 and the waterside workers strike of 1998 are each seminal points in history that have remade the conditions... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Winter 2021
The Art of Greenwashing: (De)funding creativity and silencing dissent
Tani Walker’s superb voice resonates around the crowded Freo Social venue. Head thrown back, she sings of the Noongar season of Bunuru (February to March) and a hope for relief from the Western Australian heat. She is part of Richard Walley’s Six Seasons, a series of songs each celebrating the Noongar seasons of Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba and Kambarang.... Read More
