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Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Social Justice, Theory

Establishment vibes — Reflections on Greens election results mustn’t ignore deeper tensions

Simultaneously branded as “too extreme” while acting too moderate, Jonathan Sriranganathan looks at the Greens’ electoral paradox, calling for a thoroughly anti-establishment approach that radically embraces grassroots power, mass participatory democracy, and systemic change [...]

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Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Peace, Social Justice

In Moreton — Movements, electoral politics, and Palestine

Refusing to check her identity at the door, Remah Naji's campaign for Moreton in Queensland embodied the revolutionary potential of unapologetic existence — against systems designed to exclude Palestinian women and marginalised others. Beyond electoral calculations, Remah’s campaign disrupted settler-colonial frames, transforming public spaces into sites of creative resistance for migrants, communities and the Palestine solidarity movement. [...]

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Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2, Social Justice

We’re not done yet

Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell rejects Labor’s triumphalism and media spin, reminding us that in a world on fire our purpose-driven politics seek transformation, not minor tinkering. [...]

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For our communities — What we built in Greensland

We will continue to be present in and for our communities, in and out of Parliament. Holstein Wong affirms the potential of our prefigurative politics, building solidarity across struggles from housing and climate to Palestine. [...]

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From Gaza to the gasfields: Why the Greens won’t back down

In a political landscape defined by fear, Senator David Shoebridge affirms our commitment to justice for Gaza and climate alike. This isn't an electoral calculation — it's what Greens values demand. [...]

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Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, 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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Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Negotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government

Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first time a formerly insurgent political force has gained state power through democratic means in the country. But as the National People’s Power coalition settles into government, their anti-corruption platform and middle-class appeal... Read More

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Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice

Bike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution

On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable transport accessible to First Nations women, mothers, caregivers, and children [...]

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Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:2, 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

, 11 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:2, 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

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